bioshock look better on the PC or 360 ?

willhub · 7 Sep 2007 at 10:47

Dutch Guy said:
There is a big difference between the DX9 and DX10 PC version, mostly to do with the water.
http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/bioshock_mainstream_gpu_performance/page6.asp

I would hardly call that a big difference.

Dutch Guy · 7 Sep 2007 at 10:55

willhub said:
I would hardly call that a big difference.

Yeah, scratch the word big

Then again the performance of Nvidia cards is the same so that's fine, AMD cards lose a lot.

Supercow · 7 Sep 2007 at 11:00

As I stated above, you need to
* take a screenshot
* study for 15 minutes
* stir thoroughly on forums
* leave to simmer and viola - you "see" a difference and feel better about that ULTRA that cost you your week's wage

adapt · 7 Sep 2007 at 11:29

Can someone explain to me what the forced shadows option does. I can't tell the difference I don't think to on or off...

Mindriot · 7 Sep 2007 at 11:34

Thing is the dx10 shaders make very little difference in screenshots and most places you will have thought.

The only real difference is when you walk backwards through water (or enemies walk through water etc) and of course with bioshock there is quite a lot of water!

In dx9 you just get generic splash graphics at intervals and it looks a bit rubbish. With dx10 (even if you're running vista on dx9 mode its not really dx9, you have to enable that specifically with shortcut commands) the water looks much more realistic.

I thought i would be the last one siding with dx10 as with every other game its made it look/perform worse, but the water really does look good and it has no performance hit as far as i can tell. Until we get games that are designed from thr ground up in dx10 instead of just adding some extra shaders, it will be stuck with the reputation its made for itself

Dutch Guy · 7 Sep 2007 at 11:38

http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTM4Nyw2LCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdA==

Unfortunately, still screenshots cannot do the DX10 ripple effect justice. It is an effect that must be seen in motion to be truly appreciated. It is also a short-lived effect (water being water and all), and can be difficult to capture.

So it looks better and the framerate (with Nvidia card) is the same so for me it was a no brainer I had to install it on my Vista partition.

So I guess that the Xbox360 version looks like the DX9 PC version with possible slightly lower texture quality but I haven't got a Xbox360 and it looks like they are the same.

FrenchTart · 7 Sep 2007 at 11:55

Don't forget the lack of AA support in DX10 mode.

Of course, I've not bothered enabling AA in DX9 either yet - it's not hugely noticeable in game in BioShock.

willhub · 7 Sep 2007 at 12:04

Aekeron said:
Don't forget the lack of AA support in DX10 mode.

Of course, I've not bothered enabling AA in DX9 either yet - it's not hugely noticeable in game in BioShock.

Oh, if you had AA enabled you would deffenitly notice it a lot compared ot no AA in bioshock.

A[L]C · 7 Sep 2007 at 13:01

deadsquirrel said:
am i the only one that thinks the game is a bit pants? I will happily admit that i dont really like the dark/scary type of fps. Especially when that is ALL there is. Just seems that all i do is go around pressing E at everything trying to find more ammo/money/diaries. I was playing ti on Hard but am seriously considering uninstalling the game now. On the other hand, C&C3 was installed and im already hooked.

Nah your not the only one

djay · 7 Sep 2007 at 13:43

sup3rc0w said:
As I stated above, you need to
* take a screenshot
* study for 15 minutes
* stir thoroughly on forums
* leave to simmer and viola - you "see" a difference and feel better about that ULTRA that cost you your week's wage

To be fair you normally see this sort of reply from a jealous pc user who doesn't have the neccessary hardware to run the game in all its glory. I said i was running it at 1920x1200 High detail and i notice the difference. I 'know' it looks better than the 360 version on these settings. I don't need to study it anally as it's easily apparent. It even looked better on my dads 8800GTS at 1280x1024 high detail. The GTX i have never cost anywhere near my weeks wage either, this is where perhaps you are not fortunate enough to earn the wages to have such nice hardware. Don't feel you need to come along and trash a thread where the more fortunate of us can compare the two

Jabbs · 7 Sep 2007 at 14:17

Lots of aa/af on the pc something you don't get much of on the xbox 360, games will always look better on the pc if you got the hardware.

Shep_Cobain · 7 Sep 2007 at 16:20

i ran in full specs and on 1920 x 1080 and it looked spectacular on my 40" Tele, i then ran on the 360 and it looked excellent!

But imho i preferred the PC Graphics... slightly smoother edges and better textures.

Monkey Puzzle · 7 Sep 2007 at 20:02

I only have the demo to go on, but it looks slightly nicer on my pc than on my 360, though there's not much in it tbh.

tomanders91 · 7 Sep 2007 at 20:05

gamespot has a good new guide comparing them, and the PC version really does look much better on most settings, the 360 version also looks really bright and blurry.