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BioShock Infinite

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BioShock Infinite
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Developers
Irrational Games
Publishers
2K Games
Engines
Unreal Engine 3
Release dates
Windows March 26, 2013
macOS (OS X) August 29, 2013
Linux 2015
BioShock Infinite on Wikipedia

Warnings

The macOS (OS X) version of this game does not work on macOS Catalina (version 10.15) or later due to the removal of support for 32-bit-only apps.
BioShock
BioShock 2007
BioShock 2 2010
BioShock Infinite 2013
BioShock Remastered 2016
BioShock 2 Remastered 2016

Key points

Quality PC port, including graphics and control options.[1][2]
Aim assist is on by default even when not using a controller, but can be fixed.
Without modification the game is limited to only a single save,[3] but there is a workaround for creating multiple save games.

General information

Port Report: BioShock Infinite.
Official developer site
Official game site
BioShock Wiki - A huge wiki for all the BioShock games
2K Games Forums
Steam Community Discussions
Steam Users' Forums

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
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Steam
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Physical and Downloadable versions available
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GamersGate
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Physical and Downloadable versions available
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All versions require Steam.

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Columbia's Finest
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Clash in the Clouds
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Burial At Sea: Episode One
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Burial At Sea: Episode Two
Windows
macOS (OS X)

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Instructions

Unlocking 1999 mode before game completion

Bioshock Infinite features "1999 mode" which makes game much harder. Normally this mode is unlocked by finishing game at least once, however there is a code, the famous Konami code, which unlocks this mode right away:

Instructions

Game data

Exiting to desktop or main menu reveals the local date of the last checkpoint.

Configuration file(s) location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/8870/pfx/[Note 1]
Key mappings are encrypted which prevents sharing key bind files or creating custom commands.[4]

Save game data location

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings

In-game graphics settings.

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Field of view (FOV)

There is a FOV slider in the game options, however it only increases/decreases FOV by 15% from the default value of 75º (67.5º - 82.5º).
Instructions
Maximum FoV by slider MaxUserFOVOffsetPercent value
85 21.43
90 28.57
95 35.71
100 42.86
105 50.00
110 57.14

Disable Post-Processing Effects

Some of the post-processing effects can be disabled in the game's XEngine.ini file.
These effects include depth of field, light bloom, and color correction.
Instructions

Input settings

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Mouse speed slider tweak

Slider for mouse speed is set to very wide range, which can be unsuitable for high precision mice.
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Audio settings

Audio settings

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish

Issues unresolved

Freezing and crashing

There seems to be a problem on some systems that game crashes every few minutes and/or freezes whole system.[5][6]

2K is aware of this issue and there should be patch soon. It seems to be related to i7 processors.

Fixes that works for some users

  • If you have issues with the game immediately crashing on start-up, make sure you disable any on-screen display applications (showing FPS/GPU usage) like MSI Afterburner.
  • Disable overclocking or underclock your graphics card.
  • Disable Killer e2200 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller or any other virtual/VPN network adapters like Hamachi.[7]

Issues fixed

Crash on start for some Windows 7 and 8 users

Some users are experiencing crashes on start in Windows 7 and 8.
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Cannot restore game after Alt-Tab

The game may fail to restore after minimizing it by using Alt-Tab.
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Texture streaming quality problems

When the game can't detect or detects wrong video memory size, it automatically enables only Very Low and Low options for texture quality.
There is also an issue on some systems that selection Very High or Ultra for texture quality will cause to textures never load properly and game tries to load them over and over as demonstrated here.
Instructions

Edit by anon; To ensure the above values are applied over the default one's, Add -ReadTexturePoolFromIni to your Bioshock Infinite Shortcut like so; "InstallDir\BioShockInfinite.exe" -ReadTexturePoolFromIni"

Stuttering during gameplay

Instructions
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FPS dropping

Nvidia cards experience FPS drops in certain areas when Dynamic Shadows is set to Very High or Ultra.
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Microstuttering

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Audio crackling

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Disable aim assist

Aim assist is on by default even when using keyboard and mouse.[8]
There are some auto aim variables in the .ini files but these variables are reverted to True every time you start the game.[9] There is no permanent fix yet.
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Xbox controls even with no controller attached

Bioshock Infinite auto-detects any controllers/joysticks attached to the system including virtual ones. This could make game uncontrollable and cause camera to spin, menu contains labels for Xbox buttons.
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1920x1080 on 1920x1200 monitor

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Multiple save games

Only one save game is able to played at any one time.
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Hold to aim down sights

To change from toggle aim down sights to hold aim down sights, simply make an AutoHotKey script:
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GUI scaling on high resolution displays

GUI elements are not scaling with resolution which makes these elements rather small on high resolution displays.
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System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) Vista SP2
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz / AMD Athlon X2 2.7 GHZ
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 20 GB
Video card (GPU) ATI Radeon 3870
NVIDIA 8800 GT
Intel HD 3000
512 MB of VRAM
DirectX 10 compatible
Windows XP and DirectX 9 video cards are not supported.[10]

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/8870/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (8870) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References