Steam edition is bugged as hell

[Barny600]

Texture don't load properly or are completely stretched out in a bad way, option video menu crashes every time I try to open it... Seriously, were do I need to find a proper fix for all those issues? Is the GOG version better than the Steam one?

[Shallex]

no it's not, it's probably just not compatible with your operating system, or maybe even an issue with your graphics card/drivers

[Barny600]

Originally posted by Shallex:

no it's not, it's probably just not compatible with your operating system, or maybe even an issue with your graphics card/drivers

MDK 1 worked fine on my PC, and it isn't just the texture. The models in game comes out horribly deformed for no reason at all and I've noticed that some of the comic strips have missing pieces. I really have no idea why they would sell a game in this state.

I really have no clue how to fix it

[Shallex]

just because an even older game works fine doesn't mean that one a bit newer should inherently work as well on a newer operating system. and i don't know when you played MDK 1 but it was recently updated last August to have better support for modern PCs. i played MDK2 on Windows 7 and it worked perfectly, and more recently i played it on Windows 10, and although the game has an issue where having too high of a framerate makes the black text screens between missions go colossally slow and take forever to conclude, i never had any of the issues you mention, though a lot of reviews claim issues with Windows 10, so i think it's pretty safe to say it's a Windows 10 issue (what i assume you're using). i also played it on linux and although that had some issues showing certain HUD aspects (likely an issue with Wine/Proton), everything else ran perfectly

they sell a game in this 'state' because the game is in the same state as when it first released. operating systems change and they lose the ability to play older games as perfectly as they used to. blame Microsoft for that. the oldest Windows OS that steam officially supports these days is 7, and MDK2 still works perfectly on 7, not to mention that Windows 10 didn't exist when this game was put on Steam, they couldn't have predicted that Microsoft was going to break their OS and make certain old games incompatible. what should they do, take this game off Steam because a lot of Windows 10 users can't play it? a lot of people are giving this game positive reviews, so a lot of people are apparently playing it somehow these days. sadly i do not know the fix, or know to what lengths you've researched the issue, but sadly it is most likely a problem with Windows, or maybe even your graphics driver

(even the gog MDK2 page says on the bottom: "Please be advised that Windows 10 operating system will receive frequent hardware driver and software updates following its release; this may affect game compatibility")

the gog version probably does work better, which is to say that it's probably the exact same game as the steam version, they just include some simple software to make it work that you could just download off the internet and use yourself on the steam version to make it work better. i can't know for sure as i don't have access to the gog version, but i'd imagine they'd include some DirectX wrapper software to convert old DirectX calls to modern DirectX, one software that i use for such a purpose is dgvoodoo, but again, i'm not totally certain if this will fix your particular issue, but it's the best solution i know of, as well as updating your graphics driver just to be safe.

i wish i could see some screenshots of how your game looks