BioShock 2

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Template:Infobox BioShock (series)

Key Points

Uses Games For Windows Live.

Uses SecuROM with unlimited activations and an available revoke tool.

General Information

2K Games Forum

Steam Forum

Wikia Page

Availability

All versions require a Games for Windows Live account.

Improvements

Disable GFWL

Instructions

Engine Performance Tweaks

Instructions

Game data

Save game location

Since BioShock 2 uses GFWL, you must successfully back up your Live profile as well as the game saves. Both folders/files must be backed up and restored simultaneously in order to move between computers or Windows installations.

Save Game Utility

A portable software to create and restore backups of saved games can be found here BioShock 2 Saved Game Utilities

Video Settings

Field Of View (FOV)

Any custom FOV settings will be reset automatically at various times during gameplay when control is taken away from the player; i.e. for cutscenes. Zooming down iron sights will also yield this effect.

Instructions

Anisotropic Filtering (AF)

Instructions

Anti-Aliasing (AA)

There is no native AA support in BioShock 2. AA can be forcibly enabled, however, through your graphics driver's control panel. Please consult the user guide for your particular graphics driver on how this is performed.

Input Settings

There is no native controller support (Xbox 360 or otherwise) in this game.

Instructions

Issues Fixed

Menu Flickering

Disable V-Sync from the in-game settings menu. Untested: Try forcing V-Sync through graphics driver settings.

Crash on Startup

Instructions

Left ("Plasmid") Hand Disappearing

This glitch happens especially when using the Scout-Plasmid so quicksave before using it and reload if necessary. Otherwise enable Vita-Chambers in the options (if it is deactivated) and get yourself killed. Upon respawning the left hand will appear again.

Green Pepper Edition - No Product Key

The Green Pepper Edition of Bioshock 2 does not contain a Product-Key. Therefore it is not possible to create a Windows Live Account or add Bioshock 2 to an existing account. Solution: Activate the Windows Live Dialog Box again and scroll down a bit. There is an option to create an Offline-Account that does not require a key, just a username. Now it is possible to save the game in singleplayer but multiplayer and the DLC are still unavailable.

Game crashing in Windows 8

The game will periodically crash when installed on Windows 8. To remedy this you have to run the game in DirectX9 instead of the default DirectX10 version. You can do this by creating a shortcut on your desktop for the Bioshock2Launcher.exe. Then right click on the shortcut you have created select Properties add -dx9 in the target box after the quotation mark. Now launching the game from this shortcut will force the game to run in DirectX9.

No Little Sister voice acting

Sometimes it's possible that the voices for the Little Sisters will no longer work as they should and they become mute. To fix this download the "Protector Trials" dlc from GFWL (it's free). Once downloaded and installed just load the single player the Little Sister voices will be working.