Bioshock's PC Requirements

Well E3 is finally here, and even though its a sliced down version one of the most anticipated games of 2007 has gotten its final PC Requirements. (From ign.com and the official website)

- Operating Systems -

Windows XP (with Service Pack 2) or Windows Vista

- Minimum System Requirements -

CPU - Pentium 4 2.4GHz Single Core processor

System RAM - 1GB

Video Card - Direct X 9.0c compliant video card with 128MB RAM (NVIDIA 6600 or better/ATI X1300 or better, excluding ATI X1550).

Sound Card - 100% direct X 9.0c compatible sound card

Hard disc space - 8GB free space

- Recommended System Requirements -

CPU - Intel Core 2 Duo processor

System RAM - 2GB

Video card - DX9 - Direct X 9.0c compliant video card with 512MB RAM (NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT or better) / DX10 - NVIDIA GeForce 8600 or better

Sound Card - Sound Blaster X-Fi series (Optimized for use with Creative Labs EAX ADVANCED HD 4.0 or EAX ADVANCED HD 5.0 compatible sound cards)

 

actually those reqs are not that bad.

 

So is Bioshock going to be as good as System Shock 2?

 

Yeah, those specs sound about right. Recommended video card is desktop 7900 GT (equivalent to a 7800 GTX/x1800xt, or on the mobile end of things, about a Go 7900 GTX). My Go 7950 GTX should be enough for max (or close to it) settings - Bioshock, here I come!

Those recommended specs are probably also pretty similar to the ones for Crysis as well. We'll see...

 

The minimum requirments of a desktop X1300 should mean the people with a notebook X1600 or go7600 should be able to atleast run it in low settings. The x1400 might just make it too.

 

bye bye for me ㅜ.ㅜ

 

I didn´t understand why the x1550 is excluded, since I found it´s a renaming of the x1300

 

The X1550 is the same as X1300 but with higher clocks apparently, IMO, there might be the possibility of glitches or some artifacts because of that, so the game does not support it.
But there might be no problems with it at all.

 

What would a P4 2.4ghz Single Core Proc translate into mobile computing world?

 

1.6 or 1.8Ghz Pentium M.

 

from wikipedia:

the desktop pentium 4 used about 82 watts.

the mobile pentium 4 used 70 watts.

and the pentium 4-m (also a mobile chip) used 35 watts.

which one are you referring to?

 

I was just about to say that, is actually really what companies like HP call X1600LE and 7500LE etc....

 

I was actually refering to the C2D Santa Rose procs that I'm seeing in most of the new laptops coming out today. All this thermal and power output stuff is new to me

 

a 2.4 ghz pentium 4 desktop processor might keep up with about a 1.6ghz pentium m / core solo. obviously the core duo and core 2 duo are in a different ballpark.

(the newest core 2 duo's also use about 35 watts)

a 1.7 ghz p4-m takes 88 seconds to calc pi to 1 million digits.

a core 2 duo clocked at 1.7 ghz would do the same thing in under 33 seconds

again, both processors have a max load of about 35 watts.

is that what you wanted to hear?

 

I guess I would be able to run it on medium-low.

 

OK, thanks! I feel a lot better then I'm so used to desktop gaming that these new mobile processors with different clock speeds are new to me.

 

yeah if you are used to a desktop p4, the fastest mobile processors are at least 3-4x the speed.

 

Yeah, I was pretty happy with them when I found it. Not too bad and its llooking if everything goes right I'll be able to play on about medium myself for now.

 

I cant wait for this game. Thanks for posting the required specs.

 

no problem, Im trying to decide if i want it for pc or my xb360 now.... hmmmm

 

how the hell should we know?

 

So basically with a T7300 processor, 2GB ram, and the 8600M GT....I should be able to run the game fine?

 

Should run fine, med high settings.

Honestly people, nobody knows how its gonna run though, especially with Vista.

 

Finally a fully built DX10 game. Now if we just had more optimized drivers we could finally see if DX10 games do show significant improvement with dx10 cards.

 

Hopefully this means they'll get their a$$ in gear!!! lol

 

I'm watching the Microsoft E3 Show on G4 right now. I'm looking forward to seeing some more interesting stuff from Bioshock.

 

I think early on we should see slight improvements and overtime bigger jumps because 1)This is the first ground up DX-10 game and 2) Drivers for video cards.

Though the unified architecture should work hand in hand with dx10.