Hello is anyone getting these crashes when intense action is happening? For example, sometimes when I'm fighting vs some enemies the game just crashes. It does not happen all the time though. I can have a ramming splicer up in my face and the game runs well but when some hooks are thrown my way the game crashes.


Windows 10 64Bit pro
R1700 3.9Ghz
2x8GB 2933Mhz
Asus B350 Prime Plus
RX580 8GB
GoG Galaxy used

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Windows 10 64Bit pro
R1700 3.9Ghz
2x8GB 2933Mhz
Asus B350 Prime Plus
RX580 8GB
GoG Galaxy used

Since it's action related it might be your sound driver messing you up when playing certain audio files. Things get complicated if you are playing a cassette then you get hit or hear an enemy talking and also you have an NPC audio triggered by a script all playing at the same time. Make sure the HDD where the game file are is fine and healthy. Hope you sorted this one out :)

also try all the fixes listed here:

https://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/BioShock_Remastered#Issues_fixed

I might be wrong, but original 2 had the exact same issue... (on Steam)

I've also noticed that Bioshock 2: Remastered freezes all the time. It seems to be especially bad in the Siren Alley level. I've tried editing the Bioshock2SP.ini file but it doesn't make any difference.

The non steam versions of the original Bioshock 2 had the same problem if using DX 10. It was not exclusive to the steam version.

Having the same exact problem. Have you found a solution? I am utterly shocked that it has been this many years since this was released and nobody has bothered to fix it.

Yeah, it's a very unstable remaster they did.
Up until completing the level in which you melt the ice blocking your transport, then Sinclair climb into it while and you need to kill a few splicer so so you can get back to your train and leave, the game worked completely smoothly and absolutely without any crash

But then the next level , "Paupers Drop" i arrive in front of the Diner building, you get a threatening message from Grace and .. freeze for some reason then crash, relaunch game and reload , this time no freeze and crash, start to fight the Big Daddy roaming around after having killed all splicers ... freeze then crash after beating him...

Oh i tried the suggested "add -DX9 to your shortcut" only to the lean that it does nothing because the game does not come with a DX9 render at all
i tried the "crash fix" ( https://www.nexusmods.com/bioshock2/mods/28 ) but it still crashed

i tried some change to the that i read about here and there, still the game will crash

The problem is unfortunately the game code having issue and the devs never bothered to fix it

Solution that can work apparently is
- save very very often (as crashes are always random, sometime it goes nice sometime it just crash), i completed it a few years ago with the epic store version, there were crashes there too, but saving often was the only sure way to get things done

- don't play Bioshock 2 Remaster but play the classic Bioshock 2 instead (fortunately available to anyone that has the remastered on gog too) that is said to crash a lot less than the remastered

Basically only play the remastered if you want to play with the Minerva Den integrated dlc