Bioshock on your machines.

bfar said:
Because if you have it turned on, and your fps dips below 60, it will actually drop straight to 30fps. so in a busy game you're contantly going from 30 to 60fps back and forwards. Extremely irritating! Unless your have triple buffering switched on, in which case you will only drop back to 45 (not too bad, but still not optimal). It looks like you can't enable triple buffering in bioshock with Vista/DX10 - HeX above there appears to have managed it on his configuration. I definately didn't pay big buck for my graphics card to run it at 30fps!

You should only ever use vsync if you're getting a constant min 60fps or more, or if you have a 120hz display and can set that variable in your game.

Vsync off for the win :p
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I know exactly what it does thanks :p

If I were on a CRT then i'd agree whole heartedly, I always ran with vsynch off and 120Hz, which was lovely.

However on a TFT, with the annoying cap of 60Hz I'd rather live with the FPS going to 30 now and again, than having the image quality destroyed every time I move about... which tends to happen quite often in games.

Anyways, like I said i've been playing Bioshock since I got it with vsynch on and i'm yet to witness it not be smooth as a babys arse. So if it is touching 30fps, you certainly can't tell...
 
HeX said:
I know exactly what it does thanks :p

If I were on a CRT then i'd agree whole heartedly, I always ran with vsynch off and 120Hz, which was lovely.

However on a TFT, with the annoying cap of 60Hz I'd rather live with the FPS going to 30 now and again, than having the image quality destroyed every time I move about... which tends to happen quite often in games.

Anyways, like I said i've been playing Bioshock since I got it with vsynch on and i'm yet to witness it not be smooth as a babys arse. So if it is touching 30fps, you certainly can't tell...
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never said u didn't bro!

I've seen it in fraps. On my GTX with vsync on it definately drops down to 30fps during combat. And it's very noticable to my eyes. could be a monitor thing
 
bfar said:
never said u didn't bro!

I've seen it in fraps. On my GTX with vsync on it definately drops down to 30fps during combat. And it's very noticable to my eyes. could be a monitor thing
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Each to their own :D
 
AMD 64 x2 3800
4 gig ram
8800 GTX
Vista 64 ultimate

Not sure of FPS, but running with everything maxed (inc dx10 features) i've not seen a single instance of slowdown, runs perfectly and looks stunning.
 
Just got my new machine today (in sig) and its so much of a difference from my x2 4400 2gb Corsair TwinX and X1800XT, it's amazing. So smooth as well with everything maxed out at 1680x1050
 
it looks like a well optimised engine, thats for sure. no real problems here. little slower than id like on my gtx, but i took a look at the cpu usage running in windowed mode and it was raping both cores on my 6600@3ghz. well, about 90% on the second core.
 
1440 x 900 with rig in sig, runs very well except the odd mid 20's with a lot going on. I usually have vsync on if at all possible but tbh i get very little (if any)tearing in Bioshock.
 
Silky smooth here. Dunno exact framerates as I don't bother with them counters like fraps now. Everything maxed at 1680x1050 except no DX10 shaders, as I'm still running XP. Specs of my PC in sig
 
Well after playing on 1440x900 for a while I decided to drop to 1280x800. What seemed smooth at first felt juddery after some extended play and a few firefights. Surprisingly it still looks good at that res. I've never had to run a game at a resolution this low on my monitor and still have it look so good. Seems that the scaling chip in the Dell works better for some resolutions than others. They both look better than 1680x1050.

I refuse to run FRAPS on this until I've finished it. I've ended up benchmarking too many games previously rather than playing them. If it's playable and looks good I'm happy.
 
i cant actually get mine the run in full screen. if it boots in full screen nothing happens. if it boots in windowed i can play fine but try and switch to full screen and it crashes lol
 
If you're using Vista then try booting it in XP Compatiblity mode

Mine doesn't work properly in Vista and I have to run it in XP Compatibility mode. Unfortunately, it doesn't save its settings and I can't change the resolution when I'm in XP Compatibility mode. Great game but it sure is buggy!
 
I bought mine yesterday over Steam and it is very silly.

If it isn't the sound crackling I have no sound at all, if the sound works fine my graphics grind to a halt o_O.

/me patiently awaits a patch.
 
Skully said:
I bought mine yesterday over Steam and it is very silly.

If it isn't the sound crackling I have no sound at all, if the sound works fine my graphics grind to a halt o_O.

/me patiently awaits a patch.
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Disable EAX.

Make sure you have the latest hotfixed ATi/nVidia drivers.
 
I have the dodgy crashing problems but in general it's okay. The game runs pretty smoothly on my rig:

e64200 @ 3.2
2 GB ram
8800GTS640 @ 600/2000
Audigy 2 ZS

I've tried loads of drivers/settings and even swapped out my audigy for the oboard sound (very briefly)...nothing seems to stop the crashing. The only thing that's reduced it is to run the game in windowed mode and disable high quality <strike>shiners</strike> shaders.

edit: XP, btw
 
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The nearest thing to a bug I've seen is a big daddy being unable to tackle some stairs. He couldn't seem to get his feet up the first step. He worked that one out after a minute or two.

Not too bad I suppose.

I get the feeling Windows XP is my friend.
 
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