Okay, I love this game, I love Ken Levine and his team (system shock2, Freedom Force), this is not an attack in any way, I'm just venting out my frustration with this game's technical issues and aspects.

I've gotten the game through Steam, and my rig specs are e6600, 3gb ram ddr2 800, 8800gtx, Dell 2007WFP, and........vista.

Everyday Ive played bioshock (and thats since launch day) ive never had the game close normally on me or from my own will, it always crashes or blank-screens, or even alt tabs out and thats how i end my session. And of course when i get back in all my settings are defaulted since ive never been able to save my settings and have the game close.

The crashing occurs at random, but mostly when I'm loading from one area to another (the pressure doors, bathyspheres) where the game alt tabs out and all i can do is ctrlaltdel.

At my gaming rate, I wouldve finished the game by now, so I'm partly thankful for all the crashes, which is allowing a longer gaming experience with a game ive waiting 2 years for. They should include this feature in every Single player game, I won't unconsciously blaze through the game in one sitting.

Another thing that pisses me off are the keyboard controls, which obviously suffer post-x360 developement. This is the first FPS I can recall, ever, that does not have any walk function or toggle key. What?!?! Games that don't need a walk function include that, but not bioshock? I beleive that basically being forced to run through the levels, especially in BioShock, ruins all the atmosphere, and thats why I use my xbox360 controller to play the game, where the pressure sensitive joystick can allow me to tiptoe and slowly creep through the levels. the rumble also helps.

(Usually I'm the first person to say xbox controllers=FAIL for fps, but in this case, I am forced to use it, and I'm enjoying it)

Anyway, thats part of the problem with the controller. The other thing is, when I enable the controller, I am greeted with what is eccentially the xbox360 menu, which includes very basic audio and video options that are meant for my xbox 360. Gone are the advanced video options, including the dx10 video option toggle. Does this mean, when i simply want to use my controller, I'm forced out of having advanced graphics and dx10 features? and that I'm basically running xbox360's version of the game under dx9?? just because I dont want to run in the game??

Just while writing this i tested my game again and pressed "Continue", which is where I was greeted with a blank screen and repeating sound, which again forced me to alttab out and end the process.

I'm honestly trying to enjoy the game with my upgraded shotgun and exploding buckshots to the face, but seriously, let me play the damn game please.

If a high end pc is having problems with this game, what are the midrange and low end pc users experiencing??!!

UPDATE:: After writting this i felt like playing some bioshock, got into the menu and tried Continue, didnt work. tried again by loading a specific save game, didnt work. Rebooted shortly after and ran the game, the entire game didnt work.

So i deleted it and im redownloading/reinstalling it.