Bradtheguitarman Posted August 29, 2011 Share Posted August 29, 2011 Hey folks. This is my first post and I was wondering if a few pc veterans could answer a question. I recently built a pc in April of this year. I bought an ASUS Cm1630, removed the internal graphics card and added a Nvidia 550ti card. I have 8 gb of ram and one gb of ddr5 vram. All drivers for my pc are kept up to date, my registry is kept clean and tidy, disks defragged and clean with no errors, and no viruses. My question is, when i use OBGE, should i be only getting 15-30 fps? I have a few texture alterations, but nothing drastic. I only use a few shaders such as godrays, HBAO, and obsharpen. I dont have in game shadows maxed out either. I can run any other game maxed out in the settings and get up to 75 fps. why is oblivion giving me such a hard time and what should i do about it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iansaltman Posted August 29, 2011 Share Posted August 29, 2011 You failed to mention your processor, Oblivion relies a lot on processing power, that might be what is slowing you down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bradtheguitarman Posted August 29, 2011 Author Share Posted August 29, 2011 You failed to mention your processor, Oblivion relies a lot on processing power, that might be what is slowing you down. Sorry, It's an AMD Athlon II X2 220 @ 2.8 GHZ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeyYou Posted August 29, 2011 Share Posted August 29, 2011 OBGE is a framerate killer. Oblivion is not optimized for multicore processors either. So, the architecture, and clock speed are more important than the age..... Best thing you can do to improve performance is reduce the CPU load. You can tweak your O/S, to get rid of background stuff that you really don't need, (wireless zero configuration, if you don't have a wireless card, for instance....) indexing service, etc. Blackviperhas a some good guides for just such a process. Another thing you can do is get a Real, hardware accelerated sound card, and the right software to convert directsound (which no longer exists in vista, or win7), to OpenAl, so that your nice sound card actually does what it is supposed to, instead of forcing the processor to deal with the sound. You could turn off Music in the oblivion.ini, and pick up some performance there as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkInMKUK Posted August 29, 2011 Share Posted August 29, 2011 Check your antivirus isn't set to "scan on file access" in the background - that's a major lag producer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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