The Game That Didn’t Want to Be Played
Rarely ever have I had one of my main in use computers not be able to run a program that I tried to put on it. Well, whatever streak I had going on that came to an end today. The Shuttle at my house which I use as my desktop when my “real” computer is out at UTD completely choked on Bioshock. Even with virtually everything turned down and/or off, the mouse movement was so jittery that it would have been unplayable. So, I’ll apparently have to be getting my fix of that on this computer. I can’t really say that this is unexpected since that was just about a $700 computer two years ago with very little upgrading and a low end video card from two generations ago. It was bound to fail on something sooner or later.
So then I bring the disc out here and install Bioshock on this computer, and there’s a recommended driver upgrade to do. Worked fine on my other computer, so I had no reservations doing it on this one. Before the download even started, IE crashed. I opened up Firefox, went back to the driver page, and successfully downloaded it this time. The fun wasn’t over yet though; in the process of installing the drivers, something errored leaving me with a 640*480 desktop. I restarted and all was well, and then I opened up the game to test. Smooth as silk. Not sure if I’ll be playing it tonight, but most definitely tomorrow morning.