Early guesstimate of system requirements?

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Originally Posted by Cleon of Sparta

what do you mean?

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even 8600 is a peace of crap actually, take at least 8800gt. You wont regret of this..

It runs my games fine so im not too bothered. But i wanna upgrade my card in about 6 months.

EVGA GeForce 8800GTS Superclocked, 640MB
E6600, 2.4 ghz, soon to be overclocked to 3
2GB RAM

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Originally Posted by Alexander the Pretty Good

Keep in mind two things. First, the promo shots are done on very good rigs. Second, if you work hard on it, you can really optimize a game and still make it look good and play on old hardware. Bioshock does a pretty good job of it, from what I understand.

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My friend has a four year old rig that handles Bioshock pretty nicely. Prey does a similar job in my opinion.

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even 8600 is a peace of crap actually, take at least 8800gt. You wont regret of this..

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Actually, the 8600 gt is very nice and has pretty good overclocking potential and should work nicely for most people. It's hard to argue though that the 8800s are fantastic, especially for the price/performance that they offer (ie the 8800gt).

Minimum, my guess for a minimum is:
3.0 GHz Pentium 4
1Gig RAM
Geforce 7400

My E6600 with an 8600 should be just fine.

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Originally Posted by makkyo

My friend has a four year old rig that handles Bioshock pretty nicely. Prey does a similar job in my opinion.

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Hello makkyo,

Has he upgraded his graphic card or is it also the original 4 years old (GF5 series or ATI9XXX)?