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I recently got hit twice with this problem on Win10, original DS & LOA unmodified in any way, OEM discs. I get the message "SmarteSECURE has trapped a windows resource error. Please re-run the application." Found one entry in this forum about this, with various suggestions, none of which worked (but have yet to try last one).

This started after crashing in LOA Utraean Peninsula solo (with no save!) where the map suddenly became a very tiny set of nodes (like an unfinished map) and then my system froze and rebooted. From then on, I got that message. I was still able to run LOA with the Administrator account. I don't recall where on the map I was and what actions immediately preceded the map shrinkage/crash.

I "fixed" it this first time by uninstalling and re-installing both DS and LOA, and creating a new standard user (my regular user account, with full Admin still did not work [to this day]). This worked well enough to progress a single character to level 44-ish (dying several times -- but gaining the Sickle of Cicatrix!). I'm aiming to progress a character all the way to Elite.

But then, yesterday it happened again in Redwood Gap (by the Mana Shrine). I knew as soon as I saw the map become disconnected. Sure enough, now this new user gets the same message.

I would like to do a thorough uninstall, wiping anything from the registry, but I'm concerned I'll lose my high-level character (I know the def is in My Documents, but maybe something in registry is also required. Dunno)

My system is quite old, 32-bit going on 14 years, so maybe that partly explains it.

Any ideas, suggestions? It's disappointing to spend all this time on a character and have it go to waste. Thanks!