BioShock

Game Description

BioShock is a shooter unlike any you’ve ever played, loaded with weapons and tactics never seen. You’ll have a complete arsenal at your disposal from simple revolvers to grenade launchers and chemical throwers, but you’ll also be forced to genetically modify your DNA to create an even more deadly weapon: you. Injectable plasmids give you super human powers: blast electrical currents into water to electrocute multiple enemies, or freeze them solid and obliterate them with the swing of a wrench.

No encounter ever plays out the same, and no two gamers will play the game the same way.

• Biologically modify your body: send fire storming from your fingertips and unleash a swarm of killer hornets hatched from the veins in your arms.
• Hack devices and systems, upgrade your weapons and craft new ammo variants.
• Turn everything into a weapon: the environment, your body, fire and water, and even your worst enemies.
• Explore an incredible and unique art deco world hidden deep under the ocean.

System Requirements

Minimum

• Internet connection required for Steam
• Operating System: Windows XP (with Service Pack 2) or Windows Vista
• CPU: Intel single-core Pentium 4 processor at 2.4GHz
• RAM: 1 GB
• Video Card: Direct X 9.0c compliant video card with 128MB RAM and Pixel Shader 3.0 (NVIDIA 6600 or better/ATI X1300 or better, excluding ATI X1550)
• Sound card: 100% direct X 9.0c compatible

Recommended

• Operating System: Same (or better)
• CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo processor
• RAM: 2GB
• Video Card: DX 9 - Direct X 9.0c compliant video card with 512 MB RAM and Pixel Shader 3.0 (NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT or better), DX 10 - NVIDIA GeForce 8600 or better
• Sound card: SoundBlaster X-Fi series (optimized foruse with Creative Labs EAX ADVANCED HD 4.0 or EAX ADVANCED HD 5.0 compatible

Important note: Contains SecuROM copy control software. Installations limited to five PCs per license

CD Key Registration on Steam

Retail CD-keys for this game cannot be registered through Steam.

Game Error: Activation FAILED: Server Error - Too Many Activations on Different PCs

SecuROM currently supports up to five simultaneous installations of Bioshock on different computers, with the ability to reinstall the game up to five times on each computer. If you forsee the need to format your harddrive or reinstall your operating system, you must uninstall Bioshock first if you have reached or are approaching the limit of five.

Upon seeing this error, you must completely uninstall Bioshock from one of the systems which you previously installed the game on. You can remove the game from your Add/Remove programs list to complete the uninstall process. If Bioshock is not listed in Add/Remove Programs, then please delete the local content of the game by following these instructions:

1. Right-click on Bioshock in your Games list
2. Select Delete Local Content
3. Select Delete

A "revoke application" is on the way from 2K Games to help make this process easier for customers who own Bioshock. More information about SecuROM and the revoke application tool can be found in the 2K Games Bioshock FAQ.

Game Error: "You are NOT connected to the internet" during SecuROM product activation dialog

Access for the following ports must be allowed by your Firewall and/or Router:

• TCP Port 80
• TCP Port 443

Please see the Using a Router with Steam and Troubleshooting Network Connectivity topics for instructions to configure your router and network configuration suggestions.

Game Error: Activation FAILED. Server Error - Wrong/Invalid Serial

1. Log out of Steam and restart the Steam client
2. Ensure that you are not downloading any new BioShock content
3. From the My Games tab, right-click on BioShock and select Properties
4. Switch to the Local files tab
5. Click the Verify integrity of game cache... button
6. Wait until the game cache files have been verified and try to start BioShock once more

Game Problem: Missing Voice Track

This issue is commonly associated with errors in extracting your game files. Please see the Verifying GCF Cache Files topic for instructions to resolve the issue.

Related Links

• Third-Party Game Support available through 2K Games Support
• Available for purchase on Steam