Bioshock these days?

[u/DayOk2531]

Are there any versions anywhere of these games that don't crash? Original vs remake, steam vs Gog... or seems like they are all trash? (Tried all the fixes in the steam guides etc to no avail)

[u/GrumpyOldFart74]

I’ve played through the whole of the remastered version with no problems at all

[u/Ffom]

What are you running?

OS?

Specs?

[u/EXEMPLAR_LOL]

I’ve played through the whole of the remastered version and normal version with no problems at all

It's your PC not the Game

[u/Last-Idea9985 → u/EXEMPLAR_LOL]

I love when people blame the game and not their shitty pc

[u/bassbeater → u/Last-Idea9985]

Honestly, there's so many ways to fuck people's Windows installs through just regular use it's a wonder they don't fuck themselves.

I'm talking about cookies, registry problems, rogue zero day exploits, etc... on a platform everyone uses, there's as many tools to treat the problems as a Swiss Army Knife.

Then you have Linux. It runs what it's supposed to, with a pretty "no frills" vibe. Yet 4% use it because the average userbase is afraid of it.

[u/amazingmrbrock]

I played the remastered front to back two months ago

[u/CaptainStabfellow]

I know when you buy the remasters on GOG you get access to the original versions as well.

[u/LittlePooky → u/CaptainStabfellow]

Cheap and no copy protection!

[u/CXXXS → u/CaptainStabfellow]

Same with Steam, unless that's changed in the last few years.

I also played though the Remaster on my Steam Deck and PC with no issues at al.

[u/MonitorZeroLore]

I played original versions on Steam. Only the second one crashed near the end of the game where you jump down into the Live Testing Facility in Fontaine Futuristics. I had to jump in backwards. Other than that they were fine.

[u/pacoLL3]

Had literally zero issues with all 3 Bioshock games on steam ever.

Ths is a your PC issue.

[u/turtlelover05 → u/pacoLL3]

"Works on my machine" is not a helpful response and shows a lack of understanding of how software works. Why even comment?

[u/EvilTaffyapple → u/pacoLL3]

It’s really not. The forums are full of crashes, especially on newer hardware.

It’s okay to not make sweeping statements if you don’t know what you’re talking about. The issues have been widely reported for years across all versions.

[u/turtlelover05 → u/[deleted]]

The original Bioshock has a crash-to-desktop problem for tons of people since Windows 7 released. Look at the PCGamingWiki page; it's great that you don't have issues, but Bioshock 1 and 2 (and their remasters) are rather notorious for having tons of weird issues.

[u/exsinner]

Its an old game, most old games will not run without any issues if you have modern cpu with high amount of core count. Some wont even start if you have more than 16 threads like Witcher 2.

[u/turtlelover05 → u/exsinner]

Most old games that have issues don't have issues relating to CPU core count (at least not with 8c/16t CPUs), but rather things like deprecated graphics APIs.

[u/DayOk2531]

The "your pc just sucks" comments always help, especially when we're talking about old games. (And no, my 4090 and i9 13900k tell you tools otherwise) For those of you who are not trolls...yeah, I've tried limiting the number of cores, turning off full screen optimizations, compatibility mode etc. Followed some real crazy guides on steam of people that have claimed to solved the issues. I can sometimes go an hour or so in various versions without a crash but just thought I would check after a few years later if anything was better out there yet.

[u/Nicholas-Steel → u/DayOk2531]

No clue what your problem is, Bioshock 2 Remastered and Bioshock Infinite work fine here with Ryzen 3700X (and 5800X3D) with a Geforce 1070Ti.

My usual suggestions in this situation would be:

• Update motherboard BIOS/UEFI
• Update motherboard drivers within Windows
• Update graphics card drivers