Returning to Oblivion after a bitter defeat!

[Iameggman]

I've recently gone back to Oblivion after taking a very long break. I haven't played properly since 2008, with the release of Fallout 3 which took over, however. Oblivion Is still my favourite game of all time and I've never done a playthrough of It intensively modded and I've owned the game since 2006.

Earlier this year I decided to take up the challenge to start adding mods, and to my surprise it went extremely well, I added many mods, I remember modmanager stating I had at least 71 In the list. With mod's the like of, Oscuro's Overhaul, Mart's Monster Mod, Qarl's Texture Pack, Better Cities and 3 weapon packs, many more that I can't remember. The game was running fine, no lag, no conflicts I was amazed.

The game would seem to not handle what I added and crash constantly, caused by video memory, RAM or something. I sort of lost It and uninstalled everything I did

Right now I have a GTX 560 Ti, with 1280MB GDDR5 and 8Gb of RAM

I'm thinking of purchasing a GTX 970 which has 4GB GDDR5 of video memory, does anyone know If this will help in anyway? Next time around when I get the strength to do this again (funny I know) I'll add less, probably less weapon packs as I added maybe 3, one adding 600 weapons. But If I remember correctly, It was crashing before them, I'll have too go slower this time, and see when the crashing takes place, as there might be something I just added that was causing it. Bare in mind TES4Edit didn't find any errors either.

 

Thanks again!

 

SPECS:

GPU:Nvidia Geforce GTX 560 Ti (Palit version, 448 cores, 1280mb GDDR5)

CPU:Intel Core i7 3770k 3.50ghz

RAM:8gb

OS:Windows 7 64bit Professional

EDIT: Sorry about the white highlights, I wrote this statement on a Youtube and copied it here, bad idea. Didn't know that would happen. :P

Edited April 18, 2015 by Iameggman

[hobo1137]

Upgrading your hardware will not really help. The Oblivion engine was designed for last generation consoles and we are blowing it up with mods. You will eventually get crashes but there are a few things you can do to minimize crashes/corruption/conflicts.

 

Use the NTCORE 4GB patch (if you have a 64bit OS) on your oblivion.exe so you can squeeze more out of it.

 

Use OBSE (many mods require it anyway).

 

I know people like Mod Manager but if you want to get rid of conflicts and set the right load order, use Wrye Bash 305 and BOSS 2.3.0. BOSS will also tell you which mods to clean with TES4EDIT.

 

Use Oblivion Stutter Remover 4.1.37 for replacement of the default heap. This is huge for me. I have 8GB of RAM and am stable for 3 to 4 hours. I am using the defaults in that version but change the following:

bReplaceHeap = 1

bReplaceGetTickCount = 0

fMaximumFPS = 45 (you can go higher but you run the risk of problems in your saves. plus, with the right mods, you probably will not see more than that outdoors)

iHeapSize = 768

Auto saves can cause corruption. Don't quick save and also disable the five entries in your oblivion.ini file:

bAllowScriptedAutosave=0

bSaveOnTravel=0

bSaveOnWait=0

bSaveOnRest=0

bSaveOnInteriorExteriorSwitch=0

 

[Jaythelord]

The GTX 970 is certainly very powerful, but I would rather get an AMD R9 290X for the same amount of money. The 970 has only 3.5 GB of usable VRAM, the rest runs at a fraction the speed, and is thus pretty much unusable. Your GTX 560 Ti isn't too bad, but it doesn't have a lot of VRAM, and it pales in comparison to most newer graphics cards.

 

Also, AMD's R9 300 series will be out in a couple months, and that's something worth waiting for. I've heard their new cards will be extremely powerful. Plus, it would lower the prices of the 200 series a lot hopefully.

 

I also agree with hobo1137 though. If you play lots of modern games, get a new graphics card. If you only play older games like Oblivion, then change the settings and get some mods to optimize your game performance.

Hope this helps :)

Edited April 19, 2015 by Jaythelord