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Revision as of 11:39, 2 September 2022
Developers | |
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Original game | Irrational Games |
Remastered | Blind Squirrel Games |
macOS (OS X) | Feral Interactive[1] |
Publishers | |
2K Games | |
Engines | |
Unreal Engine 2.5 | |
Release dates | |
Windows | September 15, 2016 |
macOS (OS X) | August 22, 2017[1] |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | One-time game purchase |
Microtransactions | None |
Modes | Singleplayer |
Pacing | Real-time |
Perspectives | First-person |
Controls | Direct control |
Genres | Shooter, Immersive sim |
Art styles | Realistic, Stylized |
Themes | Sci-fi, Steampunk |
Series | BioShock |
BioShock | |
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BioShock | 2007 |
BioShock 2 | 2010 |
BioShock Infinite | 2013 |
BioShock Remastered | 2016 |
BioShock 2 Remastered | 2016 |
Key points
- Remastered version of BioShock. Released as part of BioShock: The Collection, which also includes BioShock 2 Remastered and BioShock Infinite.
- Free to owners of BioShock on Steam.[2] Purchasing this version likewise gives a free Steam copy of the original.
- Includes the formerly PlayStation 3 exclusive Challenge Rooms DLC which includes new challenges, a museum, Survival difficulty and New Game+.
- Audio quality downgraded. See Restore uncompressed FMV audio.
- Lots of reports of entire save files lost due to frequent crashes have been issued.[3]
General information
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Developer website | ||||
Epic Games Store | Requires 2K Launcher. | |||
GOG.com | Included with BioShock Classic. | |||
Green Man Gaming | ||||
Humble Store | ||||
Steam | Also unlocks a copy of the original BioShock. As of 31 August 2022, 2K Launcher is required. |
Essential improvements
Skip intro videos
Launch the game with -nointro parameter[4]
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | %APPDATA%\BioshockHD\Bioshock\ %APPDATA%\My Games\Bioshock Epic HD\Bioshock\ |
macOS (OS X) | ~/Library/Application Support/Feral Interactive/BioShock Remastered/VFS/User/AppData/Roaming/BioshockHD/Bioshock/ |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/409710/pfx/[Note 1] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | %USERPROFILE%\Documents\BioshockHD\Bioshock\SaveGames\ %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Bioshock Epic HD\Bioshock\<Epic account hexadecimal number>\SaveGames\ |
macOS (OS X) | |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/409710/pfx/[Note 1] |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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Epic Games Launcher | ||
GOG Galaxy | ||
OneDrive | Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers. | |
Steam Cloud | Up to 128 save files (and no more than 512 MB) can be synced. |
Video
Graphics feature | State | WSGF | Notes |
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Widescreen resolution | |||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | Added in via patch. | ||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | Added in via patch. 75° to 130°. Default is 100°. Doesn't scale viewmodels. | ||
Windowed | |||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | |||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | FXAA, toggle only | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | |||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS | No frame rate caps. First person animations are locked at 60 fps. | ||
High dynamic range display (HDR) | See the glossary page for potential alternatives. |
Input
- Controllers need to be unplugged or disabled in game settings for mouse to work.
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | Two keys per action. | |
Mouse acceleration | Disabled post launch via patch. | |
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support | XInput only. | |
Full controller support | If controller is disabled in settings, requires keyboard or mouse to enable. | |
Controller remapping | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | |
Controller sensitivity | ||
Controller Y-axis inversion |
Controller types |
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XInput-compatible controllers | ||
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Xbox button prompts | ||
Impulse Trigger vibration |
PlayStation controllers | Supported on OS X. | |
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PlayStation button prompts | See DualShock button prompts. | |
Light bar support | ||
Adaptive trigger support | ||
DualSense haptic feedback support | ||
Connection modes |
Generic/other controllers | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. |
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Additional information | ||
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Controller hotplugging | ||
Haptic feedback | ||
Digital movement supported | ||
Simultaneous controller+KB/M | Enabling controller disables mouse, but keyboard still works. |
DualShock button prompts
Download and install the PlayStation Button Icons mod[5] |
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Replace toggle binds with hold binds
Instructions[citation needed] |
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Aliases[57]=(Command="ZoomCycle | onRelease ZoomCycle",Alias=ZoomHold) Aliases[58]=(Command="ToggleWalk | onRelease ToggleWalk",Alias=WalkHold) Aliases[59]=(Command="DuckKeyPressed | onRelease DuckKeyReleased | onRelease Jump",Alias=DuckHold) 4. Bind each alias to a key in the following sections: [Default] [GathererChoice] [ContainerUIActive] [MovementOnly] (can skip ZoomHold) [NoJump] [NoMovement] [OnlyMedHypoAndMovement] (can skip ZoomHold) [NoPlasmids] [EverythingExceptWeaponAndPlasmids] (can skip ZoomHold) [InResurrectionStation] Example: find the key you want to change, for example zoom (Aiming Down Sights, Right Mouse Button in this case): Rightmouse=ZoomCycle And change it to: Rightmouse=ZoomHold
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Pick individual items from containers
Pick individual items from containers[citation needed] |
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ReplaceableAction=CollectContainerItemInSlot 2 ReplaceableAction=CollectContainerItemInSlot 1 ReplaceableAction=CollectContainerItemInSlot 0 |
Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | Master, effects, music and voice. | |
Surround sound | Added with patch up to 7.1 | |
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
Simplified Chinese | Added in PC Patch 3.[6] | |||
French | ||||
German | ||||
Hungarian | Fan translation, download. | |||
Italian | ||||
Japanese | ||||
Polish | Ported from BioShock. Available here. | |||
Brazilian Portuguese | Fan translation, download. | |||
Russian | Ported from BioShock. Available here. | |||
Spanish |
Surround sound
- The game, after being patched, now supports in-game options for Mono, Stereo, Quad, Surround, 5.1, 7.1. There is no in-game option for Dolby Pro Logic support.
Enable Dolby Pro Logic[citation needed] |
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- Surround sound requires your output device to be set to 48 kHz, otherwise most audio will not play.
Set output device to 48kHz[citation needed] |
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Reverb and EAX Support
All reverb has been removed from the game, including the software openAL EFX based reverb (for those without EAX hardware support). In standard openAL, the games would use EAX hardware support if a supported soundcard was detected and fallback to software EFX implementation of these effects if not. The reverb setting in the audio menu does nothing anymore because of this.
Even if you set bEAXEnabled=True
and UseEAX=True
Use3DSound=True
in Bioshock.ini
, it will not do anything as OpenAL appears to have been gutted from the game and only FMOD is used (the original game appeared to use a combination of FMOD the bulk of the sound engine and openAL for the EAX effects).
VR support
3D modes | State | Notes | |
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vorpX | G3D, Z3D, DirectVR Officially supported game, see official vorpx game list. |
Issues fixed
Restore uncompressed FMV audio
- The overall audio quality has been downgraded due to poor sound balance, lack of EAX support and proper reverb settings. Actual bitrate of audio files is much higher, but not for BIK video audio tracks, which were severely compressed.
Download and install this mod |
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Game stutters/freezes when entering new area
Lower the texture detail in config file[4] |
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How to keep proper weapon order in Neptune's Bounty
Instructions |
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Do not pick up any weapons after putting yours into the Pneumo outside the freezer. It might be hard to survive the ambush on high difficulty levels, but it is the only way to prevent incorrect weapon order from transpiring. |
Plasmid order changes when new plasmids are purchased
Instructions |
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Select your first plasmid, change it to something you do not intend to use. Then, immediately change it to the one you intend to use. Do the same for the second, third, fourth, and so on. "Reset" the plasmids in each slot. Reference. |
Game crashes on startup
Windows 7: install platform update[citation needed] |
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Reinstall OpenAL[citation needed] |
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Game crashes reliably at specific points
- Some custom control binds can cause the game to crash at specific points (such as during the tutorial section or after obtaining a new weapon) and appear to be caused by control hints shown on the screen. Mouse buttons 4 and 5 (and likely any additional extra mouse buttons) are known to cause this problem.
Remove or modify controls bound to the mouse[citation needed] |
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Ensure that ForceGlobalLighting is set to False in both Bioshock.ini and Default.ini
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Game crashes randomly
Disable reverb[citation needed] |
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Set MaximumLevelSaveSizeBytes [citation needed]
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Bioshock 1&2 Remastered fix (Steam guide)[citation needed] |
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This full workaround-fix should help preventing the game from frequent crashes. It's been in development for some years... |
Game displays nothing but a black screen when launched for the first time
Follow the instructions at the provided link[citation needed] |
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Linux
Extremely low resolution textures while running under Proton/Wine
Disable eventfd-based in-process synchronization primitives
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Game doesn't start anymore
If you have core dumps enabled and the game crashed once, it won't start anymore.
Delete core file from the games folder |
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Brightness adjustments have no effect (Windows 10)
Disable Fullscreen Optimizations |
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Run Game using Internal Graphics Card. For NVIDIA drivers
See comment #8 on Jul 2, 2020 @ 3:00pm, from this Steam Discussion, |
Settings Aren't Saved (Windows 10)
Run as Administrator |
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Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 11 | |
Metal support |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows | |||
macOS (OS X) |
Middleware
Middleware | Notes | |
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Physics | Havok | |
Audio | FMOD, OpenAL | OpenAL only used for EAX support |
Interface | Adobe Flash | |
Cutscenes | Bink Video, Flash |
Mods
GUI Fixes Pack
- Rather big patch for game interface. Features a number of fixes such as patch to make dialogue subtitle background widescreen friendly. Download here.
- Works with the GOG version.
- Currently incompatible with the Epic Games version.
- As of 31 August 2022, the mod no longer works on Steam, due to the implementation of the 2K Launcher.
BioShock Tweaker
- Allows to change settings that are not normally adjustable from the options menu (i.e. custom resolution). Point the program at the game's configuration file location.
- May increase the frequency and likelihood of crashes on some machines.
- Allows access to
ForceGlobalLighting
, a setting left over from the original 2007 release that will cause the game to freeze in specific places if enabled. This is verifiable by examining the logs that can be found in the%APPDATA%\BioshockHD\Bioshock\ShaderErrors
folder after at least one such crash occurs.
Performance tweak (Havok)
Improving Havok physics engine performance[citation needed] |
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Improving Engine Memory usage[citation needed] |
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System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 7 | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 2.66 GHz AMD Athlon X2 2.7 GHz |
3.0 GHz Quad Core |
System memory (RAM) | 4 GB | 8 GB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 25 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | Nvidia GeForce GTX 670 AMD Radeon HD 7770 2 GB of VRAM DirectX 11 compatible | Nvidia GeForce GTX 770 AMD Radeon HD 7970 |
Sound (audio device) | DirectX compatible |
- A 64-bit operating system is required.
- Mobile chipsets and integrated/AGP graphics cards may be incompatible.
macOS (OS X) | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 10.12.5 | 10.12.6 |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Core i5 2.4 GHz | |
System memory (RAM) | 8 GB | 16 GB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 27 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | Nvidia GeForce GTX 680MX AMD Radeon R9 M290X Intel Iris Pro Graphics 5200 2 GB of VRAM |
- A 64-bit operating system is required.
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Games with Steam Cloud support may also store data in
~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/409710/
. - Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (409710) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Paradise reborn: BioShock™ Remastered surfaces on macOS August 22nd | Feral News
- ↑ Remastered BioShock: The Collection Coming to PC on September 13, 2016 - last accessed on June 30, 2016
- ↑ Bioshock Remastered Discussions - Steam
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Verified by User:Suicide_machine on 2016-09-17
- ↑ Verified by User:AmethystViper on 2019-11-02
- Make sure to download the patch for GUI Fixes Pack in the optionals section of the mod page.
- ↑ PC PATCH NOTES: 12/5/2017