ModDB 1.86 Patch Does Not Work Options

[Jakato]

I did a clean Zero-Hour install (following the guide Zeke provided) and installed the 1.85 RotR version on ModDB. Version 1.85 worked.

I then installed the 1.86 patch from ModDB and the game crashed with that "the game encountered a serious error" message. I checked the crash files but the crash of the 1.86 version does not write to the crash dump files. This means I don't have any way of knowing why the crash happens.

I ran the game in Administrator mode and also looked at the compatibility settings. The game still crashed when I run it as an administrator. There are no compatability settings on the RotR 1.86 launcher. The Zero-Hour launcher has compatability settings for XP (Service Pack 3) but removing the compatability settings does not stop the crash.

I'd appreciate a way to just update straight to the 1.87 beta from 1.85 but I'm guessing the devs don't want to put time into doing a 1.87 installer while version 1.87 is still changing.