BioShock Performance with AA

[40sTheme]

You guys have put -dx9 in the shortcut command line for Bioshock, right?
Oh, and on nV cards, you have to rename it R6Vegas_Game.exe.

 

[tvdang7]

Originally posted by: Sonikku
It reminds me of the time Half Life 2 suspiciously ran poorly on Nvidia hardware at release when compared to ATI, only to see the gap narrow considerably when Nvidia fans found work arounds to Valve's engine. It seems this time around Nvidia has done something similar. It's things like this that really make me hate the PC industry. -_-

wth are u talking about? work arounds? ati just did better in that game at the time thats all. not by much if u look at benchmarks but it did still win. the only thing i saw crippling with that launch is dx9 and fx 5 series.

and to the post of the gamespy link. thats like saying hey nvidia slipped ubisoft money for making r6 vegas only sm3 only cards forcing older ati cards to not run the game at all much less, less performance.

 

[BFG10K]

What happens when you enable AA in the drivers?

On Vista it does nothing unless you run the game under the DX9 path.

http://shenmue.planets.gamespy...2703&highlight=#552703

I want screenshot and benchmark evidence of their claims. If FP16 really looked identical then Valve would've never bothered implementing a mixed mode path for FX cards, something that took them a very long time to do.

 

[Compddd]

I'm using the Oblivion fix for Bioshock and I can tell the difference easily. The AA is there and working when I rename the .exe

 

[5t3v0]

Originally posted by: 40sTheme
You guys have put -dx9 in the shortcut command line for Bioshock, right?
Oh, and on nV cards, you have to rename it R6Vegas_Game.exe.

Does this work? I've decided against buying the game, certainly at full price, because of the lack of FSAA on Vista.

 

[n7]

Originally posted by: 5t3v0

Originally posted by: 40sTheme
You guys have put -dx9 in the shortcut command line for Bioshock, right?
Oh, and on nV cards, you have to rename it R6Vegas_Game.exe.

Does this work? I've decided against buying the game, certainly at full price, because of the lack of FSAA on Vista.

For me, that didn't work, & it caused a BSOD when exitting the game.
So no more renaming or DX9 forcing for me, as i'd much rather play a game with jaggies than crash.

 

[5t3v0]

Bummer. Anyone know if the devs have any plans to release a patch to enable it? Lots of speculation around although most of it wishful thinking. I'm completely incensed by this & wont buy the game unless one does come out. Not to implement FSAA in this day and age shows complete disregard for the PC market but is sadly all to common with so many games being ported from consoles. What makes this more infuriating is that WinXP/DX9 users have it enabled but Vista/DX10 users dont. Selling a product that for a minority section of the market is functionally inferior is just lazy & greedy.

 

[40sTheme]

Originally posted by: n7

Originally posted by: 5t3v0

Originally posted by: 40sTheme
You guys have put -dx9 in the shortcut command line for Bioshock, right?
Oh, and on nV cards, you have to rename it R6Vegas_Game.exe.

Does this work? I've decided against buying the game, certainly at full price, because of the lack of FSAA on Vista.

For me, that didn't work, & it caused a BSOD when exitting the game.
So no more renaming or DX9 forcing for me, as i'd much rather play a game with jaggies than crash.

Hmm, that's odd. It worked when the guy at TweakGuides did it....