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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Reposted from aeg1x's post in ER ( http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=14974774#itemanchor_14974774 )

It looks like Bioshock's "widescreen" modes aren't true widescreen, just cropped 4:3, in both the 360 and PC versions. This is really disappointing in a highly anticipated AAA game. I, for one, won't be buying until it's fixed. This is just retarded.

http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11658&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

Aug 21, 2007 6:05am PDT

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Reposted from aeg1x's post in ER ( http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=14974774#itemanchor_14974774 ) ... : Arcanum
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  i feel stupid, but how else would you render widescreen gfx? : Flinz
  - The player FOV needs to be increased too. Or else you're just restricting your vision when you go into wi... : zehh
  - See I feel stupid in that I don't get how this is hard. If a 1600x1200 image shows X, why doesn't a 19... : rosewood
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  Whaddya mean in the 360 version? The demo filled my HDTV just fine. : Silent Sorrow
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    But if you play it on a standard def television in 4:3, you'll see the top and bottom portions of the screen that get cut off in widescreen mode.
    
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    But if you play it on a standard def television in 4:3, you'll see the top and bottom portions of the scr... : ripper9
    - Oh. Well, unless you told me (which you now have) I guess I wouldn't even know it anyway. I have to say, ... : Silent Sorrow
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    But did it chop the tops off like the pc version then? : jodiuh
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      I haven't seen the PC version so can't comment, but in the 360 version I didn't even realize the tops and... : Silent Sorrow
      
      If the game could be played at 1080p on your HDTV (and if your TV supports that resolution), you'd be bum... : monofurioso
      
      I didn't notice in the "oh shit, they're cropping a 4:3 image to get widescreen" way, but the view defini... : Arcanum
- Ah man. This sucks. Their lead platform is the 360 and they don't even adjust FOV properly for 720p, le... : monofurioso
- I agree. No fix no buy ! : JensK

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