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BIOSHOCK!!
Glaine:
--- Quote ---I bet you next time they will test it properly and not want to put their customers through hell and waste their own time and money getting it right after the fact.
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O wow. This strikes me as comedy gold, because MS has been doing just this with each new OS release, in my opinion. Why else did XP have a error report button on all of it's crashed windows. Thats always said to me - "Hey, stuff crashed, but would you mind writing an error report? Cuz even though this is a finished product, you are technically beta testing it for us. " - even if I'm exagerating.
That dulls in comparison to having an expensive console just brick on you, though. I'm glad they've got that fixed now. MS is good stuff - a few years after release, when they finish making their products.
SavannahLion:
--- Quote from: AtomSmasher on August 25, 2007, 01:06:58 pm ---
--- Quote from: gavkiwi on August 25, 2007, 12:24:05 pm ---
also, this is pretty interesting
http://www.gamingbob.com/2007/08/23/bioshock-installs-rootkit-including-demo/
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So I guess its not a rootkit, its a windows service that lets securom work when the user doesn't have admin rights. It's still annoying, but no where near as bad. Of course you could always just install the Steam version of the game and not have to worry about all of that copy protection stuff.
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Oh ugh. I was really looking forward to Bioshock too. I guess I'll wait until the hack comes out.
I'm of the camp that most software, especially games, really have no need to fiddle with basic functionality of your standard PC, much less require (as some users report) you to disable both your fire wall or AVS to either complete the install or even function.
And no, I'm not getting the Steam version.
RayB:
I just tried the demo through Steam and it DOES NOT WORK for me. My video card is a 9800 Pro, which does not support 3.0 shaders. I figured even so, I could turn all sorts of options off, and set qualities to LOW, but nope. I don't even get a mouse cursor in the menus. In the game, I see the beginning in a plane, then the screen goes black, and he's in the water (still black). I can see a ring of fire and smoke, but that's it. Everything else is black, with glitchy artifacts everywhere. OH WELL! No Bioshock for me.... :-(
AtomSmasher:
--- Quote from: RayB on September 04, 2007, 01:53:07 pm ---I just tried the demo through Steam and it DOES NOT WORK for me. My video card is a 9800 Pro, which does not support 3.0 shaders. I figured even so, I could turn all sorts of options off, and set qualities to LOW, but nope. I don't even get a mouse cursor in the menus. In the game, I see the beginning in a plane, then the screen goes black, and he's in the water (still black). I can see a ring of fire and smoke, but that's it. Everything else is black, with glitchy artifacts everywhere. OH WELL! No Bioshock for me.... :-(
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Have you tried using the workaround/hack that lets older video cards play it? Last I heard its still very buggy, but the game is playable. Mr.C linked to a page with the info on it a while back.
crashwg:
I went through hell trying to install this game last night (drinkin me grog) but my GeForce 8300 GS 128 mb couldn't handle it even with all the GFX settings off.
Moral of the story is you'll need a beefy graphics card if you want to play this game.
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