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AtomSmasher:

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--- Quote from: tommy on August 29, 2007, 07:09:29 pm ---I only have an agp slot, but after looking at your link i may be able to find a decent enough card at that price for my rig.

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I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I don't think any PCIe cards have Shader Model 3 but you better check that.  This game does require SM3.  I was in the same boat as you last year.  I found that even though most of my computer would be fine for playing current PC games I needed to finally upgrade to a board with PCIe slots so I could use a next-gen graphics card.   Even if I was willing to accept less performance.  It also allowed me to make a massive jump in CPU power.

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Huh?  I'm guessing you meant you don't think any AGP cards have SM3, but there are plenty of them.  SM3 is on the cards GeForce 6600, Radeon x1300 or better, and it looks like available cards for AGP go up to GeForce 7950GT and Radeon X1950XT.  Maybe your thinking of Shader Model 4.0 and DirectX 10, because there are no AGP cards for those.

AtomSmasher:
Ah crap.  AVG just identified the copyprotection in the bioshock.exe as a virus and deleted the file.  Restoring the file didn't seem to work, so now I'm reinstalling.  I don't know whether to be mad at AVG for wrongly identifying a virus or Bioshock for going to such extremes with their copy protection stuff.

*edit* brilliant.  after getting errors when reinstalling bioshock, I did a little search online and it looks like I have to uninstall AVG before I can reinstall the game.

shmokes:
God, Atlus Shrugged was a piece of ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---.  What dreck.  Bioshock looks great, though.

Dervacumen:

--- Quote from: AtomSmasher on August 29, 2007, 09:22:58 pm ---
--- Quote from: Dervacumen on August 29, 2007, 09:10:30 pm ---
--- Quote from: tommy on August 29, 2007, 07:09:29 pm ---I only have an agp slot, but after looking at your link i may be able to find a decent enough card at that price for my rig.

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I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I don't think any PCIe cards have Shader Model 3 but you better check that.  This game does require SM3.  I was in the same boat as you last year.  I found that even though most of my computer would be fine for playing current PC games I needed to finally upgrade to a board with PCIe slots so I could use a next-gen graphics card.   Even if I was willing to accept less performance.  It also allowed me to make a massive jump in CPU power.

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Huh?  I'm guessing you meant you don't think any AGP cards have SM3, but there are plenty of them.  SM3 is on the cards GeForce 6600, Radeon x1300 or better, and it looks like available cards for AGP go up to GeForce 7950GT and Radeon X1950XT.  Maybe your thinking of Shader Model 4.0 and DirectX 10, because there are no AGP cards for those.

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My mistake.  I'll be quiet now.

Samstag:

--- Quote from: AtomSmasher on August 29, 2007, 02:08:40 pm ---
--- Quote from: Samstag on August 29, 2007, 01:51:20 pm ---
--- Quote from: AtomSmasher on August 28, 2007, 11:54:20 am ---The storyline is actually very reminiscent of the book Atlas Shrugged and they even make some very obvious parallels to the book (For instance, in the book people often asked "Who is John Galt?", in the game there are posters all over that say "Who is Andrew Ryan?".  And the name Andrew Ryan is remarkably similar to Ayn Rand, the author of the book. ).  As one review I read put it, instead of Atlas Shrugged, this game is Poseidon Shrugged.

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It seems to me like a sequel to Atlas Shrugged, where we find out exactly what happens when you trust everyone to live by their own moral code.  I liked the book, but asking me to believe a bunch of tough-guys could coexist in a nearly female-free utopia and getting along fine is silly.  Rapture is what happens when you assume everyone will behave just because it's the "right thing to do".

p.s. Bioshock ROCKS!

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Well, to be honest I'm only about a 1/4 of the way through the book, so I was mostly going from what the reviews said about it, and is why I only pointed out similarities from early in the book and the authors name.

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Doh!  Sorry if I spoiled anything. 

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