Crash after patch

[LunaCrist]

Hello there.

I just bought the Painkiller Special Edition. It loaded fine, then i d/led the patches and applied them. The program crashed with the error along the lines of "Cannot be applied to saved games" then listed a bunch of missing models ie. "Zombie_soldier" and crashed to desktop.

I uninstalled, reinstalled and just went with the 1.6.1 patch...same thing. Is there something i'm doing wrong here?

Specs:
Pentium® D Processor 940 with Dual Core Technology (3.2GHz, 800FSB)
Genuine Windows® XP Media Center Edition 2005
2GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz - 2 DIMMs edit
320GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/ 16MB cache
512MB nVidia GeForce 7900 GTX
Dual Drives: 16x DVD-ROM Drive + 16x DVD+/-RW w/dbl layer write capability
Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ XtremeMusic (D), w/Dolby® Digital 5.1

I have the latest drivers and everything. It seems to be a patching problem i would think?

thanks in advance...

[PeTjA]

The SE, one CD 10$ version? I never heared about any SE user patched the game. Imo the SE does not support MP and only have some levels of 35 total.

So if U jus thave the SE i just wouldnt patch it. Because all aviable patches are for the full version of PK.

[LunaCrist]

That would make sense...

Thanks for the prompt reply!

[PeTjA]

Imagine 12 levels from 35 without MP.

I realize that there are probably several comments about this already, but I didn't want mine to get lost in the threads.

"Special" edition? "Stripped DEMO" is closer to the truth. I had heard about the game so when I saw the "Special" edition at such a good price, I went for it.

After being disappointed, I did some research: apparently there are 24 levels in the full game, but only twelve in the "Special" edition. No multiplayer capability in the "Special" version either. No cut-scenes.

There's nothing special about the "special". Lackluster, perhaps. Feature-poor, maybe. If by "special" they meant limited gameplay, then it's not false advertising.

LOT of people got fooled by this "special" release. Don't be one of them. I was getting into the frenetic free-for-all action of the game. But because of this "Special" edition ruse perpetrated by the publishers, when someone asks me about the game, I tell them it sucked and that only "special" people might like it.