That ol' crash problem

[Bacteriophage]

Hey there. Bought BioShock for $20 on Steam, won't run now. Gets past the loading splash, and then the .exe crashes.

Skimmed the READ THIS OH MY GOD threads, searched for some stuff like the .dll I'm having a problem with... nothing.

Here's my details. I've heard great things about BioShock, I'd love to play it sometime in the next year.

Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: bioshock.exe
Application Version: 1.0.0.0
Application Timestamp: 474f5a3a
Fault Module Name: OLEAUT32.dll
Fault Module Version: 6.1.7100.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 49eea66f
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 00004983
OS Version: 6.1.7100.2.0.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 0a9e
Additional Information 2: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
Additional Information 3: 0a9e
Additional Information 4: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789

[Bacteriophage]

Anyone? I'd really like to have this fixed and I'm frankly unsure about which direction to head in.

[headkase]

This Post details the information you need to provide. If you are running Windows Vista then also please see: This Post as some things such as the tablet service need to be disabled on that operating system.

[baalansellers]

I am having the exact same issue. I received the same error message. Here is my PC information:

CPU : AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 940 Processor (4 CPUs), ~3.0GHz
Windows Version : Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
Memory: 4096MB RAM
DirectX Version : DirectX 11
Graphics Card Name : ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series
Graphics Card Memory : 2808 MB
Graphics Card Driver Date & Version : 11/4/2009 09:17:30 / 8.671.0.0
Sound Card Name: ATI HDMI Output (2- ATI High Definition Audio Device)
Sound Card Driver Date & Version : 9/30/2009 08:34:30 / 5.00.7000.0009

[Blue Lightning]

Yeah I just posted a thread about the same thing. I cant get past the first load screen before Im dumped out.

[baalansellers]

Ok, figured it out... for me at least. I navigated to where the exe file is and set it's compatibility mode to Vista SP2. It works fine now, for me at least. I guess it's just not programmed around Win 7's OLE library yet.

[QuakeBert]

I've got the 'Steam' download of BioShock. I had the same problems, this fixed it for me.

To fix the crashing when launching the game, you need to install the OpenAL drivers.
http://connect.creativelabs.com/open...ds/oalinst.zip

Then, to get the in game sound to work, you need to plug in a microphone to your sound card input. Sounds crazy, but that got it working for me.

[Blue Lightning]

I have Xp, what do you have Quakebert?

[BillyBob206]

Tried the fix above. IT DOES WORK!!

I have a Realtek onboard audio. Downloaded the program AND plugged in something into the microphone jack and now I get sound on my Win. 7 x64 PC.

Thanks!!