Thank you for testing, that is good to know. It really was the only one I found. I do love what Cooksey and his crew did with the audio, but I think 'traditional' MIDI fits the game style much better. I would bet the application performance is better too, no?

The /ignore switch actually skips over patching the file rather than forcing it... there could be some small measure of risk by only applying some of the patch, but it's that or bust (no fixes). My CD-ROM is copyright 1997 but still explicitly DOS install, so I'm not sure which version I have.

I'd played all the way through Dark Sun 2 once before long ago, without the music. Recently I broke down and bought the original CD off eBay (jewel case version), and I was stuck for the longest time on the problem of the music restarting during combat. This drove me, a longtime musician and Dark …