Demo out on Fileplanet

[BHC]

Probably a major repost but check out:

http://www.fileplanet.com/176066/download/BioShock-Demo

[GordonFreeman911]

Only for subscribers? That's ****ing retarded.
EDIT: Wait never mind.

[DEATHMASTER]

YES! *reconsiders buying possibley*

[Asus]

Notice the file name says it is encrypted.

[sea]

Okay, you guys get working on a Pixel Shader 2.0 patch for it. I'll be back in an hour.

[DEATHMASTER]

Notice the file name says it is encrypted.
f***

[Fliko]

There are 'claims' of people playing the game using the install from Fileplanet.
Maybe they messed up on the .exe, or false claims?

[DEATHMASTER]

****, I'm leaving in 3.5 hrs and this dl will take 5+ at this shit speed.

[BHC]

Notice the file name says it is encrypted.

and just like that, my dreams are shattered.

[DEATHMASTER]

lol they took the servers down.
Right after I quit because of my lack of time, I am truely THEE DEATHMASTER.

[Asus]

and just like that, my dreams are shattered =| why would they do this?Because it's just for subscribers atm. (pre-download demo)

[DEATHMASTER]

oh as for those claims...there's a hmm activator patch in the you know where ;).

[Rapstah]

You basically have to PAY FOR THE DEMO?

Who the **** came up with this idea?

[Gunner]

You basically have to PAY FOR THE DEMO?

Who the **** came up with this idea?

Are you high?

You pay for a fileplanet sub and you get early access to betas and demos all the time. It's not "pay for the bioshock demo."

Instead of bashing fileplanet, why don't you try it once. You'll see how much stuff they give away and maybe then you'll stop complaining.

Besides if you don't have A.D.D. just wait till tomorrow and download the demo from a torrent site.

[Krynn72]

Fileplanet was pretty sweet when I had it. Then I went to college and became poor and unable to afford nice things.

[Rapstah]

If you didn't notice the game is RELEASED tomorrow. :| I would want a demo before I buy it, you know.

[Krynn72]

The game is RELEASED Tuesday.

[Asus]

I'm seeing if this file (http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~ppalutsi/BioShockPCDemo.zip.torrent) is any good.

[Krynn72]

Me too :E

[DEATHMASTER]

oh and the demo is out on hmmm you know that place you get the activator patch.
In case you want it from there.

[Rapstah]

The game is RELEASED Tuesday.

Um, yeah, tomorrow.

[DEATHMASTER]

Well today now for EST :thumbs:

[Krynn72]

Um, yeah, tomorrow.

Oh, didnt realize it had turned monday already. I should probably go to sleep.

[Gunner]

Edit: nevermind.

[DigiQ8]

oh and the demo is out on hmmm you know that place you get the activator patch.
In case you want it from there.
wut place D:?

[mortiz-Redux]

I'm seeing if this file (http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~ppalutsi/BioShockPCDemo.zip.torrent) is any good.

Any good?

[Gunner]

Yeah I'm playing right now, well I was but then I alt tabbed and the game got stuck in 800x600 res in windowed mode. But that link works, the file is the pc demo and it's not time-locked.

[DigiQ8]

this torrent is slow
i want direct link

[Evo]

Someone PM me the activator patch thing ;)

[Gunner]

It's so incredibly beautiful on max'ed settings :O

Evo just download the torrent if you wanna play now.

DigiQ8, torrent isn't slow you just need to let it pick up.

[DigiQ8]

Someone PM me the activator patch thing ;)
Evo from where did you download it?

[Evo]

Will download the torrent for now...want the activator patch tho ;)

[mortiz-Redux]

Uh, the torrent's not too good for me for some reason. Plenty of peers and seeds but my d/l speed is terrible.

[Krynn72]

I left it on overnight and it seems to have downloaded in about 3 hours. Dont forget that torrents always start off slow and then pick up speed as you get more and more of the file.


Also, pm activator patch please :D

[Gunner]

You don't need any patches or activator whatever, the torrent is the demo and it works fine.

I just finished playing the demo, it's very short and that's good because I didn't want to spoil the real game. It's an extremely delicious appetizer.

Not a spoiler, but I know some people can be touchy about this sort of thing:

The video montage at the end is the most awesome commercial I've seen for a video game in a long long long time.

Edit: FRAPS' fps overlay doesn't work for some reason but the game ran for most parts above 60fps on maxed minus DX10 setting. This game has tremendous graphics AND tremendous gameplay.

[mortiz-Redux]

Azureus is giving me the blue health indicator which says the tracker is down :/

[Gunner]

Azureus is giving me the blue health indicator which says the tracker is down :/

That's because Azureus blows and is open to exploits, a lot of trackers refuse the connection. Use uTorrent.

[Evo]

oh and the demo is out on hmmm you know that place you get the activator patch.
In case you want it from there.

You don't need any patches or activator whatever, the torrent is the demo and it works fine.

Gunner - i have the demo off FilePlanet and want to play it now, the torrent won't finish downloading til later today when i won't be here. Deathmaster indicated there is an activator patch, do you know where this is?

[Gunner]

You can try it since your download is complete, these people got their download cut off by FP hehe.

http://www.imagecomics.com/messageboard/viewtopic.php?p=549582&

Edit: nevermind that's not it, that requires you to download another copy. And I can't find any mention of an activator patch on any torrent site either. Dunno where he got that from.

[VictimOfScience]

Ugh, my torrent has just over 3 hours left at ~100kb/s. Still, can't wait to see how my machine (doesn't) run it!!!

[Gunner]

Ugh, my torrent has just over 3 hours left at ~100kb/s. Still, can't wait to see how my machine (doesn't) run it!!!

Tell me what kind of machine you have, I can speculate for you :D

[Evo]

You can try it since your download is complete, these people got their download cut off by FP hehe.

http://www.imagecomics.com/messageboard/viewtopic.php?p=549582&

Edit: nevermind that's not it, that requires you to download another copy. And I can't find any mention of an activator patch on any torrent site either. Dunno where he got that from.

:hmph:

[Gargantou]

ROTFL Gunner, thanks, via that link I just got a FREE -1- YEAR subscription to FILEPLANET!!

I didn't even have to pay!

[Gorgon]

****ing excellent about time to test my pc Hardware. downloading this beast from a popular torrent site.

hey guys watch out, there are two version out there (torrent) one is from fileplanet (decrypted version OK) AND one is encrypted version (not ok)

so watch out and download the decrypted version, someone posted a comment about it, so read before you download.

thanks

[Harryz]

Looks like I won't be running this.

Radeon 9800 pro 128 won'r run, right? SM 3.0 is required?

There was a time when my graphics card was teh superior.:(

[Gunner]

ROTFL Gunner, thanks, via that link I just got a FREE -1- YEAR subscription to FILEPLANET!!

I didn't even have to pay!

Np :)

[Gargantou]

If you don't have a fileplanet subscription, check out Gunners link, it has a GLITCH in the entire FilePlanet system that gives you a free ONE year subscription to FilePlanet, complete with beta access(I just confirmed this by managing to enter the CoH beta and reserve the new MoH demo!!)

[mortiz-Redux]

lol! Downloading ET: Quake Wars Beta.

[Sir Phoenixx]

Is there a normal download link anywhere? I can't get the torrent (uTorrent) to go above 20-35KB/s. (I can do about 190KB/s on my connection)

now it's hovering around 40-50KB/s, will it eventually get to a normal speed?

[Zeus]

There's thousands of people in the torrent, but I'm still getting crap speeds...

[mortiz-Redux]

Tell me about it.

[TheAntipop]

Honestly, I'm getting pretty bored of the demo now - I've been playing it for half of the week now! ;)

[giant384]

lol! Downloading ET: Quake Wars Beta.

rofl welcome to about 3 months ago.


also that fileplanet thing works!!!!

[Gunner]

Yeah just don't use any real information, just use a secondary email if you have one. :)

[Asus]

Non torrent link (http://chonnom0.filezaru.com/BioShockPCDemo.zip)
Not that much faster than the torrent but it's constant speed.

[Unfocused]

Size: 1,893.7 MB

Holy shit; for a 'very short' demo?

[Gorgon]

Is there a normal download link anywhere? I can't get the torrent (uTorrent) to go above 20-35KB/s. (I can do about 190KB/s on my connection)

now it's hovering around 40-50KB/s, will it eventually get to a normal speed?

depends on your country and ISP, most ISPs are throttelling the torrent connection during the day time, and give you full speed between 1am-1pm.

so enjoy.

Non torrent link (http://chonnom0.filezaru.com/BioShockPCDemo.zip)
Not that much faster than the torrent but it's constant speed.

dl @ 10kbyte :| thanks but its not fast

[giant384]

they shut down all downloading of the bioshock demo on fileplanet. wtf is the big deal with being so secure about a demo???? just release the damn thing so we may be happy.

[Gunner]

Size: 1,893.7 MB

Holy shit; for a 'very short' demo?

Well if you're patient you can wait till tomorrow :D

[Asus]

I was getting 80kb/s. Now it slowed down to about 40.
edit oo went back up.
and down again.

[Kyorisu]

depends on your country and ISP, most ISPs are throttelling the torrent connection during the day time, and give you full speed between 1am-1pm.

Otherwise known as dodgy ISPs that cannot afford the bandwidth. Obviously there is a lesser demand for bandwidth during the night so they let you go nuts then.

[Harryz]

Watching my brother play the demo since my crappy PC won't run it. Its pretty damn cool, especially when you first see Rapture.

[Gunner]

http://www.portforward.com/english/applications/port_forwarding/eMule/eMuleindex.htm

For those who experience tracker problems and low amount of seeds & peers.

[Kyorisu]

http://www.portforward.com/english/applications/port_forwarding/eMule/eMuleindex.htm

For those who experience tracker problems and low amount of seeds & peers.

pfft.

# Bittorrent - Judas
iptables -t nat -I PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 32306 -j DNAT --to-destination 192.168.1.75
iptables -t nat -I PREROUTING -p udp --dport 32306 -j DNAT --to-destination 192.168.1.75


Superior.

[Alan00000]

I have about 2 hours left to download. Its not stable so i dont know if thats accurate. It goes up and down.

[mortiz-Redux]

rofl welcome to about 3 months ago.

Yeah, but I've just upgraded my PC, my old one hasn't been able to run it for the last 3 months (it had a ATI 9600 pro in it :|).

This is frustrating, I can't get decent d/l speeds anywhere.

[Gunner]

pfft.

# Bittorrent - Judas
iptables -t nat -I PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 32306 -j DNAT --to-destination 192.168.1.75
iptables -t nat -I PREROUTING -p udp --dport 32306 -j DNAT --to-destination 192.168.1.75


Superior.

I don't understand, where do you use this code?

[hool10]

When will the new NVIDIA drivers be out? Also somebody needs to host the damn thing! :imu:

[Alan00000]

When will the new NVIDIA drivers be out? Also somebody needs to host the damn thing! :imu:

Yeah this is taking forever.

[Nid Banikeri]

Is the free membership glitch still working for anyone?

I can't get it to work =/

[Acepilotf14]

I'm a member.. It's very neat, all the awesome perks. Im a founders club member.
Anyway, my PC broke, so until it's fixed, I can't play it... I've only played the 360 demo.

[theotherguy]

gee, just 22 hours left on my download :|

[mortiz-Redux]

I was motering along @ about 150 KB/sec until I hit 50% now I'm getting 12 KB/sec off of the torrent :/

[Gunner]

One thing I forgot to mention about the demo, I absolutely loved the hacking mini game. :)

[Krynn72]

Holy shit. The demo ran soooooo good on my computer. I wasnt monitoring the frame rate (trying to be more immersing for the first play through), but there wasnt a single hicup at all. Granted, I was running on a lower resolution, but still, with all high settings I expected some kind of drop, especially in areas with multiple enemies. Damn I am happy about this. I was worried it play like a slideshow, or I would have to make it look like shit to play... but thats not the case at all.

I was running in 1024x720, all settings on high

AMD Athlon x64 3200+
Geforce 7800GT 256mb
2GB PC3200


EDIT: Well, I just played a bit of it again, and it looks like I was getting about 30fps for the most part, rarely dropping to 15.

[Gunner]

That's one thing I've noticed personally, if you don't have an FPS meter you perceive things to be much smoother. I think it's natural.

Anyway what did you use to see your frame rate? FRAPS didn't load the overlay for me.

[-Psy-]

30 fps isn't good.

[Gunner]

30 fps isn't good.

It's enough for singleplayer,

[Krynn72]

30 is good enough for me. I dont get why people need more. Television and films are played at 24 frames per second, and you never notice anything.


And I used fraps. Dont know why it didnt work for you Gunner.

[Gorgon]

an hour left for my torrent to finish. good speed 150-250kbyte/s

[hool10]

I've stopped using the torrent. I'm just gonna wait until tonight. The entire torrent thing is stupid. :rolleyes: *W00t! Follow some of the links the 'haus members put up! http://www.flamehaus.com/bbs/27-vt127340.html?postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=390

[VictimOfScience]

an hour left for my torrent to finish. good speed 150-250kbyte/s
Ugh, I have been at this all day and I am at 91.5% and my speed just went to 24.5 kb/s. 2 more hours??? This blows.

[Loke]

It ran like crap on my computer at 1280x1024 with textures at high and most of the effects on, granted I have a inferior graphics card. Changed the resolution to 1024x768 and it ran pretty okay and a few effects turned off (V-Sync, post-processing effects) though it's still too difficult to aim because the framerate is very jumpy.

About the game, nice atmosphere I must say and excellent sound (5.1 <3). There's a bit too much shooting for my taste though, I'd expected it would be more puzzle-adventuring over shooting gallery.

[taviow]

I'm SURE it won't even run for me. Yay. No Bioshock until november/december.

[Narcolepsy]

It ran like crap on my computer at 1280x1024 with textures at high and most of the effects on, granted I have a inferior graphics card. Changed the resolution to 1024x768 and it ran pretty okay and a few effects turned off (V-Sync, post-processing effects) though it's still too difficult to aim because the framerate is very jumpy.

About the game, nice atmosphere I must say and excellent sound (5.1 <3). There's a bit too much shooting for my taste though, I'd expected it would be more puzzle-adventuring over shooting gallery.
What are your system specs?

(Arrgh, 16 kb/s! Will this thing even run on a 6800 Ultra?)

[Loke]

Intel Core 2 Duo 6600 2.4GHz
1500MB Ram
GeForce 6800 256MB PCI-E

I'm also running in Windows Vista so that might reduce the performance a bit.

[TheAntipop]

About the game, nice atmosphere I must say and excellent sound (5.1 <3). There's a bit too much shooting for my taste though, I'd expected it would be more puzzle-adventuring over shooting gallery.

Come off it, this is edited version of the intro in which it's been modified just so it can show off quite abit in small amount of time/space. I think it's unfair to judge what's been called a 20 hour game upon this 15 minute exp. which isn't even going to be the same in the real intro/first 15 minutes.

But even so, you don't even need to do any shooting anyway, and when you can shoot enemies (a total of about 15 in the demo, fightable at least, give or take?)

[Loke]

Perhaps you're right, I hope so. But for the demo I must say that I didn't like the fact that it was so much fighting added into it. There was also a small video that played after you completed the demo which contained brute force action pretty much throughout the entire life span, I really hope the full game isn't as fast-paced as what was showed.

Anyway, apart from the shooting I really liked what I played, if and when I decide to upgrade my rig I'll get it, not right now as the experience gets killed when your computer decides to take a dump.

[Asus]

I was out for a number of hours today doing errands and with my brother picking up a new car for him. Got home and it was done downloading. Was going at 100kb/s when I left.

30FPS? Probably ok but it really depends how fast things are moving on screen and how fast you move your crosshairs. No way to compare to TV/Movies with built-in motion blur. Plus interlaced TV is actually 60 FPS (alternating half frames but your mind sees it as whole while streaming).

[Gorgon]

I have played the demo, Excellent game, its worth it

[Sedako]

Hi guys, I'm back from a lengthy hiatus. Anyways, finished downloading the demo an hour ago. Started it up, and it ran at a pretty smooth 50 fps. Looks great, but there's one problem. At random times during the demo my video drivers error and the game exits out. I'm hoping this is what the new drivers being released today are going to fix.

[Gunner]

Still no word on the nvidia drivers :(

http://www.nzone.com/page/home.html

[hool10]

No the beta drivers are up: http://www.shacknews.com/ Take it to the Steam Community group! :D

[Gunner]

hool10 to the rescue!

Thanks man :D

[Sedako]

Nice, lets see if it fixes the problem. If so, I'll be all set for the release tomorrow.

[TheAntipop]

Less technology talk, more opinions on the demo.

[hool10]

hool10 to the rescue!

Thanks man :D
NP. Saw the link on thepiratebay. *Oh what's ur Steam id? Join in the Bioshock group!

[Sedako]

That driver did the trick! Running at an almost constant 60 FPS (only dips to about 50 with a lot of particles on screen.) No more errors as well. All settings are maxed at 1600x1200. Here's some specs to go by:

e6600 @ 3ghz
8800GTS 640mb @ 600/900
2GB DDR2 600 (dual channel)

Amazing demo. This game is by far the most atmospheric one I've ever experienced. Can't wait for the full release tomorrow.

[ZoFreX]

This is a mirror of the FilePlanet file (http://liquidcreativity.net/BioShockPC_FP.zip) Enjoy :)

[Asus]

I have played the demo, Excellent game, its worth itagreed

[Evo]

So no activation patch for those of us who got the encrypted version?

=/

Downloading off Steam unless i can get my encrypted version sorted