Bioshock Autopatcher breaks the game.

snowdog · 29 Aug 2007 at 15:52

avg wouldn't be triggered at all if they hadn't used such an agressive no dvd protection that happens to sit in reg and more...

HeX · 29 Aug 2007 at 15:55

Anyone know what the patch actually changes?

Substance · 29 Aug 2007 at 16:00

lol, the only way avg works is by telling you that everything is a virus, it has to be right sometimes doesn't it?? right??

This is one of the reasons i pay for nod32

TriedandTested · 29 Aug 2007 at 16:01

Kyle009 said:
2k really arent endearing themselves to their PC fan base with all these **** ups are they?

AVG has caused the issue, not 2k.

LoadsaMoney · 29 Aug 2007 at 18:57

Well its killed mine, just came in from work booted PC up, AVG auto-updated, then my PC was on a major crawl, my mouse was stuttering all over the screen when i was moving it (didnt relasise it must have been this Bioshock patch downloading) so restarted it, then kept getting the AVG Virus crap on Bioshock.exe, but my bisohock.exe has changed to the window icon with the little arrow in the corner, and when i double-click it to start the game i just get the bloody torch coming on searching for it, so looks like ive got to reinstall it, and start again by the looks of it as i cant find me ******* saves!!!. :mad:

I can't even uninstall it now, me mouse must have been stuttering about as Bioshick was patching, so ive probably reset the **** while it was doing it as i thought me PC was acting up, but how stupid is that, how was i to know it was patching.

Emlyn_Dewar · 29 Aug 2007 at 19:21

So without being able to uninstall you'll have lost an install?
Better get on the phone to whoever it is that fixes the install issue... Securom?

Linwig · 29 Aug 2007 at 19:25

You shouldnt have to reinstall, just go into the virus vault and restore Bioshock.exe. Then its just a case of clicking 'ignore' if the alert box pops up again and temp disabling the resident shield. Hopefully AVG will bring out an update soon. :rolleyes:

NightSt@lk3r · 29 Aug 2007 at 19:27

Kyle009 said:
2k really arent endearing themselves to their PC fan base with all these **** ups are they?

how is it 2K's fault that AVG is picking up clean files as virus's? boishock isnt the only game it has happend with, if you want to fix it get a better anti virus :rolleyes:

LoadsaMoney · 29 Aug 2007 at 19:50

Linwig said:
You shouldnt have to reinstall, just go into the virus vault and restore Bioshock.exe. Then its just a case of clicking 'ignore' if the alert box pops up again and temp disabling the resident shield. Hopefully AVG will bring out an update soon.

Cheers mate your a life saver, it worked, im back in business woohoo

vincent1989 · 29 Aug 2007 at 19:53

Linwig said:
You shouldnt have to reinstall, just go into the virus vault and restore Bioshock.exe. Then its just a case of clicking 'ignore' if the alert box pops up again and temp disabling the resident shield. Hopefully AVG will bring out an update soon.

i clicked ignore the first time i got it, it still screwed it up damn it

LoadsaMoney · 29 Aug 2007 at 20:02

so did Bioshock patch then, as mine still works ok, but it still says version 1.0, and im just wondering if when i reset my PC when my mouse was stuttering all over the shop (and my CPU usage was about 20%) that id reset it while it was patching, so im not sure if its patched or what.

vincent1989 · 29 Aug 2007 at 20:08

for craps sake, i only got it this morning and already it wont freaking work :rolleyes:

well, there goes my 2 installs

Hugest_UK · 29 Aug 2007 at 20:15

NightSt@lk3r said:
how is it 2K's fault that AVG is picking up clean files as virus's? boishock isnt the only game it has happend with, if you want to fix it get a better anti virus

Because you would think that 2k did some testing before releasing the patch as AVG is a very popular antivirus prorgram. However I agree ive had similar problems with AVG and false positives in the last few months. Luckily I now use AVast on Vista X64 so havent suffered this time.

Cheers,
Hugest

EddScott · 29 Aug 2007 at 20:15

I mentioned this in the official thread. Panic set in but google search showed many people having same issue. I've temp disabled resident shield and its fine now.

Arcane · 29 Aug 2007 at 20:28

+1

Where's resident shield and how do you disable it? (sorry, 5 beers in).

vincent1989 · 29 Aug 2007 at 20:29

arghhhhhhhhhh arrrrggghhhghhghgh...the ****ing patch has an 'invalid signature' what a load of crap :mad:

Squakingcow · 29 Aug 2007 at 20:35

Funny, I have AVG and I've never had a problem with bioshock (installing and playing). Although I've had problems with it detecting other games as virus' even though they aren't.

BlackDragon · 29 Aug 2007 at 20:42

Hugest_UK said:
Because you would think that 2k did some testing before releasing the patch as AVG is a very popular antivirus prorgram

Well it was probably fine until AVG released a recent update that caused Bioshock to be detected as something malicious. Happened with stalker for me a few weeks ago, but they fixed it quickly.

LoadsaMoney · 29 Aug 2007 at 20:58

Arcane said:
+1

Where's resident shield and how do you disable it? (sorry, 5 beers in).

Double click the icon in your task bar (the 4x coloured square), if its not on the Control Centre screen click that, then select the resident shield, click on properties, untick 'Turn on AVG Resident Shield Protection'

Yeah ive only ever had it on the Stalker.exe to, but when i updated again next, it day was fixed.

keogh · 29 Aug 2007 at 21:08

bringerofdecay said:
arghhhhhhhhhh arrrrggghhhghhghgh...the ****ing patch has an 'invalid signature' what a load of crap

As I have said several times above, if you clicked "ignore" it isnt screwed, you have to go into AVG Control Centre and DISABLE Resident Shield and then the game will boot fine.

Close AVG is not good enough, you HAVE TO disable resident shield!

EDIT: As Loadsa says above too ^