This seems to have fixed the random crashes I get during gameplay, but I still crash during saving/loading sometimes.

Originally posted by › JibbaJabba:

This seems to have fixed the random crashes I get during gameplay, but I still crash during saving/loading sometimes.

Every little bit helps.
I always crash during fights, so I was hoping that it was the graphics overloading or something.
I think I crash less now, but I would have to run statistics or something. I'm just assuming I crash less, trying to stay positive.

This guide, along with the fixes detailed within, is for the old Bioshock 2. Did you even look at the date or the screenshot?

Originally posted by doodx:

This guide, along with the fixes detailed within, is for the old Bioshock 2. Did you even look at the date or the screenshot?

a lot of things still count for remastered versions, both bioshock 1 and 2.

The limit in remastered is 512 now but still not high enough, but the distance limit have been increased to 30 000 apparently.

Originally posted by doodx:

This guide, along with the fixes detailed within, is for the old Bioshock 2. Did you even look at the date or the screenshot?

A lot of the code is still the same. A remaster essentially touches up textures and graphics effects.

i cant even go full screen :(

It worked for me thank you.

I've been having crash issues with the original of 2 as well. After I increased the memory in the ini file, I also turned off Steam overlay and played in offline mode. May mess with my achievements, but the game seems to be running smoothly now.

EDIT: It seems ok playing in online mode, but I'm keeping the overlay off. So far so good.

Originally posted by Moortuvivens:

I came across this thread
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=210917941

The only thing I did was step 2

Originally posted by DENIS_Biomechanoid:

2. Keeping DirectX10 ON

Instead of turning DirectX 10 completely off you can choose to simply increase video card memory limit for textures that game uses.

This should prevent game from crashing because of lack of VRAM.

To try this method just go to this folder:

C:\Users\[YOUR USER NAME]\AppData\Roaming\BioshockHD\Bioshock2

(you can easily go to appdata by using %appdata% in explorer)


And open file "Bioshock2SP.ini"

Here you have to search for "TextureStreamingMemoryLimit" value and change it from 256 to 2048. It is recommended that you choose a value that is not higher then memory of your video card.

Also you need to change TextureStreamingDistanceLimit from whatever it currently is to 10000

I don't know if it works or not, I've only played about 15 min with it.
Still it's worth a shot. GL

This is idiocy. I have a GTX Titan. VRAM is not my issue.

Originally posted by Wig Bang:

Originally posted by Moortuvivens:

I came across this thread
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=210917941

The only thing I did was step 2


I don't know if it works or not, I've only played about 15 min with it.
Still it's worth a shot. GL

This is idiocy. I have a GTX Titan. VRAM is not my issue.

It's not your computer's issue; it's the game's. It only uses that amount of VRAM because it was made when computers weren't as powerful as they are now. That's why you change the game's ini file. To tell it, "hey stupid, you can use more than that." I did this, but still had to turn off Steam overlay to stop the crashes completely. It did help though.

You're saying I can tell it to use more/less VRAM? How do I do that?

Never mind I see. I'll test it out.

Did not fix it for me. I had a nice run of a couple hours thinking it was fixed but since then I have had a few crashes during gameplay.

I really had forgotten that old games just crashed a ton and people thought that was ok and the norm.

People had no attention spans back then and only played in hour long chunks or something.

Did you disable Steam overlay as well? I had the same when I changed the ini; improved it, but not totally fixed. But once I disabled the overlay as well, no more crashes. And I play for hours at a stretch.

Originally posted by Wig Bang:

Did not fix it for me. I had a nice run of a couple hours thinking it was fixed but since then I have had a few crashes during gameplay.

I really had forgotten that old games just crashed a ton and people thought that was ok and the norm.

People had no attention spans back then and only played in hour long chunks or something.

uhhh september 2016 is old huh, and its not the original dev the one who create this remastered, blame them not the original creator studio, and if you really just wanna play without a hazzle, just play the normal version

Originally posted by whoeverxwins:

Did you disable Steam overlay as well? I had the same when I changed the ini; improved it, but not totally fixed. But once I disabled the overlay as well, no more crashes. And I play for hours at a stretch.

yup already try this and work, no more crash till finishing the game for me