There are certain games that exist where the developers made incredibly smart design choices that allow those games to age gracefully while at the same time being playable on low spec hardware, and Bioshock Infinite is absolutely one of those games. I originally played it on a PS3, and it still looked absolutely fantastic and ran great.
If the games were released on either the PS3 or Xbox 360 chances are they have pretty modest system requirements by today's standards as there were still plenty of multi platform games being released on them in 2015 and 16.
@@asterion3291 I wouldn't call fallout 3 optimized to run on lower spec PCs cause it was literally a game released in 2007 and has issues running on modern systems
Dead Space 3 is the best looking and best running old game I have played. I played around with a Pentium G4560's iGPU (Kaby Lake/HD610) and that game ran smoothly at max settings. Bioshock (Bioshock 1) had missing textures most of the time and Skyrim ran okay but also "looked off" when compared to using a GPU at the same settings. I was just really surprised at how well Dead Space 3 ran considering the graphics were, in my opinion, way better than Bioshock and Skyrim. It's not an open world game, though.
@@Sponsi_PL just because you don't strictly need to, and even playing at 48Hz is much better on a high refresh rate or flex sync monitor than on a fixed 60hz one, doesn't mean it doesn't FEEL good to max out the high refresh rate.
I played the game from start to finish on my old laptop in college at 30fps at low settings and had a grand old time. It looks gorgeous at any resolution or graphics setting too!
I remember playing that on the Xbox 360 years ago with my brother. Nice to always see you play this game from time to time and see a very low end option CPU with iGPU reach the Xbox 360 performance on an awesome game.
I am not impressed with Intel's desktop iGPUs. 17 years later, and you can barely play games from the Xbox 360 era. The GPU in the X360 offered 240 gigaflops of computing power, the UHD 710 has about 340 gigaflops. And it will actually cost a lot to build a new Alder Lake PC even with just a Celeron. Low-end components are never worth the price. Mid-range always offers the best value, and if you go with used parts, you can get some amazing results.
I recall messing with the settings on a friend's 2013 macbook air, dropping it as low as it would go and getting around 20-30fps. It's quite amazing to see how far low end Intel iGPUs have come since then.
The biggest reason why this game looks so good even a decade later is not because of the graphics but because of the incredible art design. The set pieces are so perfectly tuned that the game always looks beautiful. Its alot like how cell shaded video games from the ps2 era have aged a lot better. The devs used the artistry to preserve the image.
Oh man I remember playing for the first time. My mind was blown with that ending. I wish I could experience it the first time all over again. I might replay the trilogy sometime now
Incredible timing bro. I just finished playing this game again for the 2nd time. I first played it when it launched in 2013 and I was blown away. Easily one of the best games I've ever played. Back in the day I played with an Athlon II X4 620, 2x4gb ram ddr3 1333 dual channel, Biostar motherboard, 7200rpm HDD and a HD3850 512mb gpu, I couldn't play it on ultra I think but it ran amazingly well. Now I'm playing it with an Ryzen 5 1600, 2x8 DDR4 3200 cl16, nvme x4 ssd and a RX570 4gb, 1280x1024 75hz everything ULTRA. Yes, I'm using a COMPAQ S900 CRT VGA monitor with an acitve VGA-HDMI adapter and it works perfectly without input lag. I also use this setup for CSGO. Nobody cares about any of this but I drank too much coffee. TLDR: great game, please add CSGO to benchmarks again!
Blast from the past, I had a very similar system. An Athlon X4 640, 3 x 2GB DDR3 1333, 7200rpm HDD and a GTS 250. Dirt 3 was the game of choice for me back then!
I had an A6 3620, 2x4GB 1333, 5400 rpm HDD, and I believe running on APU graphics because it was faster than the aging discrete cards I had lying around such as my old Radeon HD 2600 Pro. My brother took the 8800 GTS and left the scraps for me :
I rocked a Core 2 quad, 560ti (or my 750ti, around that time I changed up) and 16gb of ripjaw at 1400(!) to play it on my Samsung TV. I absolutely loved the game and was so impressed by how gorgeous it was
Remember Bioshock Infinite having unfavourable reviews compared to Bioshock 1 & 2 but i was just blown away by it. It was so slick, smooth and polished in every way and i didn't really get the lukewarm reception. One of the best.
I love the game (much more than the originals) but it doesn't have much to do with Bioshock or any "Shock" game really, it's more "generic" so it's not hard to see why the reception wasn't that hot That and the plot is a bit more complicated than it really needs to be
The combat was watered down and not for any good reason. In fact having only 2 guns at any time creates very frustating moments that make no sense at all. And the story till this day is kind of a mess and when you really get it then you can tell that it is so over the top that is doesnt make sense from a certain point in the game.
I've always known about Bioshock but never thought to pick, it up and give it a try so I guess this video. Has come out at the right time considering, there's alot of sales going on for some older games. 😃🎮👀
I got basically my dream PC 2 years ago when I built it after saving for literally *years*. I've never had much money nor has my family, so since I was a kid I've been slapping old PCs together to make horrific monsters that slowly creep in performance... Bioshock Infinite has gotten a lot of playtime out of me. It became the benchmark I'd measure each tweak to a PC with, absolutely fantastically well optimized ;D That is until Skyrim came along, then that was my new benchmark. I don't miss having to revive components over and over and pushing them to their limits just to play games, but I do sorta miss the chaos that was me working on something I'd built in a plastic box with holes cut in it.
This is the game I stumbled upon on steam ten years ago and thought "wow, that's a very good looking game, looking forward for it's release". I did not expect it to be THAT good. Honestly, if you are reading this and did not played the game yet, trust me, you won't regret buying it.
Ha! What are the odds. I was just using this game to test performance of the i3 G7400 iGPU against some low end GPUs like the AMD RX550. It works on both, but flies on the RX550. Needless to say, my "testing" went on a few hours longer than I was planning after I started playing. This game's mix of story telling, open-ish world layout with clear objectives, combat mechanics and art style are pretty much unmatched for me, even today. I actually thought the Victorian Assassins Creed came closest to scratching that same itch, but obviously with a lot of extra nonsense filler objectives and skill trees thrown in. This was one of the few games that caused me to upgrade just because I wanted it to be as pretty as possible. The Radeon 7850 came with the game free at the time, which made it a no brainer.
Not only does Bioshock Infinite still look fantastic but it plays incredibly well. Back in the day I played it on a i5 3570 APU and it ran incredibly. Also, Elizabeth shaked the SFM scene when she was introduced ;)
Your editing skills get better with each video, i love each one of them. Keep up with what you're doing, Hm... every time i am seeing a benchmark of Bioshok Infinite, i get the need to play it through (bought it around 2 years ago, but never played through since, maybe 2-3 hrs i've spent in it). For that matter i play with the thought to build a dualboot WinXP/Win7 System with a 775 Board + Core2Duo CPU & 4 gb of Ram, i have a couple of 2.5" 7200 rpm sata hdds for that project i am thinking of using them for + a 775 board & c2d e6400 +4gb ddr2 left. I'm just left with the thought if i shoud go with a faster 775 c2d cpu (it's more than anough for most xp apps) and what gpu to use (looking for a late dx 10 or early dx 11 card, just for win7 usability, have a gf 9800gt eco somewhere lying around, but it is a slow GPU, despite the "9800" naming (because of the "eco" thing), the other option is the 650ti i still have (the arliest example of a dx11 card i had, a GT430, is now a dust-collecor in a basement of a relative of me) . Just for the sake of fun with it. Currently i am using a Athlon 64 X2 4200+ (socket 939 with AGP), 2gb ddr 400, ATI X1950 Pro, as my XP machine (just for the fun of it and the nostalgia). They funniest thing is, TES V Skyrim (2011) runs better on that machine, than on my PS3 ,with almost the same visuals @ 720p (tbh, i'm testing out some crossplatform titles from that era and they run as good as the XB360 so far, later titles from 2008 and up will suffer or refuse to start, i think, will test out more).
Omg BioShock games were all insanely optimised! I remember playing the first game with a poor intel celeron at 1.2 ghz with no smt, no dedicated gpu and a lonely stick of 2gb ram... the game was running just fine between 35 and 50 fps at 720p at medium settings! Same as the 360 version do ^^'
I'm currently replaying Bioshock Infinite for the first time in years, its still amazing and looks gorgeous. One of the best aging games I've ever seen. Even in 2022 I still find myself admiring its graphics
Bioshock infinite is one of my favorites games i´ve played in PC, and one of the reasons (aside that I am a steampunk maniac), was the performance, it just runs so smoothly, it literally had 0 stutters in performance, If I could describe the gameplay feel of this game, it would be S M O O T H
This is the game i recommended to my friend with a Pentium dual core. It's the best optimised game and man the story is amazing. I remember Elizabeth having the best AI implementation to date her interaction with Booker was really astonishing
This was the game that introduced me to supersampling. It was the first game I was able to run at higher than 1080p in a 1080p box, because I went all out and got a sick GPU. Ultimately it's not my favorite in the series, but I remember just putting the game on and just staring in wonder at the floating city around me.
Its a real master piece tbh, cranking it at 1440p and the ultra DOF settings would make you think this game may well have released last year, not last decade. The tuning that 2K did in UE 3 back then was nothing short of wonderful. I remember GTX 760's running this game easily at 1080p Ultra with little under 60fps on the lows. I do need to finish the game rather than just look around its scenery though as the story is one of a kind too from what I heard. Have 1 and 2 remastered now too, perhaps i could play those first before I finish Infinite, or start it from scratch and enjoy it all again as its completely worth doing so! Incredible that it runs so well on a Intel IGPU that isnt based of Arc. Thanks for the video! I have been trying to get in touch with you actually! would love to have a podcast with you one of these days! Cheers, Brett
For anyone that hasn't played this game before, it's recommended you also get the dlc, those tie the story together with the older games and I think they're definitely worth playing
i remember i played this on my laptop back in 2013 with an i5 2450m with the integrated HD 3000 graphics at 720p averaging at 25-30fps. back then it was if the character moves its playable. good memories!
I remember playing this game on my potato after seeing a TV ad in 2014. It ran smoothly and even with low settings I remember still being awed by the graphics. The gameplay might've aged poorly but the art direction and music of this game is still impeccable to this day.
I got it on sale myself. I had vaguely remembered playing bioshock infinite when I was young and decided to go ahead and give it a go. And yeah it runs amazing. I did a benchmark on my $20 X38 PC and I got over 160fps at 900p ultra with a 980 Ti
1:01 I always look at those insane minimum requirements and then remember that this game had to run on the Xbox 360 and ps3. Of course a game that has to run on console specs from 2005/06 will be playable by really weak PC hardware. Looking back I wish we had gotten new generation consoles in 2010 or 2011 because the Xbox 360 and ps3 really held back gaming. that generation was 8 years long so a kid that started high school in 2005 played on an Xbox 360 his entire time there and if he went to a four year university after graduation all he had again for four years was the Xbox 360
Tbf, 8th gen was just as long (7 yrs). Nintendo seems ok with shorter generations, but they no longer compete with Sony or Microsoft, so that might change.
It's the first game I install on every PC, and the only one that is never removed for space. I absolutely love Infinite. It's story and setting were incredible and the overall package was so well done. I think I currently own it on 3 systems, including PC. I finished it on Switch two days after it came out on it and was so blown away by the performance. I love seeing it run on my 3070 machine now just because my first time was on my old 750ti media PC hooked up to my still-running Samsung LED 42inch... This TV came out when Portal 2 did! It amazing to see that it still holds up and is amazing to play
I'll be honest, to this day 30 FPS does not bother me one bit, I can barely notice the difference to 60 FPS. Maybe my brain is that slow, but I always prefer high end graphics at 30 if given the choice. Side note, I do notice dips, so constant frame rate is the most important thing.
i loved this game, played and finished it on xbox and PC 2/3 times, it had good shooting and was fun to play and the DLC was real good as well. worth getting and playing all 3 of the games
Irrational Games, Makers of Freedom Force, the massively overlooked and Under-rated Tactical Super-hero RPG hybrid game. I was so enamoured, I even made a Total Conversion Mod, with my own Original Characters!
Sometimes I sit down and think about how old games were so bug-free (not entirely, but compared to new releases it pretty much is). I remeber playing this game on I think i7-3770(non-K) iGPU and it ran pretty smoothly at 720p. Feel like i want to experience this game again, thanks RGinHD!
I bought it on sale a few years ago because I thought the visuals looked awesome! Although I've not played it in one go (as I should've), I really enjoyed the gameplay and the story, and it looked beautiful at 1440p on my GTX 1060.
Other games that are good, fun and run well on almost anything: L4D2 (still played a lot even after all this time) Portal 1 Portal 2 Little Nightmares 1 Little Nightmares 2 (one of the best on the list) Unravel 1 Unravel 2 Limbo Inside Black Mesa SOMA (really recommended) Deadlight Supreme Commander 1 (2 was pretty bad, also can use dual screens well) Mark of the Ninja Nexus: The Jupiter Incident Trials games, any will do Far: Lone Sails Tropico 6 Mother Russia Bleeds Streets Of Rage 4
Bioshock has always had a special place in my heart, and I have replayed Bioshock 1 and 2 numerous times throughout the years. However, I've only ever played Bioshock Infinite once. It's pretty, but the plot is needlessly complicated, and my suspension of disbelief unfortunately evaporated at a certain point in the game. I think they overextended themselves. It's one thing to have a city under the ocean, and I can believe political/philosophical motivations for it's existence, as they do a marvelous job of painting it as a real place and providing a believable narrative along the way. Infinite, though, barely makes any sense. I know reality to an extent is meant to be displaced, but you can't expect me to believe people commute to work via arm-hooks and rails, that the entire city is lifted on cloud-mechanisms, and that time travel ultimately explains the plot. It has the same issue as Doctor Who: time travel is just an excuse for sloppy writing. Elizabeth is a great character, the locations are stunning, but ultimately...meh. Seriously - play Bioshock 1/2, or better yet, play through System Shock 2. That's the granddaddy of the "I'm on a spaceship and something went wrong. Here I go listening to audio logs and piecing together what actually happened." Oh and by the way, that game was worked on by Ken Levine too. Welp.
Its true it does run on almost anything. I still remember playing this on my old HP Probook with a Core 2 duo (or quad cant remember what I upgraded it to) and ATI Radeon 4250. Managed 60fps at 900p and it was glorious.
I recently played the entire Bioshock games for the first time about a month or two ago and when I first entered Columbia, I seriously couldn't believe my eyes man. holy cow this game aged finely
One thing I'll miss about this art style is the ability to drop the resolution without completely destroying the image quality. The move to "life like" visuals has meant that resolution has made a huge difference for the game engine to display coherent visuals without it turning into a blurry or blocky mess.
agreed. I'm playing Scarlet Nexus on Pc now and I'm in love with it partly for the Platinum Games feel and the cell-shaded look. Realism looks just brings more problems.
The music, the Lutece's, the story, everything was completely beautiful about this game. I stress to my gf all the time the music in this game was life-changing for me.
This is the only game where I actually dropped my jaw. I had never played a bioshock game before and didn’t realise what the story was building up to until the last moment. The gameplay was so much fun and the story was very satisfying, an absolute gem of a game.
i played it couple of months ago for the first time... very late to the party but that game really made me love singleplayer games again! Now I play singleplayer games way more often than multiplayer, all thanks to that beutiful game
By far my favorite game and game series of all time. People should really try this game out I bought it on the Nintendo switch in hopes of replaying it soon over a year ago.
WIll never forget as a teen, running this game on a toshiba satellite A8 at 60fps 900p, blew my mind back then how gorgeous this game was, save for the dated lack of attention to detail in certain things like props.
A friend of mine recently played it (and finished it) on an i3, second gen iirc and without dedicated GPU. Even if not the best experience, it is very well playable.
Games that scale like this are great, it's a built-in incentive to play it again every time you upgrade your hardware. The first time I played Bioshock Infinite I had a pretty weak machine, but even at 720p@30-50 it blew me away and I couldn't imagine what it must be like with better hardware. Fast forward to my most recent playthrough, 3840x1080@144 with everything mostly cranked, and it looks like a game that could have come out yesterday.
that pretty much sums up the optimal performace on bioshock remastered as well on how the game is in closed space. the unreal engine is a well done and serves done it's purpose for low-end pcs
I sometimes don't get it, there's many games releasing nowadays with many of them the same graphics like this or little more or less, but their pc requirements are sky high. Bioshock infinite runs smoothly on ultra giving 50+ fps in gt 710. Even simple looking graphics games require lot's of hardware requirements.
First time I played Bioshock Infinite, I was using a meager 1050 Ti graphics card and medium graphics settings. And the graphics *still* blew my mind. Now that I have a much more powerful PC, I need to replay this game with the graphics settings cranked all the way up.
I once played this game in 2013, with my cousin's i5 3337U and 4g of RAM. with 720p and Very low setting, I still can play it at 20-30fps. This game was so great for low end pc that time
This is a really good game. The ending blew me away. P.S. When I first played it I used a 4790k and a GTX 770 system. It was a very enjoyable experience.
@@TheKing-vb2bw I forgot to say that I played it on that system in 2018, not in 2013 when the game launched. In 2013 my system was oh so much slower (Q9650, 8GB of DDR2 and a GTX 560Ti).
I played through this on my 2010 MacBook (the white plastic one), I'm not sure what kind of magic went into this game but it ran well enough to get through the entire game.
Loved this game so much. I really cant wait to see a new one one day. Remember pressing the buttons on the lighthouse and getting the Close Encounters effect :) Such a great game. Elizabeth has to easily be one of the most useful and less irritating companions of any game.
G'day Random, This is why I am totally over hearing people whinge 'It's not fair I can't buy a new GPU because my current one can't play games anymore' I call 🐮💩 There are so many Awesome older games that are much better in build quality (all the new releases are a broken Stuttery Mess), they are cheaper to buy, run on any GPU (many even IGP) & are way more fun than the newest ones. Steve you do an Awesome Job sharing your passion here, you are so creative & your content is about having fun playing games because the games are fun to play, not "OOH Look!, How Awesome am I because I built the Fastest PC ever worth $10000 & it cost me nothing because I'm Famous, Everyone be jealous of me" like so many other channels.
I loved the confederate vibe this game brought to the table I think more games should have the balls to do so🤠....I remember staring long and hard at many of the paintings hung on walls the art style used for this game is 1st class all the way
you know, I was always surprised how well my old laptop ran this game. That thing was underpowered, but it could somehow run this on mostly medium to high settings - goes to show how important optimisation is for a good gaming experience
I remember winning this game for the second time on my thinkpad t440p with an i5 4300m, integrated hd 4600 graphics and 4gb of ram, what a greatly optimized game, it run at about 30fps but it was enough for me at the time (today I expect 60fps or I find things laggy but whatever)
The game runs so smoothly on my 2014 laptop with a GTX 870M at 1080p60 at ultra settings! I now have a desktop with a 2080 Super to play more newer games and some older games which run a lot better on my new PC !
I've ran the original Bioshock on a Radeon X1950 Pro AGP that I Still have. They've done a good job on these 2 games. I also still have my Radeon HD 3870 that I pre-ordered back in the day..
Could you possibly test the game Warframe on PC? I know it's not a game that is like your typical benchmarks. I know that it can run in a wide range of hardware however and I don't really know many people that have done technical benchmarks on the game. It would just be interesting to see how old of a GPU you could run it on.
I remember playing this on my (already aging) VAIO laptop. 512MB of vRAM from a hybrid integrated card and 2GB of RAM. I'm surprised it ran considering it was a new game running Unreal Engine. Of course the fans made a jet engine noise, but it ran nonetheless.
While I personally think this is not upto the standards of the original duology,it was still the first game I got running on my first pc.Not only does it run well but also looks quite charming and vibrant.
funny thing is i always think bioshock infinite (and tbh even the original bioshock) is newer than it is because those games look really good for when they came out and they run super well
There are certain games that exist where the developers made incredibly smart design choices that allow those games to age gracefully while at the same time being playable on low spec hardware, and Bioshock Infinite is absolutely one of those games. I originally played it on a PS3, and it still looked absolutely fantastic and ran great.
Quake 1.....still kicks today and it just runs...always.
@@asterion3291 don't forget valve game Half Life 1/2 and Portal....the games still no lag even you play on potato pc
If the games were released on either the PS3 or Xbox 360 chances are they have pretty modest system requirements by today's standards as there were still plenty of multi platform games being released on them in 2015 and 16.
@@asterion3291 I wouldn't call fallout 3 optimized to run on lower spec PCs cause it was literally a game released in 2007 and has issues running on modern systems
Dead Space 3 is the best looking and best running old game I have played. I played around with a Pentium G4560's iGPU (Kaby Lake/HD610) and that game ran smoothly at max settings. Bioshock (Bioshock 1) had missing textures most of the time and Skyrim ran okay but also "looked off" when compared to using a GPU at the same settings.
I was just really surprised at how well Dead Space 3 ran considering the graphics were, in my opinion, way better than Bioshock and Skyrim. It's not an open world game, though.
Bioshock Infinite was the first game I played on my first 144hz monitor. Mostly because I could actually run it at that frame rate.
yeah, my 1060 3gb can run 1080p Ultra on 144fps
Oh hey I have a high refresh monitor now as well (165Hz), but just a gtx970 for now. I should give it a shot.
You don't need 144 fps on a 144 Hz monitor! This is what the Sync systems are for!
@@Sponsi_PL just because you don't strictly need to, and even playing at 48Hz is much better on a high refresh rate or flex sync monitor than on a fixed 60hz one, doesn't mean it doesn't FEEL good to max out the high refresh rate.
Why would u buy a higher hz monitor when you cant manage that fps
I played the game from start to finish on my old laptop in college at 30fps at low settings and had a grand old time. It looks gorgeous at any resolution or graphics setting too!
I did that too on my laptop! I would even connect it to my TV from time to time and it would look great on there as well!
Perfect game for bored office workers hobbled with low end hardware :P
I played it on my commute/travel laptop with a GT645M. Looked good and ran well above 30 at all times.
Bioshock - is one of the best trilogy in gaming history and take special place in my heart
Same here
I adore it too
Same there
@@hollyc5417 You play dlc for infinite?
@@hollyc5417 Ye but who cares ?
I remember playing that on the Xbox 360 years ago with my brother. Nice to always see you play this game from time to time and see a very low end option CPU with iGPU reach the Xbox 360 performance on an awesome game.
I am not impressed with Intel's desktop iGPUs. 17 years later, and you can barely play games from the Xbox 360 era. The GPU in the X360 offered 240 gigaflops of computing power, the UHD 710 has about 340 gigaflops.
And it will actually cost a lot to build a new Alder Lake PC even with just a Celeron. Low-end components are never worth the price. Mid-range always offers the best value, and if you go with used parts, you can get some amazing results.
I recall messing with the settings on a friend's 2013 macbook air, dropping it as low as it would go and getting around 20-30fps. It's quite amazing to see how far low end Intel iGPUs have come since then.
Not really. I'd rather spend a little bit more to get a proper APU instead. If you're considering celeron, you should buy a console instead.
The biggest reason why this game looks so good even a decade later is not because of the graphics but because of the incredible art design. The set pieces are so perfectly tuned that the game always looks beautiful. Its alot like how cell shaded video games from the ps2 era have aged a lot better. The devs used the artistry to preserve the image.
like always, artstyle always win. thats why Wind Waker still looking cool.
Oh man I remember playing for the first time. My mind was blown with that ending. I wish I could experience it the first time all over again. I might replay the trilogy sometime now
Yeah there’s a few games I wish I could experience again for the first time
and now it’s a bit of a meme
@@ak-t7d6f ?The Game is Incredible.
@@ak-t7d6f I played it for the first time recently and had a really good time
The Bioshock trilogy is one of the greatest gaming experiences out there. I'll never tire of it.
This game holds a place in my heart i rebought the collection for pc
same
Incredible timing bro. I just finished playing this game again for the 2nd time. I first played it when it launched in 2013 and I was blown away. Easily one of the best games I've ever played. Back in the day I played with an Athlon II X4 620, 2x4gb ram ddr3 1333 dual channel, Biostar motherboard, 7200rpm HDD and a HD3850 512mb gpu, I couldn't play it on ultra I think but it ran amazingly well. Now I'm playing it with an Ryzen 5 1600, 2x8 DDR4 3200 cl16, nvme x4 ssd and a RX570 4gb, 1280x1024 75hz everything ULTRA. Yes, I'm using a COMPAQ S900 CRT VGA monitor with an acitve VGA-HDMI adapter and it works perfectly without input lag. I also use this setup for CSGO. Nobody cares about any of this but I drank too much coffee.
TLDR: great game, please add CSGO to benchmarks again!
Blast from the past, I had a very similar system. An Athlon X4 640, 3 x 2GB DDR3 1333, 7200rpm HDD and a GTS 250. Dirt 3 was the game of choice for me back then!
I had an A6 3620, 2x4GB 1333, 5400 rpm HDD, and I believe running on APU graphics because it was faster than the aging discrete cards I had lying around such as my old Radeon HD 2600 Pro.
My brother took the 8800 GTS and left the scraps for me :
I read every sentence in full and it almost brought a tear to my eye at the growth in hardware and how you were still able to enjoy it.
I rocked a Core 2 quad, 560ti (or my 750ti, around that time I changed up) and 16gb of ripjaw at 1400(!) to play it on my Samsung TV. I absolutely loved the game and was so impressed by how gorgeous it was
Athlon 64 5000+ and a 9800 Gtx+ 512mb .. those were the good ol days :D (not rly sure but i think in 2013 i changed the athlon for a modded xeon 5450)
Remember Bioshock Infinite having unfavourable reviews compared to Bioshock 1 & 2 but i was just blown away by it. It was so slick, smooth and polished in every way and i didn't really get the lukewarm reception. One of the best.
I love the game (much more than the originals) but it doesn't have much to do with Bioshock or any "Shock" game really, it's more "generic" so it's not hard to see why the reception wasn't that hot
That and the plot is a bit more complicated than it really needs to be
Infinite was the first Bioshock I ever played and I loved it, I'm just now getting around to playing the earlier releases
The combat was watered down and not for any good reason. In fact having only 2 guns at any time creates very frustating moments that make no sense at all. And the story till this day is kind of a mess and when you really get it then you can tell that it is so over the top that is doesnt make sense from a certain point in the game.
i liked it better than its prequels, but it was just a moderately good game. wasn't mindblowing.
not really a fan of bioshock, in the end.
@@hollyc5417 I absolutely did not get the purpose or value of Bioshock 2 at all. 1 was good to me. 3 was my favorite by far.
The Bioshock series is pretty amazing given the system requirements and when it was made. The visuals are quite stunning I think.
I've always known about Bioshock but never thought to pick, it up and give it a try so I guess this video. Has come out at the right time considering, there's alot of sales going on for some older games. 😃🎮👀
Brooop you've been missing out, you'll most likely end up loving it
@@wrath2008 Alright then I'll pick it up then.
i loved this game! good to see this again!
Even though Bioshock infinite was made in mind to be playable on 7th gen consoles, it seems like they did a good job porting it on PC.
I got basically my dream PC 2 years ago when I built it after saving for literally *years*. I've never had much money nor has my family, so since I was a kid I've been slapping old PCs together to make horrific monsters that slowly creep in performance... Bioshock Infinite has gotten a lot of playtime out of me. It became the benchmark I'd measure each tweak to a PC with, absolutely fantastically well optimized ;D That is until Skyrim came along, then that was my new benchmark.
I don't miss having to revive components over and over and pushing them to their limits just to play games, but I do sorta miss the chaos that was me working on something I'd built in a plastic box with holes cut in it.
This is the game I stumbled upon on steam ten years ago and thought "wow, that's a very good looking game, looking forward for it's release". I did not expect it to be THAT good. Honestly, if you are reading this and did not played the game yet, trust me, you won't regret buying it.
It's on sale on steam right now with B1&2 too, definitely worth a try
even after almost 10 years i get goosebumbs everytime i hear the soundtrack
Bioshock 2 is better
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Ha! What are the odds. I was just using this game to test performance of the i3 G7400 iGPU against some low end GPUs like the AMD RX550. It works on both, but flies on the RX550. Needless to say, my "testing" went on a few hours longer than I was planning after I started playing. This game's mix of story telling, open-ish world layout with clear objectives, combat mechanics and art style are pretty much unmatched for me, even today. I actually thought the Victorian Assassins Creed came closest to scratching that same itch, but obviously with a lot of extra nonsense filler objectives and skill trees thrown in.
This was one of the few games that caused me to upgrade just because I wanted it to be as pretty as possible. The Radeon 7850 came with the game free at the time, which made it a no brainer.
Not only does Bioshock Infinite still look fantastic but it plays incredibly well. Back in the day I played it on a i5 3570 APU and it ran incredibly. Also, Elizabeth shaked the SFM scene when she was introduced ;)
When this game first came out, everyone loved it then for a few years it was hated, now it's loved again. Funny how the cycle works.
Yeah, I thought I was the only one who remembered the time when everyone hated this game. I always loved it.
People love it again? Where?
Your editing skills get better with each video, i love each one of them. Keep up with what you're doing,
Hm... every time i am seeing a benchmark of Bioshok Infinite, i get the need to play it through (bought it around 2 years ago, but never played through since, maybe 2-3 hrs i've spent in it).
For that matter i play with the thought to build a dualboot WinXP/Win7 System with a 775 Board + Core2Duo CPU & 4 gb of Ram, i have a couple of 2.5" 7200 rpm sata hdds for that project i am thinking of using them for + a 775 board & c2d e6400 +4gb ddr2 left. I'm just left with the thought if i shoud go with a faster 775 c2d cpu (it's more than anough for most xp apps) and what gpu to use (looking for a late dx 10 or early dx 11 card, just for win7 usability, have a gf 9800gt eco somewhere lying around, but it is a slow GPU, despite the "9800" naming (because of the "eco" thing), the other option is the 650ti i still have (the arliest example of a dx11 card i had, a GT430, is now a dust-collecor in a basement of a relative of me) . Just for the sake of fun with it. Currently i am using a Athlon 64 X2 4200+ (socket 939 with AGP), 2gb ddr 400, ATI X1950 Pro, as my XP machine (just for the fun of it and the nostalgia). They funniest thing is, TES V Skyrim (2011) runs better on that machine, than on my PS3 ,with almost the same visuals @ 720p (tbh, i'm testing out some crossplatform titles from that era and they run as good as the XB360 so far, later titles from 2008 and up will suffer or refuse to start, i think, will test out more).
Omg BioShock games were all insanely optimised! I remember playing the first game with a poor intel celeron at 1.2 ghz with no smt, no dedicated gpu and a lonely stick of 2gb ram... the game was running just fine between 35 and 50 fps at 720p at medium settings! Same as the 360 version do ^^'
I'm currently replaying Bioshock Infinite for the first time in years, its still amazing and looks gorgeous. One of the best aging games I've ever seen.
Even in 2022 I still find myself admiring its graphics
Bioshock infinite is one of my favorites games i´ve played in PC, and one of the reasons (aside that I am a steampunk maniac), was the performance, it just runs so smoothly, it literally had 0 stutters in performance, If I could describe the gameplay feel of this game, it would be S M O O T H
This is the game i recommended to my friend with a Pentium dual core. It's the best optimised game and man the story is amazing. I remember Elizabeth having the best AI implementation to date her interaction with Booker was really astonishing
I do love bioshock such a amazing series of games and the way they all are linked was just perfect writing.
The entire Bioshock series is truly epic and 3 of the best games I've ever played hands down.
This was the game that introduced me to supersampling. It was the first game I was able to run at higher than 1080p in a 1080p box, because I went all out and got a sick GPU. Ultimately it's not my favorite in the series, but I remember just putting the game on and just staring in wonder at the floating city around me.
I think “the darkness 2” is also a good contender for this type of video, I remember playing it on a terrible laptop 5 years ago
Its a real master piece tbh, cranking it at 1440p and the ultra DOF settings would make you think this game may well have released last year, not last decade. The tuning that 2K did in UE 3 back then was nothing short of wonderful. I remember GTX 760's running this game easily at 1080p Ultra with little under 60fps on the lows. I do need to finish the game rather than just look around its scenery though as the story is one of a kind too from what I heard. Have 1 and 2 remastered now too, perhaps i could play those first before I finish Infinite, or start it from scratch and enjoy it all again as its completely worth doing so! Incredible that it runs so well on a Intel IGPU that isnt based of Arc. Thanks for the video! I have been trying to get in touch with you actually! would love to have a podcast with you one of these days! Cheers, Brett
For anyone that hasn't played this game before, it's recommended you also get the dlc, those tie the story together with the older games and I think they're definitely worth playing
i remember i played this on my laptop back in 2013 with an i5 2450m with the integrated HD 3000 graphics at 720p averaging at 25-30fps.
back then it was if the character moves its playable. good memories!
I remember playing this game on my potato after seeing a TV ad in 2014. It ran smoothly and even with low settings I remember still being awed by the graphics. The gameplay might've aged poorly but the art direction and music of this game is still impeccable to this day.
I got it on sale myself. I had vaguely remembered playing bioshock infinite when I was young and decided to go ahead and give it a go. And yeah it runs amazing. I did a benchmark on my $20 X38 PC and I got over 160fps at 900p ultra with a 980 Ti
1:01 I always look at those insane minimum requirements and then remember that this game had to run on the Xbox 360 and ps3. Of course a game that has to run on console specs from 2005/06 will be playable by really weak PC hardware. Looking back I wish we had gotten new generation consoles in 2010 or 2011 because the Xbox 360 and ps3 really held back gaming. that generation was 8 years long so a kid that started high school in 2005 played on an Xbox 360 his entire time there and if he went to a four year university after graduation all he had again for four years was the Xbox 360
Tbf, 8th gen was just as long (7 yrs). Nintendo seems ok with shorter generations, but they no longer compete with Sony or Microsoft, so that might change.
It's the first game I install on every PC, and the only one that is never removed for space. I absolutely love Infinite. It's story and setting were incredible and the overall package was so well done. I think I currently own it on 3 systems, including PC. I finished it on Switch two days after it came out on it and was so blown away by the performance. I love seeing it run on my 3070 machine now just because my first time was on my old 750ti media PC hooked up to my still-running Samsung LED 42inch... This TV came out when Portal 2 did! It amazing to see that it still holds up and is amazing to play
I'll be honest, to this day 30 FPS does not bother me one bit, I can barely notice the difference to 60 FPS. Maybe my brain is that slow, but I always prefer high end graphics at 30 if given the choice. Side note, I do notice dips, so constant frame rate is the most important thing.
i loved this game, played and finished it on xbox and PC 2/3 times, it had good shooting and was fun to play and the DLC was real good as well. worth getting and playing all 3 of the games
Another great video!
Ah Bioshock
Irrational Games, Makers of Freedom Force, the massively overlooked and Under-rated Tactical Super-hero RPG hybrid game. I was so enamoured, I even made a Total Conversion Mod, with my own Original Characters!
Sometimes I sit down and think about how old games were so bug-free (not entirely, but compared to new releases it pretty much is). I remeber playing this game on I think i7-3770(non-K) iGPU and it ran pretty smoothly at 720p. Feel like i want to experience this game again, thanks RGinHD!
I played this game on my Switch, damn it's bloody gorgeous. Never thought it will run well on Celeron and Intel HD tho. Cheers man!
I bought it on sale a few years ago because I thought the visuals looked awesome! Although I've not played it in one go (as I should've), I really enjoyed the gameplay and the story, and it looked beautiful at 1440p on my GTX 1060.
Man, Bioshock Infinite, the game that pulled me into the dark world of r34, spilled so much back in my teen years due to this game.
Will never forget
Other games that are good, fun and run well on almost anything:
L4D2 (still played a lot even after all this time)
Portal 1
Portal 2
Little Nightmares 1
Little Nightmares 2 (one of the best on the list)
Unravel 1
Unravel 2
Limbo
Inside
Black Mesa
SOMA (really recommended)
Deadlight
Supreme Commander 1 (2 was pretty bad, also can use dual screens well)
Mark of the Ninja
Nexus: The Jupiter Incident
Trials games, any will do
Far: Lone Sails
Tropico 6
Mother Russia Bleeds
Streets Of Rage 4
Bioshock has always had a special place in my heart, and I have replayed Bioshock 1 and 2 numerous times throughout the years. However, I've only ever played Bioshock Infinite once. It's pretty, but the plot is needlessly complicated, and my suspension of disbelief unfortunately evaporated at a certain point in the game. I think they overextended themselves.
It's one thing to have a city under the ocean, and I can believe political/philosophical motivations for it's existence, as they do a marvelous job of painting it as a real place and providing a believable narrative along the way. Infinite, though, barely makes any sense. I know reality to an extent is meant to be displaced, but you can't expect me to believe people commute to work via arm-hooks and rails, that the entire city is lifted on cloud-mechanisms, and that time travel ultimately explains the plot. It has the same issue as Doctor Who: time travel is just an excuse for sloppy writing. Elizabeth is a great character, the locations are stunning, but ultimately...meh.
Seriously - play Bioshock 1/2, or better yet, play through System Shock 2. That's the granddaddy of the "I'm on a spaceship and something went wrong. Here I go listening to audio logs and piecing together what actually happened." Oh and by the way, that game was worked on by Ken Levine too. Welp.
Its true it does run on almost anything. I still remember playing this on my old HP Probook with a Core 2 duo (or quad cant remember what I upgraded it to) and ATI Radeon 4250. Managed 60fps at 900p and it was glorious.
I recently played the entire Bioshock games for the first time about a month or two ago and when I first entered Columbia, I seriously couldn't believe my eyes man. holy cow this game aged finely
All bioshock's looks good and are super well optimized.
The art deco architecture gives it that unique look.
One thing I'll miss about this art style is the ability to drop the resolution without completely destroying the image quality. The move to "life like" visuals has meant that resolution has made a huge difference for the game engine to display coherent visuals without it turning into a blurry or blocky mess.
agreed. I'm playing Scarlet Nexus on Pc now and I'm in love with it partly for the Platinum Games feel and the cell-shaded look. Realism looks just brings more problems.
I remember playing this on console forever ago and it was one of the only console ports i've ever seen with graphics options at the time
The music, the Lutece's, the story, everything was completely beautiful about this game. I stress to my gf all the time the music in this game was life-changing for me.
Its always a treat when a technically high-end game can basically run on pretty much anything
When I was a kid playing this game graphics seemed to me like reality, storytelling was compelling, and gameplay was full of action.
The game art is so damn good, story is interesting, and the ending is most amazing that i ever seen in any game.
Just finished watching RTX 3090 Ti reviews...... Now time for the real gaming analysis. Intel integrated graphics from a Celeron
This is the only game where I actually dropped my jaw. I had never played a bioshock game before and didn’t realise what the story was building up to until the last moment. The gameplay was so much fun and the story was very satisfying, an absolute gem of a game.
i played it couple of months ago for the first time... very late to the party but that game really made me love singleplayer games again! Now I play singleplayer games way more often than multiplayer, all thanks to that beutiful game
I beat this games and its DLC in a single 14 hour sitting. Its totally one of my favorites.
By far my favorite game and game series of all time. People should really try this game out I bought it on the Nintendo switch in hopes of replaying it soon over a year ago.
WIll never forget as a teen, running this game on a toshiba satellite A8 at 60fps 900p, blew my mind back then how gorgeous this game was, save for the dated lack of attention to detail in certain things like props.
A friend of mine recently played it (and finished it) on an i3, second gen iirc and without dedicated GPU. Even if not the best experience, it is very well playable.
Games that scale like this are great, it's a built-in incentive to play it again every time you upgrade your hardware. The first time I played Bioshock Infinite I had a pretty weak machine, but even at 720p@30-50 it blew me away and I couldn't imagine what it must be like with better hardware. Fast forward to my most recent playthrough, 3840x1080@144 with everything mostly cranked, and it looks like a game that could have come out yesterday.
My fav game of all time, played it on x360, x1, xss, pc, switch and still not sick of it yet
that pretty much sums up the optimal performace on bioshock remastered as well on how the game is in closed space. the unreal engine is a well done and serves done it's purpose for low-end pcs
I sometimes don't get it, there's many games releasing nowadays with many of them the same graphics like this or little more or less, but their pc requirements are sky high. Bioshock infinite runs smoothly on ultra giving 50+ fps in gt 710. Even simple looking graphics games require lot's of hardware requirements.
I bought the whole trilogy on GOG this week in the sale. Looking forward to checking them out in about 10 years when I get around to it.
played this on a Compaq Presario Cq50 laptop back in the day when it came out. it amazed me how well it ran and still looked decent
First time I played Bioshock Infinite, I was using a meager 1050 Ti graphics card and medium graphics settings. And the graphics *still* blew my mind. Now that I have a much more powerful PC, I need to replay this game with the graphics settings cranked all the way up.
I once played this game in 2013, with my cousin's i5 3337U and 4g of RAM. with 720p and Very low setting, I still can play it at 20-30fps. This game was so great for low end pc that time
Arc is going to be AWESOME!
This is a really good game. The ending blew me away. P.S. When I first played it I used a 4790k and a GTX 770 system. It was a very enjoyable experience.
Oh yeah, you were playing at luxury levels with this system
@@TheKing-vb2bw I forgot to say that I played it on that system in 2018, not in 2013 when the game launched. In 2013 my system was oh so much slower (Q9650, 8GB of DDR2 and a GTX 560Ti).
I played through this on my 2010 MacBook (the white plastic one), I'm not sure what kind of magic went into this game but it ran well enough to get through the entire game.
Played it recently 4K 144fps locked. Still absolutely stellar art design.
Loved this game so much. I really cant wait to see a new one one day. Remember pressing the buttons on the lighthouse and getting the Close Encounters effect :) Such a great game. Elizabeth has to easily be one of the most useful and less irritating companions of any game.
Played the game a couple of month a go. After all that years it was as cool as back in the day. Like the story and the grafics.
The switch port for Bioshock Infinite is great. Looks amazing with stable fps. I think the devs did a great job on it.
G'day Random,
This is why I am totally over hearing people whinge 'It's not fair I can't buy a new GPU because my current one can't play games anymore' I call 🐮💩
There are so many Awesome older games that are much better in build quality (all the new releases are a broken Stuttery Mess), they are cheaper to buy, run on any GPU (many even IGP) & are way more fun than the newest ones.
Steve you do an Awesome Job sharing your passion here, you are so creative & your content is about having fun playing games because the games are fun to play,
not "OOH Look!, How Awesome am I because I built the Fastest PC ever worth $10000 & it cost me nothing because I'm Famous, Everyone be jealous of me" like so many other channels.
althought this one has some fans divided but this was my first bioshock and it's one of the few games that showcases the gaming medium's strength.
It's like fine wine. The game that is.
I loved the confederate vibe this game brought to the table I think more games should have the balls to do so🤠....I remember staring long and hard at many of the paintings hung on walls the art style used for this game is 1st class all the way
I finished this when it first launched and that story was too good.
when Bioshock Infinite came out it was such an eyecandy , the world just looked beautiful
you know, I was always surprised how well my old laptop ran this game. That thing was underpowered, but it could somehow run this on mostly medium to high settings - goes to show how important optimisation is for a good gaming experience
Booker to Elizabeth: "I don't fear god, I fear you"
Might I just say that this is a **Nice** processor. Nice video too though, as always.
Cheers man I just got my computer together and I went on steam and purchased BioShock I love a good game
Been playing this on the Switch looks just as good as my gaming PC really amazing game one of the all time greats
I used to have that game on my core 2 duo , gt720 rig. Nice game well worth a play if you haven't.
Yeah definitely :)
I remember winning this game for the second time on my thinkpad t440p with an i5 4300m, integrated hd 4600 graphics and 4gb of ram, what a greatly optimized game, it run at about 30fps but it was enough for me at the time (today I expect 60fps or I find things laggy but whatever)
The game runs so smoothly on my 2014 laptop with a GTX 870M at 1080p60 at ultra settings! I now have a desktop with a 2080 Super to play more newer games and some older games which run a lot better on my new PC !
I've ran the original Bioshock on a Radeon X1950 Pro AGP that I Still have. They've done a good job on these 2 games. I also still have my Radeon HD 3870 that I pre-ordered back in the day..
Could you possibly test the game Warframe on PC? I know it's not a game that is like your typical benchmarks. I know that it can run in a wide range of hardware however and I don't really know many people that have done technical benchmarks on the game. It would just be interesting to see how old of a GPU you could run it on.
You should have run it on a PC CRT monitor :P
Could you not fix the aspect ratio in post?
I remember playing this on my (already aging) VAIO laptop. 512MB of vRAM from a hybrid integrated card and 2GB of RAM. I'm surprised it ran considering it was a new game running Unreal Engine. Of course the fans made a jet engine noise, but it ran nonetheless.
While I personally think this is not upto the standards of the original duology,it was still the first game I got running on my first pc.Not only does it run well but also looks quite charming and vibrant.
funny thing is i always think bioshock infinite (and tbh even the original bioshock) is newer than it is because those games look really good for when they came out and they run super well
One of the best optimised games of its generation.