Around 5:00 PM EST, I got home from work and fired up BioShock. There was an auto-update screen that I obviously had to accept. As of now, 5:22 Pm EST, there is no sight or sound of any reason for this post. There are no multiplayer aspects of this game at all. What could the update be for? New content?
Chris
September 5, 2007 - 5:29 pm1
Google didn’t bring up anything? I probably won’t be getting it from Gamefly any time soon, but I would love some new content already, lol!
drunk pandas
September 5, 2007 - 5:35 pm2
Possibly widescreen bug fixes?
Glenn
September 5, 2007 - 7:15 pm3
Could be southpaw and legacy controller support… if not then it should be. I won’t be buying it until there is, so i’ll prob have to sit this one out.
Chris
September 5, 2007 - 7:49 pm4
I thought all recent games automatically had southpaw and legacy setups. Luckily I don’t have to worry about such things. =D
Game Hard
September 5, 2007 - 10:31 pm5
Yea I tried southpaw and legacy once and could barely walk straight haha. But I am curious to find out what the update is considering I already beat it once (saving the little sisters, go me). Keep us posted on this one…
oneshotthrill
September 5, 2007 - 10:45 pm6
My Bioshock continues to freeze and its in perfect condition. Its not the freeze crash… type freeze no its more like a laggy freeze. Can anyone confirm?
fierce Scuba
September 5, 2007 - 10:56 pm7
@ oneshot:
yes i had the SAME problem. we have posted instructions on how to erase the patch from the game. it has solved all issues. just input the key sequence even though there are no options for those buttons.
oneshotthrill
September 5, 2007 - 11:34 pm8
how do we remove the patch?
reedbananaboat
September 6, 2007 - 4:21 am9
texture pop in is something you are going to have to get used to. It is usually a small problem in games that stream textures realtime to cope with system memory limitations. remember driving too fast in vice city and all of a sudden all of the buildings look like horse crap them boom back to normal. same thing with this but 2k packed so many multi layered hi-res textures so close in the game that even given UE3s superb ability to stream textures on the fly without causing framerate stutter the hardware memory available today simply does not have the bandwidth to handle such large amounts of data sifting. be it the video ram system ram shared or not, it is a huge pain to have relatively large levels as well as extremely high fidelity textures.
2k could have made the streaming time so low you would never experience a texture pop-in but that would be at the cost of quality.
i am thoroughly convinced that they have found a good balance if not great.
try to appreciate, not criticize. realize that you alone are not capable of anything of this magnitude quality or complexity, respect their work enjoy a kickass game .
thanks.
nostars
September 6, 2007 - 8:08 am10
Leave it to 2k to ruin a game with a patch.
They must’ve had a conference call with the higher ups.
“Gentlemen, we have a problem. It seems Bioshock is loved by all and working great. We cannot allow this.”
“We’re on it, sir. We are putting together a fuck-it-all-up patch as we speak.”
“Keep up the great work guys, and don’t let this happen again.”
arthinel
September 6, 2007 - 9:24 am11
2nostars, great ((-:
strong advice to all of you - play PC bioshock. it’s really clean from bugs and running smoothly. of course, if u have a good machine (-:
drunk pandas
September 6, 2007 - 9:31 am12
Sure, it runs better, but you have to deal with the very insane DRM they’ve put on there, with potential rootkit issues
arthinel
September 7, 2007 - 1:12 am13
u just need two good hands and a couple of minutes to solve that.
Need Help?
September 13, 2007 - 8:12 pm14
If ur using vista and have a DX10 Card and u freeze a certain point (ex. the slideshow) just make the game run in DX9 and it should not freeze to do this add “-dx9″ ex (\Builds\Release\Bioshock.exe -dx9)
go to the root folder
right click BioShock.exe
then create a shortcut
Right Click Shortcut
go to properties make the text in the target box say “………Builds\Release\Bioshock.exe -dx9″
then use the shortcut to run the game
USE AT YOUR OWN RISK