My copy of Bioshock arrived today, so I got it straight out of the box and started installing it. Unfortunately it wasn't long before I ran into problems. Here's a list of what I had to do to get it working:
First install.
The recommended updated driver installation program crashed after finishing.
Restart.
Computer frozen.
Restart.
AVG detects Bioshock.exe as containing the virus Obfustat.JXR.
Can't run Bioshock.exe, just get an error message.
Uninstall Bioshock.
Quit AVG.
Try installing Bioshock again.
All goes well until it gets to the auto patch part of installation, where it tells me the patch has an invalid signature.
Try again, same error.
3rd time lucky?
No.
Off to 2K Technical Support forum.
Discover that since the patch came out, Bioshock is incompatible with AVG. There are two solutions to this, uninstall AVG and replace with Avast or just disable AVG's Resident Shield.
After disabling AVG's resident shield the patch downloads correctly.
Next was the online activation.
Which worked perfectly, surprisingly.
Now I can play Bioshock after an installation process that took 3, frustrating hours. I'm sure these problems will be fixed soon, but I thought I'd better warn you. If you buy Bioshock, here is a link that will probably need, 2K Technical Support Forum:
http://forums.2kgames.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=42
