lots of trouble, need lots of help thanks

[crosscheck311]

hey i just bought the real bioshock from steam, not the demo. and it opens and i get to the menu and there's no mouse, i have to swing it around till something lights up. Once i finally do get the game started everything looks great the plane seen is clear and the voice is fine. Then the logo appears and i can hear the plane crashing after that i have lots of problems come up, I'm technically in the game and no error came up, but i might as well be blind deaf and dumb. Right after the plane crash when your coming up from drowning i see lots of white squares and little bits of fire in the distance. Lots of textures and details and everything visual is missing. When i come up i can see the fire just fine, but other than that its all black except a few scattered white squares, i can move but i have no idea what I'm doing. I'm on windows xp home and i have a radeon 9700. Its like a 4 year old machine but it can run modern games like Battlefield 2 and Half life 2. I turned off everything in the in-game graphics menu, everything that cant be turn off is on low so i know it can run it. Thanks again for any help.

[Longtooths]

This is exactly what I have happen, and yes I have downloaded the hot fix.

ATI Radeion 9600 series

[neildittmar]

Neither the Radeon 9600 nor 9700 are supported by BioShock. The game requires a Shader Model 3.0 compliant graphics card to run properly. As the minimum system requirements indicate, anything less than a Radeon x1300 series or GeForce 6600 series graphics card is unable to run the game. Sorry

[crosscheck311]

ahh, thanks, i looked for a GeForce 6600 on Newegg.com, couldn'd find it surprisingly, do you have any idea how much it costs and where i could get one, I dont want to have to spend anymore money than i have to to play a game, i found a 7600 for $90, i dont want to spend anymore than that. Thanks so much neildittmar.

[Helgaiden]

get the 7600 in that case, its pretty good bang for the buck for the performance increase over the 6600 (which it replaced)