Streamline hurting my gameplay?

[roiyaru]

So, I did an fps test in a dungeon before using streamline. Results-

1st person- 105

3rd person- 79

inventory- 162

escape- 528

combat vs 4- lowest fps =26

 

After using streamline-

1st person- 85

3rd person- 52

inventory- 158

escape- 528

combat vs 4- lowest fps =12

 

 

The real kicker here is that after getting rid of streamline my fps is still the same as if I was using it. Maybe it changed my oblivion INI, though I swear I only saw it make changes to the Streamline INI. I ran streamline without streamsave and otherwise it was normal. My game is just base oblivion with UOP USIP and UMP along with obse latest version obmm boss and the CSet. I did several trials and it made no difference

 

Before on my old oblivion Streamline actually increased my performance, now I can visibly see the decrease.

[MichikoUnknownFox]

It changes your Oblivion.ini naturally and without alerting you. That's why the readme tells you to back up your Oblivion.ini before even touching Streamline.

 

Streamline is not really about boosting FPS (even if it claims it does), but rather, attempting to get it to a stable playable level. It tries to reduce graphics and loading lag spikes. I noticed before it actually lowered my FPS when I was going too fast (120 FPS staring at a wall), and kept it there, much like what you experienced.

 

Bottom line, if you're gonna use Streamline on a decent gaming machine, you should probably only use the Streampurge function if you ask me. You won't actually get graphics lag on any decent gaming card, with the right graphics adjustment. Heck I'm only using an 8600 GT, and vanilla Oblivion (as in no "optimized" meshes, textures, and any other performance enhancements yet) was still running on a good 40-60 FPS in the forest. Loading/pre-loading lag is more of your problem, the main cause of stuttering (for me), because the game handles that stuff inefficiently (rendering even stuff you're not supposed to see yet and whatnot), and Streampurge can help smooth that out.

[bben46]

Streamline was never intended to be used on a reasonably powerful system. The original concept was to make the game playable on a low end machine where playability was marginal at best. It does this by adjusting some of the video attributes in the ini on the fly. Lowering stuff like how far you can see objects, scenery and NPCs. to allow the game to keep up. When you remove or disable Streamline, whatever those last settings in the ini are will be what you have. So, if you remove it, be sure to go in and edit your ini file to what you want.

 

For advice on tweaking the ini (and nearly anything else) see this site: http://www.tweakguides.com/