Oblivion & hardware Options

[Ambberfox]

I don't know wether this has already been asked, but does anyone happen to have an idea what type of hardware you'll need to run the game? Judging from the awesome trailer you'll need a real power-machine

[Epy]

That is true. Yep, MSFD gave some specs of his workstation over at RPGCodex a while back.
[quote=MrSmileyFaceDude]I'll tell you what kind of machine I'm currently developing on, but not how it runs (hey, it's not done yet, so any performance hints I can give you have no bearing on the final game anyway, and besides, I run the game in the debugger most of the time). I'm using a 3GHz Pentium 4 with 1GB RAM and a Radeon 9800XT with 256MB. All fairly middle of the road stuff nowadays.[/quote]
Take what he - and everyone else - says to heart, though; it's not finished. Power-hungry and performance demanding stuff will probably be added, but as Rane says, they'll be working on ways for you to tweak most of them to fit your own specs best.

A decent ammount of RAM, a decent processor (mayhaps work for todays standards) and a DX 9.0 video card will get you far enough, methinks.

For maximum fun, start saving up for a next-gen console or at least a good, current video card around the time Oblivion hits the shelves. But you probably won't need a "supercomputer", or doubtfully even high-end today to make it run good.