Tried downgrading from DX10??....

Tried running in XP Compatibility mode?

Tried... desktop right click > properties > Settings > Advanced > Troubleshoot
hardware accel at full and write combining?

Ermmmm
Run as Admin?

Thats all I can think of right now...

Ive tried that if you are asking me.

Maybe a longshot but.. The only difference to the last working set is that I have xp sp3 instead of xp sp2 and I installed AVG8

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Tried downgrading from DX10??....

No. The DX10 subsystem is completely separate from the DX8/9 one. Touching it won't do anything.

As for the problem at hand I've been out of ideas for a good long while now. I'm still 99% sure the problem lies with the driver and/or OS itself, but it could perhaps be useful to get Scawen in here to have a look. It's obviously not a widespread problem, but with two separate cases on two different OSes it's perhaps worth looking into.

Installed xp again and updated to sp3. Exactly the same programs and versions installed as last time, except avg8. This time lfs works just fine.

12 Years have passed, and i have the same problem now