There is an "official" D3-NoCD-Patch which you can grab from http://www.descentforum.de/forum/downloads.php.
I'll try to make it tonight, but since I am fighting a cold for a week now I won't be making any promises.
As there is currently no server active I would be interested in what game-mode to use for "single-player" testing. Also, any descent patch-creation tool should be able to create patches for mn3-files, as they only look at the binary content of a file anyways. Don't know one for windows so, but if I ...
If you let me know in advance I can put the release up in the news-section of planetdescent. At least if that's the audience you want for a release game
I changed from the phoenix to the pyro and I now can join the level, also with OpenGL. I probably crashed on the levels don't match screen, but as I use an RC/Beta-System ...