**The one and only Official BioShock Thread**- now with added **SPOILERS**
- Thread starter Tom|Nbk
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great speed Gonzo0, I only get <10kbs from that link so just canceled it. Wish Gamershell would host it, then it's 800kbs+ straight off the Zen mirror.
Soldato
sid said:
/strokes giganews
Man of Honour
OMG This game runs like crap!!!!!!!
Just kidding
to eliminate tearing I enabled VSYNC - the game detects everything and sets itself to everything max in DX10 mode (you can use DX9 if you want)
It runs at pretty much constant 30fps which is perfectly fine for an SP game, with vsync off it's 30+ with the usual drop when something massive is about to happen.
The great thing about this game and VSYNC is it locks the sync to a varied number, if it thinks 30fps will be constant it will do that 30fps constantly and lock to a higher fps if the scene will be able to do that on the gfx card. I will get a newer gen DX10 card when they are out to get a better vsync framerate but for now a 320MB 8800GTS is perfectly capable of maintaining a playable fps at 1680x1050 in DX10 mode.
I also tried DX9 mode to show the water effects difference - they are subtle but there and I only noticed a 1fps~ difference between DX9 and DX10.
Cannot wait for a new gfx card now
Here are my videos/screenshots
My spec is a socket 939 x2 4200+ with 2gb ddr400 and a 8800gts 320mb - I did enable EAX mode but I did notice some crackles etc on higher frequency sounds like when you fire the revolver. I blame this issue on Creative and their ALchemy software not fully working with this game yet.
I blame Creative in general for their shoddy drivers too.
I'm betting even better framerates can be had with the nVidia drivers due out sometime today - heavy DX10 optimisations I guess.
Just kidding
to eliminate tearing I enabled VSYNC - the game detects everything and sets itself to everything max in DX10 mode (you can use DX9 if you want)It runs at pretty much constant 30fps which is perfectly fine for an SP game, with vsync off it's 30+ with the usual drop when something massive is about to happen.
The great thing about this game and VSYNC is it locks the sync to a varied number, if it thinks 30fps will be constant it will do that 30fps constantly and lock to a higher fps if the scene will be able to do that on the gfx card. I will get a newer gen DX10 card when they are out to get a better vsync framerate but for now a 320MB 8800GTS is perfectly capable of maintaining a playable fps at 1680x1050 in DX10 mode.
I also tried DX9 mode to show the water effects difference - they are subtle but there and I only noticed a 1fps~ difference between DX9 and DX10.
Cannot wait for a new gfx card now
Here are my videos/screenshots
My spec is a socket 939 x2 4200+ with 2gb ddr400 and a 8800gts 320mb - I did enable EAX mode but I did notice some crackles etc on higher frequency sounds like when you fire the revolver. I blame this issue on Creative and their ALchemy software not fully working with this game yet.
I blame Creative in general for their shoddy drivers too.
I'm betting even better framerates can be had with the nVidia drivers due out sometime today - heavy DX10 optimisations I guess.
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sid said:
* goes and googles usenet, I have no idea what that is or how it works
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Gonzo0 said:Wooop softpedia is runniing the demo again:
thanks.
just had to type the location in from that screenshot
if anyone else wants it its
http://games.softpedia.com/progDownload/BioShock-PC-Demo-Download-19377.html
then go back to downlaod and click that RO mirror link
edit - whats all the blurry crap in your torrent download thing??
Caporegime
Is there definitely no AA in DX9 then? 
Man of Honour
mrk said:
Thanks a lot for those
Caporegime
Im not going to download the demo ill just buy the game when it comes out in 4 days.