Requirements for max everything in Bioshock

Bioshock runs quite well. You should be fine with todays mediocre HW.

Thanks; can I get the full names of the things you said? I'm not a hardware geek, unfortunately

Bioshock isn't demanding at all by current standards. Get a normal gaming pc and that will do it. ...However remember this...

ANTIALIASING works like tool, not a graphics quality setting. Cut it at 4x maximum, anything else is plain unnecesary and will DESTROY performance.

Tip #2: the unreal3 engine that powers Bioshock dies (performance wise) when enabling AA... so be humble at it.

Heya,

At really high resolution, you really won't have that big of a deal with AA standards. 4x is great at high resolution. Try 1600+ resolutions with 4x and 8x AA and screen shot it. See if you can really tell a real difference. Especially at the 1900+ resolutions. AA was really something that made drastic changes at lower end resolutions (1024x768 for example), but at the upper side of things, you'll just not see that difference as much.

BioShock will run at absolutely max everything on a modern card. I mean, the 8800gt can run it like that and it's a 2~2.5 year old card now. The HD 4850 will do it without even breaking a sweat.

Very best,

Unreal Tournament 3 isnt that power hungry, I'd say no more than bioshock. I can max out UT3 with one of my 4850's while still playing music or watching tv on my other two screens connected to my other 4850.