Thread: BioShock for Mac announced

Quote: Originally Posted by Codem1lo I've just downloaded and installed the Bioshock demo from Feral and it installed as normal and when I click to load it the graphics settings come up, I set it to defaults and click play. Nothing happens. I try clicking the Bioshock Icon again and it bounces in the dock for a couple of seconds and disappears again, nothing happens. If any one could shed some light on this as I can't understand why...

Quote: Originally Posted by Yacomo Other than that, the only gripe I have is the same gripe I have with most game publishers: copy-protection. I know, piracy and all that, but does copy-protection really improve sales? From a pure customers point of view it is simply annoying to have to carry several discs with you when today you have these wonderfully small notebooks with giant hard drives which could easily hold all the data. There are...

Just finished this one...for the first time. I must say it was a A+. I elected to save the lil ones. Played the whole thing on 1600 resolution and it was great on the 3.06 iMac with the 4670 running in Mac native and not some windblows operating system. Thanks Feral for a Great Title.

Quote: Originally Posted by raggedjimmi It should do. I bought Bioshock off Steam for £3 in Jan, runs pretty well on the Macbook. Funnily enough not as well as UT3 or proper Unreal 3 engine games. I guess that's what optimisations all about! UT3 obviously uses the Unreal Engine 3, whereas Bioshock uses a heavily modified Unreal Engine 2.5

Just got my copy of BioShock from the mailman! I'll play it in the evening and will post some thoughts later. I've already played a tiny bit of the demo in the 1920x1200 resolution on my iMac with all the settings on maximum and everything runs smoothly with only one small hickup so far when you're descending down into rapture in the capsule (the bit when you're passing the silver statues). Great job so far! Thanks for an...

Quote: Originally Posted by ScottHemlock edddeduck - Did you say that Bioshock on the Mac has ALL the PC/360 DLC? Yep, it's got the 'Disable Vita Chamber' option and extra plasmids/tonics of the Xbox DLC. Quote: Edit: I forgot to ask, does the Mac version have the PS3 challenge rooms? Also, if you purchase a game from a e-store such as Amazon, can this be classed as supporting Feral? PS3 challenge rooms aren't included....

Quote: Originally Posted by rssmooth Where in the bioshock.ini can you add the cheats? I have tried adding the sheets to defuser.ini and it did not work....sorry if this thread is old but I just got bioshock for mac and I want to try the codes out Try this. With the game not running, open up ~/Library/Preferences/Feral Interactive/Bioshock/MacInit/User.ini With a text editor (TextEdit works fine) Scroll down to the first instance of Delete=...

Boxed only or digital distribution too?

Hold down cmd and start bioshock

You guys at Feral are cool LOL. Good thing to have Feral devs around the forums. The demo is fantastic really, I wish I could buy one copy.