TLJ has been released multiple times, on different platforms. GOG ships the first release, which was issued on 4 CDs. Sometime after that the game was reissued on 2 CDs, unfortunately making the 4-CD version deprecated and abandoned, with no patches available except the police station fix (which presents on the first CD of the 4-CD set). For the 2-CD version many other patches were made, including a fix for the FMV crash, which is annoying and makes the game cumbersome to play. Later the 2-CD version was reissued on DVD, which is virtually identical, just replacing the medium. Steam ships the 2-CD/DVD version with the latest patch applied - so go for this one, if the DRM is an acceptable option for you. It's possible to apply a 2-CD version patch to the 4-CD version, but with a catch. The audio files are encoded differently, and the newer release has no support for playing the old format. So you can choose between crash-free FMV *OR* in-game sounds. Great. Fortunately there is another option, which also make the game playable on Linux, without using Wine or any VM. ResidualVM is a multi-game-engine like ScummVM, and it has near-complete support for TLJ (besides Grim Fandango, CoMI and Myst III). The game is playable with couple of barely noticeable graphical glitches. Besides these I have experienced a major issue: after saving the game, parts of the screen go flickering like crazy and the game noticeably slows down. Hopefully this bug will be fixed soon as going with ResidualVM gives nice antialiasing and good quality resampling. http://www.residualvm.org/downloads/#daily The game itself is a five-star evergreen, just this release is crap.
