BioShock Performance Analysis

[Richie P]

Did DX10 add much effects then ?

In short, no. But in the grand scheme of things, what it did enable (better smoke/dust/specular effects) was worth the insignificant performance hit that was suffered.

[afireinside]

Anyone try SLI? I just compared with the demo and got the same fps in the water scene at the start with and without SLI. I made a profile and forced split frame rendering and got like 6 fps higher Is SLI in Vista still broken? Is there a way to get it to show load balancing anymore?

[kcnyc]

I am using Windows XP and when I enable Crossfire, the game loads and then crashes back to the desktop. With one single card, it runs fine. Very weird.....

Anybody experiencing this?

[jpcastro]

alo there

i can post the experience so far playing the DEMO of this fantistic game!

8800GTS 320mb on VISTA with Q6600 and 4GB ram, i have take some screenshoots so in theory this should have some DX10 graphics:

settings:










of course that i love the game and have bought the original that will arrive tomorrow, the store just send it yesterday.

regards

[xPliziT]

Hello everybody.

took some FRAPS numbers on my rig with the final game. This should be comparable to the poster on page 1 of this thread.
On windows XP Sp2, DX9.

DFI LanParty NF590
AMD X2 64 5600+ @ 3.3GHz
ATI HD2900XT 1 Gig DDR4 @ 828/1000
2 Gig Mushkin 8500
Catalyst 7.8 Hotfix driver used.

Game Settings:
Resolution 1650x1050
Graphic Details max
V-Sync Off

the pictures are compressed to save space...

[informal]

Wow amazing man,you have almost 2x fps than the thread starter at the same settings in game!
You have faster CPU tho,and more video RAM,but nonetheless pretty big difference in game.How much of improvement did the hotfix driver made?

[xPliziT]

Only tried the hotfix driver. Had an issue with the demo before and thought its a driver problem.
Bioshock tried to load the dx10 dlls from alky project and thats why it did not work. Had to delete them

[xPliziT]

some more pictures..

[informal]

Only tried the hotfix driver. Had an issue with the demo before and thought its a driver problem.
Bioshock tried to load the dx10 dlls from alky project and thats why it did not work. Had to delete them

Anyhow,have fun playing this game as God commands it (since you sure can on that machine )

[One_Hertz]

get 40-70fps, dx9 at 1920*1200 4xaa/16xaf forced in cp ,all ingame options to max with 2900xts cf and a 3.4ghz e6700. Looks perty.

[kiwi]

2900xt vs gtx/gts anyone?

[FghtinIrshNvrDi]

who cares... I had everything but one option on with my x1950xt @ 1440x900, and it was smooth as can be.

Ryan

[cantankerous]

It ran great on my system in sig too without any issues except for a crash to desktop. No clue what caused that.

[Richie P]

Explizit -

Those numbers are quite good, but I recon the combination of XP, faster RAM, the 1GB 2900XT and having it overclocked by nearly 100Mhz will be the reason the numbers look higher. I'd be interested to see a Rivatuner graph of the run

What I will post back when I've tested is comparable numbers with the hotfix installed, and i'll see if overclocking in Vista is working yet.

[Chicco85]

This is my log in fraps on Bioshock Demo:

2007-08-23 10:23:59 - Bioshock
Frames: 1773 - Time: 31867ms - Avg: 55.637 - Min: 33 - Max: 82

2007-08-23 10:25:39 - Bioshock
Frames: 2219 - Time: 32737ms - Avg: 67.782 - Min: 45 - Max: 88

2007-08-23 10:30:40 - Bioshock
Frames: 2677 - Time: 53045ms - Avg: 50.466 - Min: 40 - Max: 75

2007-08-23 10:37:33 - Bioshock
Frames: 5070 - Time: 99546ms - Avg: 50.931 - Min: 30 - Max: 71

2007-08-23 10:45:07 - Bioshock
Frames: 4143 - Time: 73593ms - Avg: 56.296 - Min: 36 - Max: 99

2007-08-23 21:27:31 - Bioshock
Frames: 6278 - Time: 107802ms - Avg: 58.236 - Min: 34 - Max: 91

2007-08-23 21:33:17 - Bioshock
Frames: 7182 - Time: 127105ms - Avg: 56.504 - Min: 38 - Max: 89

Config in signature and Catalyst 7.8 hotfix. Resolution 1680x1050 max detail.

Those runs are in Vista 32 bit in dx10 mode.