I would suggest that if you are having prob's with N2 patch that you
uninstall the game , then reinstall & run patch.
I had problems with two computor's . ( one had no pos+ cross wt. one had
green stripe. ) after reinstall the patch worked fine for both. both
were ver 1.00 .
I think that some of the random problems is do to altered files that PAPY
has no control over. Like the atlanta ai fix will not allow patch to work
at all. well what if the patch tries to rewrite files that were changed
(like layout.dat )but when it does it screws it up because it was wrong to
begin with.
On both my games the layout.dat file had been changed yet the patch
sayed it worked fine. it did not say that there was an error when it
checked this file but it did rewrite it.
Just a thought.