ID:34082
 Aug 20 2007, 9:19 pm
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I just found out that the local 24-hour Wal Mart is releasing Bioshock at midnight tonight. Guess I'll have to go buy it.
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Dammit I'm totally screwed by that right now... my game won't activate.
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Oh man. Now I'm totally screwed.
I stayed up until 3 AM when the activation servers came online. So I activated my game and booted it up: Turned out my graphics card doesn't support Pixel Shader 3.0. !#%@ | |
Hay kin I pley AA plx?
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What card you running Silk?
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ATI Radeon 9600 256mb AGP
...but only the Radeon 1000 series and above support Pixel Shader 3.0 | |
Probably going to pick this up today for the 360. I've been waiting for it for a while now, so I can't wait. Got a 9.7 from IGN, if I'm not mistaken.
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Owch. The annoying part is that it's probably not that integral to the game. I mean it's obviously used, BioShock has shown some awesome graphics, but I have no doubt you could get by without it.
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Yeah I'm sure that they could have made it compatible with Pixel Shader 2.0. Oh well; sucks to be me, or anyone else who hasn't bought a new graphics card in the past year.
I just went out and spent $130 on a new GeForce 7600 512mb DDR2 card, because I'm an idiot. Now I'm and idiot with $130 less in my wallet... but at least I'll be able to play the damn game tonight. | |
Silk: That was a pretty weak card you had before, you'd be looking at a solid 5 FPS even if it was compatible. The 7600 will handle it far better, but still not great. From what I hear, my 7950GS will not handle it great, but that may not be true. I'm thinking of buying it on Steam.
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Which is why as much as I dislike Microsoft, I'm glad I have an XBOX to play it on.
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[edit] It seems that the PC version has online verification and the servers won't be up until 4PM.