jedimembrain Posted June 5, 2011 Share Posted June 5, 2011 This might not be news but it would appear that Nvidia now allows SSAO on Oblivion "for me at least" A couple months back I learned how to enable a super high performance SSAO on Fallout New Vegas thanks to a friend of mine and the second I got that working I tried it out on oblivion only to find it didn't work at all :( .. But I just updated my Nvidia drivers a couple days ago and tried to start oblivion up today and to my surprise the AO was working perfectly and only eating 1-3 fps unlike the other performance SSAO mods out there! I had left the Nvidia setting turned on and I suppose Nvidia had updated my card "GT220" and it suddenly started to work! :) I'll post the instructions for any other Nvidia users who want to give it a try. http://newvegasnexus.com/imageshare/image.php?id=1620 Thanks to tapioks for making this tutorial .. "Just open Elder Scrolls Oblivion instead of New Vegas" If this isnt new then I'm sorry for the post but this never worked for me before Nvidia's recent Driver Updates. Hope it helps someone else! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichikoUnknownFox Posted June 5, 2011 Share Posted June 5, 2011 (edited) I'm a new NVIDIA user lol, so all of this is new to me. I'll go try it out. :D - edit: Oh weird. It turns out Ambient Occlusion is already enabled for Oblivion for my card for some reason. My NVIDIA control panel settings have AO off in global settings, so now I'm confused. I wonder which one is real. :dance: Edited June 5, 2011 by UNKNOWNYMOUS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jedimembrain Posted June 5, 2011 Author Share Posted June 5, 2011 I'm a new NVIDIA user lol, so all of this is new to me. I'll go try it out. :D - edit: Oh weird. It turns out Ambient Occlusion is already enabled for Oblivion for my card for some reason. My NVIDIA control panel settings have AO off in global settings, so now I'm confused. I wonder which one is real. :dance: By Global do you mean the "Global_Driver_Profile"? That does not define Oblivion's SSAO.. Fallow the steps exactly as the image file shows in the link I gave. With Performance setting I'm already noticing some bugs indoors due to the way the designers layer some walls. This was a problem in New Vegas as well but not nearly as noticable so I'm going to try a few other setting and I'll show some pics of my results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichikoUnknownFox Posted June 5, 2011 Share Posted June 5, 2011 No, I mean the NVIDIA control panel global settings. I had specifically turned Ambient Occlusion off for all games by default to make sure I get performance level first, then I can turn them on per game if I think the card can handle it. But I wouldn't want to jump into a new game and suddenly get only 10 FPS or worse, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jedimembrain Posted June 5, 2011 Author Share Posted June 5, 2011 Here are some screenshots and framerates of the different SSAO Settings The First is OGE Performance and what I thought to be the best SSAO for Oblivion until today.. The second is the Quality Setting of the Nvidia forced SSAO with a much higher frame rate and smoother results.. The third is Nvidia Performance Settings with an even higher frame rate BUT with bad lighting glitches indoors sadly :( http://i660.photobucket.com/albums/uu322/UberNiz/OblivionSSAO.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichikoUnknownFox Posted June 5, 2011 Share Posted June 5, 2011 I tried the suggested setting and it didn't look that good. I was getting splotchy white spots around edges, and shadows were over-compensating (even with shadows turned off). Must be my card though. Results probably vary from setup to setup, like they often do when it comes to tweaks. But, finding that utility is a good addition to my personal tweaking of settings for my card, both for Oblivion and other games. I'm playing around with various AA settings now lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jedimembrain Posted June 6, 2011 Author Share Posted June 6, 2011 I tried the suggested setting and it didn't look that good. I was getting splotchy white spots around edges, and shadows were over-compensating (even with shadows turned off). Must be my card though. Results probably vary from setup to setup, like they often do when it comes to tweaks. But, finding that utility is a good addition to my personal tweaking of settings for my card, both for Oblivion and other games. I'm playing around with various AA settings now lol. Sorry to hear .. Hope someone else using Nvidia gets this working. If your feeling determined you could try messing with the "ambient occlusion compatibility" value. I tried changing mine once with wall sorts of funky lighting issues going wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichikoUnknownFox Posted June 6, 2011 Share Posted June 6, 2011 Yeah I'll try messing around with it some more later. :D Maybe there's a setting that would work for my card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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