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well i'll think about the RAM but... just doesn't sound like that is the matter. i mean how come EVERYWHERE in the world is a perfectly nice FPS and its like. 90% worse with npcs in front of me. dead or alive or moving or whatever. i mean, just turning my back to them is enough for 10-15 fps to become 60!!!! its cracy ¬¬

@bben well i DO believe there is a magic answer because my friend over there has 60fps and everybody else does. i think... something is wrong at this exact one thing and that is causing all the mess. about your guide it is very good, but i did go through all of it. the possible causes that i have tested: SOUND: no, i tried those mods like quiet feet, and actually tried disabling sound altogheter. no help. VIDEO SETTINGS IN-GAME: no, it does enhance a little of my fps running with the LOWEST POSSIBLE ones but still, major slow downs (10-15 fps) with more then 5 npcs on my front. and probably the only reason it enhanced the fps was because of the Actor Fade, meaning less npcs on my screen. VIDEO SETTINGS ON NVIDIA CP: i dont use any of the Forced things in there, except for vsync, and yes i did try disabling it, enablingi n game, enabling both, etc, all the possible combinations in there i tested. or maybe not. but i don't know which one will help, because as far as video settings are concerned, none of them seem to affect my FPS AT ALL. so its like, i run the game at same fps using FULL GRAPHICS (full res, full AA AA HDR whatever) than with low textures, and etc. its like... something at those stupid npcs bodys is causing the fps, and not any other setting. INI TWEAKING: tried most of them. stuff for multi threads, actor settings (these i tought would work), tried running in win xp compat mode... MODS: disabling or enabling them has little to no performance impact. with them or without them is the same. and i have LOTS of them. I tried one today but i guess it didn'twork and it would really be helpful. It deletes corpses of npcs making it so only 5 are possible in each cell (or something). well... SYSTEM STUFF (DRIVERS, WINDOWS..): my system does run every game pretty well. intensive ones. Batman Arkham Asylum, SHIFT, etc etc etc. so i guess if some stupid virus or process was killing my performance... it would CERTAINLY kill those games too. so its an OBLIVION specific thing. only thing not yet tried is FORMAT, lol, but i'll leave that for last. anyway. i did all that. i'll be looking around the .ini file today... seeing if i can disable something crappy about the NPCS... but it pisses me off that its this little thing thats killing all the game for me ;\

btw, even dead ones. so its not AI related i believe. also, animals too. so maybe it isn't related to "face gens" or whatever else oblivion does to humanoids. also one last note; i had oblivion on this same pc a few months ago, and i do remember slow downs, but not really the same ones from now. i mean, i could run through an entire dungeon at very good fps. and kill 30 enemies in one screen.

I get it about the memory usage. I will upgrade soon BUT, why does it run on a very smooth fps (at least 40) everywhere, except when the NPC is IN FRONT OF ME. i mean, if i turn my back to the npc, it gets back to 40 lol or 60 most of the time. or even much more. the ONLY THING IN THE WHOLE OBLIVION WORLD that ever causes my fps to drop are npcs. at least, drop below 30. it does seem like a graphical related thing much mroe than a memory or cpu one (maybe cpu, but how?) i have some background processes, but no antivirus etc, nothing that would suck up too much ram or processing. i mean, if it was sucking off cpu or ram... i would get slow down on the whole game, and not just when facing some stupid npc.

quick question: can i just install a 32bit OS event though my processor is 64bit ??? lol very noobish i just never wondered ;p

Yes but isn't my system at least good enough to be better than 15 fps? ;\

I disabled threaded optimization in nv control panel and it got a little better, still, around 15 fps with 3 or more NPCs in front of me.

now i envy you a lot. i tried that too on the nvidia control panel ;\

My Rig is the following: Athlon X2 4800+ GTS 250 512mb 2gb Ram Windows 7 RC 7100 x64 I am able to run most newer games at very good FPS, and oblivion too. But not at the most important times. More than 3 NPCs in front of me (wether in cities or combat) and i gets around 10-15 FPS. I tried clean install, no mods or anything, doesn't matter. Also, with a zillion mods and effects, including QTP3, i still get exact same framerates. Hardly any difference. It ONLY happens with NPCs in front of me, if i face away from them, it goes back to 60 FPS or more. (ok, maybe 30-40 when i'm facing a long stretch of landscape with lots of details and textures, but thats still much better than with npcs) Thats driving me nuts! What is the problem? Is oblivion just built that bad? Do i need some new config? I tried tweaking .ini for some essential stuff as described in tweakguides.com Tried it all i guess lol, Streamline, Stutter Remover, a bunch of plugins, operation optimization and etc. Still the same FPS SLOW with NPcs in front of me. HELP!