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Can My PC Run BioShock® 2?

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Set approximately 10 years after the events of the original BioShock, the halls of Rapture once again echo with sins of the past. Along the Atlantic coastline, a monster has been snatching little girls and bringing them back to the undersea

BioShock® 2 PC Requirements

Minimum Requirements

CPU
AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3800+ 2.4Ghz or better, Intel Pentium 4 530 3.0Ghz Processor or better
GPU
NVIDIA 7800GT 256MB graphics card or better, ATI Radeon X1900 256MB graphics card or better DirectX®: DirectX 9.0c Hard Drive: 11GB Sound: 100% DirectX 9.0C compliant sound card or onboard sound
VRAM
Not stated
RAM
2 GB
Storage
Not stated
OS
Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7
DirectX
Not stated
Network
Not stated

Recommended Requirements

CPU
AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ Dual Core 2.60Ghz, Intel Core 2 Duo E6420 Dual Core 2.13Ghz
GPU
NVIDIA 8800GT 512MB graphics card or better, ATI Radeon HD4830 512MB graphics card or better Other Requirements: Initial installation requires one-time internet connection; software installations required including Microsoft Visual C++2008 Runtime Libraries, Microsoft DirectX.
VRAM
Not stated
RAM
3 GB
Storage
Not stated
OS
Not stated
DirectX
Not stated
Network
Not stated
✓ Independently verified against the publisher 2026-08-17Source: Steam store page

Game details

Developer
2K Marin
Publisher
2K
Released
9 February 2010

About BioShock® 2

Set approximately 10 years after the events of the original BioShock, the halls of Rapture once again echo with sins of the past. Along the Atlantic coastline, a monster has been snatching little girls and bringing them back to the undersea city of Rapture.

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What PC do I need for BioShock® 2?

For a comfortable experience, the publisher's recommended specification asks for the following. This is their figure, not our estimate.

Graphics card
NVIDIA 8800GT 512MB graphics card or better, ATI Radeon HD4830 512MB graphics card or better Other Requirements: Initial installation requires one-time internet connection; software installations required including Microsoft Visual C++2008 Runtime Libraries, Microsoft DirectX.
Processor
AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ Dual Core 2.60Ghz, Intel Core 2 Duo E6420 Dual Core 2.13Ghz
Memory
3 GB RAM

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Can my laptop run BioShock® 2?

The same check applies — enter the parts your laptop actually contains. Be aware that a laptop graphics chip is usually slower than the desktop card it shares a name with, because the manufacturer sets a lower power limit. A laptop advertising the NVIDIA 8800GT 512MB graphics card named here may therefore fall somewhat short of it in practice, and sustained performance drops further as the machine heats up. Treat a borderline laptop result as optimistic rather than assured.

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