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Occulus

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4. Valve. Yep, same people. The Bioshock series is a different studio,
Mon May 6, 2013, 01:41 PM
May 2013

but they're publishing Infinite on Steam. You do need Steam on the PC to play it, but it's actually gaming crack in the form of software, so you'll be happy with it. Plenty of demos and freebies, and the sales are frequent and oh so tempting. Steam is now also on linux if you use that OS, and you don't have to repurchase any of your Windows games when they're released on linux. Aren't they nice?

As for system requirements, I have an AMD Phenom 2 Black CPU, 8Gb of Corsair RAM, and a NV GTX 560 running Windows 8 Pro 64-bit, and I was able to max out the quality, including the special DX11 shaders and alternate post processing method, and run the game at a consistent 60fps at 1366x768 (1920x1080 was a little choppy on my rig at max quality).

Play it on the biggest screen you can use. It's totally dazzling on a 50" TV

The system requirements for Bioshock Infinite are as follows:

Minimum:

OS: Windows Vista Service Pack 2 32-bit
Processor: Intel Core 2 DUO 2.4 GHz / AMD Athlon X2 2.7 GHz
Memory: 2GB
Hard Disk Space: 20 GB free
Video Card: DirectX10 Compatible ATI Radeon HD 3870 / NVIDIA 8800 GT / Intel HD 3000 Integrated Graphics
Video Card Memory: 512 MB
Sound: DirectX Compatible

Recommended:

OS: Windows 7 Service Pack 1 64-bit
Processor: Quad Core Processor
Memory: 4GB
Hard Disk Space: 30 GB free
Video Card: DirectX11 Compatible, AMD Radeon HD 6950 / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560
Video Card Memory: 1024 MB
Sound: DirectX Compatible

Recommendations

0 members have recommended this reply (displayed in chronological order):

Yes! PennyK Apr 2013 #1
Thanks for no spoilers :) War Horse Apr 2013 #2
OK... talked me into it. bvar22 May 2013 #3
Valve. Yep, same people. The Bioshock series is a different studio, Occulus May 2013 #4
Thanks. bvar22 May 2013 #5
I'll have to check it out. ZombieHorde May 2013 #6
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