Bioshock audio glitches

snowdog · 22 Oct 2012 at 02:19

Hello,

I thought I'd play this great game over again, now that we've got FXAA and play on a 32'' screen, so I fired it up, and there's one issue that still highly annoys me , the issue was always there for me on various hardware:

When a lot of stuff is going on like gunfire, especially automatic gunfire like a Thompson +security bot firing, the rest of the sounds just ''disappear'' if you know what I mean, as if the game can't handle the amount of sounds going on simultaneously. This has always annoyed me highly and it seems to happen on all sound cards I've had: Onboard stuff, Audigy SE, Audigy 2ZS, Nvidia high deifnition audio (current, over HDMI to a/v receiver). Happens on analog and on digital devices( hdmi, optical, I've had it all), happens in 2.0 and 5.1 mode...

Is there any fix for this, I'd really want the sound fixed, that will make the game sweet

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I thought I'd also play this in 2.0 mode with headphones, but unfortunately the immersion with audio fails, it sounds better with 5.1 on speakers

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ricky1981 · 22 Oct 2012 at 07:24

Might not help but I had sound problems with Bioshock (no sound at all) unless I plugged a microphone (or anything with a 3.5mm plug) into the microphone port. No idea why but it was the only thing that worked.

npjnpj · 22 Oct 2012 at 09:08

Just when Bioshock was first released, I was able to get sound by mucking around with the system stereo settings. Otherwise the sound would already cut out during the intro. That was several PCs ago. That was on Win 98, I think.

Every PC since then has refused to get sound activated and I haven't played the game since.

If anyone knows how to get it working, I's love to knopw as well.

ricky1981 · 22 Oct 2012 at 09:10

npjnpj said:
Just when Bioshock was first released, I was able to get sound by mucking around with the system stereo settings. Otherwise the sound would already cut out during the intro. That was several PCs ago. That was on Win 98, I think.

Every PC since then has refused to get sound activated and I haven't played the game since.

If anyone knows how to get it working, I's love to knopw as well.

Have you tried my suggestion above? I had the exact same issue as you and plugging in a 3.5mm cable to the headphone jack solved it, no idea why.

AWPC · 22 Oct 2012 at 09:54

Works perfectly for me try disabling the audio downmix setting in the sound control panel right click & show disabled devices to see if its hidden or not.
If you downmix the audio it can stutter on some audio setups.

snowdog · 22 Oct 2012 at 12:45

That's not my problem guys, I know of the bug of no audio after intro, that's not my problem...

bemaniac · 22 Oct 2012 at 13:16

There is no way to enable audio fullstop with my usb dac. It just wont work at all after intro and have tried all available known fixes. Uninstalled the game.

snowdog · 22 Oct 2012 at 17:15

Great but is there a way to have more audio channels so it's good when many things go on ?

regarding your issues guys, iirc it was enabling/disabling stereo mixing in the volume options of vista/7... I've had the issue a ages back when I still used on board sound, but never had problems with my soundblaster or my current nvidia audio over hdmi...