Advice on bioshock and bioshock remastered

I played both (didn't finish remastered). Can't remember any problems.

Both games feels the same. There are differences in quality and some extra gimmicks in remastered.
But I doubt you miss them when playing the original.

Can't give you advise on crashes, maybe the steam discussions of the game bring better results.
But wish you good luck with it!

Personally, I haven't run into major problems, but they basically did not fix any bugs etc. with the remastered version. You can think of it as a graphical upgrade. So both versions have problems. I suggest you to check the guide section of the game, people usually put simple guides to how to fix the common issues.

The original should be more stable, the remaster had a lot of crashes when it launched. I'm not sure if they ever fixed that. Personally didn't experience many crashes in the remaster I believe, none game breaking ones anyway.

I've only played the Remastered versions. I did some research because I've also heard that (for some) the remasters tend to crash a lot but still decided to play them. I barely had any crashes (maybe like 6 times in the 2 games together). Also I've read somewhere that reinstalling Steam, or putting the game on another drive can help.

Played the remastered as well, don't remember a single crash or game breaking bug. The only bug I saw was that sometimes the minigames are impossible to complete.

I played the remastered without any bug or crash. Only weird thing I encountered was this :D

i finished bioshock 2 remaster with no problems, but bioshock 1 remaster i wasn't able to finish due to a bug in the last level. unfortunately it auto-saved after so i was unable to go back to where i needed so i could try again. ymmv.

I had issues with remastered version at first. It crashed too often. I browsed bioshock discussion threads in Steam related to crashes, someone was suggesting to add/replace some .dll file in the system. I did that and never had a crash since.
I think if you browse enough you'll find the solution.

First game not even crashes a lot, it can kill your saves when autosaving at level start. Sometimes it can crash that same moment. So use manual saves at last once a level, and make them few in different slots.

I played through both bioshock 1 remastered and bioshock 2 remastered recently. I had no problem with bioshock 1 but bioshock 2 crashed every 5 minutes. I think it's just based on luck, the game hates certain systems for whatever reason. One thing that helped me with bioshock 2 is change priority in task manager to high, it didn't stop the crashing entirely but instead of getting a crash every 5 min I would get 1 every two hours. In case my suggestion doesn't help here's a thorough guide someone made, hope it helps.

I played Bioshock Remastered last year, not a single crash. Can't say about regular version, didn't touch it.

I just finished Bioshock Remastered last week and didn't face any crash. Not even one. But maybe that depends on the computer's specs. Because lots of people were talking about this problem in the comments. So good luck and I hope you can find a solution. I didn't try the original version by the way. That could give you a better performance.

ran into a problem where the game kept crashing at the same point. turned all the graphics down to the lowest settings and got past, cranked them back up
bioshock remasted games removed the online vs. i think its still in the nonremasered. where i had the most fun

I've had no issue with either remaster on Win10. I forget which OS I played the originals on, but they didn't crash on me either.

It sounds like whatever causes the crash is related to something else on your system. If you're lucky, it's a hardware or OS issue. Otherwise tracking down the interaction is going to be a pain.

During my experience with BioShock 1 Remastered, there was roughly a 30% chance any time the game saves it would crash and corrupt the save file it's tryng to save on (aka, basically delete it). This included the auto-saves any time I go from one major area to another. (Some reading on the subject implied that the save corrupting bug happens "after playing for a long time".) Either way, it was preeeetty painful and if you're having the same thing (and none of the suggested solutions online work; they didn't for me) then I'd suggest saving regularly.

I can't say anything for the original BioShock 1 on Steam since I played it a long time ago... outside of Steam, if you get what I mean. The version I played back then was 100% stable and I don't recall it ever crashing.

I didn't have any game breaker issues with the remasters. I just kept alternate saves and alternated between them, in case one got corrupted.

The remaster crashed for me at the very beginning so many times I gave up trying. Finished the old version without a single problem.

Both old and new version have stability issues, but generally the old version is considered the more stable of the two.

Played through about a half of remastered version (abandoned it because it's just not my cup of tea), didn't experience any issues whatsoever. I was using Windows 7 back then though, might have something to do with that.

Before I started playing the BioShock games, I looked up what the difference between original and remastered was. I mostly read those things about the Remastered version crashing often, and came to find the differences were not that big, so I went with the original version just to be sure. Never had a crash in that one.

When I played the original it crashed while saving with 50% chance (including the autosave upon level transition!), corrupting both the save file and the config file. I alternated between two save files to not lose too much progress. I found out that the game gets its default settings from a backup config file that can be edited, so I set my resolution and graphics quality there. I also deleted the intro videos to make the game start faster.