Ziras.808: Man, my dad passed away in my arms on Friday. I used to play Links when I was a kid with him. This was made specifically for me. Thanks, lads and lasses over at gog!

Gudadantza: Is anybody having problems running Links LS 1998? The game runs under the homemade dx 1-7 wrapper but the game runs in extreme slow motion, frame by frame starting from the intro movie and then the menu freezes, loading the graphics extremely slow and reseting once it is loaded five minutes later. Also it makes the menu unuseable. I am unable to try the courses themselves.

I bave to change the wrapper to ddrawcompat and the game runs fine but the game randomly stops, freezes, having to restart. Things are better with 16 bit color selected, more stable, but I have not tested it further, probably it will freeze randomly, it is just a matter of time. For now it seems to be fine though. I wan to try everypossible ption until a possible refund.

I have tried every option n the wrapper configurator but it is not working for me. Other games using he same tool used to run very well and stable and it fixes the problems in every gog games making use of the wrapper.

Any idea? does it work fine for you?

Greetings

karnak1: Game runs perfectly on my machine. Videos and gameplay are fluid. My only gripe is that the game has 2 black borders on the side of the screen instead of being entirely fullscreen.
Are you playing on a laptop? From my experience these old Windows games sometimes get messed up when being run on laptops.

EDIT: now I know how to remove the black borders on the screen. It's just a question of changing the resolution on the DX Wrapper settings included with the game.

Gudadantza: The black borders are the right way to preserve the original aspect ratio 4:3 of the game depending the resolution selected, otherwise the graphics would be deformed the horizontally.

This is one of the few GOG games using this wrapper that is giving me problems reaching the unplayable. My guessing is that the new versions of this homemade wrapper is more demanding depending the game for users with shared memory videocards or low resources laptops. I am trying hard testing every option available, using every trick and sorcery that worked for other games of mine. But sadly It is a being very tricky. If tomorrow I am not more lucky I sadly will need to refund a game that is amazing and I like a lot (during the moments it lets me to play) and stay with the 386 DOS version. A fantastic game too.

Gudadantza: The black borders are the right way to preserve the original aspect ratio 4:3 of the game depending the resolution selected, otherwise the graphics would be deformed the horizontally.

This is one of the few GOG games using this wrapper that is giving me problems reaching the unplayable. My guessing is that the new versions of this homemade wrapper is more demanding depending the game for users with shared memory videocards or low resources laptops. I am trying hard testing every option available, using every trick and sorcery that worked for other games of mine. But sadly It is a being very tricky. If tomorrow I am not more lucky I sadly will need to refund a game that is amazing and I like a lot (during the moments it lets me to play) and stay with the 386 DOS version. A fantastic game too.

Wolfram_von_Thal: I've been playing this game on Qemu or Win95/DOSBox for years now, now I'm playing it on PCem with Win98 installed. Generally such "boxed" solutions where you have these games in their own emulated package is far superior to the tinkered GOG-installations in my opinion. With PCem everything works as it should for me, I can only recommend to learn to use it and you'll have no more trouble with any old games. :)