crashes constantly

[Neróxide]

This game is a mess, just keeps crashing 24/7. Is there any fix around it?

[clivewil]

not for me there hasn't been so far - i've tried all the usual suspects, plus downgrading to dx9 mode, removing monitoring by msi afterburner, a few 3d driver tweaks, running a minimal config - no difference.

let's face it, this game just wants to crash.

[Aik655]

Mine was crashing after a few minutes of play. Seems different fixes work for different systems. I found one on here that worked, but I cannot find the thread anymore. Credit to that person though. It wasn't my fix.

If you have a good enough graphics card, you can edit the .ini file for the game. Don't do this if you aren't confident because you can really mess up your game/ computer.

My issue was when the game got busy the game would crash. I increased how much VRAM my game could access. Once the game could properly load all textures, I've gone 2 hours without a crash. It may or may not help you.

If you're running windows:
1- Press WIndows+E. In the search bar, search %appdata%
2- find your Bioshock 2 folder and go into it.
3- Open Bioshock2SPin Notepad.
4- CTRL+F to search for TextureStreamingMemoryLimit
5- change that from 516 to 2048 (keep all the 0s in there. idk if it matters, but don't touch what you don't need to)
6- right below is TextureStreamingDistanceLimit. Make sure that is at 30,000
7- Save and quit.

[SquareEnixFanboy]

Originally posted by Aik655:

Mine was crashing after a few minutes of play. Seems different fixes work for different systems. I found one on here that worked, but I cannot find the thread anymore. Credit to that person though. It wasn't my fix.

If you have a good enough graphics card, you can edit the .ini file for the game. Don't do this if you aren't confident because you can really mess up your game/ computer.

I have GTX680 and 8 GB of RAM i7 processor, will this work for me or I shouldn't try (harmful)?

[Neróxide]

Originally posted by SquareEnixFanboy:

Originally posted by Aik655:

Mine was crashing after a few minutes of play. Seems different fixes work for different systems. I found one on here that worked, but I cannot find the thread anymore. Credit to that person though. It wasn't my fix.

If you have a good enough graphics card, you can edit the .ini file for the game. Don't do this if you aren't confident because you can really mess up your game/ computer.

I have GTX680 and 8 GB of RAM i7 processor, will this work for me or I shouldn't try (harmful)?

not worth it just in case
I have a 1070 and I still wont try that ♥♥♥♥♥

[Aik655]

Originally posted by SquareEnixFanboy:

Originally posted by Aik655:

Mine was crashing after a few minutes of play. Seems different fixes work for different systems. I found one on here that worked, but I cannot find the thread anymore. Credit to that person though. It wasn't my fix.

If you have a good enough graphics card, you can edit the .ini file for the game. Don't do this if you aren't confident because you can really mess up your game/ computer.

I have GTX680 and 8 GB of RAM i7 processor, will this work for me or I shouldn't try (harmful)?

Going on 4 hours or so with 0 crashes.

I have a GTX 970 and a i5 8600k with 16GB of RAM. It all falls on your graphics card to be able to handle it. Your card just needs enough RAM to handle the game when it's loading all those textures. The devs don't allow the game by default to use enough RAM to run properly.... most likely to save people with potato computers any trouble.

I looked up your card... don't switch that line of code from 516 to 2048... 2048MB is the limit of your card.(mine is 4GB...so go figure this fix worked easily for me.)

You can, however, try 1024. It may be enough to stop crashes, but I haven't tested how much RAM the game can use at max. It'd be better than nothing.

Like Neroxide said... be careful doing if you are going to do it. I've been working with computers since i was 7 so I know what to do if I make a mistake. If you're going to go for it, just make sure you make a backup for your computer and set up a system restore point.

And of course always take everything a stranger on the internet says with a grain of salt. I want you to be able to enjoy the game, but I also won't pay for your rig if it catches fire :P so take this info how you will.

[Neróxide]

Originally posted by Aik655:

Originally posted by SquareEnixFanboy:

I have GTX680 and 8 GB of RAM i7 processor, will this work for me or I shouldn't try (harmful)?

Going on 4 hours or so with 0 crashes.

I have a GTX 970 and a i5 8600k with 16GB of RAM. It all falls on your graphics card to be able to handle it. Your card just needs enough RAM to handle the game when it's loading all those textures. The devs don't allow the game by default to use enough RAM to run properly.... most likely to save people with potato computers any trouble.

I looked up your card... don't switch that line of code from 516 to 2048... 2048MB is the limit of your card.(mine is 4GB...so go figure this fix worked easily for me.)

You can, however, try 1024. It may be enough to stop crashes, but I haven't tested how much RAM the game can use at max. It'd be better than nothing.

Like Neroxide said... be careful doing if you are going to do it. I've been working with computers since i was 7 so I know what to do if I make a mistake. If you're going to go for it, just make sure you make a backup for your computer and set up a system restore point.

And of course always take everything a stranger on the internet says with a grain of salt. I want you to be able to enjoy the game, but I also won't pay for your rig if it catches fire :P so take this info how you will.

My card has 8GB ram and 16gb normal. would this change be okay for me then?

[Aik655]

Originally posted by Neróxide:

Originally posted by Aik655:

Going on 4 hours or so with 0 crashes.

I have a GTX 970 and a i5 8600k with 16GB of RAM. It all falls on your graphics card to be able to handle it. Your card just needs enough RAM to handle the game when it's loading all those textures. The devs don't allow the game by default to use enough RAM to run properly.... most likely to save people with potato computers any trouble.

I looked up your card... don't switch that line of code from 516 to 2048... 2048MB is the limit of your card.(mine is 4GB...so go figure this fix worked easily for me.)

You can, however, try 1024. It may be enough to stop crashes, but I haven't tested how much RAM the game can use at max. It'd be better than nothing.

Like Neroxide said... be careful doing if you are going to do it. I've been working with computers since i was 7 so I know what to do if I make a mistake. If you're going to go for it, just make sure you make a backup for your computer and set up a system restore point.

And of course always take everything a stranger on the internet says with a grain of salt. I want you to be able to enjoy the game, but I also won't pay for your rig if it catches fire :P so take this info how you will.

My card has 8GB ram and 16gb normal. would this change be okay for me then?

Yeah you have twice the amount I do for graphics. As usual, make sure you do a restore point before you hit go, but your machine should be able to handle the fix easily. set it to 2048. Let me know if it works!

[RedAura]

Originally posted by Aik655:

Originally posted by Neróxide:

My card has 8GB ram and 16gb normal. would this change be okay for me then?

Yeah you have twice the amount I do for graphics. As usual, make sure you do a restore point before you hit go, but your machine should be able to handle the fix easily. set it to 2048. Let me know if it works!

There is no need for a restorepoint. The only thing you probably need to save is the file you want to change, just make a copy of it on your desktop or where ever you like. If something with the change of the file goes wrong only the game stop working, nothing more. If this happens, just delete your changed file and move your copy back into this folder. finish

There is absolutely no way to damage your system trough a config file of a game;) the worst possible situation could be to download the game again if you didn't save the file before changing;) but mostly it's already enough to delete the corupted file and start the game repairsequence trough the steamlibrary if something went wrong. LG RedAura

[ThePhoenixGhost]

Bioshock 1 remastered was crashing HARDCORE for me (Delete/corrupt my saves for the level hardcore), until I changed a couple things. Now I have started Bioshock 2, cause I was able to complete 1 (finally). The two things I did with 1 and have also done with 2 that seems to be working is turning audio reverb off (saw that in another random thread) and making it windowed. It's still not perfect, but the consistency has gone up tremendously. Not sure if that would help, but it has worked well for me.

[---------]

I don't have crash problems with the Remastered games.

Why is it so common for people?

Bioshock 1 only crashed one time.

[Lady Aeleanor]

I played Bioshock 1 & 2 (original releases) and neither ever crashed even once, that I can recall. But Bioshock 2 HD crashes every 40 minutes, or even oftener than that. It seems to always happen in a fight scene while being attacked. Never happens when just exploring, using a machine or any non-fighting activity.

Screen freezes and Windows message says "Bioshock 2 has stopped working" or "Bioshock 2 not responding".

[Dafnis]

TRUE. i play both old versions of the games and never crashed. But in my opinion if we buy a game we should be able to play it without so many problems.

[Mix Heart]

Originally posted by Hawkwind:

I played Bioshock 1 & 2 (original releases) and neither ever crashed even once, that I can recall. But Bioshock 2 HD crashes every 40 minutes, or even oftener than that. It seems to always happen in a fight scene while being attacked. Never happens when just exploring, using a machine or any non-fighting activity.

Screen freezes and Windows message says "Bioshock 2 has stopped working" or "Bioshock 2 not responding".

I'm crashing and its not giveing me an error message. It does happen on fight scenes. Mainly the ones where I am haveing my Little Sister do some adom harvisting for me.

[SMILEDOZER]

Originally posted by Twilight Bringer:

I'm crashing and its not giveing me an error message. It does happen on fight scenes. Mainly the ones where I am haveing my Little Sister do some adom harvisting for me.

Same issue. Bioshock 1 Remastered didn't crash but the 2nd Remaster crashes during fight scenes after maybe two hours of playing. Just freezes and cuts off.

So theres no patch for this I guess? I'll just suffer through it. I'm almost done with this play through anyway.

[mk2305]

the lab near the end of fontaine futuristics level is real nightmare. the game crashed almost always i fought against a big daddy or lots of enemies. starting the game as admin helped a little bit. i had only 1 crash in hour...