edumazieri Posted October 27, 2009 Share Posted October 27, 2009 My Rig is the following:Athlon X2 4800+GTS 250 512mb2gb RamWindows 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pedantic Posted October 27, 2009 Share Posted October 27, 2009 You shouldn't be experiencing those problems. If I were you I'd check out your graphic card settings. I have a lessor card than you, albeit with 1GB video mem, and I'm maxed at 60 FPS according to FRAPS. Most of my settings are on - let application decide - if that's any help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edumazieri Posted October 27, 2009 Author Share Posted October 27, 2009 now i envy you a lot. i tried that too on the nvidia control panel ;\ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bben46 Posted October 27, 2009 Share Posted October 27, 2009 First thing I noticed was 2G Ram on a 64 bit sys. You are starving your system. With just 2G you might as well be using a 32 bit sys. 4G minimum. Here is my slow game article., there may be something in it that will helphttp://tesnexus.com/articles/article.php?id=255 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edumazieri Posted October 27, 2009 Author Share Posted October 27, 2009 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edumazieri Posted October 27, 2009 Author Share Posted October 27, 2009 Yes but isn't my system at least good enough to be better than 15 fps? ;\ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pedantic Posted October 27, 2009 Share Posted October 27, 2009 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. What bben said is spot on and sage advice. I'm sorry, but I'd missed the fact you are using x64 PC. I guess a memory upgrade is in order. Good luck now. :yes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bben46 Posted October 27, 2009 Share Posted October 27, 2009 Yes, it 'should' but if it is cluttered with a bunch of junk, all using little pieces of RAM it will slow down when the game can't get the ram it needs. Oblivion can use up to about 2G of ram - but system overhead takes some, and every little background process takes a little more. Then, if you don't have a separate sound card, that steals a chunk of ram for your audio. My guess is you are using less than 1G for the game and the rest is being used by other things. Some antivirus and antispyware check every disk read and write for problems. If you can - for testing purposes - disconnect from the internet, turn off your Antivirus, antispyware and firewall Plus anything else that is not needed to play the game and try it. By cleaning it up you will free more RAM for the game With 4 G ram, you will (hopefully) have enough for the game AND all of the other stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edumazieri Posted October 27, 2009 Author Share Posted October 27, 2009 quick question: can i just install a 32bit OS event though my processor is 64bit ??? lol very noobish i just never wondered ;p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bben46 Posted October 27, 2009 Share Posted October 27, 2009 It probably wouldn't help. And may even slow it more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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