I never tried the patch no, to be honest once I'd hit that point with the ammount of random crash-to-desktop occurrences I did have, I had little desire left to play it. I remember that particular patch being unofficially made as well, whilst I'm not arguing it's effectiveness or not, it's pretty shocking it wasn't recognised and fixed by Squaresoft too (or maybe I should say Eidos in this case as they published it).
Also, with the software rendering (which I remember being horribly slow...), weren't you also restricting yourself on the max resolution you could play? Didn't that bring it down to like 320x240?
I just think that hands down, the PC port is inferior to the PS1 version, enough to the point where it is actually able to ruin enjoying the game full stop.
