I registered to say thanks for the compatibility fix. I'm now up and running properly with Bioshock. I'm using an E6400 2.13 clocked to 3.066 (1533Mhz FSB @ 1.35v on a Zalman) with 4GB OCZ Platinum ram (1066Mhz @ 5-5-5-15 & 2.3v) on Vista Ultimate 64 bit. I'm using an EVGA 680i SLI T1 board w/onbaord audio. For graphics I have a 7950 GX2 right now, and I'm re-installing my 8600GTS XXX after it comes back from XFX.

Now for what I've done that may have had an effect;

I installed all the Hotfixes listed here.

I installed the drivers from EVGA specifically for my onboard Realtek audio.

Bioshock runs in Admin mode since I have disabled UAC, Error Reporting, and Driver Checking as part of the TCPIP patch.

I have Bioshock in compatibility mode for XP SP2. (Thank guys)

I installed the 163.69 Nvidia drivers after uninstalling the old drivers and running this. I was given that link from Nvidia tech support after I got tired of seeing "display driver has stopped responding and recovered" every 3 seconds and finally called in to complain.

Even though Vista comes with DirectX 10, I had to install the newest DX9 download here. I've had to do this for many games. Infernal, Oblivion, and Ghost Recon were all installed separately after different times that I have reformatted and installed Vista (I was having the "Display driver has stopped responding and has recovered" message), and each time I installed a different game I needed to update my DirectX, even though I was running a newer version. I could pretend to know an answer to this, but I have no idea.

Most importantly - I stopped overclocking my ram. I found alot of issues, especially with games, when attempting to take ram & cpu past spec at the same time. From what I understand, it has to do with the chipset's fsb. When taking both the ram and cpu past spec, it increases the north bridge latencies, and causes Widnows to send back false errors thanks to Vista's new error protocols. I'm not very knowledgable about this, but that's what I've read and been told.

Hopefully, this has been helpful to someone. I'm going to go play now.

Thanks for the kudos blazie, and welcome to our humble little gaming corner

Noticed this thread never seemed to have a happy ending, and I desperately needed one. For the hell of it I gave take2 tech support a call, and got my happy ending.


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Install the software, thank me later.

I now have my delicious sound.

I can't change the compatibility on mine. See, I have the demo, cause I don't have enough money for the real game yet. So, on my desktop, I have a shortcut for it, and I right-click. I go to properties. And the only tab they don't have is a compatibility tab. So... I have no idea what to do next. This may be a pretty old topic, but I really need an answer. Please help!

Darcon: Which version of Windows are you using? Not all versions of windows have this compatability tab. It was introduced in Windows XP, and windows Vista has it also. This has nothing to do with the version of the game

I have Windows Vista, so the fact that I don't have the tab is pretty distressing. I thought at first that it might not have the tab cause it's only a demo, but I have no idea anymore.

Hi, All

I had the 'no sound' problem with Bioshock. I am running vista home premium 32-bit on a hp a6110n pavilion, stock (on-board) audio, ge8600 something video card. Keep in mind that I'm a pretty clunky user who can point and click my way into trouble pretty easily, so the details of all this don't mean much to me. I just wanted sound.

I tried the xp-sp2 compatability approach, which didn't work. I ended up uninstalling my realtek high def audio device in device manager, rebooting, and allowing the machine to re-install the audio device, which then became a windows (or microsoft) high def audio device (I'd read this approach somewhere and figured it was worth a shot). This solved the no sound issue, but it did manage to disable my headphone jack on the front of my machine.

I was prepared to live with this temporarily, mostly because the game is pretty bitchin', but then I got a call from HP support as a follow up to my previous calls to them (when I first got a computer with Vista and was spending hours pounding my head against wall after wall). I chatted with the guy for awhile with no results, hung up, and, to my surprise, got a call back. He had followed up on my problem and suggested downloading the followoing patch: SP35169 for Realtek. I got it here: ftp.hp.com/pub/softlib...p35169.exe

Not sure if this patch is HP-specific or not, but it fixed the problem. The game now runs with no special compatability settings (i.e. no xp-sp2 needed) and I GET SOUND. Oh, and my headphone jack works again. That's good customer service.

Just thought I'd share my solution in case it helps anyone else.

Thank you, Phedgephones! I'm sure this may help some

After rebooting and trying the compatibility mode again, my game seems to have started working

I checked the "run this program in compatibility mode Window XP Service Pack 2" When i try to launch the game it stop and say it has a problem. Before I check run this program in compatibility mode the game was running fine except it has no sound . Can you please help me solve this problem. I have a window Vista and i just brought a BFG Geforce 8800