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

[Cadaver]

Ok, here are my specs:

3ghz processor
1024mb PC3200 (?? think that is right) but it is one stick only. I was going to get the second stick, but I screwed up and fried that socket of my motherboard. I will have to replace it when I get back to the states
Radeon Mobility, 9700 series vid card, not sure if it is 128 or 256 mb, but I KNOW it is 9700 series

I got the latest vid card driver.

I finally got the game yesterday and installed it. It recommended medium settings. First I said SCREW THAT and cranked it all up, moved anti aliasing to x4 and resolution to 1200x1024 (I think). Once it started, it wasnt even choppy, it was just froze with a glitch of movement every 15-20 seconds, just hitting "esc" to exit out took almost a minute. So now I have antialiasing shut ALL the way off, have the distances and fade's set to max and have resolution at 800x600

My problem is, I have no idea what half of these things do. I am a shameless noob when it comes to optimizing my settings. I dont have a clue what antialaesing is (other than good). I dont know what kind of impact changing the various distances does, and I dont know what kind of impact the screen resolution has, but I wish I could play it higher, so the letters and icons would be more crisp. Basically, whats a way to trade off various effects? I have seen posts about other ways to improve game performance, but using the search didnt help me much because I dont know/understand the terms they use, so I dont know what to search for. I dont have access to the internet with my own computer, and only limited access for a limited time on other computers. Links to other posts would be great, or just any direct suggestions in reply to this post. I KNOW I should be able to turn this up higher. For referance, I play FarCry with every setting maxed and it doesnt get choppy even when I charge into 10 enemies and start shooting fuel tanks with a helicopter flying around...

Any help would be greatly appreciated. You could also PM me if you want...

THanks agian, this is a great forum...
Cadaver

[Fuzzy Knight]

Ok, here are my specs:

3ghz processor
1024mb PC3200 (??  think that is right) but it is one stick only.  I was going to get the second stick, but I screwed up and fried that socket of my motherboard.  I will have to replace it when I get back to the states
Radeon Mobility, 9700 series vid card, not sure if it is 128 or 256 mb, but I KNOW it is 9700 series

I got the latest vid card driver.

I finally got the game yesterday and installed it.  It recommended medium settings.  First I said SCREW THAT and cranked it all up, moved anti aliasing to x4 and resolution to 1200x1024 (I think).  Once it started, it wasnt even choppy, it was just froze with a glitch of movement every 15-20 seconds, just hitting "esc" to exit out took almost a minute.  So now I have antialiasing shut ALL the way off, have the distances and fade's set to max and have resolution at 800x600

My problem is, I have no idea what half of these things do.  I am a shameless noob when it comes to optimizing my settings.  I dont have a clue what antialaesing is (other than good).  I dont know what kind of impact changing the various distances does, and I dont know what kind of impact the screen resolution has, but I wish I could play it higher, so the letters and icons would be more crisp.  Basically, whats a way to trade off various effects?  I have seen posts about other ways to improve game performance, but using the search didnt help me much because I dont know/understand the terms they use, so I dont know what to search for.  I dont have access to the internet with my own computer, and only limited access for a limited time on other computers.  Links to other posts would be great, or just any direct suggestions in reply to this post.  I KNOW I should be able to turn this up higher.  For referance, I play FarCry with every setting maxed and it doesnt get choppy even when I charge into 10 enemies and start shooting fuel tanks with a helicopter flying around...

Any help would be greatly appreciated.  You could also PM me if you want...

THanks agian, this is a great forum...
Cadaver

Well... I doubt that you're CPU or RAM could do anything with this but I think that if you would have to update you're computer it might be the GCard. But anyway. The resolution, I would say doesn't have that much to say - of course it gets much better playing with high resolution but also a lot of work for the PC. I think you could try to set the resolution down, also the different fade's of persons, tree's etc. and try to check out the pixel I think it is - Small, Medium or Large (Don't remember, should be right under resolution on Video Options) I tested out with small, then it's easy to see that the crests or what we can call it haning out from shops where the name of the shop stands is very blury, turning to Large it get's crystal clear...

I'm not a master in this either, but I think if you set resolution down, along with the different fading options and shadows etc. and try to set pixel to Large it might work much better hopefully. And I wouldn't wurry to much about antialiasing either...

My current specs;

CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3500+ 2.2GHz
RAM: 2GB
GCard: GeForce 7800GTX 256MB
Motherboard: Asus A8N-SLI Premium, nForce4 SLI,Socket -939, Super Cooling pipe, PCI-Ex16

I've no problems what so ever playing Oblivion with ultra-high graphics, I've taken everything on top with fade and everything and no problems. I jumped on some guards in Skingrad and ended up fighting around 15 - 20 of these guards at the same time with no lag. And I have no antialiasing but HDR insted and the graphics is just sick...

So I think you should try out what I said, if that doesn't work - then you have to test different things out, mostly with resolution, pixels etc. I wouldn't think about the fading and shadows to much. No need for Self Shadows either