System Setup

Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800

EVGA nForce 680i SLI motherboard
ASUS P5W DH Deluxe (for Radeon cards)

2GB Corsair TWIN2X2048-6400C4

ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT 512MB
Diamond Viper Radeon 2900 XT 1GB
ATI Radeon X1950 Pro 256MB
8.401.1 Bioshock_hotfix driver

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB
ForceWare 163.44


300GB Western Digital Caviar SE

Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit

Benchmarks

BioShock 1.0

Notes

As it stands now, BioShock officially lacks support for AA when run under Windows Vista. In order to hack the game to enable AA under Vista, the game’s executable must be renamed to "R6Vegas_Game.exe" for GeForce card owners or "Oblivion.exe" for Radeon owners. You must also add "–dx9" to the game’s shortcut for both cards in order to get AA to work. This forces the game to run in DX9 mode and thus prevents you from running the game with DX10 eye candy.

Unfortunately we could not get the game to run stable enough to complete our full walkthrough as a result of this hack, the game would crash at one point or another, but others have gotten it to work.

We should also note that we tested the game with all the graphics settings cranked up to max with global lighting disabled.
Editor's Note: AMD CrossFire wasn't tested as the current hotfix driver doesn't support CrossFire within BioShock.