This game doesnt work anymore

Tyguy

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Just downloaded the game again, this tie with Vista Business, and every time I try to run it, I get an error telling me the Bioshock has stopped working.

I verified the files, did nothing.

any ideas?

specs in sig.
 
Assuming you didn't get it with Vista B. the first time, perhaps thats the problem? I suggest looking at the 2k forums
 
I originally got it with XP, then I got my new hardware, re-downloaded the game after installing a fresh copy of vista business....

This is infuriating me, nothing ****in works
 
ya, i actually did what was suggested, by changing a line in the .ini, but it didnt do shit.

Subquestion: If the motherboard was damaged at all, would it even run?
 
ive gotten nothing but problems since i rebuilt with vista. I keep getting the "no vga detected" beeps when trying to start the pc, it only works occasionally.
 
I fixed it, but at the expense of dx10, i added -dx9 to the target and it worked...

not sure what else to do to get dx10 working
 
I hope they eventually make a dx10 for XP. I don't know if it's even possible, although i can't see why not.. it's just that people aren't going with vista much, especially gamers, and i can see this bringing trouble in the future, when games start to really make use of dx10, while vista still sucks
 
Tried to play it again, still crashes in an epic manner.
 
not sure why i am unable to use dx10 while using vista....gay computers
 
I think I was lucky with this game. I'd been having the problem that some people report, where after a certain point the game starts to crash every few minutes making it very frustrating verging on unplayable. Fortunately, the problem only reached it's peak once I was at the very endgame.

Took a few attempts to get through it without a crash, but on one attempt it held together for me just long enough.

I also think the frequent crashing may have corrupted my video drivers. I started to experience bad crashing even outside Bioshock, until I switched from Catalyst 7.4 to 7.6. Prior to Bioshock I had not had crashing problems since it was more or less a fresh XP install. Good luck to anyone still struggling with the game...
 
So the game is still crap. No patch either.

Utter crap.
 
My pc = win. Never had a game not work for me.
 
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