Myst IV - Finding the Version/Fixing Bugs

[HalNineThousand]

Thank you, Joe! The biggest help was telling me that the patches were intelligent. I noticed the one for 1.02 was large than the one for 1.03, so I was wondering if I should try going to 1.02, then 1.03, but just went straight to 1.03.

Since this was running on a VMWare VM, it was easiest to back up the entire VM, rather than the directory. The file copying within the VM was slower and more CPU intensive (probably due to the way VMWare implements the file system?).

Once I had it backed up, I ran the upgrade to 1.03 in the VM and everything was fine. Then I backed up the two files that would be replaced in the NoCD version so I could try that, then ran it, went to the scene that was the problem, and it worked perfectly.

One major note for anyone wondering about versions for this game: I checked everything (including the Properties menu item, as you pointed out), and could not find any version. Then I patched it and with the patch, the main screen, on the lower left, told me it was V 1.03. So for upgraded versions, the version number is apparent. No version number, no upgrades -- that means 1.0.

Thank you!