graphic settings to better enjoy oblivion

[alerossi82]

Hello everybody,

 

I know I'm not the first one to start such a topic and I apologize in advance for that; the fact is that I just started playing Oblivion and I'd like to get the best out of my system but, considering all different resolution and graphic options available, I feel a bit lost

 

My system is a Pentium dual CPU 1.73 GHZ, 2,00 GB RAM, graphic card ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2400, monitor max resolution is 1280x800 (it's a laptop); to get a good framerate for a decent quality, which settings do you recommend to me?

 

Please consider I'm more interested in performance than in graphic quality, so I'd better decrease the resolution or disable some graphic option if that would grant me a fixed 30 fps in ourdoors locations.

[David Brasher]

Trial and error would probably be the best approach. There is so much variation in hardware and background software that it is hard to advise people. Try playing with your settings all the way up for a beautiful game. If it is laggy, then turn them down. Keep on lowering the settings until the game performs well. If the game is now too ugly, turn the settings up a bit and find the best balance between ugly and laggy. Edited October 30, 2011 by David Brasher

[alerossi82]

Trial and error would probably be the best approach. There is so much variation in hardware and background software that it is hard to advise people. Try playing with your settings all the way up for a beautiful game. If it is laggy, then turn them down. Keep on lowering the settings until the game performs well. If the game is now too ugly, turn the settings up a bit and find the best balance between ugly and laggy.

 

Hi David,

 

thank you for your reply.

 

Yes I agree, trial and error is the best way and in fact it is what I'm doing right now, anyway my point was that, with so many different graphic settings (antialiasing, texture detail, view distance etc.) it is hard to get a clear picture of what is dramatically affecting the fps and what is not.

 

That's why I started this post: to ask more experienced players what are those settings that you recommend to decrease/disable since either they significantly affects performance or have a limited effect on the visual quality and, on the other hand, those that you better suggest not to turn off/to keep at the maximum value.

[alerossi82]

Trial and error would probably be the best approach. There is so much variation in hardware and background software that it is hard to advise people. Try playing with your settings all the way up for a beautiful game. If it is laggy, then turn them down. Keep on lowering the settings until the game performs well. If the game is now too ugly, turn the settings up a bit and find the best balance between ugly and laggy.

 

Hi David,

 

thank you for your reply.

 

Yes I agree, trial and error is the best way and in fact it is what I'm doing right now, anyway my point was that, with so many different graphic settings (antialiasing, texture detail, view distance etc.) it is hard to get a clear picture of what is dramatically affecting the fps and what is not.

 

That's why I started this post: to ask more experienced players what are those settings that you recommend to decrease/disable since either they significantly affects performance or have a limited effect on the visual quality and, on the other hand, those that you better suggest not to turn off/to keep at the maximum value.

[Rydan]

800x600 can be viewed at a fairly decent frame rate even with a low-end graphics card. Tweaking the other in-game graphics settings can affect performance a LOT, e.g. the distance/amount of grass, trees and items you want to use, self shadows, etc.

 

As for the settings in the oblivion.ini file, I experimented a lot but there seems to be very little advantage in tweaking them - especially if you don't have enough ram for caching.

 

The only essential change I'd recommend is using the Stutter Remover mod (and, if you plan on adding more RAM to your laptop, apply the 4gb patch.)

[bben46]

Here are my Slow Game suggestions

http://wiki.tesnexus...ing_a_slow_game

 

The first thing you will see is your processor is actually below the minimum required and way below the recommended 3Ghz. When the chip makers started making dual processor CPUs, they cut the speed to reduce overheating. Their expectation was that two 1.5Ghz processors would out perform a single 2Ghz. However, that only works if the software is written for multiprocessor use - which Oblivion is not. The dual processor will still help some though, probably allowing you to play at the lowest settings.

 

The Tweak guides will have many suggestions to help out. Be sure to tweak the Operating system first, then the Video card, and the game last. Be sure you don't have any unneeded background processes running as they can kill fps as well as cause crashes. :thumbsup:

[Rydan]

Be sure to tweak the Operating system first, then the Video card, and the game last. Be sure you don't have any unneeded background processes running as they can kill fps as well as cause crashes. :thumbsup:

 

Good advice, I forgot about the OS. I created a batch file to disable all unneeded services in Windows 7, I usually run it before playing any cpu-intensive game like Oblivion:

 

 

taskkill /f /im jusched.exe

echo y | net stop WinHttpAutoProxySvc

echo y | net stop wuauserv

echo y | net stop wscsvc

echo y | net stop SysMain

echo y | net stop lmhosts

echo y | net stop WdiServiceHost

echo y | net stop WdiSystemHost

echo y | net stop SSDPSRV

echo y | net stop TrkWks

echo y | net stop HomeGroupProvider

echo y | net stop FDResPub

echo y | net stop PcaSvc

echo y | net stop LanmanServer

echo y | net stop FontCache

echo y | net stop WMPNetworkSvc

echo y | net stop WbioSrvc

echo y | net stop WPDBusEnum

echo y | net stop WerSvc

echo y | net stop AeLookupSvc

echo y | net stop WinDefend

echo y | net stop ehRecvr

echo y | net stop ehSched

echo y | net stop Dnscache

 

 

 

Just copy & paste the commands above in Windows' notepad and save the file on your desktop as SOMETHING.bat then when you want to play click on it. A lot of ram and cpu time are saved and, if you have any problems, you can just reboot and everything is back normal (your system configuration is only changed temporarily.)

 

Also if you don't need Windows' Firewall (e.g. you have another one installed, you're not online, etc.) you can add this command to the list above: echo y | net stop MpsSvc

 

Edit: make sure to run the file as Administrator.

Edited October 31, 2011 by Rydan

[Zapata935]

Dear Alerossi82, If it is any help, check out the wiki and the .ini tweaks! I have a really old machine now but with the OBGE v3 core and the tweaks applied by the said file on the wiki, I have quadrupled the gameplay speed and graphics. Combat even in front of an Oblivion gate runs much faster than before. With the hardware you have on your PC, the game should run like a scalded dog, i.e fast. Best Wishes Zapata935.

P.S 1024x768 is the optimum setting for screen res in my opinion!

Edited November 2, 2011 by Zapata935