Re: Oblivion (PC) reviews: GameDaily (4.5/5), Games Radar (10/10)


John Lewis wrote:
On 22 Mar 2006 08:39:57 -0800, razorwolftro@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Trimble Bracegirdle wrote:
They say; "...PC users, beware - you need a monster to run this. On a
respectable 3.0 Ghz machine with a gig of RAM and a GeForce 6800 GT,
Oblivion had trouble hitting a decent frame rate at 1024x768 - at its own
recommended settings."

Others seem ok with mid-range machines....its most likely a matter of
identifing one or 2 graphics features that demand to much from your
particular graphics card and turning just them down ...
e.g Call of Duty 2 was imposible untill I altered a texture type setting
then fine with little quality change..
Keeping AA and AF very low or off on the less-new cards (Radeon 9800 etc)
will help a lot as that last gen. of graphics cards really slow up with
these features ..
Mouse
@@@@

running well on auto detect settings "high"
1024x768
2800+
6800GS
2gig ram
game runs and looks great with the exception of the intro video, which
stuttered and froze in blocks


Nothing to do with your video card. Turn off all background programs
including virus and spyware killers and defrag your C: drive and the
drive on which the game is installed, if different. How much memory do
you have ???

I dunno. My recommendations are somewhat different:
- Do NOT turn off your antivirus
- Make sure you have *at least* 1GB RAM
- Don't bother defragmenting your HD. My computer never had a defrag
in like 3 years (heavy usage and lots of
installations/uninstallations). Did a defrag, didn't notice a
difference in any program. But of course, it won't make it slower so
you can do it 'just cause'.
- Downloaded the latest video drivers for your card.
- Make sure you don't have spyware software, run Spybot or whatever
antispyware you use.
- Turn off all your little messaging programs (AIM/Yahoo messenger,
etc)

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