help with BioShock Audio

just got the game / and have a new pc...
soudn works in the main menu and first cut scene, after the crash, during gameplay, so sound??

any1, I wanna play the game , haha

I've had trouble with BS on Vista. What OS are you using? Running Vista in "XP SP2 compatability" mode solved the sound issues for me.

In addition to sound problems the game crashed frequently on startup and lost all custom setting as well. I switched off the "Aero" interface in favor of "Basic" and now the game starts quicker and has not crashed since I made the change.

The games seems to be running solid now. Time will tell, I only made the changes yesterday.

BS is a pretty darn cool game once it is running good.

Vista has a fancy 3d desktop called Aero that uses the 3d part of a video card.
Older versions of Windows are 2d only (flat).

You can revert to a "2d" desktop by switching from "Aero" to "Basic".
This tells you how to do it:

http://www.vistaclues.com/turn-off [...] interface/

Example of Aero:

Right Click the Program Icon, properties - Select the Compatibility Mode tab in th epop up menu, click the checkbox in the top/center. then use the Drop Down to choose which mode.

i have windows vista 64 bit
6 gb ram
600 gb hard drive
pentium dual core processors
geforce 8600 video card
running the downloaded version

the game menu and first video had sound but one the bioshock sign came up with the water dripping off of it the sound stopped. all drivers are updated. i tried switching the compatibility to windows xp sp2 and the sound started to work but now the game is windowed and the edges get cut off.

sory steriomix / =/ able......../ and the whole thing /and then it works ...
greedings drê .^_^.

That is of course, I had to lower my quality.

Hey Everone, I found a solution that at least worked for me, i was having the same issue that everyone else is posting with no sound for bioshock. it sounds weird but all i had to do to fix the issue is plug something into my microphone port. i just plugged a pair of headphones into it and it the sound starting working. sounds strange but it worked for me. hope this helps someone.

Hy, this is a copy from another forum, its work for me

.....Open start, than Controll panel, Sound, Than recording( My OS is set to norwegian so i don't know exactly the name of the menu, but it is the one in the middle and it has options with recording) In the recording window there will be a few options, right-click in the background of the window and press "Show offline units" (again i have norwegian OS don't know exactly what it says" press "Show offline units and you will have a new option called something like Stereo Mix. Enable Stereo Mix, and hopefully it will work.....

With "Audio CD", make the same thing.

I've never had to touch BS compatability settings; check the ingame settings and make sure the sound is set correctly from there.

Real solution is not playing the game in XP compatibility mode.

May seem odd enough... The problem is with REALTEK integrated cards, ultimate solution here:
http://nocturne.noctalis.com/codex [...] 7_No_Sound

Worked for me perfectly, simple and fast. Hope will help.

I know this thread is out of date, but try and download the 1.1 patch and it will fix the sound issue. I just did and it works fine now.

I also used windows 2000 compatibility as recommended by the bioshock customer service team I contacted. It worked for me.

Just right click the game icon and go to compatbility mode and check windows 2000 and see if that works.

Hey there,

I bought Bioshock a day after it was released and had this same problem... last week i went through your forum input and went home and tried it! it worked!! i've been waiting so long for a solution! I've finished the game and started Bioshock 2 today!!!!

your input is greatly appreciated!!! You F*$"ing GENIUS!!!!

Dane (South Africa)

I know im so latee!! but if anyone needed the help this will work for sure.