BioShock System Requirements

The minimum BioShock download size is 6GB for installation. The developers recommend somewhere around 6GB storage space on your hard drive. The cheapest graphics card you can play it on is an NVIDIA GeForce 510. But, according to the developers the recommended graphics card is an NVIDIA GeForce 510. An Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 CPU is required at a minimum to run BioShock. Whereas, an Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 is recommended in order to run it. The minimum memory requirement for BioShock is 1GB installed in your computer. Additionally, the game developers recommend somewhere around 2GB in your system.

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BioShock will run on PC system with Windows 10 64-bit or higher and upwards. Additionally it has a Linux version.

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