BioShock PC Demo Released

by Steve Gibson, Aug 20, 2007 2:04pm PDT

Related Topics – BioShock, The Scourge Project, Beijing 2008, Demo

The BioShock PC demo is now available for download on FileShack. Here is your thread to anticipate things and things. Firstly, it's been made very clear that you are going to need the latest NVidia or ATI drivers for your videocard. So here are the links that you will need :

With the help of Limelight Networks we will be pushing some pretty massive bandwidth for Mercury members for the demo. Feel free to grab a download accelerator if you are a Mercury member. The Quicksilver servers support them and the BioShock demo will be available there.

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Wow, the new Nvidia drivers made a big, big difference in performance. I try to run things at 1920x1200 so I don't have to worry about scaling, and that was unplayable with my old drivers. The new ones gave me a ~50% boost in most places. I was getting framerates in the 20s frequently with the old drivers, and it only dipped into the 20s during the battle at the end with the new ones.

3.6GHz P4, 2GB, 320MB 8800 GTS, in case anyone cares.

Aug 20, 2007 3:20pm PDT

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Wow, the new Nvidia drivers made a big, big difference in performance. I try to run things at 1920x1200 ... : pyrogen
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  Hopefully they didn't do anything insidious like cut corners graphically and hope we don't notice. If th... : Matt Burris
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    It looked the same to me, but then again I didn't take screenshots for comparison. This was in XP, BTW... : pyrogen
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      Vista is horrible. : ashkie
      
      yea it was pretty chugtastic and i dont even have a dx10 card to see the visual differences. : smacknca
      
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      You weren't joking. Performance was worse, sound didn't work, I didn't notice any of the graphical impro... : pyrogen
      
      i had popping sound and mouse input lag as well as lower FPS across the board. Ran like butter in XP, no ... : ashkie
      
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      You sound like one of my customers. Vista is fine if you have a decent machine. Bioshock runs great as ... : sheepraper
      
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      I have a decent machine with an 8800 GTX. It does not run fine. : ashkie
      
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      8800 GTS 640, doesn't run fine here at 1900x1200 either. Too damn mushy. Runs okay at the 13xx resoluti... : Thresher
      
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      I'm running Vista 32-bit, 8800 GTS OC2 640 meg, and a E6750 CPU....Runs like butter at 1920x1200 with max... : Gnowknayme
      
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      Wonder how much that extra CPU horsepower helps. What mb are you using? : Thresher
      
      Same for me, same CPU 320 version of the card though, mb is the Gigabyte GA-G33M-DS2 mATX . : devi| dog
      
      After using Vista exclusively for a couple months and just going back to XP, there's a very noticeable di... : jodiuh
      
      I see nothing "horrible" in these performance figures: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=... : High-g
      
      vista is running great for me. 7800 GT and AMD x2 @ 2.5ghz. : prancing_jackanapes
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  Performance on widescreen is looking great with the new drivers, 1680x1050 all details maxed; Nvidia 8800... : RyDogg1
  - Same settings that I'm running at, and I think I have room for enabling AA and AF. They did a great job ... : Matt Burris
  - Did you get that card from the Best Buy deal? : Pettytheft
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  Performance is pretty low for me - 7800GTX... Think I'm gonna hold off on this now until Christmas when I get my new rig with a GF9.
  
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  Performance is pretty low for me - 7800GTX... Think I'm gonna hold off on this now until Christmas when I... : TabsAZ
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  How do you get it to show your frame rate? : Gnowknayme
  - Fraps: http://fraps.com/ : Matt Burris

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