Thanks for the reply-
Dual jewel specific patch 1.4? I used the dual jewel fix patch (got the "old file not found thing" with 1.4 alone)then the standard 1.4 patch from the descent3.com website. Is this what you mean? Or did I miss something.

After a long stint since playing descent 1&2, I finally picked up the dual jewel version of D3 cheap. I successfully (and thoroughly enjoyed) played levels 1 -7 and now I am getting constant game lockup/crashes in level 8. The error log reports "access violation". It is quite frustrating! I have ...