BioShock - DirectX10 and those pesky intro ads.

Hi guys

Running Vista Home basic on an AMD processor 9500 Quad Core (4 x 2.2 Ghz) with Nvidia 8500GT graphics card.

Recently installed Bioshock on my PC and had the common problem of no sound and frequent freezing / crashing. Most of the advice seemed to point to problems with direct X 10 and Vista compatibility issues.

Managed to get the game running by selecting the option of games on the start menu and right-click on the icon for Bioshock to play Direct X9.0. This allowed me to play and enjoy the game so far, but I still have 2 gripes / queries.

1 there is no way I can get the game to run in higher spec X 10 mode on Vista?

2. I'm still haunted by these annoying start up ads that I can't get around.

Any suggestions or advice on the subjects or both would be appreciated.

Here's how to remove the introductory videos.

http://www.Tweakguides.com/Bioshock_9.html

Basically, you can run it with the parameter - nointro.

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