BioShock™ Remastered For Mac

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The game is supported on the following Macs. To check your Mac model and when it was released, select About This Mac from the Apple menu on your menu bar. All 13' MacBook Pros since Late 2016. All 15' MacBook Pros released since Late 2013 with an Intel or AMD graphics card. Models with an Nvidia graphics card are not supported. BioShock Remastered for Mac - Features, Gene Bank, Remastered, Reviews, Story, Weapons and more.

Originally developed by2K Games
Developed for Mac by Feral Interactive Limited
Published for Mac by Feral Interactive Limited

Installation
As part of the Steam download process, the game has already been installed on your computer. To start playing the game, read the Getting Started section.
Getting Started
1. Double-click on the Steam application icon. By default this is located in the Applications folder on your computer’s hard drive.
2. If you are not already signed in, the Steam Login dialog will appear. Enter your account name and password, then select Login.
3. The Steam application will launch. Select Library.
4. Highlight BioShock Remastered in the list of games on the left-hand side of the window, then select Play.
5. The BioShock Remastered pre-game Options window will appear. Click on the Play button. The game will launch.
6. When the Main Menu appears select New Game.
7. You will now be asked to choose your difficulty setting according to your experience level. Select Easy, Medium, Hard or Survivor.
8. After the opening video, you'll find yourself the lone survivor of a horrific plane crash, treading water amid the wreckage…
BioShock Remastered Performance Tips
The most important factors in determining how smoothly BioShock Remastered plays are your CPU speed, the amount of built-in RAM, the type of graphics card in your computer, and the in-game settings you select.
BioShock Remastered is playable with the minimum specifications listed below, but it will play more smoothly on faster computers with more RAM. However, if you are dissatisfied with the performance of the game on your computer, there are a couple of things you can do that are likely to improve performance:
- Close all other applications: You are strongly encouraged to quit all other applications before launching BioShock Remastered – other applications drain resources and slow the overall system performance.
- Clear disk space: Ensure that your main hard disk has plenty of spare disk space.
In addition to these general Mac actions, there are some specific in-game settings you can select to speed up the game. These are listed below in order of performance improvement (largest improvement first). Move down the list making the recommended changes until you find settings that give you both good performance and acceptable graphics.
- Resolution
  - 2560x1440 - Slowest
  - 1920x1080 - Faster
  - 800x600 - Fastest
- Anisotropic Filter
  - 16x - Slowest
  - 8x - Slower
  - 2x - Faster
  - 1x - Fastest
  - Off - Faster
- Vertical Sync
  - On - Slower
  - Off - Faster
- Antialiasing
  - On - Slower
  - Off - Faster
- Distortion
  - On - Slower
  - Off - Faster
- Real Time Reflection
  - On - Slower
  - Off - Faster
- Water Ripple
  - On - Slower
  - Off - Faster
NOTE: All of these settings are found in either BioShock Remastered's pre-game Options window under the Video tab or within the game under Main Menu → Options → Graphics Options.
Macintosh Specific Extras - Pre-game Options Window
Feral games come with a pre-game Options window. This window offers Mac-specific extra features, described below.
Extras Tab - iTunes Pausing
Selecting this feature will automatically pause any currently playing song in iTunes while BioShock Remastered is running. Playback will be resumed when the game is quit or paused.
Extras Tab - iChat or Messages Away Status
Selecting this feature will automatically set your iChat (called 'Messages' in OS X 10.8 or later) status to 'away' while BioShock Remastered is running. You can select different 'away' messages from the pop-up menu. The 'away' options are taken from the user's iChat (or Messages) status listings.
Support Tab - Support - A Helping Hand
If you encounter a problem with BioShock Remastered, you can use the Support tab to consult Feral's online FAQs. If your problem is not covered by the FAQs, you can contact Feral using the automated game report system. This automatically creates a file with information about your computer that is useful to the Feral Technical Support team in helping to solve the problem.
Uninstalling
To uninstall BioShock Remastered, follow these steps:
1. Double-click on the Steam application icon. By default this is located in the Applications folder on your computer's hard drive.
2. If you are not already signed in, the Steam Login dialog will appear. Enter your account name and password, then select Login.
3. The Steam application will launch. Select the Library tab.
4. In the library, right-click on BioShock Remastered in the list of games on the left-hand side of the window, then select Uninstall....
5. A dialog will appear confirming that you wish to delete all the game content. Select Delete.
System Requirements
Minimum System Requirements
Processor: 2.4 GHz
RAM: 8GB
Graphics: 1.5GB VRAM
Mac OS: 10.12.5
Hard Disk: 27GB
The game is supported on the following Macs. To check your Mac model and when it was released, select About This Mac from the Apple menu on your menu bar.
• All 21.5” iMacs since late 2013 (1GB NVIDIA GT 750M Models are not officially supported)
• All 27” iMacs since late 2013 (1GB NVIDIA GT 755M Models are not officially supported) (1)
• All 13” MacBook Pros since late 2016
• All 15” MacBook Pros since late 2013
• All Mac Pros since late 2013
(1) Late 2012 models with Nvidia 680MX graphics cards are also supported.
The following Macs are capable of running the game but do not consistently meet the standards required for official support.
- All 21.5' iMacs since early 2013
- All 27” iMacs since late 2012 with a 1GB graphics card
- All Mac Minis since late 2012
- All 13” MacBook Pros since mid 2012
- Most 15” MacBook Pros since mid 2012 with a 1GB graphics card
- All MacBook Airs since mid 2012
- All MacBooks since early 2015
- All Mac Pros since 2009 with an AMD 7950 (Mac Edition) graphics card
Technical Support
Every effort has been made to make BioShock Remastered as compatible with current hardware as possible. However, if you are experiencing problems when running BioShock Remastered, please read on.
The latest version of the FAQs can be found by selecting the FAQs button in the Support tab of the BioShock Remastered pre-game Options window (this is the window that opens when you launch the game), or by going straight to the Feral website: http://support.feralinteractive.com
Contacting Feral
If the FAQs and/or updates do not solve your problem, then please feel free to contact us. The following information must be obtained before contacting Feral Technical Support:
- The error message displayed when the problem occurred (if any).
- A BioShock Remastered Report.txt file. This contains:
  - An Apple System Report of your Mac
  - Any crash logs that exist for BioShock Remastered
  - A list of the game's contents
All the information required can be obtained by opening BioShock Remastered and clicking on the Support tab in the BioShock Remastered pre-game Options window. In the Support tab, click on the Generate Report button. Once the report is generated it will appear as a file in your ~/Downloads folder (the “~” symbol refers to your home directory). Now click on the Create Email button. Remember to attach the BioShock Remastered Report.txt file to your email.
In your email, please include a brief description of the problem you have experienced with BioShock Remastered.
email: support@feralinteractive.com
Warranty
Please check the warranty information provided by Steam.

If you build it, they will come – BioShock Remastered is coming to Mac OS X very soon.

BioShock, the stellar immersive sim from 2007, has been available for Mac OS X since October 2009. 2010’s BioShock 2 would follow in March 2012, and BioShock Infinite – originally released for PC and consoles in March 2013 – would appear on Mac a mere six months later, in August 2013.

The gap was closing. Feral interactive were doing sterling work, getting great games in front of as many people as possible. Yes, even Mac and Linux players. You can snigger all you want in the back, but inclusivity isn’t something to be mocked, alright?

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Then BioShock: The Collection launched in September 2016, and everything changed. A bit.

BioShock Infinite, which was relatively recent and didn’t need a remaster, stayed largely untouched. But BioShock and BioShock 2 – in a creaking customised Unreal Engine ‘2.5’ – were showing their age, and they were remastered. Hard. It wasn’t always positive.

Merits of remastering aside, the interesting thing is that while BioShock: The Collection was available to current-generation console players and PC gamers alike as a retail/digital bundle, if you already owned the games on Steam, you automatically got access to the remasters (except Infinite, which didn’t need it).

That’s a nice touch. In a world where some people have literally bought Final Fantasy VII five or six times – for various different platforms over the years – it’s nice to see free upgrades and updates.

And the net result of this automatic upgrade was that the Steam store listings for BioShock and BioShock 2 automatically ‘upgraded’ to the remastered versions of the game. ~~That sounds great, but it’s unfortunately a bit of a problem if you were wanting to buy them on Mac or Linux; the remastered versions weren’t available for non-Windows operating systems.~~

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~~But that ends soon. Well, for the original BioShock, at least; Feral Interactive are releasing a Mac version of BioShock Remastered on August 22nd, 2017.~~

~~This will effectively ‘fix’ the Steam store listing for BioShock Remastered for Mac OS X, but news on a Linux version – or BioShock 2 Remastered – are still forthcoming.~~

Correction, August 16th, 2017:

Feral Interactive have been in touch to point out that their Mac OS X port of BioShock (2009) has not been available for Steam before; only via their own online store, the Mac App Store, or other third party outlets, like Green Man Gaming. They were not in fact rendered unavailable by the remaster updates to the Steam store listings as was originally stated.

The impending release of the Mac version of BioShock Remastered – on August 22nd, 2017 – therefore also marks the game’s debut for OS X via the Steam store. Apologies for any confusion, and thanks again to Feral Interactive for the correction.

Further correction, August 16th, 2017:

Turns out that the BioShock 2 Steam store listing has effectively been ‘replaced’ by the update to remastered copies, as originally stated in the article. If you access the Steam app listing for BioShock 2 it effectively redirects you to the BioShock 2 Remastered listing.

Note the difference in operating system icons (Mac vs Windows) on the two listings.

The BioShock 2 Remastered listing does also include a key for the original version, but there is currently no way to access the original BioShock 2 listing on the Steam store due to this redirect.

Only the Windows icon displays on the listing for BioShock 2 Remastered.

As a result of operating system filtering within Steam search, and the way the updated listing is displayed, this has become somewhat confusing for non-Windows users. And us.

The original version of BioShock 2 is still available from the Feral Interactive store, though. This will then supply you a Steam key, which you can redeem via the Steam client.

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