Which to start with? 4 or 5?

[capnq]

IMO, it's hard to recommend one over the over. For every improvement in SEV over SEIV, there's a detriment of comparable magnitude. I can't say that SEV is better than SEIV; it's just somewhat different.

I'd suggest starting one game of each, and alternate between the two until you develop a personal preference for one or the other. I think I'd start the SEIV game first, but I'm not certain that learning its easier interface first won't make the SEV interface more aggravating to pick up.

[Fyron]

But you may have to apply a relatively recent UK English patch first. Whomever it was doing this last could not get the US English patcher to recognize the install until the last UK English patch was applied.

[Captain Kwok]

I believe the issue was patching the Euro v1.30 with a Euro v1.33 patch, which no US SE5 patch worked with. However, going from the v1.30 patch to v1.79 was possible.

[Fyron]

The last person that was posting about this on se5.com could not get the US patch to apply to a freshly installed UK English version, and had to apply a patch first.