twiglet Posted September 4, 2007 Report Share Posted September 4, 2007 Ok I've just bought Bioshock and some of you might have heard me winging about it not working in the rant thread, well I've got it working now but when playing it lags badly its giving a frame rate of about 2 per second which isn't much use in a first person shooter. What are the best ways to speed things up, is it just get a better graphics card or are there other ways, any info greatfully received. Link to post Share on other sites
Connery Posted September 4, 2007 Report Share Posted September 4, 2007 Your graphics card is probably the problem. Link to post Share on other sites
twiglet Posted September 4, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 4, 2007 Any recommendations as what i should replace it with. Link to post Share on other sites
Connery Posted September 4, 2007 Report Share Posted September 4, 2007 Depends on your motherboard, but I'd suggest the best that you can afford and will run the game. nVidia, of course. Link to post Share on other sites
twiglet Posted September 4, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 4, 2007 Cheers its an acer with vista on it so I'm told a decent card should just plug in. Link to post Share on other sites
D.js Posted September 4, 2007 Report Share Posted September 4, 2007 It might help if you let us know the current spec. of your PC Link to post Share on other sites
Samm Posted September 4, 2007 Report Share Posted September 4, 2007 Ok I've just bought Bioshock and some of you might have heard me winging about it not working in the rant thread, well I've got it working now but when playing it lags badly its giving a frame rate of about 2 per second which isn't much use in a first person shooter. What are the best ways to speed things up, is it just get a better graphics card or are there other ways, any info greatfully received. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Does it even meet the basic system requrements? What settings do you have the game on? Link to post Share on other sites
BenjaminRombough Posted September 4, 2007 Report Share Posted September 4, 2007 i you have anything less than 2 gig ram with Vista your gonna lag like biatch as its running vista in the background go back to XP if you can otherwise set your computers preferences to run best performance rather than best look and set your startup options to only the VERY important things so get rid of all the non important things like windows live messenger and things like that. hope that helps Link to post Share on other sites
Azulsky Posted September 5, 2007 Report Share Posted September 5, 2007 Thats cutting it close for Vista two, 2GB of RAM is almost needed on Battlefield 2 on XP and that was about 2 years ago. Just throw away Vista and reinstall XP and you can get about 10 fps back on some games. There was also a Nvidia Beta Patch that had some hotfixes for Bioshock that you should have gotten, assuming you own an Nvidia card which we dont even know for sure. Link to post Share on other sites
Miker Posted September 5, 2007 Report Share Posted September 5, 2007 I will bet that if it's Vista that it takes a PCIe card. Lowest I would go is a 7600GT... I have two and it runs just about anything in max settings. I would also suggest 2gigs Link to post Share on other sites
fathom1001 Posted September 5, 2007 Report Share Posted September 5, 2007 A lot of the Acer machines come with either onboard graphics or very poor graphics cards and not many come with more than about a gig of ram - we sell a lot of them in the shop I work in. How much did you spend on it roughly? Link to post Share on other sites
twiglet Posted September 5, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 5, 2007 Ok just installed a new invidia graphics card and all is well, cheers for the help. Link to post Share on other sites
Holmes Posted September 7, 2007 Report Share Posted September 7, 2007 2 gigs ram and pick up an 8600. They're not too expensive at all, and you should be in good shape. Link to post Share on other sites
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