I just purchased "Mechwarrior 4 Compilation" which contains
Mechwarrior 4: Vengeance.
 
Operation 4, Mission 6, in which you are to liberate a prison camp:
 
The scenario requires you to first link up at Nav point Delta with some friendly units. Right away, I get a bad feeling....as far as I can remember, Nav points always begin with "Alpha".
 
I reach Nav Delta, and the friendly units already there have some dialog about circling around instead of attacking directly, or some such.
 
Following the HUD, I walk to Nav point Delta, and get audible confirmation that I have done so. This is where the problem begins. No new Nav point comes up! It stays frozen on Delta.
 
I took a look for a patch, and found this:
 
http://www.microsoft.com/games/mechwarrior4/mw4_update_v3.rtf
 
 
Within the body of this, it says that patch 3 fixes a Nav point disappearance problem.
 
So....is the patch version 3 safe to use with Windows XP Home?
 
What is the safest, most official URL for the patch?
 
I have not consciously done anything to run the game in Compatibility Mode.
 
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