Constant lag spikes, can't fix it myself

[Equiti]

So, whenever I am outside--doesn't really matter where--every five seconds or so I get about 2-3 seconds of a huge drop in FPS. I normally can run with decent graphics at 22-25 FPS outdoors and 30-35 indoors. With these lag spikes my FPS goes from 22-25 to 7-9 every few seconds. At first I thought to myself, "Too much grass and trees, I guess." So I went into option and reduced Grass and Tree visibilty distance to nearly 0. It was like walking around with paper trees everywhere. But still, I kept getting these lag spikes. So I got the LowLowPoly Grass mod to see if that worked, and I still have these consistent FPS drops. I installed texture reduction mods, put game setting to medium, then low, installed more mods that reduce texture and LOD detail quality, water quality, tree quality, Combat FPS Booster (made everyone stupid..) but I am STILL getting these spikes. I finally went in and tweaked my .ini file and set the imingrasssize to 120 to thin out the grass as well as many many other things via this guide: http://www.tweakguides.com/Oblivion_8.html, but I can't shake this problem.

 

It is very, very annoying and it becomes difficult at times to go into combat even against one lonely bandit. I'm afraid to do any major quests or to go into an oblivion gate because of what might happen.

 

I'm running Windows 7 64bit, Intel® Core i3-2350M CPU @ 2.30GHz, 4GB RAM, Intel® HD Graphics Card with about 2GB of memory for that. I know it's just some basic specs, but even on the lowest possible settings for this game I am having some major issues. PLEASE someone give me a solution! I want to play my game!

 

EDIT: And before you ask, I have reinstalled this game two times now, and tried running it without any mods as regular vanilla Oblivion.. It is worse without the texture/grass/tree/LOD reducers, but still bad with them. Help much appreciated.

Edited August 24, 2013 by Equiti

[Lanceor]

My suspicion is that things aren't loading fast enough, so the game pauses/lags every time it needs to load up a new area. Defragging the hard drive might help.

[eric31415]

Reading this post really gave me some flashbacks to my first experiences with Oblivion. Not surprisingly, my laptop has exactly the same specs as yours. It took me a long, rather frustrating, time to get OB running nicely on this thing, so I know your pain.

 

Before I get started walking you thru all the essential tweaks and mods, know this - you will always have those little lag spikes when loading objects/terrain. But you can get them down to the point where they are barely noticeable.

 

 

INI Tweaks - Find the following lines in your Oblivion.ini (Documents/MyGames/Oblivion), and change your values to the ones I have shown.

 

uGridDistantTreeRange=9

uGridDistantCount=9

uGridsToLoad=5

You could use different values, but these will give you a nice boost without sacrificing much quality.

There are a ton more ini tweaks you could make to pick up a little more performance, but 90% of the benefit from tweaking the ini will come from these 3 lines.

 

4gbPatch - To let OB use more RAM.

 

Dedicate an SD card or flash drive to Ready Boost - 4gb is enough. You will be shocked at the improvement.

 

Oblivion Stutter Remover - A plugin for OBSE

 

Streamline - Scrap that combat performance mod, I've been down that road... Also, when using Streamline with Oblivion Stutter Remover, you should set Streamline's desired FPS settings inside the parameters set by OSR.(10-31, if i remember rightly). Make sure you factor in the combat FPS setting( not adjustable in game, use ini.)

 

RPGBlackDragon's LowTriPolyGrass - I tried all the grass mods, this one is fully customizable, and works as well as any.

 

Again, there are a ton of performance mods for Oblivion, I tried them all. I think the only other one I still use is Optimized Distant Land Max

 

And make sure that the Oblivion.exe is set as a trusted program with your antivirus, and you check "do not scan files on access". Won't make much difference with vanilla, but any loose folders added by mods would be affected.

 

 

Since we have basically identical machines, I guess I can give you a good idea what to expect. I have video quality set to medium, with high quality textures. I use FPS reducing mods like Unique Landscapes, Natural Environments, ReallyAlmostEverythingViewableWhileDistant, and lots of others. My FPS is about what you have, but the lag spikes are more like skipped frames.

 

But you will have to make sacrifices in mod selection. I can't use mods like Open Cities, MMM, and others I love without serious lag. With Unique landscapes, I stay away from the ones that add forests, I use RAEVWD for things like Ayleid ruins and forts, but not all the plugins.

 

Hope this helps.

[redfdragon]

i have the same problem i lag every like 10 sec for like a sec its annoying any fix for this

[sparken117]

Ok im here to help on any forum i can find about enhancing oblivion fps and performance. People keep doing .ini tweaks and getting performance enhancer mods. For some this works. For others it does very little. I am one of them. Theres a misconception that oblivion engine is faulty and that is not true. Gamebryo (oblivions engine) is well made and balanced. The down side is its cpu intensive. Theres no multi thread problem and most of what people say is not true. If you computer meets the minimum requirements to run oblivion you good to go but theres one thing people are not seeing. With my fair bit of computer knowings and the help of a faimly friend who builds computers and is a programmer. We found out that most of the time with oblivion performance issues and .ini tweaks with performance enhancer mods not working is a buss problem (a buss is the system that transfers data between components in a computer).Its probably not fast enough to handle the flow of data or something is bogging it down and unless your a computer expert DO NOT MESS WITH A BUSS. i warned you. I hope this helps and im sorry but if you cant get oblivion to run smooth no matter what you try you just have to deal with it or buy a computer with a fast buss.This applies to any game. It all depends on how to game runs.

[NexussVI]

Ready Boost did nothing to me. Stop saying such craps, because I wasted my time.

[Oblivionaddicted]

Mods?

Settings?

More infos about the moment when your problem appeared?

Edited May 12, 2021 by Oblivionaddicted