Yea gaming at 30 fps is fine. I'm just a spoiled pc gamer . Back in the console n64/ps1/2 days i enjoyed tons of games, and nearly all of them were locked to 30 fps and i was content with that. But once you start playing every game at a solid smooth 60 fps, its just so hard to go back. You, and anyone can definitely tell a difference, especially after playing for a while. (and yea i regular lcd like 99% of ppl, so 60hz max) It's especially jarring when in a game like oblivion that runs at perfect 60FPS in indoors, and most outdoor areas, yet drops to 30fps in cities. (and an unstable jerky 30fps that jumps around a lot) Movies or anything pre rendered is different, because when your not in control - your mind doesn't expect movement or response to your actions, and when it comes unexpected, you won't notice if its not as fluid. Your more relaxed, so your eyes relax and thus, work more slowly. Oblivion actually can use all 8 of my cpu cores, after some tweaks it uses about 50% of 1 and 2, and little bit of each other one. Don't think there's any cpu limits going on here, just that it doesn't leverage my gpu properly. Was considering just capping oblivion to 30 or 40, adding more fancy stuff like an enb and giving up the struggle.. But did some more tweaks and figured out how to force performance mode on my gpu and now managing 45-50fps in the worst areas, so almost to my smooth 60fps goal =) (And my gpu is sitll doing it at like 20-30% usage outdoors lol) and re: Stutter remover Im using, and tried all sorts of settings, nothing really seems to have any impact on my fps, just some stuff causes crashes is all i notice. (tho the fast exit fixes crashes) oblivion reloaded I tried, but it caused tons of crashes and is very unfriendly to a tweaked game, really demands fully default settings to even work. After I finally got it to work, it just reduced my fps about 5-10, so was a waste of time. oddly its happy to go to 70% and 300+ fps indoors, so its like the higher poly count or lack of occlusion just causes it to not to want to do much work.