Bioshock Performance under geforce 7

[sid]

Since there is no native widescreen mode, its actually cropping the image, and rendering less. Perhaps thats why widescreen people are getting better FPS, i will try 1440 as well as i have a dual screen setup with 19" wide and 17" square.

sid

 

[Goon-uk]

Not the 7900 but I am running it on a 7800GTX with a 3500 and 1gb ram and it isn't running to bad BUT then I haven't really played it proply but all until you just step out of the pod seems smooth but I stopped there for a reason...

This just seems to happen with the Unreal3 engine and it did it with Tabula Rasa as well but mainly Unreal3 ( Vegas, C&C3 is that Unreal3? and now bioshock). I get REALLY bad graphics glitches all over the screen, It isn't a driver problem for my graphics card as I have tried many others and I haven't tried new chipset drivers because I just didn't think if it's graphics glitches that it would be them.

I am using a:

3500 AMD Winchester
XFX 7800GTX Extream OC ediiton XXX
1GB ram
DFI lanparty NF4 SLI-DR mobo

Any help will be great because I can't the game with glitches everywere. I will get some screenshots and post them.

 

[wiggy]

^^ Use the driver purposely made for this game 163.44, its worth a go. Maybe post some screenies aswell if u can.

 

[Goon-uk]

^^ Use the driver purposely made for this game 163.44, its worth a go. Maybe post some screenies aswell if u can.

I have done, Like I said it has done it on Vegas and C&C3, I'm wanting to upgrade my PC soon anyway ( november ) as im wanting the G92 to come out but until then I have to put up with this.

Here are some images but it was very hard to get good screenies but these were the best I could get, these black boxes flash up everywere.

 

[Goon-uk]

I'm just bumping this thread so instead of creating a new one on my issue above.

Thanks.

 

[sid]

I'm just bumping this thread so instead of creating a new one on my issue above.

Thanks.

Does this happen only in these games? Cos that looks like a faulty GFX to me.

sid

 

[ergonomics]

nope happened to me too, randomly at the start of the demo there was a black square, same as above, it was only there for about 2 minutes though.

running at 8800gts 640 q6600 and 2gb ddr2

 

[Goon-uk]

Does this happen only in these games? Cos that looks like a faulty GFX to me.

sid

Yeah it, I was just playing World in conflict demo and it started to do it as well. It is fine for the first minute or so then it starts. In Bioshock it starts pretty much straight away. In world in conflict it only happens on the buildings, Units and effects. Seem slike a shader problem I would guess. But it runs other games ( older ones ) perfectly fine. So it most likely has a problem with shader 3.0 I am guessing as the newer games will use it and the older ones did not.

I don't really know what to do about it, In a bit of a trickey situation because I haven't got the money for the full upgrade yet and I don't want to be spending money on this really only to upgrade it a few months later.

 

[Rroff]

I get the black boxes randomly flash up too... was assuming it was coz my overclock is quite high... but I don't think it is due to the OC.

 

[Goon-uk]

I get the black boxes randomly flash up too... was assuming it was coz my overclock is quite high... but I don't think it is due to the OC.

Mine are quite frequent, constant glitching all over the screen, Makes games un playable. I'm pretty sure it isn't a over-heating problem as well. Seems to me like a fault with the card or my version of it isn't getting the right driver it needs. Either way it is very anoyying and I don't think it is under-warrenty anymore.