People with outdated Graphics cards..., YOUR SOLUTION IS HERE! Options

[Ereneth]

I was just surfing on the web and I found this:


Oldblivion

At first I was pretty sure it was too good to be true, but then I had my friend (with an FX 5500) try it out, and he now gets 16-28 FPS in forests and no lag.

What Oldblivion does is replace sm 2.0 with sm 1.1 and it makes a BIG difference with the framerate.

The water, unfortunately, looks pretty bad with Oldblivion, but that's a small sacrifice; the other graphics look fine.


If you're not convinced, here are some screens taken on a comp with a GeForece 3 and 512 RAM:

[Rane]

for the uninformed, what exactly does "sm" mean?

Shader Model.