BioShock Infinite
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Developers | |
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Irrational Games | |
2K Australia | |
Iron Galaxy Studios | |
Publishers | |
2K Games | |
OS X | Aspyr Media |
Engines | |
Unreal Engine 3 | |
Release dates | |
Windows | March 26, 2013 |
macOS (OS X) | August 29, 2013 |
Linux | March 17, 2015 |
Warnings
- The macOS (OS X) version of this game does not work on macOS Catalina (version 10.15) or later due to the removal of support for 32-bit-only apps.
BioShock | |
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BioShock | 2007 |
BioShock 2 | 2010 |
BioShock Infinite | 2013 |
BioShock Remastered | 2016 |
BioShock 2 Remastered | 2016 |
Key points
- Quality PC port, including graphics and control options.[1][2]
- Aim assist is on by default even when not using a controller, but can be fixed.
General information
- Port Report: BioShock Infinite.
- Official game site
- 2K Games Forums
- Steam Community Discussions
- BioShock Wiki - A huge wiki for all the BioShock games
Availability
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Retail | ||||
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Amazon.com | ||||
Amazon.co.uk | ||||
Published by 2K. | ||||
Published by Aspyr. | ||||
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Green Man Gaming | ||||
Humble Store | ||||
Mac App Store | ||||
Steam |
DLC and expansion packs
Name | Notes | |
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Season Pass | ||
Early Bird Special Pack | Exclusive to the Season Pass | |
Columbia's Finest | ||
Clash in the Clouds | Part of the Season Pass | |
Burial At Sea: Episode One | Part of the Season Pass | |
Burial At Sea: Episode Two | Part of the Season Pass |
Essential improvements
Skip intro videos
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Turn Off Texture Streaming
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Game data
Configuration files location
- This game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux.
- Key mappings are encrypted which prevents sharing key bind files or creating custom commands.[3]
Save game data location
- Game creates an automatic permanent save at the beginning of each chapter. These saves are automatically overwritten if replaying from a previous chapter.
- Only one save game is able to played at any one time.[4]
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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Steam Cloud |
Video settings
Multi-monitor
- The HUD may not be centred automatically for multi-monitor setups.[citation needed]
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Field of view (FOV)
- There is a FOV slider in the game options, however it only increases/decreases FOV by 15% from the default value of 70º (59.5º - 80.5º).
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Maximum FoV by slider | MaxUserFOVOffsetPercent value |
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85 | 21.43 |
90 | 28.57 |
95 | 35.71 |
100 | 42.86 |
105 | 50.00 |
110 | 57.14 |
120 | 60.00 |
Disable Post-Processing Effects
- Some of the post-processing effects can only be disabled in the game's XEngine.ini file. These effects include depth of field, light bloom, and color correction.
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Input settings
Mouse speed slider tweak
- Slider for mouse speed is set to very wide range, which can be unsuitable for high precision mice.
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Audio settings
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
French | ||||
German | ||||
Italian | ||||
Japanese | ||||
Korean | ||||
Polish | ||||
Brazilian Portuguese | ||||
Russian | ||||
Spanish |
VR support
3D modes | State | GG3D | Notes | |
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Nvidia 3D Vision | Use Helix Mod: Bioshock Infinite. | |||
TriDef 3D |
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3RD Space Gaming Vest |
Issues unresolved
Windows
Freezing and crashing
- There have been reports of crashing and freezing, possibly related to i7 processors.[5][6] 2K is aware of this issue and there should be patch soon.[citation needed]
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Issues fixed
Texture streaming quality problems
- When the game can't detect or detects wrong video memory size, it automatically enables only Very Low and Low options for texture quality.
- There is also an issue on some systems that selection Very High or Ultra for texture quality will cause to textures never load properly and game tries to load them over and over.[7]
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FPS dropping
- Nvidia cards experience FPS drops in certain areas when
Dynamic Shadows
is set to Very High or Ultra.
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Make the Game Hor+
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Disable aim assist
- Aim assist is on by default even when using keyboard and mouse.[8]
- There are some auto aim variables in the .ini files but these variables are reverted to True every time you start the game.[9] There is no permanent fix yet.
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GUI scaling on high resolution displays
- GUI elements are not scaling with resolution which makes these elements rather small on high resolution displays.
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Windows
Crash on start for some Windows 7 and 8 users
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Cannot restore game after Alt-Tab
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Change from toggle to hold aim down sights
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Stuttering during gameplay
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Xbox controls even with no controller attached
- Bioshock Infinite auto-detects any controllers/joysticks attached to the system including virtual ones. This could make the game uncontrollable, cause the camera to spin, and label the menu with Xbox prompts.
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Microstuttering
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- Mice with high polling rates can sometimes cause microstuttering.
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Audio crackling
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Linux
Game starts on the wrong screen
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Game starts on the wrong screen, wrong aspect ratio
- In a multi-monitor configuration where 1 monitor is portrait and 1 monitor landscape and where game starts on portrait monitor and is forced to run on the landscape monitor using
--eon_force_display
, game does not recognize landscape monitor's aspect ratio and will only allow portrait aspect ratios/resolutions. - No real fix is available at this time.
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Game uses system mouse acceleration
- The game uses mouse acceleration, even if mouse acceleration is turned off in-game.
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Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 10, 11 | |
OpenGL | 3.3, 4.1, 4.2 | 3.3 on OS X, 4.1/4.2 on Linux. |
Shader Model support | 4, 5 |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Middleware
Middleware | Notes | |
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Physics | PhysX | |
Audio | Wwise | |
Interface | Autodesk Gameware | |
Cutscenes | Bink Video |
System requirements
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | Vista SP2 | 7 SP1 64-bit |
Processor (CPU) | 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 2.7 GHz AMD Athlon X2 |
Quad core |
System memory (RAM) | 2 GB | 4 GB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 20 GB | 30 GB |
Video card (GPU) | ATI Radeon 3870 Intel HD 3000 Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT 512 MB of VRAM DirectX 10 compatible | ATI Radeon 6950 Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 1 GB of VRAM DirectX 11 compatible |
macOS (OS X) | ||
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Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | 10.8.4 | |
Processor (CPU) | 2.2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo | |
System memory (RAM) | 4 GB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 30 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | ATI Radeon HD 3870 Nvidia GeForce 640M 512 MB of VRAM |
Linux | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | Ubuntu 14.10, Mint 17.1 | |
Processor (CPU) | 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 2.7 GHz AMD Athlon X2 |
3 GHz Intel Core i5 |
System memory (RAM) | 4 GB | 8 GB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 20 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | Nvidia/AMD OpenGL 4.1 compatible | OpenGL 4.2 compatible |
References
- ↑ Port Report: BioShock Infinite - The Port Report
- ↑ PC Specifications for BioShock Infinite Announced! - Irrational Games Blog
- ↑ Although configuration files are in plain text, there is a base-64 encoded section for user key mappings which prevents custom command creation. When decoded, the section contains a number of strings corresponding to command names from the .ini files, and approximately 300 or so bytes of binary data of unknown purpose - Comment from Port Report: BioShock Infinite - The Port Report
- ↑ Bioshock Infinite: Multiple Savegames Workaround Guide | gamefront.com
- ↑ Bluescreen and freez/crash - Steam Community Discussions for BioShock Infinite
- ↑ game freezes every 5-10 min! please help! - Irrational Games Forums
- ↑ Bioshock Infinite texture streaming problem - YouTube
- ↑ "BioShock Infinite - Auto Aim on PC Version" - ThreePi on YouTube
- ↑ How to remove auto-aim - Steam Community Discussions for BioShock Infinite
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