Purge Cell Buffers vs ExPCB

[wroma74]

Hi all!

 

I am planning to use a purger; I know about OR's purger, but I'm considering also PCB and ExPCB http://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/38441/?

 

What of these do you prefer and why?

 

Thank you :-)

[lubronbrons]

Hi wroma, how're you doing ? :)

 

I've been asking that question to a friend recently

 

malonn, can you tell me about purge ?

it that necessary, how the purge works is that for texture or memory or something else ?

I am trying to learn

 

malonn said :

 

 

Purging just cleans the game's buffers of old data that is no longer needed. There are two types of purging available through modding. The main one is what vanilla Oblivion allows for. That is the game's buffers. You use PurgeCellBuffers (or just "PCB") to force the action via a script or the console. The other purging is a feature of the OBGEv3. It purges textures out of the VRAM. I forget the command to do this, and the OBGE wiki is down, so I can't look it up. It's in my "Purge Cell Buffers ++" mod. You can also clean texture memory with Oblivion Reloaded, though that is specific to that mod. You can't write your own script to utilize that function. You'll just have to run OR for that.

In my testing, purging can prevent CTD's in a heavily modded game, but it can also cause crashes in some setups. I've found that with running as full FCOM load order, purging helps. But with just a Warcry New Dimension load order, purging hurts. I've been given CTD's and I've reduced CTD's with purging. It's just going to depend on your load order. You'd just have to try and see. A lot of people say purging causes CTD's. It can, but it is very much specific to load orders.

 

hope it helps ;)