What graphic setting have you managed with a 7600GT? The 8600's max it on DX10, what about the 7600's under DX9?

My X1600XT can have max graphics but only on 1024 x 768 (decided it was pointless on 1440 x 900 since I shrink screenshots down to 1024 x 768 anyway)

but yeah I found on 1440 x 900 it was laggy in fights and the same with global lighting I think. Other than that I think the screenshots do my card justice in running the game

This message was edited by shadowj on Sep 12 2007.

with my 7900GS ive got it running at 1280x1024 with everything on medium except for the textures that are all on high. im getting a pretty solid framerate too.

quote Evanescence15

What graphic setting have you managed with a 7600GT? The 8600's max it on DX10, what about the 7600's under DX9?

Medium quality at 1024x768, leaving the things like distortion and shadow mapping on. High detail shaders are off so as to avoid potential crashes.

I am really surprised how well this game runs on low-end systems. Given the whole hoo-ha about how next-gen games were going to kill DX9 computers I really interested how easily people with just mid/low-range DX9 cards are running this game.

The key is that they have obviously spent time looking into how to make the game run with enough fps on low / mid range PC's whilst still looking good. It seems they have done a pretty good job (although on low settings the lighting effects area reeeeeallly low) at getting the balance right.

It's when the difference in gfx from low to high is so vast that people fored to play on low won't buy the game because it looks worse than a game they bought six months ago, so it's in game producers best interests to invest time into getting the balance right I suppose.

quote Evanescence15

I am really surprised how well this game runs on low-end systems. Given the whole hoo-ha about how next-gen games were going to kill DX9 computers I really interested how easily people with just mid/low-range DX9 cards are running this game.

I'm not surprised really. Bioshock was made for DX9 and DX9 only since it was in development before the 8 series and HD series were born and before DX10 was publicly announced. Nvidia even had to help 2K with the coding on DX10 cards so the game would work right.

So for example if Bioshock was announced now and not released until next year or the year after then yes the DX10 version will kill the DX9 version

So in other words Bioshock 2 (which has been announced that 2K are going to make Bioshock into a franchise) when it is released will blow Bioshock and all other games away.

I really want to play this! Just saving up because i dont have a monitor, mouse and keyboard lol.

Has anyone else found it funny how Xbox 360 got a patch before the PC version? I mean it does kind of make sense considering the 360 version didn't have much wrong with it, so it wouldn't take so long to make a patch, but it also shows that the 360 development team was more on the ball and dare I say more competent.

maybe cos the 360 version seems to be more popular than the pc. in the teletext game chart the 360 game was at number 1 and the pc was down in 7th or something. its probably just a case of pleasing the bigger audience rather than starting with the smaller crowd of people who are playing the pc version.

i havent encountered any bugs in the game at all though, it runs perfectly for me.

aye, dare I say the 360 crowd are more impatient and if they don't get their "fix" (no pun intended) then they cause a riot

but I haven't encountered any problems and so 2K have probably surveyed the two platforms and thought it would be best to tackle the 360 crowd. Not to mention it depends on the type of bugs and glitches. The PC ones being reported could be more serious than the 360 and don't forget the PC version does have the problem of SecuROM

yeah, it seems most of the pc versions problems are to do with installation and internet activation. that could be viewed as a bigger problem than any the 360 players could come up with. some pc gamers are having trouble simply getting the game to install and to play it. thats a huge problem but like i said, the 360 crowd seems bigger so maybe thats why their patch has been released first.

quote shadowj

quote Evanescence15

I am really surprised how well this game runs on low-end systems. Given the whole hoo-ha about how next-gen games were going to kill DX9 computers I really interested how easily people with just mid/low-range DX9 cards are running this game.

I'm not surprised really. Bioshock was made for DX9 and DX9 only since it was in development before the 8 series and HD series were born and before DX10 was publicly announced. Nvidia even had to help 2K with the coding on DX10 cards so the game would work right.

So for example if Bioshock was announced now and not released until next year or the year after then yes the DX10 version will kill the DX9 version

So in other words Bioshock 2 (which has been announced that 2K are going to make Bioshock into a franchise) when it is released will blow Bioshock and all other games away.

Actually what you are saying is perfectly true. In the last days I have been doing the BETA testing for the game Crysis fully maxed out with AA and AF my heavily overclocked 8800GTX has been screaming with pain. I am talking not getting over 40fps mark. This is just at 1440x900 and this is a card that usually blitzes games.

Actually the BETA (as well as work) have been whats been keeping me away from the forum lol.