 If you are having trouble applying a Red Storm Entertainment patch for Black Thorn, follow these instructions and suggestions:

1. Download the patch from http://support.ubi.com/patches.php to your hard drive. You can put the patch anywhere, as long as you can find it after your download it onto your computer!
2. Double click on the patch file you just downloaded (This is the patch file - it should have a Black Thorn icon).
3. follow the instructions on screen
4. you should come to a window titled "Locate Existing Black Thorn Installation" with a windows browse view. From this window, look in the folder in which you installed the game (by default for Black Thorn, this is c:\Program Files\Red Storm Entertaiment\Black Thorn\) for the Black Thorn.exe file. You may not see the exe, but you will see the red and black icon with the word blackthorn beside it. click once to highlight this file, then click open.
5. this will allow you to continue the patching process. click ok when necessary.
6. you may receive "old file not found" errors. If this occurs, you should able to click ok through them to continue the patching process.
7. you may also recieve an "invalid patch file" error. If this occurs, usually the solution is to download the patch file again. If you have already gotten the full patch file and still receive this error, let us know.
8. After completing the patching process, you should get a confirmation that tells you the patch has completed successfully.
9. To verify the patch has completed successfully, go into the game. At the in-game menu (single player,multiplayer,options, etc.) there will be a white version number in the lower left corner. This will tell you the version of the game (which should be 2.61 after the patch for Black Thorn)

If any of these steps did not work, try the following:

Make sure you have correctly located the existing installation (the original blackthorn.exe) during the patch process. If you start the game, then look to the lower left, you should see a version number. If this is 2.61 or greater, you have successfully patched Black Thorn. If it is less than this version, then the problem you are having is likely due to the original blackthorn.exe file being changed in some way after it was installed to your system. 

Have you downloaded and installed any of the third-party weapons modifications or game modifications? if so, uninstall the game and reinstall it before trying the patch. Secondly, You may have a virus. Download and install the latest version of the anti-virus software from http://centralcommand.com/. Run this program, and it should find a win95.cih virus. After you clean this virus, the patch should work successfully.
 