Is Bioshock retail as crap as the demo ???

chaparral · 23 Aug 2007 at 17:39

After spending hours trying to get the bioshock demo to run on vista 64bit and finally getting it running,it now crashes if i try changing the ingame screen resolutions,

plus the widescreen resolutions are messed up.... :mad:

Am praying that they have not released the full retail copy with these same widescreen resolution problems...

Darkwave · 23 Aug 2007 at 17:40

Sounds like a problem with your system to me, it's gone smoothly for pretty much everyone else.

chaparral · 23 Aug 2007 at 17:42

Ulfhedjinn said:
Sounds like a problem with your system to me, it's gone smoothly for pretty much everyone else.

Do you mean that no one else is had any problems with the widescreen resolutions :confused:

And is this with the demo or retail ??

Things change I've changed · 23 Aug 2007 at 17:43

chaparral said:
Do you mean no one else is had any problems with the widescreen resolutions

And is this with the demo or retail ??

has'nt that been fixed for DX9 atm and the person that fixed it is curruntly working on a DX10 fix, have you been over to 2k forums ?

Zefan · 23 Aug 2007 at 17:44

*waits for cyber-mav*

chaparral · 23 Aug 2007 at 17:46

Brizzles · 23 Aug 2007 at 17:47

Ran the demo last night on widescreen 1920 x 1200 , no problem.

My 7800gs+ (7900 core Gainward ) AGP had a whale of a time

Max settings 15 fps - Slideshow

Low settings 30 fps - Playable

Mark

Things change I've changed · 23 Aug 2007 at 17:49

mrdbristol said:
Ran the demo last night on widescreen 1920 x 1200 , no problem.

It's not true widesceen atm though as the FOV is wrong, apparently though a fix is here http://forums.2kgames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5927

chaparral · 23 Aug 2007 at 17:50

I had it run once in 1920x1200....But now it just start up at 1024x768 and if i try to change the res to 1920x1200 it just go to a black window..

J0hnb0y · 23 Aug 2007 at 17:50

i've run the demo maxed out in 1680x1050 absolutely fine on a 256mb X1800 XT. very occasionally a bit of slow down but nothing to compain about...unlike Stalker which is v sluggish :rolleyes:

chaparral · 23 Aug 2007 at 17:56

I just deleted the demo and am reinstalling it again to see if this will fix anything...

SS-89 · 23 Aug 2007 at 17:59

Retail and demo run perfectly on my system 64bit Vista Ultimate.

chaparral · 23 Aug 2007 at 18:05

SS-89 said:
Retail and demo run perfectly on my system 64bit Vista Ultimate.

Wish i was as lucky....I just tryed reinstalling the demo and nvidia GPU drivers (163.44) and it still crashes went i try to change the ingame res :mad:

sulli · 23 Aug 2007 at 18:36

chaparral said:
Wish i was as lucky....I just tryed reinstalling the demo and nvidia GPU drivers (163.44) and it still crashes went i try to change the ingame res

What gfx card are u running??

truebluecfc · 23 Aug 2007 at 18:46

Mine runs perfectly on Vista 64 at 1680x1050.

chaparral · 23 Aug 2007 at 20:21

sulli said:
What gfx card are u running??

Nvidia 8800gtx

Am playing it at 1680x1050 in windowed mode

....i still can't get it to run fullscreen at 1920x1200,it just crashes when i choose 1920x1200..

Trox · 23 Aug 2007 at 20:53

The game runs on widescreen, we get that bit...
What hes talking about is that the games actual widescreen is all wrong, some people here need to look into it rather than posting " runs fine here at < insert widescreen rez here > "

Kamakazie! · 23 Aug 2007 at 22:43

Ulfhedjinn said:
Sounds like a problem with your system to me, it's gone smoothly for pretty much everyone else.

Nope. There has been a tonne of problems with the demo and Vista64. Especially the Steam version from what i have heard (and experienced).

jaric · 23 Aug 2007 at 23:23

chaparral said:
Nvidia 8800gtx

Am playing it at 1680x1050 in windowed mode ....i still can't get it to run fullscreen at 1920x1200,it just crashes when i choose 1920x1200..

Not using widescreen but had the same problem with trying to change the resolution. Choose resolution, hit apply and game crashes.

In the end I manually edited the Default.ini file located in C:\Program Files\2K Games\BioShock Demo\Builds\Release

About 2/3 of the way down the file there is a section like this -

Code:

[WinDrv.WindowsClient]
WindowedViewportX=1280
WindowedViewportY=1024
FullscreenViewportX=1280
FullscreenViewportY=1024

Try manually entering the resolution & see if it works.

Using Vista x64 & X1800XT.

fail at the internets · 24 Aug 2007 at 00:27

I wont be playing this game ever, as it uses:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SecuROM

evil evil.