George1976: Whoever remastered this game should be ashamed of themselves.
Can't even get out of that elevator at the very beginning of the game and it crashes.
Lucky for me that I got this for free from Amazon gaming so I can just put it aside and forget about it.
Have you checked your graphics card drivers? Are they up to date, or even the right ones?
I have just spent some hours over the past week trying to get this blasted game to work and finally it does. I too was getting crashes at the exit of the bathysphere intro scene, which was ironic because I installed the game for nostalgia purposes and I remember seeing that opening scene, burning water, tower, stairs, underwater scene etc. etc. infuriatingly over and over and over again back in 2010, or whenever, when I first tried to get BioShock to work then with great difficulty.
I have in recent years used Snappy Driver Installer to update my PC's drivers. So because of the crashes I had checked that SDI showed my Radeon RX 7800 drivers were up to date, which it did. I therefore didn't think drivers were the issue. So I tried all of the other fixes floating around on the internet but they did not work. Then I thought I will see what the AMD Software: Adenaline Edition app said - but it wouldn't load. It said my driver was incompatible. Huh? So I downloaded the driver installer from AMD and it installed a new driver - bingo it works! Even with all of the other "fixes" reverted.
So goodness knows what graphics driver SDI had installed previously because, even though every other app seemed to work fine, it clearly wasn't correct. I think I will now ditch SDI.
Update: To ensure that my driver was cleanly installed I have since un-installed it using Display Driver Uninstaller (DDU)
https://www.guru3d.com/download/display-driver-uninstaller-download/ and reinstalled it directly from the AMD site. I have still had a few crash to desktop incidents during play, but that seems to have been an ongoing issue for most people since BioShock first came out in 2007, so I have been careful to make regular double saves. On the whole I am now enjoying the game!
Second Update: I give up! I got to the Tea Garden in Arcadia and it just started crashing repeatedly. So from resume of last save I tried immediately saving and it just crashed every time. I've tried all of the suggested fixes again but it just won't work. So I've done what I should have done in the first place - I've started playing the original instead, and frankly it just seems better. Yes the remastered looks a bit smoother and prettier but I don't think play is any better. In fact I think I can see much better in the original. And the sound with my 5.1 system is much much better - I can actually hear what characters are saying and the surround is so much more immersive. Ho hum, how often do we find the new "improved" version of something is actually, in comparison, crap?
