Can my rig handle fully modded oblivion?

[cruz7911]

Hey all,

 

1st of all, I apologize if this question is frowned upon, or if your just tired of it in general. But I am a noob to PC gaming and want to get back into oblivion. I played through it multiple times on the Xbox 360, and now I want to try modded versions.

 

I had my sisters boyfriend build me a PC and was curious if you folks think it will play a heavily modded Oblivion (OOO, Qarl's texture packs, water enhancements, better cities, etc.) on high, or ultra settings. I'm just curious before I get my hopes up and go through all the steps of learning the modding process. Here are the specs:

 

i3 2120 Sandybridge dual core 3.3 Mhz CPU

VGA ASUS|ENGTX560 DCII OC/2DI/1GD5 GPU (1 Gb dedicated RAM)

MB ASUS P7P55D-E LX LGA1156 R motherboard

8 Gb RAM

 

Thanks in advance

[MarkInMKUK]

Hardware wise - add a separate sound card. Onboard sound can cause stuttering when there are lots of feet making sounds.

 

You may not be able to run everything flat out if you add massive environmental mods (Better Cities + Unique Landscapes + RAEVWD), as that combination seems to bring ANY PC to its knees. However, you have a good basic speed on the CPU, presumably a Windows 7 x64 operating system, and (if so) enough RAM to make it worth finding and trying the 4GB Ram Patch (AFTER) you install all the basic patches.

 

Generic new player PC advice follows - pay specific attention to the first paragraph or you may regret it later.

 

If you have Windows Vista or Windows 7 and are thinking of modding, do yourself (and us, because you'd no doubt be asking for help with it later) a BIG favour and use Bben46's guide here to move the game from the default install position to C:\Games\Oblivion. That stops the UAC from mucking up just about every mod you try to use, including (sometimes) official patches.

 

Many mods will require you to be patched to version 1.2.0416, and a lot will require the Shivering Isles expansion - if you don't already have Shivering Isles, buy it and add it to the game, THEN patch it (otherwise you'll need to uninstall and reinstall from scratch to add Shivering Isles later).

 

I strongly suggest adding the Unofficial Oblivion Patch (UOP), the Unofficial Shivering Isles Patch (UOSP), and (if you have Knights of the Nine and/or any of the official downloadable content files, the Unofficial Official Mods Patch (UOMP), plus the Unofficial Patch Supplementals and the UOP Dark Sister Voice Fix. They between them bugfix several thousand bugs and errors, and make the game much better to play.

 

Other "essential" mods are Oblivion Script Extender (OBSE), and then Fast Exit and Windom Earle's Oblivion Crash Prevention System (weOCPS) - the pair of those greatly aid stability and stop many of the more common crash scenarios from wrecking your game.