Bioshock acting wierd

[TheGreySpectre]

So I purchased Bioshock today but it is acting really weird. Even with the settings on minimum at the game at 640x480 resolution the game is a little choppy. In addition my character runns extremely fast. I am talking standard walking speed for my characters is 4-5 times the speed of sprinting speed in HL2.

While I recogize my system won't be able to run the game at max settings, I was at least hoping to run it at minimum settings at 1280x1024, especially since I can run crysis at 1680x1050 at mixed low/med settings. In addition the run speed thing seems very odd as I have seen bioshock played before I know my character should not be running as fast as he does.

Current system is a opteron 170 @ 2.7 Ghz, Winxp, 2gigs of ram and a Nvidia 7800gtx.

Any help would be appreciated.

[Hitbox]

Try resetting all the settings to default? Those are usually optimal for your system.

[nightelph]

Weird indeed, do you have the latest patch for the game?

[rainless]

I'd say download the latest patch and update all your drivers. (Use Driver cleaner.)

They had a patch that auto-downloaded as you were installing the game I think. Other than that, I went through and beat the whole game before they released another patch... so I don't think it's that. It must be a problem with your system because actually you SHOULD be able to play it at full resolution.

...it's not a very demanding game.

[ShadowPho]

Really... weird...
Is it only your character running really fast, or is the whole game sped up? Any overclock on that system?

But do uninstall ntune, then video drivers, then reinstall the new ones.