Performance

[darlaten1]

the processor is amd athlon 64x2 dual core processor 4000+ (2 cpus) ~2.1GHz i have 894MB of RAM i have a nvidia geforce 6150se nForce 430 the video memory is 313MB what dose psu mean

[Tomlong54210]

PSU means power supply. I knew I was being too lazy, sorry... Your video memory is really... Ehhh, your system is on the weak side, by a lot... I do not even know what that video card is. Your RAM is not even the recommended quantity. It passes the minimum specs, marginally.

[darlaten1]

the video card is a intergraded nividia 6150 card it doses meet the minimum requirements. I don't know how to look at the psu without opening the computer dose it afflict how oblivion plays. here are the

Minimum System Requirements for oblivion:

* Windows XP

* 512MB System RAM

* 2 Ghz Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent processor

* 8x DVD-ROM Drive

* 4.6 GB free hard disk space

* DirectX 9.0c (included)

* 128MB Direct3D Compatible Video card and DirectX 9.0 compatible driver

* DirectX 8.1 Compatible Sound Card

* Keyboard, Mouse

[Tomlong54210]

the video card is a intergraded nividia 6150 card it doses meet the minimum requirements. I don't know how to look at the psu without opening the computer dose it afflict how oblivion plays. here are the

Minimum System Requirements for oblivion:

* Windows XP

* 512MB System RAM

* 2 Ghz Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent processor

* 8x DVD-ROM Drive

* 4.6 GB free hard disk space

* DirectX 9.0c (included)

* 128MB Direct3D Compatible Video card and DirectX 9.0 compatible driver

* DirectX 8.1 Compatible Sound Card

* Keyboard, Mouse

I know the min system requirement. That's why I said your system passes them. However, your RAM does not meet the minimum requirements. You probably do not need to worry about you PSU, as your graphics card should not be drawing much power. What model is this machine you are running, by the way?

[darlaten1]

its an emachine with windows vista. my brothers emachine with a 1.8 processor and 1g of ram and windows xp plays it better. i hope I'm not to much trouble

[Tomlong54210]

No, you're cool. ;) His computer has more RAM, which gives Oblivion more breathing room. XP is a cleaner operating system than Vista. Just look at the page files on the two. You should try a clean boot and run your games with as many unnecessary background processes turned off as possible.

 

Clean boot - http://www.ehow.com/how_5331553_clean-boot-windows.html

 

Game boost - http://www.iobit.com/gamebooster.html <-- use this guy to turn off unnecessary bg processes when you decide to play a game

[darlaten1]

what dose Clean boot do exactly I have to be very careful not to damege my computer dad seas if i brake it hes not geting me another one he dos"T like me downloading game stuff he can"T know so i"M on my own and I don't really know very much about computer

[darlaten1]

i have Ben using the game booster it makes it much essayer to tern the extra programs off i f ergot to add this

[Tomlong54210]

what dose Clean boot do exactly I have to be very careful not to damege my computer dad seas if i brake it hes not geting me another one he dos"T like me downloading game stuff he can"T know so i"M on my own and I don't really know very much about computer

Clean boot takes out all processes. It is useful if you really need to run the game with the bare minimum in the background, or if you are trying to figure out if one of those processes is to blame for your performance issues. It is also a sort of reset. There is no way that that would break your computer. That is a troubleshooting and cleaning action. Another thing you can do is defrag your hard drive and turn off hardware acceleration via the Dxdiag menus (or music in the game via the INI.) I recommend an outside program for defragging. There are many good programs. I could not decide for you, but I can give you a link to one of those "best" lists. Actually, it looks like I was able to pick out a "best".

 

MyDefrag - http://www.mydefrag.com/ <-- defragging

 

CCleaner - http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner <-- registry cleaner

 

Those are both excellent application, so there is no need to worry about them. Another way to speed up your computer is to clean it of temporary files, adware, etc. CCleaner can deal with the temporary files, I believe. For antivirus, I recommend AVG Free, and, for spyware, I recommend SpyBot Search & Destroy. For S&D, there is no reason to use the Tea Timer or the real-time cleaning. You just want to setup the automated scans and use immunization after running a scan every now and then (definitely after running the first one.) I do not know about MyDefrag, but the other utilities all have really nice, user-friendly interfaces.

 

AVG Free - http://free.avg.com/us-en/download-avg-anti-virus-free <-- download the free version

 

Spybot S&D - http://www.securitywonks.net/listing/view/1/Spybot-Search-Destroy <-- linked directly to the download page for ya'

 

 

Edit: If you have other spyware and antivirus programs installed, it is best to uninstall those first. Running multiple antivirus programs can cause trouble, and running multiple of any of these programs is a serious resource hog. If you are satisfied with the protection you have, do not bother with these. I am just offering suggestions.

[darlaten1]

these programs whont take off any of mine or dads files or programs some cleaning programs remove files and stuff if if they haven't ben used for a long time whats with oblivion mods causing so many fragmented files much bigger then if all the mods where installed i knoe i probably shouldn't ask this but i asked about transformation mods on a different part of the forms i did mot get much response is ther a way to contact the people who made them i wouldn't ask here but I"m still new to this all of the post on the forms in the last week are the first i have ever done with no help