Animals cause big slowdown

[vortex1606]

I have been going mad on this one. Many problems about these graphics posted in this and other forums, seem related however the solution is not.

 

Let me start by giving my PC specs.

 

2 gb RAM (4 slots of 512mb)

3.2 ghz Pentium IV HT

Asus EN8800GTS 320MB

 

The game runs great, looks awesome and performs very well until an animal shows up. This is only with animals and not with people.

 

Actualy even with animals it all seems fine until they start moving. That's when everything becomes slow and jerky. (With horses, crabs, wolfs, deer etc..)

 

I upgraded to the latest version. I went through the tweakers guide, installed the low poly grass mod and all the other performance enhancement mods recomended, reduced the settings to minimum (besides looking worse, the animals still caused major slowdown).

 

I kind of hope there is someone that knows the solution, since this is affecting my gameplay very much.

[Vagrant0]

Are you running anything else while playing?

 

Sounds like something with the videocard, lots of power, not much ram, bad drivers. As Oblivion is very ram dependant, this is often a problem. You might be able to get a bit more performance by lowering view distance, tree distance, and further adjustments to the ini.

[vortex1606]

Are you running anything else while playing?

 

Sounds like something with the videocard, lots of power, not much ram, bad drivers. As Oblivion is very ram dependant, this is often a problem. You might be able to get a bit more performance by lowering view distance, tree distance, and further adjustments to the ini.

 

Hi there,

 

Before this video card I had a 7900gt, also one that should be able to handle oblivion. Now I upgraded to the 8800gts. So basically this problem occurs with both video cards. That let me to believe this is not a video card issue. Furthermore that there is no difference in performance for low or high settings (besides how it looks of course) , it let me believe that this is not a VC issue.

 

I have lowered all settings to minimum, no distand land.. I followed the tweakers guide for editting the ini files.

 

Basically when it comes to this problem, it doesn't matter wether I have all sliders to the left or to the right. The animals cause major slowdown, up to the point it is not playable anymore. ( They kill me before I can even get a good hit in)

 

As for software that runs, I tried without AV software, no luck. Tried to close all other background processes (non critical ofcourse) , also no luck.

[Vagrant0]

All your ram working? How big is your pagefile?

Have you tried following

http://www.atomicmpc.com.au/article.asp?SC...D=36546&p=6

to see where the bottleneck is?

 

I also recall some setting somewhere that allowed you to adjust how quickly everything moves (neither timescale or speed, but the internal timings), but can't remember where I saw it, while it may not solve the problem, it might make things a bit smoother. While I can't seem to find it, maybe it was something you came across, but didn't think was noteworthy.

[jacquesmartel]

Assuming you use onboard sound...

 

Download and install Oblivion's quiet feet mod

http://planetelderscrolls.gamespy.com/View...ail&id=1896

http://www.tessource.net/files/file.php?id=1999

 

If quiet feet doesn't work go to the windows/system32 folder, double click dxdiag.exe, click the "sound" tab, drag the hardware acceleration slider all the way to the left to deactivate it. This messes up the game's music though, consider it a quick fix until you buy a PCI sound card.