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Game over
I read the rave review of Bioshock and, being a big fan of the first-person genre, I ran out to pick up a copy. However, the game wouldn't run on my ATI Radeon 850XT graphics card.
Bioshock is very particular supported graphics hardware, ruling out all but the most recent cards. My 850XT makes light work of Half Life 2, Far Cry and the like, but due to lack of support for the latest shader-model, it's a no-go for Bioshock.
After experiencing the problem, it only took a few seconds of Googling to discover the hordes of other short-changed gamers who have no way to play this game without shelling out for new hardware.
I realise that this requirement is mentioned in the specifications small-print section on the retail box, so ultimately I'm at fault for not reading it properly, but it would have been nice to be forewarned.
Mark Hall
Games can be particularly fussy as to what PCs they will run on and we aren't able to list all the unsupported hardware within the review. However, we will endeavour to improve on our current system requirements information so that, where stated, it includes the minimum graphics card required.
Posted by Will Stapley - PCW | November 15, 2007 5:40 PM