Yeah yeah I know I’m really late. Bioshock was released almost a year ago. They have even removed the install limit back in June!
Now I’m only just starting to get into it.
The reason why I stopped Bioshock last year, was that there was a slew of games released at the time – COD4, Crysis, Bioshock etc. Since Bioshock is a RPG I thought I should stop it for awhile and play COD4 or Crysis since they’d be shorter games than an “RPG”. I just never got back to Bioshock till now, sigh.
Since I’m reinstalling (reformatted my PC early on this year), I took the time to also download the latest patches for Bioshock. I was pleasantly surprised they removed the install limit (was 5 installs if I remember right) back in June 2008.
Anyway, somehow this time around it feels “easier”. Previously, I remembered that I shudder whenever I think about taking down a Big Daddy. Now, I don’t. Also, my recent “upgrade” by cleaning out the CPU heatsink and fan might have helped. Now I don’t get jerks in Bioshock anymore. I remember in the past I used to get slight 1 second freezes whenever the action gets heavy. This time around, they’re smooth! Amazing!
What is even more amazing is that in the past, whenever I tried to use Xfire to capture video, my framerates will plummet. After the CPU heatsink cleanup, it seems to have helped this too! The clip below is captured using Xfire, and there’s very little drop in the framerates. Certainly nothing that is obvious actually.
Yes it’s a very short clip, and you can see that the framerates are pretty much smooth (except I might suck a little at taking the Big Daddy down). No jerking, no freezing. If anybody’s interested in my 5 yr old gaming rig configurations, look to the right side of this page in the sidebars – it’s listed there.
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