Bioshock 2 wont even start

purchased the game

installed it

(no desktop icon was created but w/e) when into the directory and launched -bioshock2launcher.exe-

game came up, got to the menu, GFWL came up wanted me to sign in. didnt have an acccount, made one, signed in.

wants me to update, ok, close the game out, updated. bring the game back up, smae thing, wants another update, ok, updated.

NOW IT WONT EVEN START. nothin. my mouse does the " im thinking" donut. hten nothing........no error, no " closing the program". nothing

i searched ALL OVER the internet for this. tryed every solution under the sun, nothing. spent 5 hours and 34min on this so far

EVERYTHING IS UPDATED

Worst buy i ever made.

It's a huge issue with GFWL. I went through the same thing and I nearly pulled my hair out. Took me an hour or so to troubleshoot. What you have to do is uninstall the game and then reinstall it. Sign in to GFWL. When it asks to update through GFWL. DO NOT update. Find the Bioshock 2 patch and update manually. Grab all the patches. After every patch you manually install, it will ask you to sign in (I believe). So when you sign in and it asks you to auto update, hit NO. After you're done with all the updates, it shouldn't prompt you with an update any more.

Now please make sure "auto sign-in" is checked off. You do not want GFWL to automatically sign you in.

Once you are able to start a game and play, there will be a game save file corruption issue that you'll run into. When you run into this problem, go into your game save folder, and delete all the files that are 0kb in size. Those are corrupted. Delete those and you'll be fine from then on. Be sure to always back up your game saves and deleting those corrupted game save files if they ever show their face again. Of course, they will always be 0kb in size. But they shouldn't come back up any more but it's good to check to be sure.

Try run/install as administrator.

Try run as administrator.

urbangamez

It isn't that. He has to manually install all the patches. It's a sure fix. And then delete the corrupted game files. No issues after that.

TC, refer to this page if you need to:

Scan/read the whole page.

http://forums.gamesforwindows.com/t/10865.aspx?PageIndex=8

Wierd, it worked perfectly fine for me the day it came out.

DOwnloaded off steam and then started it up and it worked right away. Played about 4 hours straight and no crashes or anything.

Hope you get it working!

Only issue I have had with GFWL is on one game I had to install the patches on my own (Think it was the latest red faction).

Wish GoW PC would work on 7 !

well done Elann.

It's a huge issue with GFWL. I went through the same thing and I nearly pulled my hair out.

Elann2008

Yeah, I can second that. GFWL is a nightmare.

[QUOTE="Elann2008"]

It's a huge issue with GFWL. I went through the same thing and I nearly pulled my hair out.

metroidfood

Yeah, I can second that. GFWL is a nightmare.

Am I the only one, who hasn't had a major problem with it and played a GFWL game flawlessly?