Bioshock: The Collection - HD Remastered

Been playing this, looks okay cannot believe they still have not sorted the FOV out after all this time lol.
Still for free not so bad :).

If you want to fix the FOV, the way i do it is open user.ini, which is in
AppData\Roaming\BioshockHD\Bioshock

Change (i do a find and replace all instances but may not be necessary)
W=MoveForward
to
W=MoveForward | SetFOV 90
Or whatever fov you want, that way when you move forward it changes the FOV each time as the game tends to set it back to 75 so makes it playable :).
 
OldComputerGuy7 said:
Been playing this, looks okay cannot believe they still have not sorted the FOV out after all this time lol.
Still for free not so bad :).

If you want to fix the FOV, the way i do it is open user.ini, which is in
AppData\Roaming\BioshockHD\Bioshock

Change (i do a find and replace all instances but may not be necessary)
W=MoveForward
to
W=MoveForward | SetFOV 90
Or whatever fov you want, that way when you move forward it changes the FOV each time as the game tends to set it back to 75 so makes it playable :).
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How often does the game keep setting it to 75? Changing FoV every few seconds would be a bit annoying.
 
Why aren't people just using the "expanded FOV" option set to ON in the in game settings?

I've experimented with all the other FOV tweaks and this is by far the best, and simplest option. I'd estimate it's an FOV of approx 85 after experimenting with the manual FOV tweaks. This is at 21:9 3440x1440 by the way. The only slight downside is that when carrying the wrench weapon the right most part of your arm/ shoulder is visible and doesn't quite get to the edge of the screen which is a bit annoying. For all other weapons so far though, and your left hand/ side it's spot on!
 
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So finally loaded up the remaster of 1 and 2, got to say I left the game right away to make sure I didn't click the original links in error. Glad it was free, complete waste of time if you already had them.
 
^ Think you're being a tad overly harsh and quick to judge there dude. I'm very pleasantly surprised with the remaster of the first Bioshock. I am running it at 6880 x 2880 (DSR'd 3440 x 1440) with my own sweetfx/reshade profile on though.

I've not fired up the vanilla original to directly compare granted, but for a 9 year old game, with a FREE textures and visuals boost I think it's great. And most importantly, the story, atmosphere, art direction and gameplay are stellar, and worth a re-visit even if you played it years ago.
 
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What is up with the sound? Im finding if there are no enemies around me or have all been killed, i can still hear their voices. And in one part where a Big Daddy walks past around the medical bit, the footsteps it makes dont go away when it does.
 
Moobert said:
What is up with the sound? Im finding if there are no enemies around me or have all been killed, i can still hear their voices. And in one part where a Big Daddy walks past around the medical bit, the footsteps it makes dont go away when it does.
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The sound is messed up on some systems unless you edit an ini file.

If you have a 5.1 system you need to Enable it by...

Go to folder C:\Users\”YOURUSERNAME” \AppData\Roaming\BioshockHD\Bioshock\
Open Bioshock.ini
Conftrol+F to search for : SpeakerMode=
change to: SpeakerMode=SM_5_1
Directly Below type: SpeakerModeValue=5

In the same ini file I also had to make sure EAX was disabled, otherwise certain sounds were missing (like the piano sounds when you navigate the start menu)
 
wunkley said:
^ Think you're being a tad overly harsh and quick to judge there dude. I'm very pleasantly surprised with the remaster of the first Bioshock. I am running it at 6880 x 2880 (DSR'd 3440 x 1440) with my own sweetfx/reshade profile on though.

I've not fired up the vanilla original to directly compare granted, but for a 9 year old game, with a FREE textures and visuals boost I think it's great. And most importantly, the story, atmosphere, art direction and gameplay are stellar, and worth a re-visit even if you played it years ago.
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Yeah not saying they are not great games. but they are pretty much the same as the originals. Had a look at some comparison shots and its not easy to tell them apart.
 
modo77 said:
Yeah not saying they are not great games. but they are pretty much the same as the originals. Had a look at some comparison shots and its not easy to tell them apart.
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Pretty much looks the same TBH but they seem to off improved the weird,stop motion,janky physics effects the characters had in the original
 
Guys, when i checked the ini file, looks like a lot of the settings are set to medium, i dont reckon the graphics/textures look great anyway, in old bioshock we had sliders to enable max graphics, you reckon any of these setting need editing in the ini file to make it look better ? i know we should not have to be doing any of this crap ini editing in this day and age, back in the quake 3/ unreal tournament days yes, but most games these days come with sliders to enable max graphics.
 
The textures must be better. Its a long time since I played the original, but i'm betting they were a lot blurrier than the remasters. the file size of the remaster is like 3x the size.
 
Yeh, but unless your using the Highest texture settings possible, you wont see them, do we know the game is even using them, as there aint any graphical settings like there was in old bioshock, there is already missing shaders etc in the remastered game, new bioshock looks to clean also, much prefer the old wet look on floors/walls etc, just look at the start of game when you go into lighthouse, and the dreary/rusty look of original has not gone over to the new game, if you aint played the original wont make a difference i guess.
 
Tbh I'm far from impressed with both games supposed "remaster". No graphical options and no 21:9 options in the second one if you enable AA. Click it to on and you lose the 3440x1440 option. No FOV slider in 2 either and even the 3440x1440 image it gives feels stretched. Rather play the originals as widescreen fixer fixes it.

Plus ,as Daytrader just said, I quite liked the shiney effect in the first one. Makes the game look sharper
 
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You do know these remasters are primarily to get the games playable on Xbone and PS4? The fact they are on PC is just a bonus. And as they're free, an even bigger bonus.

The general consensus is that the ports are sloppy anyway. Bioshock Infinite on PS4 has no anistropic filtering at all, both the console versions are missing the higher effects that are on PC and both have the same stuttering that was present in PC. No work has been done in optimization at all.
 
ic1male said:
You do know these remasters are primarily to get the games playable on Xbone and PS4? The fact they are on PC is just a bonus. And as they're free, an even bigger bonus.

The general consensus is that the ports are sloppy anyway. Bioshock Infinite on PS4 has no anistropic filtering at all, both the console versions are missing the higher effects that are on PC and both have the same stuttering that was present in PC. No work has been done in optimization at all.
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Yes I do know but dont sell them as a "remaster" if you barely touched them and,in some cases,made them worse. They may be free for us that own them already but paying £40 for a sloppy port just isnt good enough IMO. Sorry but I've always lived by he rule of "If a jobs worth doing,its worth doing properly"
 
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