Bioshock not really Vista compatible.

[applehazelnut]

I get a crash from Bioshock every 5 minutes of play. I'm guessing there is a memory leak somewhere? Also the sound stutters. I guess a lot of other people running Vista have the same problems. I hope a patch is coming soon. I can't believe a paid for a game that doesn't work out of the box. LOL.

[trek554]

there are no more problems with Vista then with XP

[AtomicPenguin]

Check your drivers. When you're done doing that, check your drivers again. Remove them, restart, then reinstall them if you have to.

Vista works fine with Bioshock. I finished the game without a crash at all on a Vista Home Premium 32-bit install.

What doesn't always work right is your hardware drivers and Vista.

[nfs480]

I've only played Bioshock in Vista Ultimate and I don't even have lag let alone a single crash. Seems fine.

[Equisilus]

Yep, you can't generalize to BioShock not being compatible in Vista. I play it in Vista Ultimate 64-bit and don't have issues with the game crashing. It's smooth as butta. As suggested, try some different drivers first.

[fish99]

Seems to be pretty random whether you get problems or not. I get crashing under Vista in DX9, but it's stable under DX10. And I get crashing under XP.

[SniperFox]

I have a clean install of vista only having the Beta display drivers running in the background and it runs completely fine.
Your hardware is either not adequate or some piece of software that you installed is interfering with Bioshock.

[shithead]

I Don't have problems neither on Vista Ultimate 64-bit.
What's your system spec?

[Captain Buffalo]

I get a crash from Bioshock every 5 minutes of play. I'm guessing there is a memory leak somewhere? Also the sound stutters. I guess a lot of other people running Vista have the same problems. I hope a patch is coming soon. I can't believe a paid for a game that doesn't work out of the box. LOL.

Broad compatibilty isn't the issue, as you topic name implies. It runs very well on my VistaU install. No crashes yet. Your problem is based on some other issue most likely. Is your OS current with all updates? What's your hardware like, does it supply Vista with what it needs?

[PlayerOfGames]

Could you post your specifications please, could be a virtual memory issue if you have more than 2GB, if not specification will make discovering what might be wrong a little easier.

see:

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http://forums.2kgames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8397

and something that might help:

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http://forums.2kgames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8397

Also, worth making sure that your directx is the august 2007 version and that your video drivers are up to date.

PoG

[happykillz]

Im running Bioshock on Windows Vista home premium 64-bit and i crash sometimes (maybe 3 times a day and i play ALOT)

could anyone explain to me what you mean by update my drivers?, i have a new computer and i just updated my graphics card with the driver the bioshock REadme anything else i can update?, i really wanna fix this cause it happens on most of my games

thanks

[eddievader]

Im running Bioshock on Windows Vista home premium 64-bit and i crash sometimes (maybe 3 times a day and i play ALOT)

could anyone explain to me what you mean by update my drivers?, i have a new computer and i just updated my graphics card with the driver the bioshock REadme anything else i can update?, i really wanna fix this cause it happens on most of my games

thanks

Hi.
My game ran perfect until i got to medical pavillion and anytime i tried to pick up flame plasmid it always use to lock , then after that just whenever.. 1 hr or 30mins of play...I have all up to date drivers,hot fix's etc and i finally solved the problem with turning of sli... now it runs with no CBTD nor bluescreen or any lock up... these are my sys specs

2x dual core 3ghz amd64 fx 74 (running in quad)
2x 8800 756meg xfx gtx
4 gig ocz sli memory
Asus L1N64-SLI WS Quadfather
XFI-Fatality Sound Card
2x WD Raptors 75gig
Samsung 22" 226BW SyncMaster
Vista 64 Ultimate

I found the only other game i had problems with running in sli aswell was Company of Heroes... but hey hope it helps some

[ikrz]

I get a crash from Bioshock every 5 minutes of play. I'm guessing there is a memory leak somewhere? Also the sound stutters. I guess a lot of other people running Vista have the same problems. I hope a patch is coming soon. I can't believe a paid for a game that doesn't work out of the box. LOL.

I have the same problem. Drivers and DirectX are up to date.

[happykillz]

Hi.
My game ran perfect until i got to medical pavillion and anytime i tried to pick up flame plasmid it always use to lock , then after that just whenever.. 1 hr or 30mins of play...I have all up to date drivers,hot fix's etc and i finally solved the problem with turning of sli... now it runs with no CBTD nor bluescreen or any lock up... these are my sys specs

2x dual core 3ghz amd64 fx 74 (running in quad)
2x 8800 756meg xfx gtx
4 gig ocz sli memory
Asus L1N64-SLI WS Quadfather
XFI-Fatality Sound Card
2x WD Raptors 75gig
Samsung 22" 226BW SyncMaster
Vista 64 Ultimate

I found the only other game i had problems with running in sli aswell was Company of Heroes... but hey hope it helps some

hi thanks for repying...whats SLI?

thanks

[eddievader]

hi thanks for repying...whats SLI?

thanks

This is if you own two nvidia graphics cards Standered Link Interface I think.. It allows 2 cards to work together so you gain just under twice the performance... pretty much the same as the Ati Eq Crossfire... i just found with the beta drivers 163.44 having my sys on sli made the game crash a lot

[happykillz]

This is if you own two nvidia graphics cards Standered Link Interface I think.. It allows 2 cards to work together so you gain just under twice the performance... pretty much the same as the Ati Eq Crossfire... i just found with the beta drivers 163.44 having my sys on sli made the game crash a lot

i only have 1 graphics card though, i downloaded this hotfix on the microsoft site which is supposed to stop random game crashing, lets hope for the best

[eddievader]

i only have 1 graphics card though, i downloaded this hotfix on the microsoft site which is supposed to stop random game crashing, lets hope for the best

Good luck dude... here's hoping... also do you have an creative sound card xfi or audigy... if so i would get those drivers and if you have got drivers there was a new alchemy driver for the xfi card may'be audigy too not sure but was released in august and helps with comp issues with d3d sound etc...
anyway good luck

[happykillz]

Good luck dude... here's hoping... also do you have an creative sound card xfi or audigy... if so i would get those drivers and if you have got drivers there was a new alchemy driver for the xfi card may'be audigy too not sure but was released in august and helps with comp issues with d3d sound etc...
anyway good luck

Thanks dude

but i have one last question...how do you find out you sound card and motherboard?, i want to update the drivers on em both

with much thanks

happykillz