Upgrade your PC for Oblivion #2 Options

[Rane]

Second thread going now. Unsure about how your PC will perform when running Oblivion? Post your specs here for judgement.

However, this is not a boasting thread. If it goes in that direction this thread will eventually end up closed. First thread.

And finally; the requirements/recommendations.

What are the PC system requirements?

Recommended:

    * 3 Ghz Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent processor
    * 1 GB System RAM
    * ATI X800 series, NVIDIA GeForce 6800 series, or higher video card

Minimum System Requirements: New!

    * Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows XP 64-bit
    * 512MB System RAM
    * 2 Ghz Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent processor
    * 128MB Direct3D compatible video card
    * and DirectX 9.0 compatible driver;
    * 8x DVD-ROM drive
    * 4.6 GB free hard disk space
    * DirectX 9.0c (included)
    * DirectX 8.1 compatible sound card
    * Keyboard, Mouse

Supported Video Card Chipsets:

    * ATI X1900 series
    * ATI X1800 series
    * ATI X1600 series
    * ATI X1300 series
    * ATI X850 series
    * ATI x800 series
    * ATI x700 series
    * ATI x600 series
    * ATI Radeon 9800 series
    * ATI Radeon 9700 series
    * ATI Radeon 9600 series
    * ATI Radeon 9500 series
    * NVIDIA GeForce 7800 series
    * NVIDIA GeForce 6800 series
    * NVIDIA GeForce 6600 series
    * NVIDIA GeForce 6200 series
    * NVIDIA GeForce FX series

[davidzo]

I have some serious performance problems with oblivion. I upgraded my Videocard not long ago from a 9800xt to a 6800gt and i don't think my system is so bad but oblivion is just sometimes a slideshow.

XP2800+ (2,25Ghz Tbred)
1024MB DDR400
6800GT 128MB
SB Audigy
latest 84.xx nvidia drivers

It stutters still a little on these settings:
HDR on
Textures medium
faders at 1/4 and Visibility at 3/4, all other effects down

It starts stuttering after loading a new level or part of the map (loading is finished!). Often, the stuttering goes away when i save and restart Oblivion from windows. That seems to me like a little bug. Is there any patch for oblivion yet to speed it up?

i would not advise anyone to buy nvidia cards for playing oblivion!!
As some benchmarks have shown, the new atis and even the old x800 series (which can't do HDR) perform much better in that game. This step is logical as ati was always better in Direct3D games and a Graphicschip with similarities to the R5xxseries sits in the xbox360 for which the game was mainly developed.

Some things i have noticed while playing:
The Textures have a low resolution even at eye candy settings. nothing compared to other games like farcry, halflife2 or doom3. very like Morrowind, only that the HDR lighting is really great and improves image quality like nothing other and the level-loading is also much better. But even compared to the old gothic2 night of raven the graphics hasn't much improved and that game uses an pumped up engine of the late 90s.
Story and all that seems great but gameplay is very much alike gothic2. I started to play morrowind and found it to be boring and started to play gothic afterwards. Textures, persons, graphics, gameplay, Oblivion is great but reminds me again very much of gothic2.
I always thought that the gothic folks, a small developer group at the end of the softwareworld in old germany do a great job in keeping up with such big fellows as the elder scrolls, so i am still a little bit disappointed with oblivion after the great Videotrailers. It is like in the Trailers but nothing more.
Cant wait to see gothic3. It will kick some serious boat i bet. Hope the performance is better than somewhat disappointing Oblivion.

This post has been edited by davidzo: Mar 30 2006, 12:16 AM