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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

Atrus @ 2007-08-29 09:39:42
Thank you, Phil. I was about to order this for my kid but I guess I'll wait until the bugs are worked out. Needless to say he won't be too happy to read this. I downloaded the MoH Airborne demo yesterday and I'm having issues with it as well. One would think that the developers would have the bugs worked out before releasing games to the public. Yes, the demo serves in many cases as a beta test, but for example with Airborne due to be released on September 5th I doubt they have the time to put in any fixes before the product goes on store shelves. Again, thanx for the heads up.

Raven @ 2007-08-29 10:16:13
LOL,

Guess i'll just buy the console version. In cd drive...play game no hassle. When are companies going to realise they need to test things BEFORE release.

Skydavo @ 2007-08-29 16:36:34
Phil is not connected on steam friends...
Either he is playing Bioshock (that seems to be so fabuluous)... OR as he has no anti virus protection anymore he just got attacked by all viruses from the Internet and now is reinstalling Windows !! :p

alpha69 @ 2007-11-12 20:35:07

LOL.... Phil has time to play bioshock? Muwahahahahaha ha ha h a

*hugs*