Low FPS Better Cities

[Nairbog]

If your comp can't handle Better Cities, there's also Open Cities and Open Cities Reborn: the latter are both by the same modder. Open Cities just connects the Vanilla cities to the worldspace (no loading) but Open Cities Reborn does that in addition to changing layouts/aesthetic in an attempt to make the cities more realistic and closer to the concept art. I really like what Open Cities Reborn does. It's a huge improvement over Vanilla in my opinion, I can't stand loading screens and the layouts are more interesting. I'm guessing this is what you were asking about.

 

That being said, I haven't tried Better Cities due to framerate concerns. If I turned off RAEVWD, I would probably be able to run it, but I'm so used to playing with RAEVWD I can't imagine Oblivion without it. I take a 20-30 fps hit (since I turn everything on) but it's worth it, to me at least.

[David Brasher]

Open Cities is a big framerate killer because it puts stuff in the Tamriel worldspace which is the biggest slowest worldspace. The computer has to think about all that grass and all those objects and everything outside of the city within the 5X5 cell area rather than just the things inside the city in the small worldspace. So if your computer can't handle Better Cities, I would not expect that it can handle Open Cities.