No dumb ass - the sound is coming off of my new MSI board. It's driven by a RealTek driver which is an industry standard and has support all over the place. The fact that Bioshock got on store shelves with this issue is indicitive of the PC gaming culture = the games seldom work 100% when consumers are paying for them day 1. Take a look at the 2K Forums for this issue - it's widespread. As are MANY more. My point remains that when you have customers paying thousands of dollars on hardware to run the latest games and those games flat out DON'T WORK with industry supported hardware more and more people turn to consoles. I'm holding out for Crysis and if that game comes out with issues my 8800 goes to the high bidder on Ebay and one more PC gamer bites the dust.
"2. Option to have non-faulty hardware (vs. XBOX 360 "red ring of death"; btw, I'm not saying all have it--mine is in an extremely well ventilated area and I have no problems)"
How about the PC's faulty software? I bought Bioshock for the PC since I just upgraded my PC with a Quad Core and an 8800 GTS (640MB) - a $400 card - only to find out that 2K games has a sound issue with RealTek drivers. So the sound never worked. Then they told me to run the game in XP compatibility mode when Vista compatibility is on the box. That didn't work either. It's Bull****. I just sold the game on Ebay and lost $20 in the process. Having been out of the PC gaming deal for awhile I assumed all this crap was getting better - guess again! Say what you want about consoles and PC's but until the PC is as faultless as a console and as reliable there's no comparison. All the mods in the world don't mean crap if the friggin' game doesn't work.
That may be the case...but I can't play the freakin' thing! I've had it for a week - and I haven't been able to play past the intro movie because the sound cuts out. Check out the 2K forums - this is a WIDESPREAD issue that has not been rectified. I just put together a new system with a Quad Core CPU, an 8800 GTS just so I could NOT play Bioshock! I should have bought the 360 version! I've stayed away from PC gaming for a few years now and I immediately remembered why. I've spent over 3 hours troubleshooting this issue and nothing works. Changed the compatibility settings, downloaded new drivers for my RealTek sound (which the 2K support claims they have issues with), adjusted settings, and on and on. Ridiculous. PC gamefans are always asking why no one seems to care for PC gaming anymore - THIS IS WHY. They've never worked in the past, they don't work now, and they won't work in 5 years. I've been in the IT industry for over 12 years and I get annoyed with this crap. You know what a "standard" computer user does with these annoyances? They buy a console that's what.
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No dumb ass - the sound is coming off of my new MSI board. It's driven by a RealTek driver which is an industry standard and has support all over the place. The fact that Bioshock got on store shelves with this issue is indicitive of the PC gaming culture = the games seldom work 100% when consumers are paying for them day 1. Take a look at the 2K Forums for this issue - it's widespread. As are MANY more. My point remains that when you have customers paying thousands of dollars on hardware to run the latest games and those games flat out DON'T WORK with industry supported hardware more and more people turn to consoles. I'm holding out for Crysis and if that game comes out with issues my 8800 goes to the high bidder on Ebay and one more PC gamer bites the dust.
"2. Option to have non-faulty hardware (vs. XBOX 360 "red ring of death"; btw, I'm not saying all have it--mine is in an extremely well ventilated area and I have no problems)"
How about the PC's faulty software? I bought Bioshock for the PC since I just upgraded my PC with a Quad Core and an 8800 GTS (640MB) - a $400 card - only to find out that 2K games has a sound issue with RealTek drivers. So the sound never worked. Then they told me to run the game in XP compatibility mode when Vista compatibility is on the box. That didn't work either. It's Bull****. I just sold the game on Ebay and lost $20 in the process. Having been out of the PC gaming deal for awhile I assumed all this crap was getting better - guess again! Say what you want about consoles and PC's but until the PC is as faultless as a console and as reliable there's no comparison. All the mods in the world don't mean crap if the friggin' game doesn't work.
That may be the case...but I can't play the freakin' thing! I've had it for a week - and I haven't been able to play past the intro movie because the sound cuts out. Check out the 2K forums - this is a WIDESPREAD issue that has not been rectified. I just put together a new system with a Quad Core CPU, an 8800 GTS just so I could NOT play Bioshock! I should have bought the 360 version! I've stayed away from PC gaming for a few years now and I immediately remembered why. I've spent over 3 hours troubleshooting this issue and nothing works. Changed the compatibility settings, downloaded new drivers for my RealTek sound (which the 2K support claims they have issues with), adjusted settings, and on and on. Ridiculous. PC gamefans are always asking why no one seems to care for PC gaming anymore - THIS IS WHY. They've never worked in the past, they don't work now, and they won't work in 5 years. I've been in the IT industry for over 12 years and I get annoyed with this crap. You know what a "standard" computer user does with these annoyances? They buy a console that's what.