Myst IV - Finding the Version/Fixing Bugs

[HalNineThousand]

I'm not a big gamer and I'm glad I'm finally having time to play some games. I've played several Myst games over the years, and now I have the chance to go back and replay them in order, and play the ones I didn't play before. (I have original copies of all of them.)

I'm on Revelations and it's crashing at one point in a puzzle. I've used files on GameCopyWorld so I can use the No-Disc version, which I really appreciate being able to do.

I realize I should have taken notes on installing, but I didn't think there'd be a problem.

Now I'm dealing with this crash and thinking maybe I should have applied a bug fix or something before finishing the install.

The first problem I'm having is that I don't know how to find out the version of the program I have. I checked the install CD, searched in the program for something to give me that info, and checked in files in the installed program, and I can't find the version.

How do I find the version of Revelations?

The other related issue is that there's a bug - it's with the mangree puzzle (or 2nd mangree puzzle, depending on how you count). Whenever I use the cranks to call out the name of one mangree, the game crashes. I'm hoping a bug fix will take care of this. The problem is that I am able to call one mangree, and then the game crashes. If I restart, one mangree is missing in action - he doesn't respond, and it seems the record of which one is in which nest is wrong. So when I get there, I just can't make anything happen.

At this point, I have the files and can easily apply a bug fix (there's one for 1.02 and one for 1.03), but I don't know if the bug fix is intelligent and will only patch the appropriate version of the program, or what file it'll patch.

So how can I find which version I'm running and has anyone encountered this bug before? It's not listed in the patch list, but there's always "various other bugs."

Thanks for any help on this!