Sorry for the most recent topic

[Elsarian]

I am sorry if I did not ask that right, but I really need to know.

 

My current CPU is 2.50 I belive. And I have a decent enough graghics card. But I am still lagging here and there and I would like to eliminate it.

 

I currently run with about 16 to 25 fps. Never above nor below that. Unless I get lucky that is.

 

And since Oblivion is such a CPU hog, what would you recommend that I have?

 

I hope I have explained this good enough :)

 

-Elsarian

[eviltrain]

I'm not sure you are explaining it "correctly" even now. 2.50 sounds like a Windows 7 capability number and that just won't do for a discussion like that one you want. I for example have an AMD Phenom II X3 710 processor. Comes with 3 cores and runs somewhere around 2.3 mhz. Fairly recent and excellent general purpose CPU. My Windows 7 performance score is something like 4.9 but I don't remember.

 

As for framerate, I get anywhere from 20 to 40 fps outdoors and 60 to 150 fps indoors with occasional slow downs to 5 fps about once every other day.

 

The new Intel core 5's might be enough for Oblivion or even the Core 3 but I doubt it. This is assuming you are using graphic enhancement mods like I am.

[Megatarius]

Oblivion is actually not a CPU hog. It can only recognize one core. You can get the beastliest quad core you want and it won't use all of it. As for that one core, it runs it ragged.

[Tomlong54210]

I am sorry if I did not ask that right, but I really need to know.

 

My current CPU is 2.50 I belive. And I have a decent enough graghics card. But I am still lagging here and there and I would like to eliminate it.

 

I currently run with about 16 to 25 fps. Never above nor below that. Unless I get lucky that is.

 

And since Oblivion is such a CPU hog, what would you recommend that I have?

 

I hope I have explained this good enough :)

 

-Elsarian

People on running those crazy i7-980s or whatever probably experience lag with a heavily-modified Oblivion because Oblivion simply is not optimized enough itself. If you are running within the capability of your CPU and still suffering lag only putting Oblivion on a solid state drive would minimize the lag. If your game runs consistently between 16-25 always, you are doing pretty well.

 

What processor do you have? 2.50 means nothing to me.

[Elsarian]

I suppose that is my processor lol. You mean the name and everything? It says 2.50 GHz so i suppose that is it lol.

 

You have to remember, I am an ex-consoler so yeah lol. Still getting the hang of all this lol.

[Pronam]

Oblivion is actually not a CPU hog. It can only recognize one core. You can get the beastliest quad core you want and it won't use all of it. As for that one core, it runs it ragged.

To some extend it is. If you have a dual core you'll get the benefits of the load being shared (all other programs/background progms.) on another cpu and one being capable of focusing on oblivion.

so yes, a dual core 2.5 (for example) might be able to do than a single 3.2. but you're correct in saying it won't benefit too much. It's mainly for the time dual cores were introduced (on an affordable price) that it generated it benefits, any time beyond it couldn't do too much more.

 

The trouble is that you're probably tied to an certain set of CPUs because of your motherboard. Any idea which you have and what is your graphics card then? But.... like tom said, it's mostly fine at such a rate to play.

[Elsarian]

Well my graphics card is a Nvidia (Spelling?) G-Force 8500 GS. And I cannot remember my processors worth anything.

 

And I am not currently at my PC so therefor I would not be able to look and tell you.

 

However, I did find an old mod that I used to use called "Operation Optimization" and i installed it, and now my game runs a hell of a lot smoother than what it did!

[ArmeniusLOD]

Oblivion will run on multiple threads like any program does, but you need the proper OS and CPU for the threads to be automatically spread out across your logical or physical threads, i.e. anything after 2005.

 

I don't think a GeForce 8500 would be enough because they are basically still using architecture from the 6000 series. Oblivion is an older game, so it might work, but you may have to turn some details down.

 

The type of CPU it is matters more than pure speed. An AMD Phenom, Intel Core i5/i7, or Intel Core 2 has a short enough pipeline to have a fast enough throughput to handle a realtime gaming environment. Most games nowadays are GPU limited, though, so the graphics card will affect framerate more than the CPU.

 

For the record I ran vanilla Oblivion with an AMD Athlon XP 2000+ (1.67 GHz, single core/single thread), nVidia GeForce 7800 GS AGP, and 1 GB DDR-333 memory at around 40-50 fps most of the time. There was some occasional hitching because of the single-threaded CPU, though.

[Elsarian]

Well then maybe my game is just moody lol.

 

I had a friend tell me that it would be best to use multiple hard drives for gaming because it helps performance out a lot so that is what I am looking into now. And i am also looking to get an Nvidia G-Force 9800 GT soon, so I hope that that will help as well.

[ArmeniusLOD]

The 9800 GT is a great card, and you can pick one up for around $100 now since it is three generations old now. To run a game from two different hard drives you need to set them up as RAID 0 (striping) which requires the appropriate BIOS and driver support, so be aware of this before you go out upgrading this. Also be aware that this will only speed up loading times. You could also have a separate drive for your swap file.