Playing Bioshock on older cards (Shader 2.0)

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As you might already know, Bioshock requires a shader model 3.0 gfx card. While you can still run this game on a shader 2.0 card (such as ATI Radeon 9800), it will leave you with no mouse cursor and a lot of missing textures in the game. Now there were a lot of people with these cards waiting to play this incredible game and since you are reading this article I guess you are one of them too :)
So, what do we do ?

Well, it appears that Bioshock shaders can easily be replaced and there are good replacements available already. We're not gonna go into details here, if you want more you can go here for more details on this. There you can find the newest updates regarding this. You can also download the shader 2.0 fix v4 (latest as of this writing) here, link at the bottom.

Here are some video cards with pixel/vertex shader 2.0:
ATI Radeon 9500, 9550, 9600, 9700, 9800, X300, X550, X600, X700, X800, X850
Nvidia GeForce FX 5200, 5500, 5600, 5700, 5800, 5900, 5950

and here are some cards with shader model 3.0 (you should be ok if you have any of these):
ATI Radeon X1xxx series (X1300, X1550, X1600, X1650, X1800, X1900, X1950)
Nvidia GeForce 6xxx and 7xxx series (6100, 6150, 6200, 6500, 6600, 6800, 7025,
7050, 7100, 7200, 7300, 7600, 7800, 7900, 7950)

cards with DirectX 10 support (no need to tell, but you're ok with these too):
ATI Radeon HD series (2400, 2600, 2900)
Nvidia GeForce 8xxx series (8400, 8500, 8600, 8800)

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