Hey. Just signed up so I could mention by experience of the item spawn bug.
Just tried the game on 2 separate machines (both freshly downloaded):
First machine is a laptop, i5-3230M, 6GB RAM, Radeon HD 7670M (2GB), WIndows 8.1. Bug is exactly as described here, items do not appear to spawn.
Second machine is a desktop, Athlon II X4 640, 4GB ram, Radeon HD 6770 (1GB), Archlinux (3.16.1-1-ARCH Kernel), running the game using wine (v1.7.25-1). Loading screen has half the text missing (
http://postimg.org/image/r8do5ypkp/) but the game items appear to spawn in OK (
http://postimg.org/image/ga2ens0zd/). Not entirely sure the floor should be that colour, but looks playable now! Not tested beyond that initial point (yet). Game also throws an error when exiting...but is no real problem.
That probably won't be of any help, but provides a little bit more data.
EDIT
It would seem that while everything seemed to spawn in ok, the textures for scp-173 to do display....so whilst it's definitely there....i can't see it at all. Colours in the whole game were....interesting (
http://postimg.org/image/neotajxmh/). Again, i'll probably put that down to LInux and Wine.