That's true. Looks like it was left in after all, with the possible expectation that it would not happen.
next update. possibly :}

This gentleman is troubled indeed.
Seriously, behaving like a little kid won't help. I hate kids. Kick the baby.
What's the point of such behaviour though? Help is at hand for nice people ;). Now then, I'm away to get myself Earth Trilogy to play it without bitching ;]

Same guy, same style, new post, then disappears.
I think they call it hit-and-run posting.

I call it 'pussy trolling'. Comes and whines, but is too afraid to do something substantial. I mean, common! That there is really pathetic.

I bet he is one of the DRM-Fightooooorz not liking that GOG sells good games without his beloved DRM...

Lovely game, that. Too bad it only works properly on people with good forum karma.

And guess what! It works on all my pcs perfectly fine! XP, Vista, 7... I must have the broken version obviously! Dammit!

Enjoy the negatives I'm ladling onto EVERY SINGLE ONE of your posts.

The Necromancer has risen to raise his posts as forum zombies, huh?
Let me guess ... you levelled up trolling the Steam forums and have now come here to test out that new Raise Post (Level 9) spell?

Stupid or not, this feels like every other forum now. Sad.

Oh no, that's the most effective form of revenge ever! Not negatives to my score...
If you're older than 12 and this is the 'scheme' you cooked up, you should feel shame every time you look in a mirror.

Have you really no life?

I know he posted in the wrong forum (and the title of the thread seemed like baiting, but whatever) but was the resulting response really necessary?
Thread lock plz.

Generally, GOG games are patched to the latest patch available, since these games can be fairly old that tends to be the last patch offered by the publisher. Since the game crashes after you play for a few minutes, I tend to think it is a video driver problem or DirectX problem. Firewalls and AV programs are known to interfere with games running properly as well. I would first make sure you have the latest video driver installed before trying anything else. Check for ATI drivers here and for Nvidia drivers here , other drivers you will need to find yourself. After verifying you have the latest video driver or after installing the latest driver . . . if you are running Vista, right-click the game icon, click Properties, click Compatibility and check-mark "Run this program as an administrator" and try playing again.
If you downloaded the patch from the publishers website or anywhere actually, the patch is looking for the default directory the game usually installs in. All GOG games install in [your drive letter]\:Program Files\GOG.com\[your game] so the publishers patch will probably not find this install, hence the error message. Again, I believe this game is patched to the last patch offered so installing the patch is not necessary. You may be able to extract the contents of the patch manually and do a manual update using a free open source program called 7-zip . I would suggest first contacting GOG support and verify what version their game is patched to. Use the "Technical issues with games" selection. I have only used support once to get game keys but they were very quick to respond.
For a explanation of what a directory is . . . look here You can look at your directory tree by right-clicking the Start button and clicking on Explore. You should find this game installed on C:\Program Files\gog.com\[game name]. It will be installed in a different directory if you installed from an original CD or DVD and, as I said above, the patch could not find it if it is a GOG install.
I prefer having my GOG games install the way they do. You have an options button on the very first dialog of the GOG installer that will let you install in any directory/drive letter you want. If you know the original install location, you can install it to that directory and the patch will probably work but tell you that it is already installed.
Hope this helps. You might try posting in the Earth game forum rather than the General Discussion forum in the future.