How long should Bioshock take to load?

I just installed it and the latest tweakforce drivers (163.44 mobile), and I'm running a stock Asus G1S, but it seems like it won't run for some reason. How long does it take to open up?

 

Edit: ok just loaded it up. takes like 10-15s to load up but gets 1 of my cores up to 100% >< 2nd one is @ 5% >.>

To load a level..bout a couple minutes >.> but it's worth the wait xD

 

Ok something is wrong because if I click on the little rectangle it will tell me its not responding.

 

Hm..have you defragged your HD? and do all of those useless temporary file cleaner things to get things better and try again.

 

Can't be defragging the hard drive, I just got the computer yesterday...

 

The initial load takes a few seconds once you start the game for the first time during your play session. But once it gets loaded, say if you want to load a saved game or something after that to revive yourself, those loads go much quicker.

The very first load of the day just takes longer I guess to get everything up in memory. It's pretty normal and I got an 8800GTS and 4gbs RAM here.

 

have you tried a clean install?
it usually takes my computer 30 sec to 1 min to load.

 

Something is wrong clearly, it shouldn't take minutes for it to load. It never loads for me, it just gives me that rectangle. I'm going to try to reinstall it, and then if that doesn't work I'm going to go to the support site.

 

On my T61, it takes about 45-60 seconds average to load a level. On my desktop, between 30-45. The initial game load is about 10-20 seconds both places. Try the -nointro command line switch, for one, that'll improve initial load times. And it is very possible that you need to defragment, even if you've only had the computer a day, especially if you've uninstalled/installed a lot of programs.

 

See, it never even gets into the game. Just that little rectangle.

 

On a side note: Bob, you seem to have the same problem that me and a lot of other people have with long load times - where it takes several minutes (anywhere from 2-5) to load up a level (when everyone else loads a saved game or new level in like 30-40 seconds). It has to do with video card drivers (almost everybody who has it has a 79XX series card), and the game stops responding and the load screen freezes for several minutes. We're hoping for a fix soon...

Anyway, to the OP:

Do you have the Retail or Steam version of the game? Either way, you might try reinstalling. You should also search through the Bioshock tech support forums - I remember seeing some posts about the game not opening up at all. Otherwise I don't know what to tell you - the game is riddled with bugs at the moment.

 

Do the ForceWare Release 163.44 BETA work right of the bat from this site on my laptop? http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_163.44.html

Do i have to do anything else to it or just run the exe after uninstalling and restarting the laptop?

Im using a sager9260 with the go 7950 gtx for ur info