Making Bioshock Work with SM2.0 Cards! (Work in progress)

[ScottJG]

I apologize about posting this in two places, but I realized I had put this in General discussion when Technical Support would have been a better place. I would have edited and locked my topic on the other one but they dont let you edit your posts here!

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When I heard you needed a SM3 card to run Bioshock, I was mad. Here I had a video card that could run HL2, Stalker, and even upcoming Crysis, but not a game I had been looking forward to and had been getting good ratings everywhere.

So I started tinkering in the shader files of the Bioshock demo...

After an hour, I got it working on my card: and Ill tell you how

First, download this (which I made, and uploaded! )

http://rapidshare.com/files/50276163...ottJG.rar.html

(If you install the above and it doesnt work, then try downloading and installing this, which offers more of my configuration files: http://rapidshare.com/files/50284028...ottJG.rar.html )

Then, copy and paste all files to the C:\Program Files\2K Games\BioShock\Builds\Release directory

Boot up Bioshock, and you should now see your cursor (you couldn't before)


Note:

1)It will take a LONG time to load things now at check points. Wait at least 5 minutes when you get a loading screen up
2)Some textures will look really crappy (or be an entirely different color than they should be)


BEFORE


http://img117.imageshack.us/img117/2161/lameha0.jpg

AFTER (Notice the textures)

http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/3193/after1vt3.jpg

http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/4126/after2mb7.jpg


This is a work in progress, so Im going to keep you guys updated

That being said, there is no reason they cant make this work on 2.0 cards: I made it work within 20 minutes!

[Czar45]

OMG nuts, you are the best person in the world. Irrational games with all there money wont even do what you are doing. You are truly a saint.

[ScottJG]

I must stress again that you will know if it installed correctly if you see the Mouse cursor in game now

Thanks again for the support guys! It didnt take me long but I knew I wasnt the only X800 user here!

[quakemazer]

Looking forward to further progress.... Way to go man!

[spade]

i'll port pictures if it fails

[CrushU]

As I said elsewhere, I'm a programmer as well. I agree with what you said that they should've made it work with 2.0, no reason not to have. you did it in 20 minutes. xD

Props to you, my man. I will still buy a new card, but I can at least enjoy half-textured Bioshock-y goodness while I wait for the card to ship.

[dandragonrage]

Perhaps this was 2K's plan - why program 2.0 support if people will do it for you for free?

[quakemazer]

Awesome. Working on all settings cranked. I think I'll wait for a further revision from you ScottJG before proceeding into the demo

Just something to note: It worked on my rig on high settings just as your screen shots illustrate. When I lowered settings in menu, the water was an all white texture.

[spade]

yea the water was white?

[quakemazer]

We need to get this thread stickied so all these hopeless people in the forum realize there may be hope