T0xicH4zard Posted July 24, 2010 Share Posted July 24, 2010 I have been looking around at the 17 inch MacBook Pros and other gaming laptops but I am not sure if what I am looking at is good enough for high settings. Does anyone know the minimum requirements for High or Ultra High settings?PS please don't tell that the MacBook Pros aren't for gaming Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yeldarb Posted July 25, 2010 Share Posted July 25, 2010 There are programs that will allow an Apple Computer to imitate Windows XP, I am not sure what the programs are called or how to get them. Oblivion is a resource hog, meaning it uses more memory (RAM) and processor operations than many other games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomlong54210 Posted July 25, 2010 Share Posted July 25, 2010 I have been looking around at the 17 inch MacBook Pros and other gaming laptops but I am not sure if what I am looking at is good enough for high settings. Does anyone know the minimum requirements for High or Ultra High settings?PS please don't tell that the MacBook Pros aren't for gamingIf you get a MacBook Pro with a 2.4GHz Core2Duo, you can run even modified Oblivion well. I have one, but I do not use it for gaming. I know of someone running FCOM on it with a hundred other mods with reasonable performance, however. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T0xicH4zard Posted July 25, 2010 Author Share Posted July 25, 2010 It would be really good if I could have a list of minimum requirements for high settings so that I know for sure what i need. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomlong54210 Posted July 25, 2010 Share Posted July 25, 2010 It would be really good if I could have a list of minimum requirements for high settings so that I know for sure what i need.There isn't one... If you are talking about running the vanilla game, if you have a video card with 256MB VRAM and a Core2Duo of almost speed, you'll have it covered. The vanilla game's requirements, by today's standards, are not all that amazing. With respect to laptops, you'll still have to spend a little extra though. The MacBook Pro I described is about $2000. I was thinking Ultra High settings though... Edit: even a 1.8GHz Core2Duo could run it at Ultra High... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Extreme TES Posted July 25, 2010 Share Posted July 25, 2010 ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series Intel Core 2 Duo CPU E7400,2.80GHz4GB Ram My computer...And its little buggy with the graphics mods....If i put distand land...Every 3 seconds it buggs a little .... :wallbash: Soo...I dont think that there is a laptop what can handle oblivion at high settings :whistling: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomlong54210 Posted July 25, 2010 Share Posted July 25, 2010 ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series Intel Core 2 Duo CPU E7400,2.80GHz4GB Ram My computer...And its little buggy with the graphics mods....If i put distand land...Every 3 seconds it buggs a little .... :wallbash: Soo...I dont think that there is a laptop what can handle oblivion at high settings :whistling:I just said someone is running Oblivion at high settings with FCOM and a load list of 100 mods on a MacBook Pro... I'll go see if I can get that load list from her. Your computer is overkill for the vanilla game. I have a slightly faster CPU and the 1GB HD4870 and the vanilla game runs at max FPS (60 on my setup) on Ultra High settings. My (heavily) modified game runs at ~45FPS outside with maxed out settings. You can see one of my last (working) load orders on my site. Currently, I do not have a running load order, since I have yet to play the game this summer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piranha91 Posted July 26, 2010 Share Posted July 26, 2010 ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series Intel Core 2 Duo CPU E7400,2.80GHz4GB Ram My computer...And its little buggy with the graphics mods....If i put distand land...Every 3 seconds it buggs a little .... :wallbash: Soo...I dont think that there is a laptop what can handle oblivion at high settings :whistling:I just said someone is running Oblivion at high settings with FCOM and a load list of 100 mods on a MacBook Pro... I'll go see if I can get that load list from her. Your computer is overkill for the vanilla game. I have a slightly faster CPU and the 1GB HD4870 and the vanilla game runs at max FPS (60 on my setup) on Ultra High settings. My (heavily) modified game runs at ~45FPS outside with maxed out settings. You can see one of my last (working) load orders on my site. Currently, I do not have a running load order, since I have yet to play the game this summer. Hmm... I have a 1GB 4870 as well. I'm running Qarl's (unoptimized version 1.3), FCOM, better cities, and some other small mods. My FPS are nowhere near 45. I don't have FRAPS installed yet but it can't be more than 20. Is oblivion so CPU bound that my dual core Athlon X2 @2.9 GHz is slowing it down? Before I got the card I though I had all the hardware requirements down but it's definitely slowing down everywhere but inside buildings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomlong54210 Posted July 26, 2010 Share Posted July 26, 2010 ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series Intel Core 2 Duo CPU E7400,2.80GHz4GB Ram My computer...And its little buggy with the graphics mods....If i put distand land...Every 3 seconds it buggs a little .... :wallbash: Soo...I dont think that there is a laptop what can handle oblivion at high settings :whistling:I just said someone is running Oblivion at high settings with FCOM and a load list of 100 mods on a MacBook Pro... I'll go see if I can get that load list from her. Your computer is overkill for the vanilla game. I have a slightly faster CPU and the 1GB HD4870 and the vanilla game runs at max FPS (60 on my setup) on Ultra High settings. My (heavily) modified game runs at ~45FPS outside with maxed out settings. You can see one of my last (working) load orders on my site. Currently, I do not have a running load order, since I have yet to play the game this summer. Hmm... I have a 1GB 4870 as well. I'm running Qarl's (unoptimized version 1.3), FCOM, better cities, and some other small mods. My FPS are nowhere near 45. I don't have FRAPS installed yet but it can't be more than 20. Is oblivion so CPU bound that my dual core Athlon X2 @2.9 GHz is slowing it down? Before I got the card I though I had all the hardware requirements down but it's definitely slowing down everywhere but inside buildings.Oblivion is CPU intensive. I have an E8500 Core2Duo running at 3.16GHz stock. Up until 2009, maybe, when the iX series was released, I think the C2Ds were the top for dual cores. That might have something to do with it. You do not need FRAPS to monitor your in-game FPS. Use the console commands TDT and SDT 2 to view your FPS while running around in-game. My FPS only hangs around 20 in BC cities. Also, why do you use QTP3 unoptimized? The visual difference between it and QTP3R is minor. For me, the cost-performance ratio for that difference is nowhere near appealing. I am building a new system this summer to play my same setup faster, not to throw more stuff at it. I'll be upgrading a few things of course, but, graphics-wise, RAEVWD is the only significant visual enhancer I have not already had installed. I'm looking forward to have 30FPS in cities and 60FPS (capped with OSR) elsewhere constant. (The 60FPS will not be maintained in battle. Oblivion still would still require some ridiculous power to achieve that, and it might not even be optimized enough for any consumer-available processor to do that much.) That will be a beautiful experience...only one more week or so... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piranha91 Posted July 26, 2010 Share Posted July 26, 2010 Thanks for that! I'll give it a try. If I already installed the unoptimized textures manually by just extracting them to the data folder, can I still make an OMOD of the redimized version or do I have to extract and overwrite the old textures? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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