Official Bioshock Requirements

I should be able to play this on medium/low. Now the question is, should I get it for the PC, with those graphical settings, or get it for my 360, but miss out on mods and superior controls? drnick7

On the 360, you will get all the visuals maxed out, but you will have no DX10 visuals. The controls won't be THAT BAD. The MODs, meh. Why download a bunch of buggy games made by users?

[QUOTE="drnick7"]I should be able to play this on medium/low. Now the question is, should I get it for the PC, with those graphical settings, or get it for my 360, but miss out on mods and superior controls? True_Blu3

On the 360, you will get all the visuals maxed out, but you will have no DX10 visuals. The controls won't be THAT BAD. The MODs, meh. Why download a bunch of buggy games made by users?

Most of the time recommended specs aren't nearly enough to run the game maxed out smoothly.yellonet

Agreed. My old system went above and beyond the "recommended" requirements for Oblivion, but the game still didn't run all that well in outdoor environments with the settings turned way up. Hell, I still get stuttering with an 8800 GTX, 2 gigs of RAM, & an AMD Athlon X2 4800+.

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[QUOTE="yellonet"]Most of the time recommended specs aren't nearly enough to run the game maxed out smoothly.Herrick

Agreed. My old system went above and beyond the "recommended" requirements for Oblivion, but the game still didn't run all that well in outdoor environments with the settings turned way up. Hell, I still get stuttering with an 8800 GTX, 2 gigs of RAM, & an AMD Athlon X2 4800+.

NP: Angel Witch- Flight Nineteen

ND: Heineken

True, though Oblivion is such a system hog because it has massive outdoor environments with loads of detail for everything in it. Bioshock will be held indoors (though it will have its own set of interior environments, gardens, etc), but I don't it will guzzle resources more than Oblivion.

As for the recommended system specs, I surpass the specs, though I don't expect to max everything out.

True, though Oblivion is such a system hog because it has massive outdoor environments with loads of detail for everything in it. Bioshock will be held indoors (though it will have its own set of interior environments, gardens, etc), but I don't it will guzzle resources more than Oblivion.

Xcelerate

Good point. I wish they had three types of system specs for these games: Minimum, Recommended, & something like High End Recommendations.

if it runs and looks like rainbow six vegas than im happy. of course itll look and probably run better, so now i am very happyncderek

Vegas runs poorly :( what are you talkinga bout.. I run it on max 1600x1200, no AA Hdr on, and in the mexico beggining level I got 10 fps, my avg is about 30 fps... I would be dissapointed :p

[QUOTE="ncderek"]if it runs and looks like rainbow six vegas than im happy. of course itll look and probably run better, so now i am very happyMondoCool

Vegas runs poorly :( what are you talkinga bout.. I run it on max 1600x1200, no AA Hdr on, and in the mexico beggining level I got 10 fps, my avg is about 30 fps... I would be dissapointed :p

yes but remember Vegas was a direect port from the X360 version, so it runs ****. does look good.

im stoked, i should be maxing all settings on BioShock

My Spec: Athlon x2 4000+
2x1Gb Goodram ddr2 800Mhz Ram
Gf 8600GT Sonic (600/1600) 256 ddr3
and some cheap gigabyte motherboard
1. How will Bioshock and Crysis run?
2. Is my chceap motherboard slowing performance?
3. What do you think about this config? (it's brand new)

PS: Ibought whole computer (HDD (250GB SATA II), power supply (400W)...and all other stuff) in Poland for 1600PLN (something about 550$)

I got the rams for Bioshock ...etc but i need to upgrate my video card( i w8 till PCI-Express ver. 2.0 comes out) in rest i got all ^^

SUPERB........

Hi,

I dontunderstand much in HW so if anyone can tell me if i got what it takes to run the game:

Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (build 2600)
3.07 gigahertz Intel Pentium 4
1024 Megabytes Installed Memory (RAM)
RADEON 9600 SERIES video card

Thanks for your help...