bioshock demo refuses to work

ergonomics

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Hello

i have downloaded the bioshock demo firstly from steam. tried launching it every way possible, just doesnt work. nothing happens. it appears in task manager for about 5 seconds, then goes. thinking maybe the download was borked i downloaded again from an ftp source, same thing. it insalls fine, but nothing happens when i launch it from the start menu.

any help is appreciated as i want to know what the hype is all about

my set up

xp home 32bit sp2
Q6600 @2.7
8800gts 640
2gb ddr2
p5ne-sli onboard audio
the newest nvidia drivers 163.44

please help me out lads

cheers
 
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I am having problems too - plays fine but the sound goes off just after the plane crash and then when I press the volume buttons on my laptop they bring up menus instead???
 
Dont think anyone had problems in the big thread, I'd check over at the 2k forums.

Joebob said:
when I press the volume buttons on my laptop they bring up menus instead???
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Yeah my logitech keyboard volume control does that, it does change the volume though.
 
ergonomics said:
Hello

i have downloaded the bioshock demo firstly from steam. tried launching it every way possible, just doesnt work. nothing happens. it appears in task manager for about 5 seconds, then goes. thinking maybe the download was borked i downloaded again from an ftp source, same thing. it insalls fine, but nothing happens when i launch it from the start menu.

any help is appreciated as i want to know what the hype is all about

my set up

Q6600 @2.7
8800gts 640
2gb ddr2
p5ne-sli onboard audio
the newest nvidia drivers 163.44

please help me out lads

cheers
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tried to clock your system back to stock speeds?
 
no, but im confident that a small overclock is not what is causing this, when ive seen others running it with heavily oc cpus and gfxs
 
Joebob said:
I am having problems too - plays fine but the sound goes off just after the plane crash and then when I press the volume buttons on my laptop they bring up menus instead???
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If you are on Vista run the demo in XP Compatability mode and you will get sound, however it will most likely be stuttery bad quality sound. I have the same problem with my card as im using forced 3rd party drivers to get any sound out of it at all, it's a first gen SB:Live must be some 8 years old, so naturaly not supported by Vista or even creative labs anymore.
 
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YoungBlood said:
If you are on Vista run the demo in XP Compatability mode and you will get sound, however it will most likely be stuttery bad quality sound. I have the same problem with my card as im using forced 3rd party drivers to get any sound out of it at all, it's a first gen SB:Live must be some 8 years old, so naturaly not supported by Vista or even creative labs anymore.
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Nope, tried that and it still doesn't work! I'm not running an old sound card either - it's a DELL XPS M1710 laptop which is only just over a year old so it should run fine. I read on the 2K forums that another guy was having the same prob as me and he had a DELL system also with the same built in sound as me. There was not a solution posted to his problem though!!!
 
Just dl the demo and im having problems :p
I got onto the main menu changed the settings to max except the dx10 ones of course. And i clicked onto play demo then i got a blue screen and my pc restarted :(
 
KNiVES said:
The Steam demo does not work with Vista x64. Got bit by this bug the hard way.
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ah there you go - im running vista 64. Got a link for downloading it without steam?
 
furnace said:
Yeah same problem as you :( But it doesn't even get into the taskbar, just thinks then forgets!
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ah no mine doesnt even get that far. it appears in the task manager as bioshock.exe, then goes after few seconds.

getting too annoyed with this game and i havent even played it yet :mad:
 
Got sound working now - went to Dell.co.uk and had to download and install the official drivers again!!! :D
 
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