Low FPS after a few minutes of play.

[thefiveofhearts]

I recently built a new computer, here are the specs:

 

540W Power Supply made by Rosewill

Ta790GXBE Biostar Motherboard

3 GB of DDR2 Kingston HyperX RAM

AMD 640 Quad-Core CPU

Sapphire HD 5550 1GB DDR2

400 GB Western Digital HD

 

Now, before you say I'm just blabbing about parts, here's my problem. On paper, it sounds like my build could run Oblivion with flying colors, but that is not the case with me. After a few minutes of play, I'll go from perfect frame rate, to a stuttering slideshow. I heard that some Bethesda game react badly to anything above a Dual-Core. Do you guys think this could be the case?

 

Thanks for taking the time to read my post and have a wonderful evening.

[thefiveofhearts]

Also, I forgot to mention, I'm using Windows 7 32bit

[GetOutOfBox]

I recently built a new computer, here are the specs:

 

540W Power Supply made by Rosewill

Ta790GXBE Biostar Motherboard

3 GB of DDR2 Kingston HyperX RAM

AMD 640 Quad-Core CPU

Sapphire HD 5550 1GB DDR2

400 GB Western Digital HD

 

Now, before you say I'm just blabbing about parts, here's my problem. On paper, it sounds like my build could run Oblivion with flying colors, but that is not the case with me. After a few minutes of play, I'll go from perfect frame rate, to a stuttering slideshow. I heard that some Bethesda game react badly to anything above a Dual-Core. Do you guys think this could be the case?

 

Thanks for taking the time to read my post and have a wonderful evening.

 

Oblivion just doesn't run that well generally. As for the multicore CPU thing, it's not that having a tri/quad core actively hurts performance in Oblivion, its that multicore proccessors generally have lower per-core clock frequencies than a single core CPU. Generally this isn't a big deal, especially if a game has multithreading implemented so that CPU intensive parts of the rendering proccess can be divided between CPU's, though since Oblivion has terrible multithreading at best (and no multithreading at worst), you'll experience much higher performance running even just 3.2GHZ single core vs 4 cores running at 2.5GHZ each. It also doesn't help that you have a medium-end CPU, the Athlon 2 series has no L3 cache, and very little L2 cache.

 

I have a high-end PC, and I still get poor performance in Oblivion, even at lower resolutions. Here's my PC's specs:

 

Phenom 2 X3 (unlocked the 4th core, so its technically a quad core), 2.5GHZ, 6MB L3 cache
AMD Radeon 6870, 1GB VRAM (OCed GPU and Mem Clocks 1GHZ GPU, 1250MHZ memory clock (the real clock, not the "Effective" clock)
4GB DDR2800, overclocked to CAS 4 latency
Windows 7 x64 installed on a 32GB Corsair SSD drive
Oblivion and page file on a seperate SATA2 mechanical drive
MSI 790XT-G45 Motherboard
Creative X-Fi Titanium Sound Card

 

I got decent performance, but considering that I can run Crysis at full settings and still get around a stable 35FPS, and Oblivion drops between 35 and 25 FPS, there's obviously some terribly programming on Oblivions part. You can try optimizing the Oblivion.ini file for your machine, experiment with the various settings.

Edited December 12, 2010 by GetOutOfBox

[thefiveofhearts]

Thank you for replying, and giving your input on my problem, Getoutofbox.

 

How would I go about optimizing my Oblivion.ini? I think I had to do this for Fallout 3 for the same thing a while back.

[Aguni84]

Thank you for replying, and giving your input on my problem, Getoutofbox.

 

How would I go about optimizing my Oblivion.ini? I think I had to do this for Fallout 3 for the same thing a while back.

 

Actually, there really is not much that can be done with the ini. The multithread options have very little effect ont he overall performance.

 

IIt may be an issue where your computer is just too new. Similar to how some games cant be run on high spec computers because they just do not support the newer GPU's

 

Using my area 51 m15x laptop I get over 45+ fps.

on the other hand my PC which is far superior gets roughly 30 FPS. =\

[thefiveofhearts]

Thank you for replying, and giving your input on my problem, Getoutofbox.

 

How would I go about optimizing my Oblivion.ini? I think I had to do this for Fallout 3 for the same thing a while back.

 

Actually, there really is not much that can be done with the ini. The multithread options have very little effect ont he overall performance.

 

IIt may be an issue where your computer is just too new. Similar to how some games cant be run on high spec computers because they just do not support the newer GPU's

 

Using my area 51 m15x laptop I get over 45+ fps.

on the other hand my PC which is far superior gets roughly 30 FPS. =\

Well, I tried a few options I dug up, and they all ended the same way, Perfect FPS for about 10 minutes, and then it all goes downhill. Thanks for the input, I'm just going to go play something else I guess.

 

Disappointing, I was looking forward to playing Oblivion.

[Aguni84]

Thank you for replying, and giving your input on my problem, Getoutofbox.

 

How would I go about optimizing my Oblivion.ini? I think I had to do this for Fallout 3 for the same thing a while back.

 

Actually, there really is not much that can be done with the ini. The multithread options have very little effect ont he overall performance.

 

IIt may be an issue where your computer is just too new. Similar to how some games cant be run on high spec computers because they just do not support the newer GPU's

 

Using my area 51 m15x laptop I get over 45+ fps.

on the other hand my PC which is far superior gets roughly 30 FPS. =\

Well, I tried a few options I dug up, and they all ended the same way, Perfect FPS for about 10 minutes, and then it all goes downhill. Thanks for the input, I'm just going to go play something else I guess.

 

Disappointing, I was looking forward to playing Oblivion.

 

I thin the problem may be your GPU. As I said it could be a case of it being simply too new and causing issues with Oblivion. I do, think, however that perhaps you should try installing the unofficial patches. Primarily because they do fix several bugs within the game and it MIGHT just solve the problem.

 

Edit: Actually, before you do that, run Oblivion and also check to see its effect on your CPU. Perhaps there may be something going on that is eating up CPU processing power while you are running the game. I have heard of cases where rundll32.dll was eating up over 50% of the CPU's processing.

Edited December 13, 2010 by Aguni84

[thefiveofhearts]

Thank you for replying, and giving your input on my problem, Getoutofbox.

 

How would I go about optimizing my Oblivion.ini? I think I had to do this for Fallout 3 for the same thing a while back.

 

Actually, there really is not much that can be done with the ini. The multithread options have very little effect ont he overall performance.

 

IIt may be an issue where your computer is just too new. Similar to how some games cant be run on high spec computers because they just do not support the newer GPU's

 

Using my area 51 m15x laptop I get over 45+ fps.

on the other hand my PC which is far superior gets roughly 30 FPS. =\

Well, I tried a few options I dug up, and they all ended the same way, Perfect FPS for about 10 minutes, and then it all goes downhill. Thanks for the input, I'm just going to go play something else I guess.

 

Disappointing, I was looking forward to playing Oblivion.

 

I thin the problem may be your GPU. As I said it could be a case of it being simply too new and causing issues with Oblivion. I do, think, however that perhaps you should try installing the unofficial patches. Primarily because they do fix several bugs within the game and it MIGHT just solve the problem.

Hello, Aguni84, Your input is greatly appreciated, I shall go try that.

[Aguni84]

Thank you for replying, and giving your input on my problem, Getoutofbox.

 

How would I go about optimizing my Oblivion.ini? I think I had to do this for Fallout 3 for the same thing a while back.

 

Actually, there really is not much that can be done with the ini. The multithread options have very little effect ont he overall performance.

 

IIt may be an issue where your computer is just too new. Similar to how some games cant be run on high spec computers because they just do not support the newer GPU's

 

Using my area 51 m15x laptop I get over 45+ fps.

on the other hand my PC which is far superior gets roughly 30 FPS. =\

Well, I tried a few options I dug up, and they all ended the same way, Perfect FPS for about 10 minutes, and then it all goes downhill. Thanks for the input, I'm just going to go play something else I guess.

 

Disappointing, I was looking forward to playing Oblivion.

 

I thin the problem may be your GPU. As I said it could be a case of it being simply too new and causing issues with Oblivion. I do, think, however that perhaps you should try installing the unofficial patches. Primarily because they do fix several bugs within the game and it MIGHT just solve the problem.

Hello, Aguni84, Your input is greatly appreciated, I shall go try that.

No problem, trust me I have my share of Oblivion issues. Now if only the damn wolven mod would work properly! ARGH!

[thefiveofhearts]

Thank you for replying, and giving your input on my problem, Getoutofbox.

 

How would I go about optimizing my Oblivion.ini? I think I had to do this for Fallout 3 for the same thing a while back.

 

Actually, there really is not much that can be done with the ini. The multithread options have very little effect ont he overall performance.

 

IIt may be an issue where your computer is just too new. Similar to how some games cant be run on high spec computers because they just do not support the newer GPU's

 

Using my area 51 m15x laptop I get over 45+ fps.

on the other hand my PC which is far superior gets roughly 30 FPS. =\

Well, I tried a few options I dug up, and they all ended the same way, Perfect FPS for about 10 minutes, and then it all goes downhill. Thanks for the input, I'm just going to go play something else I guess.

 

Disappointing, I was looking forward to playing Oblivion.

 

I thin the problem may be your GPU. As I said it could be a case of it being simply too new and causing issues with Oblivion. I do, think, however that perhaps you should try installing the unofficial patches. Primarily because they do fix several bugs within the game and it MIGHT just solve the problem.

Hello, Aguni84, Your input is greatly appreciated, I shall go try that.

No problem, trust me I have my share of Oblivion issues. Now if only the damn wolven mod would work properly! ARGH!

The patch had no effect what-so-ever. Same issue is still occurring.

 

Thank you anyway, though.