Impending: PC BioShock Demo Coming Soon (7pm EDT Monday Ni

News Reader · Post by **News Reader** » August 20th, 2007, 7:01

Impending: PC BioShock Demo Coming Soon (7pm EDT Monday Night)

7pm EDT. Monday night (if that's your neck of the woods; the rest of you go sort out your own time zone conversion like I had to). That's when PC users can get in on the sweet, sweet BioShock demo action those 360 owners have been licking off their fingers this past week. FilePlanet users, you should already be "pre-downloading" it, everyone else, hold tight. Big question is, will you be playing the same demo? NO! OK, mainly yes, but we've been told one of the plasmids is in a different spot. Here's hoping this relocation doesn't completely RUIN the experience.

Author: Luke Plunkett
Category: Bioshock Demo games for windows Impending PC
Publish Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 21:40:00 EDT
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Source: Kotaku

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » August 20th, 2007, 9:38

The demo should be released at midnight for us in the UK.

Lateralus · Post by **Lateralus** » August 20th, 2007, 9:51

Sounds good, but I'll probably not have time to play it before I actually buy the game.

Post by **TezzRexx** » August 20th, 2007, 10:05

Install Fista on spare partition time go!

friznit · Post by **friznit** » August 20th, 2007, 13:07

TezzRexx wrote:Install Fista on spare partition time go!

Christ, do I have to?

Post by **tandino** » August 20th, 2007, 13:10

friznit wrote:
Christ, do I have to?

Only if you want/have hardware that supports DX 10 goodness. I don't therefore won't

Lateralus · Post by **Lateralus** » August 20th, 2007, 13:29

I have the hardware, but am lacking the software and don't fancy forking out for it until it becomes necessary.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » August 20th, 2007, 13:39

Should have the demo mirrored some time before episode 2 gets released.

Lateralus · Post by **Lateralus** » August 20th, 2007, 13:40

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:Should have the demo mirrored some time before episode 2 gets released.

This is not reassuring, but thanks anyway.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » August 20th, 2007, 13:42

It downloaded at a massive 75kb/s from failplanet.

is now uploading at 110kb/s to dreamhost.

In reality, it should be done for 6 or so, maybe 7 if it slows down.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » August 20th, 2007, 15:26

And then I notice that the file is undersized.

Apparently someone worked out how to crack the zip, so fileplanet pulled it.

However, the lovely cracked version is appearing on newzbin.

Lateralus · Post by **Lateralus** » August 20th, 2007, 15:30

Best laid plans and all that. Probably actually have a mirror sooner this way I guess.

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » August 20th, 2007, 19:06

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:However, the lovely cracked version is appearing on newzbin.

2.2GB zomg!

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » August 20th, 2007, 19:09

Sounds a bit big (twss) for the demo.

I'm grabbing this. no idea if it works yet though.

edit: is broke.

Lee · Post by **Lee** » August 20th, 2007, 21:31

I managed to get the demo. So far it's ctd'd at the second load screen then wouldn't load up again complaining that dbgeng.dll or something was missing until I restarted. Next I got a black screen after the first load screen so I reloaded the game, this time I made it to the second load screen again before getting a BSOD. Not a good start...

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » August 20th, 2007, 22:01

Lee wrote:I managed to get the demo. So far it's ctd'd at the second load screen then wouldn't load up again complaining that dbgeng.dll or something was missing until I restarted. Next I got a black screen after the first load screen so I reloaded the game, this time I made it to the second load screen again before getting a BSOD. Not a good start...

This is quite possibly why they said to update your graphics drivers with shiny new ones (which will probably be released at the same time as the demo)

Just another way to (try) to stop anyone playing the game in their own time.

Anyway, it seems I'll have a working version on bukkake in 10-15 mins, so there.

buzzmong · Post by **buzzmong** » August 20th, 2007, 22:36

sooooooooooo?

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » August 20th, 2007, 22:36

Just rarring up.

Lee · Post by **Lee** » August 20th, 2007, 22:37

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:This is quite possibly why they said to update your graphics drivers with shiny new ones (which will probably be released at the same time as the demo)

Yep, here they are: http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_163.44.html

I'll try them tomorrow and hopefully I'll actually be able to play

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » August 20th, 2007, 22:40

http://217.112.95.67/BioShock.rar

No promises that it'll work (but it should do), use a download manager. etc. etc.

It's also worth knowing that save is disabled, and it doesn't like you to alt+tab. so now you know.