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| Posted: Thu, 23rd Aug 2007 16:47 Post subject: |
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when i put in a 8800gts it runs fine and gets past that part.
My 7800gtx should play it past that part tho as it plays the game very well on max upto that point where it loads and then crashes
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| Posted: Thu, 23rd Aug 2007 16:48 Post subject: |
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| BloodAngel wrote: | when i put in a 8800gts it runs fine and gets past that part.
My 7800gtx should play it past that part tho as it plays the game very well on max upto that point where it loads and then crashes |
then I think it is a graphical error
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| Posted: Thu, 23rd Aug 2007 16:55 Post subject: |
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Did anyone who lives in Belgium find a shop that already has the game? i.e. game mania or mediamarkt?
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| Posted: Thu, 23rd Aug 2007 17:00 Post subject: |
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| Karmeck wrote: | | Trolldeg wrote: | | Karmeck wrote: | | Buy the game, thats what I did. |
How did you buy it in sweden? |
Webhallen.com |
Ah, I thought you were already playing it but I guess it will come tomorrow?
There is no way for europeans to buy and play it right now is there?
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cacaro
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| Posted: Thu, 23rd Aug 2007 17:04 Post subject: |
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| Trolldeg wrote: | | Karmeck wrote: | | Trolldeg wrote: |
How did you buy it in sweden? |
Webhallen.com |
Ah, I thought you were already playing it but I guess it will come tomorrow?
There is no way for europeans to buy and play it right now is there? |
You could try to activate through Pacsteam.
Oh, and BTW, there are some european countries where activation servers have been working since the 21st. Poland is an example. So it might work for you too.
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Karmeck
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| Posted: Thu, 23rd Aug 2007 17:04 Post subject: |
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| Trolldeg wrote: | | Karmeck wrote: | | Trolldeg wrote: |
How did you buy it in sweden? |
Webhallen.com |
Ah, I thought you were already playing it but I guess it will come tomorrow?
There is no way for europeans to buy and play it right now is there? |
It in the store, I can go and get it right now. But then i pre-orded some time ago.
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slash213
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| Posted: Thu, 23rd Aug 2007 17:09 Post subject: |
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| BrokenCrow wrote: | | Karmeck wrote: | | Buy the game, thats what I did. |
Cancelled my preorder due to the protection  It's killing me to wait but I wont be paying to support that nonsense. It took long enough for us to get rid of Starforce.
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You sound like you've been personally invading Ubisoft's office and beaten their CEO to shit unless he agreed to get rid of Starforce.
This looks pathetic, really. Stop posing. And renew your fucking order.
Everyone's actually bitchin' about protection system identical to Steam, but it DOESN'T force you to install some useless shitty software and wait for it downloading a 700mb patch (which Steam consider extremely needed) over the damn planet.
You just have activation key instead of accout name and a text field to enter it instead of third-party software.
"Limited installations" thing looks ridiculous, I agree. But that's not the fucking reason to act like you've been raped by someone.
P.S. and remember, SecuRom's developers were paid long ago. The only ones suffering from your protection-related brain damage are 2k Games and Irrational. They've made a good game actually, so be good boys & girls, buy it.
P.P.S. here, in Russia, we will receive Bioshock translated by local distributor. "Rapture city" became... "Aquatown". Damn it, I'll have to import game for $60+ instead of buying local legit copy for $15.
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| Posted: Thu, 23rd Aug 2007 17:10 Post subject: |
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Bioshock - Collectors Edition
Sent by mail
woohoo
this will be the day of my life...
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| Posted: Thu, 23rd Aug 2007 17:11 Post subject: |
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| Lutzifer wrote: | | some links would be great. If securom is going down the starforce-road, thats really bad news. |
Heres one they didn't delete
http://forums.2kgames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5993
Both the demo and the final version install some sort of securom rootkit apparently. God damnit.
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| Posted: Thu, 23rd Aug 2007 17:16 Post subject: |
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| ienni wrote: | | BloodAngel wrote: | when i put in a 8800gts it runs fine and gets past that part.
My 7800gtx should play it past that part tho as it plays the game very well on max upto that point where it loads and then crashes |
then I think it is a graphical error |
but if it was... wouldnt it play atall ?
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trashd
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| Posted: Thu, 23rd Aug 2007 17:21 Post subject: |
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Well I'm buying my copy tomorrow. I'm in Switzerland,by the way, and I am a bit concerned about the language of the European release. Will English be included in my copy?
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Epsilon
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| Posted: Thu, 23rd Aug 2007 17:23 Post subject: |
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| trashd wrote: | | Well I'm buying my copy tomorrow. I'm in Switzerland,by the way, and I am a bit concerned about the language of the European release. Will English be included in my copy? |
Yes |
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| Posted: Thu, 23rd Aug 2007 17:25 Post subject: |
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Do I need a CC for Steam? And why are the prices in dollars and not in euros for Europe?
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| Posted: Thu, 23rd Aug 2007 17:25 Post subject: |
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| BloodAngel wrote: | | ienni wrote: | | BloodAngel wrote: | when i put in a 8800gts it runs fine and gets past that part.
My 7800gtx should play it past that part tho as it plays the game very well on max upto that point where it loads and then crashes |
then I think it is a graphical error |
but if it was... wouldnt it play atall ? |
have you installed the new NVidia BETA drivers? 163.44 I believe.
I used to have that same crashing problem before, until I installed the drivers.
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| Mister_s wrote: | | Do I need a CC for Steam? And why are the prices in dollars and not in euros for Europe? |
No, you can also pay via PayPal
http://support.steampowered.com/cgi-bin/steampowered.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=583#acceptedforms
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| Posted: Thu, 23rd Aug 2007 17:40 Post subject: |
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| slash213 wrote: | | BrokenCrow wrote: | | Karmeck wrote: | | Buy the game, thats what I did. |
Cancelled my preorder due to the protection It's killing me to wait but I wont be paying to support that nonsense. It took long enough for us to get rid of Starforce.
B |
You sound like you've been personally invading Ubisoft's office and beaten their CEO to shit unless he agreed to get rid of Starforce.
This looks pathetic, really. Stop posing. And renew your fucking order.
Everyone's actually bitchin' about protection system identical to Steam, but it DOESN'T force you to install some useless shitty software and wait for it downloading a 700mb patch (which Steam consider extremely needed) over the damn planet.
You just have activation key instead of accout name and a text field to enter it instead of third-party software.
"Limited installations" thing looks ridiculous, I agree. But that's not the fucking reason to act like you've been raped by someone.
P.S. and remember, SecuRom's developers were paid long ago. The only ones suffering from your protection-related brain damage are 2k Games and Irrational. They've made a good game actually, so be good boys & girls, buy it.
P.P.S. here, in Russia, we will receive Bioshock translated by local distributor. "Rapture city" became... "Aquatown". Damn it, I'll have to import game for $60+ instead of buying local legit copy for $15. |
Steam is nothing like the Securom protection unfortunately.
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| Posted: Thu, 23rd Aug 2007 18:24 Post subject: |
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| |IcedFreon| wrote: | | all you people thinking these "releases" will work deserved to be bitchslapped |
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upstart_69
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Guess us 'pirates' arent the only ones enraged by the insane DRM contained on the retail Bioshock(and steam too from my understanding). A senior editor of PC Gamer found out himself the evil '2 installs then coaster' securom activation crap. Man, I never thought there would be anything worse than starforce. But here it is.
http://www.pcgamer.com
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=170664&site=pcg&skip=yes
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slash213
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| Posted: Thu, 23rd Aug 2007 18:52 Post subject: |
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| FISKER_Q wrote: | | Steam is nothing like the Securom protection unfortunately. |
You have no point. Systems are pretty similar to each other, as I wrote before.
The only disturbing thing is unsolved problem with "losing" activation due to inproper uninstalling, but seriously, this isn't worth all that shit throwing. Cut it out already.
Developers, by the way, may be searching ways to remove this limit:
| Some dev on official forums wrote: | I believe some concerns are quite valid and some are extremely subjective. With the approval of our bosses at 2k, we will be doing what we can to address the valid concerns and will be seriously considering the more subjective concerns. We've stated our aesthetic position on some topics, but we would never question any customers right to disagree with our views.
We're _not_ making promises on any particular issue, but currently nothing is off the table for discussion here either here or at 2k. |
I think "valid" and "subjective" concerns are "activation" and "widescreen" respectively.
Some believe that one of this concerns is SM2.0 support (oh God, I wish this were true), but that's totally impossible.
For SM2.0 owners - that folks already managed to launch Bioshock with terrible load times and half textures broken, but it works! They say crack is necessary for further progress, because SecuRom tracks file's integity.
| Sobaka13 wrote: | | It'll be kinda ironic in an evil way if beside crappy translation and SecuROM, we'll also get StarForce like on 95% of our localization as an final bonus. |
We got used to this crap anyway.  And there's no point in buying this "awesome" localization as well.
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Epsilon
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| Posted: Thu, 23rd Aug 2007 19:00 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | 8/22/07 - DRMShock
By Dan Stapleton, Senior Associate Editor
Yesterday began as a joyous day. By the whim of the mailroom gods, my copy of BioShock was the first to arrive at my desk. After I finished dancing around the room rubbing it in everyone's face, we needed to install it on a DX9 and a DX10 machine to compare.
"But wait," I said. "This product requires activation. What if, by installing it here, I cripple my copy and am unable to play from home? "So Greg called the 2K support line and talked to a support rep, who told him that it would be fine as long as we uninstalled the game before installing it on another machine. Ok, that's fine... a little annoying considering the game also has a DVD check to make sure the disc is in the drive, but I can handle that.
So we installed on one machine, then uninstalled and installed on another with no problems. So far, so good. I got in about an hour of play time, but I do the majority of my game playing at home, where I've got my heavy-duty gaming rig set up, so I was really looking forward to bringing it home with me. I uninstalled the game from my work machine and happily headed home...but when I got there and went to activate, I was stopped dead by a failure message that informed me I'd installed with this code one time too many. What... the... $%~&!
Ok, still not a disaster. I've had this happen with Windows XP before—all I have to do is call the number in the manual, read off the reactivation request code supplied by the activation wizard, and they'll give me an unlock code. Well, not so simple in this case—the support number for the US listed in the manual didn't work, giving me a "We cannot connect your call at this time" message. So I called the Canadian number, which went through. After four minutes on hold, I was told that the only way they'd unlock it is if I take a photo of the disc and the manual and email it to them. Wow… even Microsoft doesn’t make you do that.
Having now jumped through all their hoops hours ago, I’m currently waiting for 2K to get around to allowing me to play my legitimate copy of the game on the system of my choosing. Meanwhile, the pirates who cracked Windows Vista’s activation in a matter of days are already at work on the game, and I sincerely doubt that the BioShock copy protection wall will still be standing a week from today. And while those pirates play their ill-gotten games without a care, those of us who came by our copies legally will have to put up with draconian obstacles that will then serve no purpose whatsoever.
Well done 2K, well done indeed. |
Hmm... Let open the gates. |
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| Posted: Thu, 23rd Aug 2007 19:00 Post subject: |
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| Epsilon wrote: | | Quote: | 8/22/07 - DRMShock
By Dan Stapleton, Senior Associate Editor
Yesterday began as a joyous day. By the whim of the mailroom gods, my copy of BioShock was the first to arrive at my desk. After I finished dancing around the room rubbing it in everyone's face, we needed to install it on a DX9 and a DX10 machine to compare.
"But wait," I said. "This product requires activation. What if, by installing it here, I cripple my copy and am unable to play from home? "So Greg called the 2K support line and talked to a support rep, who told him that it would be fine as long as we uninstalled the game before installing it on another machine. Ok, that's fine... a little annoying considering the game also has a DVD check to make sure the disc is in the drive, but I can handle that.
So we installed on one machine, then uninstalled and installed on another with no problems. So far, so good. I got in about an hour of play time, but I do the majority of my game playing at home, where I've got my heavy-duty gaming rig set up, so I was really looking forward to bringing it home with me. I uninstalled the game from my work machine and happily headed home...but when I got there and went to activate, I was stopped dead by a failure message that informed me I'd installed with this code one time too many. What... the... $%~&!
Ok, still not a disaster. I've had this happen with Windows XP before—all I have to do is call the number in the manual, read off the reactivation request code supplied by the activation wizard, and they'll give me an unlock code. Well, not so simple in this case—the support number for the US listed in the manual didn't work, giving me a "We cannot connect your call at this time" message. So I called the Canadian number, which went through. After four minutes on hold, I was told that the only way they'd unlock it is if I take a photo of the disc and the manual and email it to them. Wow… even Microsoft doesn’t make you do that.
Having now jumped through all their hoops hours ago, I’m currently waiting for 2K to get around to allowing me to play my legitimate copy of the game on the system of my choosing. Meanwhile, the pirates who cracked Windows Vista’s activation in a matter of days are already at work on the game, and I sincerely doubt that the BioShock copy protection wall will still be standing a week from today. And while those pirates play their ill-gotten games without a care, those of us who came by our copies legally will have to put up with draconian obstacles that will then serve no purpose whatsoever.
Well done 2K, well done indeed. |
Hmm... Let open the gates. |
indeed unleash the hounds of hell on Securom and Steam
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| Posted: Thu, 23rd Aug 2007 19:07 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | At time of writing 31,800 people have downloaded an illegal copy of the PC version of BioShock from a single torrent site, and users are reporting that there's already a working activation crack. We're willing to bet a fair few of those people are gamers who'd happily pay for the game if meant they would truly own it. |
lol wut? |
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| Posted: Thu, 23rd Aug 2007 19:07 Post subject: |
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The one torrent from demoid is the real deal, just finished it. Its a clone, without crack of course...BIOSHOCK.ISO 6.03GB
"Story in a game is like a story in a porn movie. It's expected to be there, but it's not that important." -John Carmack, iD Software
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| Posted: Thu, 23rd Aug 2007 19:32 Post subject: |
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| Colton wrote: | | Well, there's always the PACSTEAM version to play this weekend. Better than nothing, I guess. |
Bioshock does not work with pacsteam!!
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