How do I use patches on the Microsoft Internet Gaming Zone?
This is by far my #1 most Frequently Asked Question. Since the Zone launches Jedi Knight itself without going through Patch Commander, it doesn’t use the -path directive, so the patches don’t get used. I’ve added an option to Patch Commander’s Options menu to make patches available when playing on the Zone, but it has a rather serious side effect — it causes Jedi Knight to use the active patch directory every time you play on the Zone, whether or not you launched the Zone from within Patch Commander. The only way to play on the Zone unpatched will be to run Patch Commander again and either uncheck the Zone option or deactivate all of your patches (leaving the JKPatch\active directory empty). The reason for this is simple. The Zone uses Microsoft’s DirectPlay API, which stores information about how to launch each game in the Windows95 registry (under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\DirectPlay\Applications). For each game, it knows the path where it’s installed, the file to run, a
