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2025.12.20

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MDK 2 is a game that I hadn't played in absolutely donkey's years.
I originally played it at school from a Russian copy of the disk that a friend gave me.

The characters and setting of the game are terrific.
It has a tongue-in-cheek, Sam and Max style comedy that it blends with some great action and combat against the aliens.

MDK 2 improves over the original game, in that it allows you to play as all three protagonists: (Max, Doc and Kurt), rather than just as Kurt.
Max, the six-legged robot dog is great fun to play as because he has great firepower and his levels require very little finesse: except where you're called to use the jet pack.
Doc Hawkins' levels that frequently involve defusing bombs and jumping around can become a little tiresome in places.

Gift of Game have an updated version of the game that runs natively on Windows 11.
I tried to install the original build of the game from 2000 and it did not want to run.

I initially had a little bit of difficulty with the GOG build, but that problem was my fault.
With these new laptops, you can't change the power setting via Windows.
It's often locked out in by the BIOS and I have the machine turned down to its lowest performance setting to keep it nice and quiet.
MDK 2's launcher has a nice "Get Info" button, which showed that, as a result, Windows was forcing it to use the Intel Iris graphics, rather than the GeForce card in the machine.

As a result, I was getting some weird graphical glitches that were also having an impact on gameplay.
Camera shake was wildly exaggerated. Distant objects would suddenly appear out of nowhere, including enemies and their projectiles and skyboxes, cloaked enemies and other textures would get slightly messed up.

You can force Windows in Settings to use the 'proper' graphics card on specific apps and if you force it to use the GeForce card on the launcher and main game executable, it works perfectly.

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