Of course an ATI HD 4850 card is good enough. My whole PC blows this games requirements out of the water on high settings, and especially on low settings.

Yet even on low it still stutters.

I run on high settings.

Oh yeah and I forgot to mention, even when I put the graphics on low it stutters.

I also tried turning the in game audio off and it still stuttered.

So for some reason my game Bioshock stutters every now and then during gameplay. Its usually not a major stutter, buts its enough for me to notice it. I get a steady 60 FPS using Fraps, but the game can still stutter.

Here is my PC...

http://www.techcomputer.com.au/mambo/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=shop.flypage&product_id=268&category_id=11&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=1

So as you can see, my PC can more than handle the game. I have tried heaps of things to stop it but none of it works. I have tried reinstalling the drivers, turning V Sync off, disabling virus checkers in the background etc. But nothing has worked yet.

Now I have no other games to test apart from Counter Strike Source. But I guess its good to know that I can play Counter Strike Source with no stutters at all.

So what could be my problem here? Is it just normal for Bioshock to stutter or is their something wrong/not right with my PC?

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?

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.

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

It sounds risky and tricky lol...

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.

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.