Low FPS Max Settings on a 5770

[roninmedia]

I recently purchased a Sapphire Radeon 5770 because I've basically heard testimony that yes, it will run Oblivion at max settings on high resolutions. Just be to safer, I lowered the resolution to one that fit with my monitors default 16:10 ratio.

 

Resolution: 1280x800

Everything maxed. HDR, no AA.

 

Intel Core 2 Quad Q8300 @ 2.5 GHz

4 GB DDR2 RAM

1 GB Radeon 5770

500 GB WD Blue Caviar 7200 RPM hard drive.

 

 

However, I'm peaking at around 35 FPS with V.sync off in Anvil facing towards the Fighter's guild under the tree. Even after going through the tweaks for dual core and having more things load in the background when entering an area (Same results with the default Oblivion INI).

 

 

 

Mods

AliveWaters

All+5AttributeModifiers

Bag of Holding

Enhanced Water

Francesco's Leveled Creatures-Items Mod

Natural Environments

Quest Award Leveler

RenGuardOverhaul

RealisticFlora

Short Grass

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Grass without tiling

Landscape LOD Textures

Landscape LOD Textures (Border Regions)

LOD Normal Map Fix

Low poly grass

[Tomlong54210]

Tuning Oblivion - http://tesivpositive.animolious.com/?page=tuning_oblivion <-- be sure to see the "Related" links at the bottom

 

Why do you have Low Poly Grass and Short Grass installed at the same time? Why do you think your FPS is GPU-related? Have you tried lowering the object load distance slider?

 

 

Edit: Oh, I did not see that you were talking about in cities. Oblivion is CPU-intensive, and cities are the worst because of high concentrations of AI packages and scripts, attached to all of the NPCs. 35 is fine.

 

 

Edit: Increasing/decreasing your screen resolution probably does not have much affect on that performance, I would imagine.

[roninmedia]

Even outdoors, this rig is having a hard time keeping a steady framerate. Walking from Roxey Inn back to Vilverin, following the path, my FPS is going from 29 to 89 with an average of about 59.

 

 

You were right about the changing the resolution. Sliding all the way down to the pathetic 640x480 gave me about the same framerates.

 

 

Got the 1GB 5770. No performance drop whatsoever, it's amazing :blink: Perty hehe 1920x1200, 4xAA, 4xAF, and I'm still getting the same FPS (45-60+ outdoors) I was getting when I had ATP texture packs installed :D

 

Really shouldn't have too many issues with the meshes...I'm on a 3.2GHz dual core and there's no studder at all...it's just nuts lol.

This is the quote that had me thinking I should expect more from my pc. Granted, I don't know their full mod list or their ini settings, but I guess its time to tweak and tweak.

[Fonger]

same problem, same card - other game

 

betting its got the same cause and same solution

 

so

 

http://www.thenexusforums.com/index.php?/topic/224279-decent-system-low-fps/page__pid__1975497#entry1975497

[chaospearl]

The guy you're quoting is running a 3.2Ghz CPU. You're running a 2.5Ghz. That's the difference, from what I've experienced. It very likely isn't a graphics related problem, it's a CPU problem. As Tomlong said, Oblivion is seriously CPU intensive. I've got a Radeon 5870 with 2GB and I'm lucky when my FPS maintains at 20 or more in cities. Because I have so many quest mods and other AI-adding stuff that my poor 2.8GHz CPU chokes when I'm near lots of NPCs. There's not really much help for it besides maybe overclocking, but you don't wanna go there unless you know what you're doing.

 

Personally? I wouldn't consider 29+ FPS a problem. In my game I don't really notice a slowdown until I drop under 15 FPS... anything higher than that appears smooth to my eye. If I didn't use FRAPS I'd never know that my FPS sometimes jumps between 5-10 in the center of a crowded city and 65+ a few cells over near the gate.

 

If it's the rapidfire stuttering between 30-ish and 80-ish that's annoying you, try using Streamline and\or Oblivion Stutter Remover. You can set your FPS to cap at a certain rate and stay between 25 and 35 or something like that, if you want.

[Illiad86]

lady ;) And yes...running a 3.2GHz dual...which was originally at 2.6GHz. Did notice a bit of a jump...should of checked how it was before I installed QTPIII :P

 

00 Oblivion.esm

01 All Natural Base.esm [Version 0.9.8]

02 Francesco's Leveled Creatures-Items Mod.esm

03 Cobl Main.esm [Version 1.72]

04 DremoraCompanion.esm

05 CM Partners.esm

06 Bab.esm [Version FINAL]

07 HorseCombatMaster.esm

++ HrmnsOblivionScriptOptimizationv1.0.esp

08 Unofficial Oblivion Patch.esp [Version 3.2.5]

09 Unofficial Shivering Isles Patch.esp [Version 1.4.0]

0A Beautiful_Women_NiceOnly.esp

0B Beautiful_Women_DB_Addon.esp

0C Beautiful_Women_SI.esp

0D Handsome_Gents_Addon.esp

0E Handsome_Gents_DB_Addon.esp

0F Handsome_Gents_SI.esp

10 Handsome_Gents_Bonus.esp

11 DLCShiveringIsles.esp

12 Natural_Habitat_by_Max_Tael.esp

13 All Natural - Real Lights.esp [Version 0.9.9]

14 All Natural.esp [Version 0.9.7]

15 All Natural - SI.esp [Version 0.9.7]

++ All Natural - Natural Weather.esp [Version 0.9.6]

16 Natural_Water_by_Max_Tael.esp

17 300_Lore_Dialogue_Updated.esp

18 Book Jackets Oblivion.esp

19 personality_idles4.esp

1A P1DlookHereYou.esp

1B Harvest[Containers].esp

1C SI Living Economy.esp

1D MaleBodyReplacerV4.esp

1E TFF_Races_Base_RSM.esp

1F Acolyte_Of_Kynareth_HGEC.esp

20 ACCCGR SI.esp

21 DG Jewelry for All.esp

22 Ryk_SorceressArmor.esp

++ VA_FemmeDaedricHelmet.esp

23 TFF_Armor_Base.esp

24 TFF_Clothing_Base.esp

25 TFF_Clothing_SI.esp

26 Accompt of the Delitescent.esp

27 UFF RM Ranger Armor.esp

28 XiaNewAmuletsV1.esp

29 Francesco's More Wilderness Life.esp

2A Francesco's Optional Vendor Tweaks.esp

2B Francesco's Optional Files 1.esp

2C Francesco's Optional Files 2.esp

2D Francesco's Optional Files 3.esp

2E Slof's Oblivion Robe Trader.esp

2F Cobl Glue.esp [Version 1.72]

30 Cobl Si.esp [Version 1.63]

++ Cobl Tweaks.esp [Version 1.44]

31 Enhanced Quest Roleplaying.esp

32 Daedric Brotherhood Armour.esp

33 Saber's Doubledaggers.esp

34 Summon Oblivion Gate v08d.esp

35 UFF - Corset Dresses.esp

36 Elven_Gardens_Apartment.esp

37 Pauldron.esp

38 newdremora.esp

39 Dianne's Dremora Partners.esp

3A cm_Xaas_shamikka.esp

3B goldenarrowarcheryshopfixedprices.esp

3C Simple Cabin.esp

3D Knights.esp

3E Natural_Vegetation_by_Max_Tael.esp

3F Harvest [Flora].esp [Version 3.0.0]

40 Harvest [Flora] - Shivering Isles.esp [Version 3.0.0]

41 FrbitPotionReplacer.esp

42 Leviathan Soulgems.esp

43 Salmo the Baker, Cobl.esp [Version 3.08]

44 Short Grass V3.esp

45 talkwithyourhands PI4.esp

46 Roleplaying Dialogues.esp

47 dyseso_Light_Ingred_Appar.esp

48 Better Looking Dremora.esp

4A daedricbosmer.esp

4B UFF Daedric Tattoos.esp

4C RenGuardOverhaul.esp

4D RenGuardOverhaulShiveringIsles.esp

4E BabShop.esp

4F Bab.esp [Version RC1]

49 CTAddPose_osr1.esp

50 CTAddPose_osr2.esp

51 CTAddPose_osr3.esp

52 CTAddPose_Le01.esp

53 CTAddPose_Le02.esp

54 CTAddPose_OTPair.esp

55 CTAddPose_OTpair2.esp

56 CTAddPose_Gaff_01.esp

57 CTAddPose_Gaff_02.esp

58 ActorsInEmotions.esp

5A _No__persistant_enchantment_glow_fix-1843.esp

5B EyelashesForVanillaRaces1.0.esp

5C Capucines Character Expansion.esp

5D TFF_Races_Base.esp

5E CM Partners.esp

5F DremoraCompanion.esp

59 Francesco's 10 days respawn time - 1-20 day lenght rescale.esp

60 DS Flaming Arrows.esp [Version 1.2]

61 Get Wet - just droplets.esp

++ Cobl Filter Late MERGE ONLY.esp [Version 1.53]

** All Natural - Indoor Weather Filter For Mods.esp [Version 0.9.9]

62 Bashed Patch, 0.esp

63 OblivionMageTowerV1.1.esp

64 DeadlyReflex 5 - Combat Moves.esp

 

with QTPIII, Improved Trees and Flora, high texture creatures, IFT with high resolution face textures on that, Improved Meats and Veggies, and others I've forgotten about lol.

 

Don't use too much :P Don't use many AI changing mods. But .ini is tweaked accordingly, also use the FO3 RAM boost (which works for Oblivion and many other games). Load order is sorted with BOSS, use Wrye Bash (gotta love the Bashed Patch :D). I don't use Streamline or any other studder/FPS fixers. I don't have a bazillion things running in the background while I'm playing...just whatever Windows uses.

 

Even though I have a dual core and you have a quad core, Oblivion is not multi-threaded and only uses one of the cores....and I'm using one old school dual core...90nm AMD 5200+...ah the good old Windsor :) 2MB of Level 2 cache...ohhh yeah :P haha

 

I still get lower FPS in cities...25-40FPS when there's a lot of NPCs around...depends. Like Tomlong said, it's normal :)

 

You'll never get a steady framerate unless you run Streamline or something that caps the FPS. I just don't find it annoying that it spikes from 45-100+ outdoors, just something ya deal with ;) I'm just happy it looks great and runs great :)

 

Overclock that stinker haha ;) Well...lol, don't if you don't know how to or have a lower end/cheap motherboard. Getting up past 3 GHz seems to do a heck of a lot for games, and for Windows in general.

 

Having a sound card as well generally improved performance (not as much studdering around NPCs or in battles) for me as well. Onboard uses CPU...so less strain on it.

 

It's a good card hun ;) Not the godliest of the godlies...but very very nice. Had to test it with Crysis of course lol...did the benchmark, 1920x1200, 4xAA, 4xAF, all max for DX9, high sound quality...averaged 35FPS...I say that's not too bad :D Not all games are the same...Oblivion is Oblivion, Crysis is Crysis.

 

Rather interesting article

http://www.100fps.com/how_many_frames_can_humans_see.htm