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[gabriel]

I am having issue playing BioShock
I have installed Bioshock on Windows 7 RC x64 OS.
The installation went well but as soon as I run the game it gave black screen and then no progress at all. I got the following message

"Program Has Stopped Working ...Do you Want to Continue"
Close Program - And the Game is Terminated

Is it because of 64 bit OS?

[aaron]

Bioshock will not run on older video card drivers. Please ensure that you are using the latest video card drivers. Also, download the latest DirectX.

[hiram]

Re-Install the latest DirectX 10 and the latest ATI / NVIDIA Drivers

[lars]

After many trials and errors, I finally managed to get Bioshock running in windows 7. I had to run the installer in Vista compatibility mode to fix the issue.

[luke]

I had the same issue and fixed it after running Microsoft DirectX® End-User Runtime
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=2da43d38-db71-4c1b-bc6a-9b6652cd92a3&displayLang=en

After installing the Runtime ALL my games work just fine in windows 7!
It installs all versions of DirectX & the games will use what they require.