ArchNihil

I used to get around 40 FPS in town on High... Now that I'm on Ultra with only Shadows on high (They look better that way) and AA to 4, I never drop below 60. It's awesome. Impossible to understand. But awesome nonetheless. By the way, according to suggestions on here and elsewhere, I'm going to get a GTX660Ti 3GB GDDR5. Soon after, I think I'm going to water cool my machine and get the real power out of my i7 920. 3.2-3.6 should be really easy to attain then and give me that little plus I need. Thanks all for answering.

For your questions : I run Skyrim at the highest resolution my TV supports. 1360x768 here and 1920x1080 on my big TV. Is the FPS Impact really that bad ^ My AA is set to 16 I believe, default High settings. I used to have Ultra Settings and it would run fine, but that was not worth it. I didnt knew all Skyrim textures were at 1024x1024. I effectively use the 1024x1024 texture replacers. (Skyrim HD Lite, Serious HD) Guess this is why I really havent noticed any performance loss when installing those. They still improve the visual quality a bit though, so its a plus. Thanks for the SSD tip. I think Ill be getting one someday, but today definitely aint the day. ; ) As for the CPU... Would you suggest I overclock ^ I can overclock to 3.2GHz fairly easy earlier, so would that really help ^ (I guess the more mod I add, the more it will help right ^ And I really intend to get lots of those. ; ) As for the shadows... I HATE them ! I, however, couldnt play without them at all. From what Ive seen though ENB seems to fix most shadow problems, this is why Id really enjoy being able to run it. 50% FPS loss is sorta unnaceptable when you barely have 60fps and dip in the high 30s (38-39) in certain areas. Thanks for the suggestion ! Looks like Ill look into a new gpu... For once it looks Ill even go with NVidia... Same quality for a bunch more if you want my opinion, but as this is NOT the only time Ive heard of ATIs having problem with games, this could be a change for the best. I also do agree Id rather leave the CPU unOCed until then. Well thank you both for the answer ! P.S : Im still lost as to what card to buy though. I thought about the NVidia GTX670 but its a little expensive... Any good alternatives ^

Hey there ! I was looking to upgrade my computer soon enough, and Id like to have some advices. First, my objectives : I already run Skyrim on High (Cant see the difference with Ultra, really.) with a few graphic enhancement mods (A few large HD replacers (1024), WATER, Lighting Overhaul and the likes) at 60FPS. I sometimes drop in the 40 during battle, but this is no issue. However, Id REALLY enjoy running ENB as I think it really enhances Skyrim, but the FPS hit on my machine is HUGE. I get 40FPS most of the times, but during battles, it can drop as low as 20. ;S Same goes for interiors where it drops to an abysmal 18 in Dragonsreach. I deem this is unplayable. (30 during combat or in interiors would be great.) Second, my specs : Intel I7 920, currently at 2.67. I can easily overclock it to 2.92 or even 3.2, however, I was wondering... Is it really a good idea ? Does Skyrim support OC better than Oblivion, and is It worth it ? 6GB RAM DDR3 Tripple Channel 1600MHz (I figure this is sufficient.) ATI Radeon 7850 1Gb VRAM (I figure this is most likely the culprit for that...) 500GB Sata HD, I bought this on eBay a few years ago for 50 bucks and I figure this could also be an answer... Third, what I think Im gonna do : I thought of either upgrading my GPU for a 2GB card or buying an SSD Drive. Which you think would be the best ? Any other ideas ? Is OCing my CPU a good idea ? If youd buy a new GPU, which one would it be ? Cheers Arch.

Well, thanks for the answer. ;] I've adjusted the max enemy AI at once in Wrye Bash, but I'll try to tweak it further and see if it helps. (Tends to happen in crowded places, indeed.) As for the invisibility, I don't get it. It's the ONLY enemy I've ever seen that was invisible, and the Flayer Knife, the only ever missing mesh. I crash once in a while, but it's far from unbearable. I start wondering if the new versions of most mods included aren't maybe a bit... Hmm... Broken ? Or if there's a hotfix I haven't seen. Should try looking into that.

Unfortunately not... I was between Bravil and Leyawiin. I also got another problem, the Flayer Knife, dropped by BoneFlayers looks fine on them, however, as soon as I take it I get a glorious missing mesh of doom if I drop it or equip it. While I'm at it... Sometimes, ennemies just stop moving or attacking me for a while... Everytime I installed the game it did that to me... Could it be a simple FCOM side-effect, or am I just really bad at this ?

Okay, so here's the problem... I installed FCOM 1.0 a lil' while ago following a thread on the Bethesda forums (I think). I was used to install the UFCOM package. I've been playing without any problems and very few crashes. However, I just encountered the enemy I fear the most... INVISIBLE ENNEMIES ! DUN DUN DUN. In all seriousness, it pisses me off and I'd like to know why it's happening. All mods are to their latest version, have been installed through BAIN and sorted with BOSS... Yet, I still got that invisible jaguar. I made sure all bsa loaded in a variety of different ways. (Adddind them to the Oblivion.ini file or renaming them...) Nothing will do. That dead jaguar live invisible, died invisible and remains invisible. I doubt this will be of any help but here's my load order : Active Mod Files: Also I'd like to know... Let's pretend I save right beside said invisible jaguar... If I fix the problem and load the save, he should magically become visible right in front of my eyes, right ? Or should I make a clean save and hope it's alright until I come across another jaguar ? Thanks in advance for trying to help. EDIT : I just looked through both the 1.33 files and the 1.35 BSA of OOO and couldn't find anything resembling a jaguar. I also browsed through MMM's BSA and got no result either. =[

I uninstall Realistic Fatigue and my character keep falling to the ground every minute or so. New characters seem fine however. I did a clean save between but I definitely screwed up something... No matter if my health/mana/fatigue bar is full or empty, I keep falling at almost regular time interval. EDIT : I just deleted this character, he wasn't that high level anyway ! =)

Hey. Slaughterfishes in my games are fine-looking when I'm near them but turn to black (They used to turn to yellow... Tried to fix the problem and this is all it changed apparently.) when I'm far enough. Other fishes added by mods are okay. I'm not sure I exactly get why. Weren't distant meshes only used for building and such ? I'm sort of lost as to how to fix this problem... Any help would be greatly appreciated... Thanks, Arch.

What CPU do you have ? Is it clocked much higher than mine ? (2.92GHz) I somehow feel like a second card would greatly help me... Just ain't sure. How did it play with such a setting on your 5790.... ? Must have been pretty ugly at times. I doubt I could run Better Cities with more than 10 fps... And my card is faster than that. However, UL wasn't nearly as bad as Better Cities. I just can't make it work. Too much patches. Waaay too much patches. What makes me lag are the NPCs... Must be the fact they have replacers for clothes, weapons, armors, faces... ;S Pretty sure that's what kills me, ;S Thanks for the answer. I didn't install the IC and city plugins, only the architecture... I'll try disabling the architecture also. Thanks for the answer. Nobody else is playing with two cards, eh ?

Thanks for the answer. As I will buy Skyrim soon enough, 2 cards will definately help me anyway. I should basically have broken down my posts in many small questions... I tend to make elaborate posts which get me nowhere, so I'll try it this way this time. 1. What mods can people usually/exceptionally run at the same time with decent (24+ most of the time) fps ? I run FCOM/Qarl/RAEVWD plus hi-res replacers for pretty much everything and it just seems to be overkill. Can some manage that ? What about BC ? 2. Does anyone play this game with a dual GPU configuration ? Does it help ? 3. Is 15-20 fps in towns and exteriors normal with such settings ? Or is it a lack of skill installing mods ? (I know Oblivion's engine is flawed, full of stuttering and lag spikes... But 15 constant fps really seems little to me.) Thanks in advance, Cheers. Arch.

Hey all ! Let's make it short and sweet. I thought my computer would be fast enough to run any Oblivion mods I could ever want, however I had to come to the realisation a few days ago it was not the case. Here are my specs : I7 920 2.66GHz, currently OC'ed to 2.9GHz... Totally stable. I could also OC to 3.2 and even 3.6 easily, but I doubt it's worth it... 6GBs of Triple Channel 1600MHz memory... I honestly doubt I'd need to invest in Quad Channel 2000MHz memory. Ain't I right ? ATI Radeon HD 5850... 1GB GDDR5. Here is where the problem comes from I think... Would that make sense ? Anybody playing with that kind of card that can play Oblivion with HI-Res texture replacers all over, RAEVWD and All Natural ? (No Better Cities, though.. I like how it looks but 12 fps in the city is already low enough, eh...) What I've been considering adding another 5850 in crossfire. Anybody plays this game with two cards ? Does it help any ? I know Oblivion supports only one CPU core... What about dual GPUs ? I saw on the UESPwiki I think as a suggestion to lag and stuttering. I've been playing for a while with approximately 20 fps (And less...) and I just can't stand it anymore. Thanks already for your help. Cheers, Arch.

Haha, thanks for keeping up with my non-sense. ._. I tried removing LAME to see what would happen... And even Supreme Magicka all by itself doesn't work properly... I un-installed it through OBMM and re-installed it a few times... Still didn't work. If I put LAME back, all that changes (Except the fact I get more spells...) is the messed-up spells are messed up differently. The "Summon Skeleton Champion" which used to cast a Spriggan with Supreme Magicka will now cast a Spectral Warrior wit LAME and SM. Still nonsense. But a different kind of nonsense. The game is perfectly playable. But damn this is really an annoyance. Could it be the install order ? Bashed Patch setting ? =/ (I moved the file after as you suggested which made LAME summons show up in game. Thanks for that.)

Sometimes it is as simple as moving files around. Glad to hear that's all it required, plus a little INI tweaking. Enjoy. :) In fact, it doesn't exactly work. My summons are still screwed up... Quite a few summons are called something else than they summon. All new summons added either by LAME or SM. Another thing... Isn't the "Conjuration for Supreme Magicka" esp for the exact apposite ? Keep LAME summons if you put SM after ? And in any case that'd help : Active Mod Files: Does install order matter ? Else I really can't see where the problem would be... EDIT : No matter which one I put in front of the other one, which plugin I use or whatever, I still get my summons messed up. I can buy a "Summon Skeleton Hero" spell in Chorrol, but in the spell description it says : "Summon Spectral Warrior for 80 seconds" and it actually summons a Spectral Warrior. Kinda lost now...

I tried putting SM just before the Bashed Patch and rebuilding it... I can now do all spells ! They now last a lot less, but tweaking the ini file a little will probably take care of that. My Mud crab still has the Ravenous Hunger spell name so not everything is alright... But it's getting better.

Thanks for the answer. I always use BOSS to sort my mod. I also tried putting SM after LAME, but it still didn't work. In fact, it was even worse. I couldn't summon a scamp because it required 75 Conjuration and the Dremora required 100. ;S I never touched SM's ini. Did that. Lots of useful settings, however, nothing that could help with my problems. Also not sure I got what you said about the saving to a new inner cell...