Well, I have both good news and bad news for anyone wanting to run this game with less than 2 ghz processing power, 1.5 gigs of ram, and a 6800 Nvidia GS video card.

The good news is, at the lowest settings possible the game runs, and even though it's all at a low setting, it still looks really, really good.

The bad news: Up until the fighting begins, there are no problems at all, but as soon as the fighting starts, my colors started to flicker, and my game would start locking up for periods of time.

You should probably clarify that's the System Shock 2 OST, not Bioshock.

I saw on Cheapassgamer that Circuit City should have this game $10 cheaper than any place else on day one. I have no qualms about spending $40 on something this meticulously crafted.

the fileplanet trick doesn't work for me :(

I just finished playing through the demo, it was about half an hour long and full of win.

Just as a reference for others, I was running in DX9 mode (XP) at max settings (1280x1024) with the following hardware:

8800 GTS (640MB)
Core2Duo E6600 @ 2.4 GHz (stock)
2GB RAM

And everything was perfectly smooth.

::mrburns::

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeexcellent.

I've matched those specs and I've got the 8800GTX. I'd rn out and get another if it didn't max out (for Crysis). No overclocking, I assume, so you should have no problems.

The game looks WICKED.

I played the demo on the 360. It was meh. Then again, all demos are meh.

But, I can't wait for it. It's going to be sweet.

As a side note, thanks to the FilePlanet trick (thanks Solis) I can now participate in the Quake Wars Beta!

Have you updated your drivers? I thought I heard both ATI and Nvidia were releasing drivers today that were specially optimized for Bioshock.

That's the first thought I had when I got the Fileplanet subscription, was considering making a Quake Wars GFF group in the multiplayer arena now that we should be able to get some people playing the beta ;)

If the demo didn't blow you away, then the rest of the game won't.

I didn't even see that link in the comments. Can anyone PM me the details? Or did it stop working?

Apparently the game's already on sale in some countries. There was a report about it on the local news about how due to high demand, questionable measures had to be taken.

well I just finish the demo and I'm so happy that I can play the game on max without too much FPS loss ^^

now I just can't wait for tomorrow for the full game ^^

For anyone who was looking for the subscription info, here it is:

**Hidden Content**

So will this try to bill me after a month or a year, then?
Nevermind, looks like they locked it up.

Nope, that's not locked up. It said that for me too, but it still worked. Also, how can it bill you without your credit information?

Well, I do pay for IGN Insider, so I didn't know if they'd backtrack it.
I logged out and logged back in, but it didn't seem to work for me.

I got the same thing as Skexis for me too, it doesn't seem to work for me too...

Hmm, the fileplanet premium trick doesn't seem to work anymore, it just says to enter your info and doesn't upgrade your account like it used to. Ah well, was nice while it lasted. If I make that Quake Wars GFF thread, we might be able to scrounge up a few extra CD keys for members that didn't get in on the fileplanet exploit.

Oh and on the topic of Bioshock, make sure to download the new (beta) drivers if you have an Nvidia card (or here if you have Vista). They're supposed to help in performance in Bioshock.

Ugh, I just downloaded the demo from Steam and oh boy does it kill my PC.
Everytime something major happens, like the encounter with the girl and the "Big Daddy" killing that scab guy, it froze for a good 30 seconds to load up or something.

My specs (if you wanna know):
6800 Geforce GTS
1GB RAM
AMD 3200+ Athlon 64 (2GHZ)

I ran it on medium graphics settings 1024x768.
Maybe I'll just save my money and get an XB360. Oh no wait, the 360 sucks. :shrug:

Or run it on low. Recommended is 2 GB RAM.

Your CPU and GPU are also only sub-par components. Not powerful enough to run Unreal Engine 3.

Frickin' Goddamnit, it's being all glitchy for me, no mouse cursor for one and black glitchiness past the first 15 seconds with the hand and sigarette. I have a Radeon X700 E-PCI (and otherwise decent specs). I tried to run the thingie, the hotfix, but it didn't help, and it gave a few errors too while it was installing, though it seemed to be about codecs, not actual graphics drivers, but who knows. Help! :(

At least it runs smoothly, so I guess if I buy a decent graphics card, I'll be okay!

I think your video card doesn't even match the minimum requirement, the game use pixel shader 3 and, if I'm correct, you're video card don't support it. That's probably where the glitch come from.

Well, damn! Why does ATI list it as one of the graphics cards that this hotfix would work for! What a bunch of incompetent twats. Time to buy an NVidia card!

I tried out the demo and was pretty impressed. The water effects alone are astonishing.

AMD 3700+
ATI 1800XT
1 gig of RAM.

I need more RAM. I was able to run the game fairly well at 1024x768 with everything maxed but stuttering is an issue, especially with the scripted events.