BioShock 1 PC not working PLEASE HELP

Hello everyone, I just bought Bioshock on steam after finishing infinite because I never finished Bioshock, anyway its not working at all each time I launch the game it crashes straight away "bishock.exe" has stopped working. I have tried everthing on both of these forums http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2214894
http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/924919-bioshock/52891050

and still nothing, if anyone can offer some help that would be fantastic thanks!

There's 3 stickied thread on the steam forums that may be of help.

The first three.

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?s=04c0d65f3aa926102e32b37e85462e9e&f=304

try this make a shortcut or go to my games then rightclick, look for compatibility tick box i left it on windows xp sp3. also you might have to turn on stereo mix in sound setting under recording right click, show disabled devices. hope it works for ya it did for me.

Hmm. Always worked fine for me so I don't know what to tell you.

Would you Kindly help this poor soul.

@raven10: I tried playing that game on pc for the first time years ago and I had a similar crashing problem, I could not get it going. I am finally playing it and I am well on my way to finishing it. Brad almost spoiled it for me too.

@xxrangaxx: I'm assuming you are running win 7 or 8 so change the compatibility mode to Vista SP2 (XP will work but you won't get dx10 graphics). If you find you don't get sound effects in game go to your recording devices and enable Stereo Mix. They were the 2 issues I had with the game and now it runs perfectly.

Basically that ^. If that doesnt work update your Video card drivers. Worse case up to old drivers. Issues go any deeper your prob up shit creek.

I like this, yes I was watching Infinite Spoilers and had to skip a few bits where brad was like "oh and like in bioshock 1 where blah blah blah"

Anyway y'all be happy to know I have find a fix, for me all I had to do was run in dx9 by adding -dx9 to launch options now i was really hoping to be able to play this game making it as best looking as possible but now i can run dx10 textures on it, can anyone tell me if there is that much of a great difference for bioshock 1 between dx9 and 10? If not no worries, if so, then can anyone help me with running it on 10? i know its a long shot and most likely wont happen but hey.

Also thank you very very much for all the help! Everyone!

I think this is the perfect time to recommend the PC gaming wiki. It's pretty useful and has helped me with problems in a good number of games, including the first BioShock.

Here's another fix: Plug something into your microphone jack. Seriously. I had the exact same problem and for some reason that fixed it.