Extremely low performance

[Elminnster]

First off, hello and thanks to all people who make this site what it is, I only found this site this week and already fell in love with your work :)

However, I am unable to try it out yet :/

 

I upgraded my machine recently and thought I´d try Oblivion without Oldblivion for the first time, but the game is unplayably slow, regardless of whatever settings I try. I tried running the game with no mods, just patched with the official patches and on settings as low as 640*480 sans AA, but nothing changed. Initial video is stable at 30 fps, but as soon as I get to character creation, FPS drop to 5 and stay there. Also, upon first run, Oblivion suggested low graphics settings.

 

I am running Unreal Tournament 3 maxed with no problem, drivers are up-to-date (tried disabling CCC) and I tried pretty much everything that I found on the internet in the last three days that I was trying to run the game (mostly editing the .ini in different ways)

 

If anyone could tip me off about the cause, I´d be most grateful :)

 

Thanks

 

PS: specs as below, I can post more if needed

 

Computer:

Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Professional

OS Service Pack Service Pack 3

DirectX 4.09.00.0904 (DirectX 9.0c)

 

Motherboard:

CPU Type DualCore AMD Athlon 64 X2, 2100 MHz (10.5 x 200) 4000+

Motherboard Name Gigabyte GA-M61P-S3 (4 PCI, 2 PCI-E x1, 1 PCI-E x16, 4 DDR2 DIMM, Audio, Video, Gigabit LAN, IEEE-1394)

Motherboard Chipset nVIDIA nForce 6100-430, AMD Hammer

System Memory 3584 MB (DDR2-800 DDR2 SDRAM)

DIMM1: A-Data EXTREME DDR2 800+ 2 GB DDR2-800 DDR2 SDRAM (5-5-5-18 @ 400 MHz) (4-4-4-12 @ 266 MHz) (3-3-3-9 @ 200 MHz)

DIMM2: A-Data EXTREME DDR2 800+ 2 GB DDR2-800 DDR2 SDRAM (5-5-5-18 @ 400 MHz) (4-4-4-12 @ 266 MHz) (3-3-3-9 @ 200 MHz)

BIOS Type Award Modular (03/05/10)

 

Display:

Video Adapter ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series (1024 MB)

 

EDIT: Thanks to BBen64 for his analysis here, http://tesnexus.com/articles/article.php?id=255 - nicely written, unfortunately didn t help me :/