Comments on: BioShock: No Sound?

By: Gary

Gary — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:20:14 +0000

Worked for me. Had to revert to vista after my windows 7 disk for one of my dells didn’t activate on the other. Oh well. Vista, again. Thanks for the fix!

By: AlienOrigin

AlienOrigin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:25:43 +0000

Hi. My brother bought Bioshock way back then, but our old computer wasn’t up to run it. Resently, I bought a new one (with windows 7, 64 bit), installed Bioshock and told him to come over soon. You can just imagine my wrath, when I found out my computer didn’t get those (censored) game sounds to work. With any other than win 2000 compatibility the damn thing gave me only black screen and “not responding”…

Then I found this forum, did the stereo mixing thing and today sounds seemed to work just fine. With my bad english I say thank you for the help.

By: Sean

Sean — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 20:51:30 +0000

I get no sound and the game runs fine in non-compatibility. When I set it to XP SP 2, nothing runs, the game doesn’t start. Any Ideas?

By: DiscoBitch

DiscoBitch — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 00:29:12 +0000

@Zteve – nice one! That worked for me. On, vista; there was sound on the menu but not in-game. I enabled stereo mixing via Control Panel as you suggesting and now I have sound in-game. Sorted!

By: Wozzy

Wozzy — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 22:15:41 +0000

Update: i updated audio drivers now game doesn’t boot at all in any compatibility mode.

By: Wozzy

Wozzy — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 22:02:38 +0000

umm, what if the game worked just fine at first, with sound and all, then suddenly it just stopped putting out audio? the game boots and the menu has audio but as soon as the game starts the audio stops…

By: Ross

Ross — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:51:36 +0000

I had issues with both crashing and no sound. Until I ran it in compatibility mode, Xp service pack 2 and vista service pack 2.

For the no sound issue I tried about everything I could til I figured it out while messing with my audio settings.

Start -> Control panel -> Sound In sound i had multiple items in the Playback tab. I had to set my headphones as Default. and it worked.

Hope this helps anyone who has had issues as well

By: PETE

PETE — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:48:51 +0000

update: plugged headphones into microphone jack…instead of logo and crash it was logo then black screen.

By: PETE

PETE — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:46:03 +0000

I have updated my nvidia driver, and direct x. the game says "bioshock stiopped working..." if I add -nosound to the executable it works.

I am on windows 7, rocketfish, and I don't have stereo mix under my disabled devices. the only suggestion I have not tried it plugging in a microphone but I don't own one. sigh.

oh and compability mode xp service pack 3 did not work nor 2000

By: BioTIBS

BioTIBS — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 11:47:18 +0000

Zteve, thanks a lot – may well be over 2 years later but that’s just helped me a treat @ enable stereo mixing =) Slight prob still with it being crackly though but better that than no sound at all

By: Windows 7

Windows 7 — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:02:34 +0000

Windows 7 no sound after intro i didnt have a mic to plug in so I disabled my mic jack on my PC and viola worked like a charm.

By: mcouthon

mcouthon — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 08:29:38 +0000

Plugging in a Mic did it for me. Quite a ridiculous problem (and solution) if I might say so. Cheers mates!

By: DRecon

DRecon — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 23:58:09 +0000

Tried WinXP SP2 compatibility AND Stereo Mixing with Realtek.
None of them have worked. Does anyone have another suggestion?

By: Vlad

Vlad — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:02:19 +0000

Thanks so much. I’m running Windows 7 64bit and running it in Windows 2000 compatibility worked like a charm.

By: OneRound

OneRound — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:11:46 +0000

I tried every single thing I could found on the internet and still there is no sound. I have sound in menus but when I start the game its all silent.
Running windows 7 x64 with realtek hd audion on abit mobo.
I tried compatibility, latest drivers, enabled audio mix and CD audio,…
Nothing is working for me and it sucks big time!