Bioshock

[Cannabic]

Ok, I just bought Bioshock today at best-buy for 25$... and I put it into my computer, installed... and clicked play... so the menu comes up and WTF!! I have no mouse pointer so I have no idea how to navigate the menu efficiently, only by moving the mouse around and hoping I get a highlighted button.. so I 'found' the new game button, clicked and it went into the beginning storyline, which worked great at first, then after the screen that says Mid-Atlantic 1968 or something, it gets all pixelated and sounds like the guy is falling... I see large pixel squares of water.. the only thing the looks right is the fire that surrounds me.. everything else is shit... the thing is.. my computer is brand spankin new right from the HP factory... Athlon 64 X2 processor with 2gigs of ram.. which totally PISSES me off!! that my brand new computer can't play a decent game.. and they said it was MADE for GAMING.. stupid bitches.. so my question is, for those of you lucky enough to have a computer that can play this game... what kind of graphics card are you using? do you know how much it is? I'm pretty sure thats what my problem is... they didn't give me a good enough graphic card... which downright irks my fuse that I already have to UPgrade my brand NEW computer thats not even 3 months old!

Cannabic Reviewed by Cannabic on 11-24-2007. Bioshock Ok, I just bought Bioshock today at best-buy for 25$... and I put it into my computer, installed... and clicked play... so the menu comes up and WTF!! I have no mouse pointer so I have no idea how to navigate the menu efficiently, only by moving the mouse around and hoping I get a highlighted button.. so I 'found' the new game button, clicked and it went into the beginning storyline, which worked great at first, then after the screen that says Mid-Atlantic 1968 or something, it gets all Rating: 5

[Cannabic]

O by the way I wasn't sure what sub-forum this thread was to go under... whether its gaming and arcade? or computer and tech?

[slipknotpsycho]

Ok, I just bought Bioshock today at best-buy for 25$... and I put it into my computer, installed... and clicked play... so the menu comes up and WTF!! I have no mouse pointer so I have no idea how to navigate the menu efficiently, only by moving the mouse around and hoping I get a highlighted button.. so I 'found' the new game button, clicked and it went into the beginning storyline, which worked great at first, then after the screen that says Mid-Atlantic 1968 or something, it gets all pixelated and sounds like the guy is falling... I see large pixel squares of water.. the only thing the looks right is the fire that surrounds me.. everything else is shit... the thing is.. my computer is brand spankin new right from the HP factory... Athlon 64 X2 processor with 2gigs of ram.. which totally PISSES me off!! that my brand new computer can't play a decent game.. and they said it was MADE for GAMING.. stupid bitches.. so my question is, for those of you lucky enough to have a computer that can play this game... what kind of graphics card are you using? do you know how much it is? I'm pretty sure thats what my problem is... they didn't give me a good enough graphic card... which downright irks my fuse that I already have to UPgrade my brand NEW computer thats not even 3 months old!

nearly anytime you get a new computer you wanna get a new video card.... i pretty much have the same setup..

a really good card, tha'ts relatively cheap (For it's performance) is the Radeon x1950... i have the pro model, which has it's own heatsink/fan... you won't really notice the diffrence between the two until the card is being put under stress.... then the pro will marginally outperform the normal model. either card will pretty much run anything you throw at it...

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the best place to get it would be newegg, i got mine for like 130$ but for some reason the newegg links aren't wanting to work for me right so you'll have to hunt it down there yourself...

btw it is a massive card and it's pci express... the card is actually in my pci express slot and it's blocking a normal pci slot, which is no big deal.... i don' tneed a dial up modem on my computer

[matthiasj]

u have a desktop right?

[Cannabic]

yea.. I tried it on my laptop which is brand new as well and it didn't even 'fire' up

[matthiasj]

well i have a new laptop and it runs like crap i cant even play it