PC Demo problems HERE!

[vrap]

There have been a million new threads of people posting their problems with the PC demo. If you have a technical issue with the demo, please post here and hopefully a dev will see it. Please don't spam the thread with useless posts, if you use it sensibly then the devs can take it seriously. If you have a wqorking solution to someone's problem, by all means post it.

Please don't get mad at me closing the other threads, it's just getting really messy with all the threads with differing and sometimes identical problems; I'll give a redirect link to this thread so everyone can come here.

[sajber]

Hi guys, I have a problem with the demo. I have missing textures in game.. they eather turn up single colored or very low rez. The demo also crashes when I choose "Quit to windows" or "Quit to main menu"

I have uppdated to the latest nvidia drivers. I have a Geforce 7800GT card..running on XP.

Anyhelp?

[X800XTuser]

Ok, I'm not going to complain about it anymore, but since your a moderater, I assume you can give me a strait up answer. (As I'm sure you've seen my spam).

Is Shader Model 2.0 supported? Because according to this article:
http://www.pcgameshardware.de/?article_id=602522

It is.

Thank you.

[mitor]

Hi, I have the same problems with untextured surfaces as the above poster (only with the new drivers though!).

My main problem though is during any loading section the game simply crashes with a black screen and constantly looping music. I can get past these in windowed mode only.


C2D 3.6GHz
8800GTS (bioshock beta drivers)
Onboard sound
32bit Vista


Game runs fine once you get into it and I can then put back into full screen mode.

[Devoluti0n]

Hi.

1st of all, sorry for my english, I'll try to be as clear as possible.

I've downloaded official demonstration release of the game.
But when I try to launch the game, after all the introduction annimation (NVIDIA, Unreal etc...) I've got a black screen and I can hear that there is an error but I can't see it.

I've tried to use the key print screen, to see the error, and here it is :
http://img143.imageshack.[...]343/bioshockjb0.jpg .
Translated it means something like :
"The address of the instruction "0x10b92a70" use the memory address "0x00000000".The memory can't be "read".
Clic ok to close the program.
Clic cancel to debug the program.(doesn't work)

If I understand correctly that message, it should mean that the game can't read the first ASM instruction.

Anyone knows from what this issue provide please ?
Thx in advance.

Ah, and, my drivers are all up to date.

[Epik]

Anyone not getting the video when you pick up the Incendiary Plasmid, I saw it in the 360 demo, is this just me?

[Maxor127]

Vista Business 32-bit
Core 2 Duo E6750
2x1GB Patriot Extreme DDR2 RAM
Nvidia 8800GTS 320MB w/ beta drivers
Gigabyte GA-P35C-DS3R Mobo
Onboard HD Audio

I can't get the demo to launch at all. Brand new computer. Latest drivers. Reinstalled demo and drivers. Basically spent all night trying to figure this out or find anyone who has a solution. Downloading the NVIDIA beta drivers, latest DirectX, and Microsoft Visual C++ didn't help. I get the BioShock splash screen and then I get a message saying "Bioshock.exe has stopped working." DX9 shortcut does the same thing.

[fish99]

Demo crashes here. This is with the 162.18 WHQL drivers and with the new 163.44 betas. Full system specs-

C2D E6750 (@ stock)
ABIT IP35-E mobo
2 GB Corsair DDR2
8800 GTS 320 mb (@ stock)
Corsair HX 520W PSU
Audigy 2 ZS
Win XP Pro SP2
1680*1050
Graphics settings on full

This is a fresh install of XP too, only about a month old. I also used Driver Cleaner Pro in safe mode after uninstalling the 162.18 drivers to make sure I had a proper driver install. Nothing is overclocked, system is 100% stable with everything else. I even played R6Vegas (same UE3 engine) all the way through with it last week without a single problem.

Just preying it's the demo and the problem is absent in the full game.

Btw I can finish the demo if I set 'High Detail Shaders' to off to get past the troublesome area. The crashes have been either during the sphere ride, just after it on the loading screen, or just after the loading screen before the sphere door opens. The game just freezes.

[sajber]

When you unzipped the setup did you make sure that the files was put in the right maps (the original map setting), becouse I made that misstake and had to unzip the whole thing again...so the files would be put in the right maps..

[harl3quin]

hi,Bioshock uses a modified version of the UNREAL ENGINE 3.0 so they can change preety much the entire system requirements for the final game.But i think they have made a good decision about SM 3.0 and not support any more 2.0.The game wouldn't look so good on 2.0 for you to have that feeling that they are trying to give us.The x800 users should think that a card so old is not meant to last forever,in this growing market of GPU's u should now that x800 won't last more then 1-2 years,the graphics cards are just keeping evolving too fast and to powerful.Even thought on the majority of the gamers they have 6600GT and a procesor of 2800+,why ? nobody knows

The games are evolving with splendid engines and gameplay but in order to keep playing them is to buy hardware mainstream or high-end to be in pace at least 2 years.This is the curse of PC GAMERS.

Remember this before being angry on devs