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Posted September 06, 2020
My laptop (specs at end of post) is more than capable of running Bioshock 2 Classic at highest settings, yet it dips between buttery smooth to rough repeatedly, even if I'm standing in the same area and look in another direction. I've tried many tweaks, even going into PCGamingWiki, but nothing seems to work. My drivers are totally fine (AMD). How do I solve this so I can run the game as smooth as it should?

Laptop Specs:

DirectX 12

AMD Ryzen 3 3200U with Radeon Vega Mobile GFX (4 CPUs), 2.6GHz

RAM: 8GB

Storage 256 GB

Windows 10 Home 64-bit
This question / problem has been solved by rogerTimage
Posted November 04, 2020
I'm sorry for you .... So you checked PCgaming wiki..
Did you check those lines :

** Game crashes in DirectX 10 mode
Increase Texture Streaming Memory Size[11]
This increases the size of the texture cache.
Open Bioshock2SP.ini. Steam users will find this in %APPDATA%\Bioshock2Steam.
Find "TextureStreamingMemoryLimit=512.000000" and increase the amount to something inline with your video card (ie 2048)

** Force the game to run in DirectX 9 mode[citation needed]
This switches the game to DirectX 9 instead of the default DirectX 10.
Create a shortcut to Bioshock2Launcher.exe somewhere convenient.
Right click this shortcut, select Properties, in the Target box add -dx9 in the text field after inserting space after the quotation mark.
Now launching the game from this shortcut will force the game to run in DirectX 9.
Notes

Running the game in DirectX 9 mode can mess with the brightness levels of the system, even after exiting the game. To fix this, simply remove the -dx9 switch, then run and exit the game again.

=> It helped me (I have an Intel + nvidia setup.... so it's different from you....)
Post edited November 04, 2020 by rogerT
Posted November 09, 2020
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rogerT: I'm sorry for you .... So you checked PCgaming wiki..
Did you check those lines :

** Game crashes in DirectX 10 mode
Increase Texture Streaming Memory Size[11]
This increases the size of the texture cache.
Open Bioshock2SP.ini. Steam users will find this in %APPDATA%\Bioshock2Steam.
Find "TextureStreamingMemoryLimit=512.000000" and increase the amount to something inline with your video card (ie 2048)

** Force the game to run in DirectX 9 mode[citation needed]
This switches the game to DirectX 9 instead of the default DirectX 10.
Create a shortcut to Bioshock2Launcher.exe somewhere convenient.
Right click this shortcut, select Properties, in the Target box add -dx9 in the text field after inserting space after the quotation mark.
Now launching the game from this shortcut will force the game to run in DirectX 9.
Notes

Running the game in DirectX 9 mode can mess with the brightness levels of the system, even after exiting the game. To fix this, simply remove the -dx9 switch, then run and exit the game again.

=> It helped me (I have an Intel + nvidia setup.... so it's different from you....)
Thx! I tried all these before, didn't really work, figure it's just instability with some modern systems. No problem, remastered version works just dandy! I've marked this as a solution in case others who have an issue with Classic can use this :D
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