The patch has done some pretty nasty things to my game.
Earlier, my game crashed on me while I was saving. It totally corrupted/deleted the save file and I had to start the whole level 1 from scratch (I'm replaying the game) because I had only one save file. It's never happened before the patch.
I've only experienced (1) single crash, ever, when I was playing unpatched. The game was pretty much flawless in terms of system stability. After I installed the 1.25 patch, I've crashed about 5 times since I played, all occuring in the first level.
When I was using everything except for the "No 3d Audio" setting, the computer would completely freeze and I'd have to do a cold boot to reload windows. It happened to me to a point that my Slave hard drive went completely berserk and I had to reformat it because the File Allocation Table (FAT) messed up from the cold boots. What a mess.
Now that I'm currently using "No 3d Audio" as my setting, when the game crashes, it gives me the proper error (Invalid Page Fault with MSS32.DLL) instead of freezing.
I'm glad I'm not the only one suffering this problem. I was about to reformat my computer, because I thought it was all screwed up from the freezing. My game of Black & White froze earlier today, too, must have been a coincidence, thank god.
I'm wondering if it's possible to use the pre-patched version of MSS32.dll to overwrite the patched version, so the game works again.