Having trouble with Bioshock, please help.

Ok so I have a ATI HD 4850 graphics card and 4gb of ram.

First of all, I can play Bioshock pretty well, however not well enough to my liking. I play it on high, and for some reason every now and then the game will stutter. It kind of gets annoying. The game will just quickly stutter then return to normal again. It happens about once every 2 minutes or so. One rare time the game even quickly froze for about 0.5 seconds then returned it normal which got me scared.

Now is this just the game Bioshock itself that does this, or is there a problem with my PC? I really hope its just the game Bioshock which is stuttering, I really hope there is nothing wrong with my PC.

Please help!

I think my resolution is 1024 x 768.

I have a quad core processor.

Trust me all my PC specs exceed the requirements for this game by a mile.

I also just ran a test then, and even on low graphical settings it stutters.

I think my resolution is 1024 x 768.

I have a quad core processor.

Trust me all my PC specs exceed the requirements for this game by a mile.

I also just ran a test then, and even on low graphical settings it stutters.

cw131313

there must be something wrong with the game, if you're not experiencing any problems with other games. i have a 4850 as well, and my cpu is far worse than yours, but i have no problems running the game on 1920x1200, everything maxed out.

Well that is probably part of the problem also. I only have two games on my machine, Bioshock and Counter Strike Source.

Counter Strike Source runs 100% fine, but the graphical difference between these games is a lot so its not really a good test lol.

How do you defragment your disk and how is that going to help the game?

It sounds risky and tricky lol...

if you're on XP

Accessories > System Tools > Disk Defragmenter

if you're on XP

Accessories > System Tools > Disk Defragmenter

Genesis_CC

NO! Don't do that, Windows defragmenter is the worst software ever.

Download Defraggler.

The only other game I have is Counter Strike Source, and that runs perfectly fine.

My computer is only 4 days old also, so I would not need to defragment the drive.

Try doing a clean boot. Do you have Vista or XP? Just google it and follow the instructions. Type in "clean boot windows vista" and I believe it's the first one and it should lead to a microsoft page.

Also, even if you have XP, type in "clean boot windows vista" and click on that first thing that comes up that leads to a microsoft page, since it also has the instructions to do a clean boot on XP.

I just installed the latest Bioshock patch and it did nothing. I also tried playing with the sound off and it did nothing. Also tried playing with the graphics on low and it did nothing :(

What the hell is wrong? Is it the game or my PC?

[QUOTE="Genesis_CC"]

if you're on XP

Accessories > System Tools > Disk Defragmenter

pachari

NO! Don't do that, Windows defragmenter is the worst software ever.

Download Defraggler.

That or Diskeeper 8.0.