nhl2002ilegal Operation

Hi
I had my NHL2002 running perfect but, for some reason now I am getting this message when I click the game shortcut it looks like it wants to load up after the splash screen then it I get the message.
This Program has performed an illegal operation and will be shutdown
if the problems persists ,contact the program vendor.


NHL2002 caused an invalid page fault in
module DX7Z.DLL at 0187:60003d3b.
Registers:
EAX=00000000 CS=0187 EIP=60003d3b EFLGS=00010286
EBX=009f0000 SS=018f ESP=00aff924 EBP=00000000
ECX=83602c5c DS=018f ESI=80004002 FS=4327
EDX=bffc9490 ES=018f EDI=00affab4 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
ff 50 08 8b 44 24 0c 85 c0 74 06 8b 08 50 ff 51
Stack dump:
83602c5c 00000001 001fffff 83602c5c 00000000 0000017c 95427fc1 004a9a2c 00040290 0ffffc38 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
Does anyone know about this problem ? if so please tell me how to fix it. I look forward to all who replies thanks in advance: "lightning"