Comments on: Bioshock – thoughts so far

By: Mike Jennings

Mike Jennings — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 17:25:43 +0000

Useless demo. My computer surpasses all the minimum spec requirements but yet, still, chugs along and barely works at all. I don’t see much point in putting out demos – and, indeed, full versions of games – that’ll only work on a tiny number of computers compared to the amount of people who want to play what is obviously a fine game.

By: John P

John P — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 16:33:15 +0000

If I try and play mine from anywhere other than the autoplay on the dvd, it crashes. Bah.

By: JH

JH — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 12:26:16 +0000

And yet when I justify my abandonment of PC gaming on the grounds of it just not working so much of the time, people try and tell I’m living in the past.

By: The Sombrero Kid

The Sombrero Kid — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 07:43:40 +0000

i got grim fandango running in XP many many times on many many Systems!?!?

By: Bruno

Bruno — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 02:22:37 +0000

I had the same problem, and i spent some hours in the 2K forums looking for a solution. As crazy as it seems, my problem was the video player GOM Player. As soon as i removed it, that error disappeared and now im a happy Bioshock demo player.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 22:44:52 +0000

I had some trouble at first, but as soon as I turned off “the high detail shaders” it stopped randomly crashing. I’m not really sure why this worked, as they were on by default and it ran silky smooth between crashes. But it did. And the angels did sing.

By: Solario

Solario — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 21:51:35 +0000

I fucking hate Vista. Due to a long, boring and complicated event, I was forced into buy it or shelling out three times as much for XP. Needless to say, I’ve regretted it ever since with the one exception being the time I got Grim Fandango to work on it. A feat impossible on XP.

Still.

And my graphics went all wonky (to the point of forced formating) when I downloaded the latest driver, so I’m refraining from that for a while.

By: Kunikos

Kunikos — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 21:05:21 +0000

I’ve been running Bioshock demo in Vista 32-bit, but the drivers from Creative for my Audigy 2 ZS Gamer cause distortion/crackle to happen frequently. I reinstalled them but I read on Creative’s support site that it is a known bug due to Vista’s “higher speed audio buffers” and that it is causing bugs that didn’t crop up before in XP.

By: Alec Meer

Alec Meer — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 19:00:47 +0000

Drivers (which I’d already updated) yes, but I didn’t notice anything about DX. Frankly it should have been built into the installer though, like any other game that requires a specific update of it does.

By: Daniel Puzey

Daniel Puzey — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 18:50:23 +0000

The installer does explicitly suggest updated drivers and dx, doesn’t it? :)

By: Alec Meer

Alec Meer — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 18:02:06 +0000

Update: it’s working now. Required the most recent DirectX redistributable, it seems.
And hey, it’s, like, rilly good.

By: Gunner

Gunner — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 17:55:18 +0000

I’ve been running fine with 32-bit Vista. No issues at all except for alt-tabbing.