UBER ULTRA LAGGY OBLIVION on Core 2 Duo

[Maplassie]

Sorry if this is the wrong section.

 

My previous PC was this.

 

AMD 4800

Asus A8nSLI Premium

2 GIG Kingston Hyper X DDR 400

XFX 8800GTS 640.

 

IT was tuned and clocked to perfection, and I was able to run Oblivion with OOO mod, and Graphical update mods, with the Oblivion.ini tweaks with HDR and AA 1280x1024, and it was ultra smooth. ran between 30-70FPS outside, and ofcoarse better inside.

 

Now my problem is this. I upgraded to:

 

INTEL Core 2 Duo E6750, Clocked to 3.2GHZ

2 GIG OCZ Nvidia SLI Edition Ram, 4-4-4-12

Asus P5NE-SLI

and an XFX 8800GT 512 Extreme edition.

 

This pc runs like a dream,...yadda yadda.

 

To the point.

 

No matter what I tried, I recently reinstalled Oblivion and for the life of me the game is jerky and sluggish as hell. Indoors I get over 170FPS 1280x1024 with texture mods, AA and HDR, but outside, even if I put in LESS grids to load, lower resolution etc, I still get around 30FPS. I even tried Different drivers, Beta, Guru3d drivers etc, but I can't get rid of the stuttery/slowmo "bug"

 

Anybody experience this? I whipped in my Old 8800GTS 640, and it did the same, so it rules out the VGA. I set my CPU to stock, ram settings, redid windows from scratch even. I think it's a bug because no matter on what resolution I put the game, it runs just about the same FPS. 1024x768 yields around 5 FPS extra, and 800x600 barely pushes it over 40FPS.

 

This from a PC that runs Crysis 1280x1024 all settings high, shadows medium, motion blur medium 37FPS Average 57FPS Maximum.

[1Prelude]

I have a similar problem (except I was getting about 5 fps outside). Adding more ram helped some, but still no solutions yet.

[ResidentWeevil2077]

Obviously there isn't a bottleneck here, so I'm gonna have to say that, judging by your system, it seems to me that your problem isn't really a problem. Outside environments, especially because of how much rendering that has to be completed, will almost ALWAYS lag somewhat. This is normal to an extent. My ATI HD 2600 card doesn't lag so much like this, as I achieve roughly 30-40 FPS both inside and out (and my screen res is always set to 1680x1050, with 16xAF and 4xAA, V-Sync "On"). I really don't know what else to say, as this sounds quite strange to me :confused:

 

...Of course, there are problems that stem from having a better system - I can't say exactly what, other than your system is too powerful :rolleyes:

[killer43]

how the hell can you have a system thats 'too powerful' ?!?!?!?!

 

BTW, my crappy comp runs at 5 frames per second outside (on lowest quality setting)

[Obsessed117]

Get the low poly grass mod, decrease grass size in the ini, get streamline, etc etc...

 

I have a pretty damn good PC with similar specs to yours, but my video card is a 7950GT...and I lagged pretty badly before getting those mods and altering the ini. Now it runs great, and the visual sacrifice is almost nothing.

[Maplassie]

Hey guys. @ Obsessed117. I have tried every single one of the things you said. Even the Ugridstoload in the ini, along with my other things, I put that on 1, yes 1 grid. so you can't even see beyond about 200 yards, I set all the Details in the game to lowest, even on the Lowest resolution, and it makes a 3 Fps Difference.

 

As I said, I played around with the ini settings before using my old system, and it was running with better details and textures on my old system, than on the new one.

 

I even reinstalled oblivion, with no mods, no patches, no tweaks. Same thing.

 

BUT. I noticed something very strange, that just slipped my mind the whole time. I think this might be driver related, because no matter what I do, I can't enable AA and HDR anymore. But just in Oblivion. I even used Nhancer to force it, still nothing, also did the usual Forceware driver optimizations, nothing there. But the weird thing is as I mentioned, I have used about 5 driver versions in total. Official Nvidia, Beta Nvidia, Guru3d, those TNT or whatever, and the very first 8800GT Nvidia Beta. Same issues.

 

I even went as far as installing VISTA on another partition,to see if it would differ from XP. Went through all the above, reinstallation of oblivion etc. And it was allmost identical. No AA and HDR (no matter wich drivers I used) and crippling framerates outside.

 

Weird thing number 2. My friend also upgraded from an AMD 64, to an Intel Core 2 duo, but he went for the 6600, 2 gig Generic ram and the same 8800GT as mine and he is struggling with the same issues, wich he didn't have before as I was the one who tweaked his previous system, and did his Oblivion ini settings.

[Dark0ne]

Have you tried doing a google search for problems with your gfx card? I can't see it being anything other than the gfx card personally.

[Maplassie]

well as I said, I still have my old 8800GTS 640, put that in (with the same and different drivers) and it was doing the same thing, just slower hehe.

 

This sucks :(

[Dark0ne]

Ensure you are using Vanilla Oblivion updated to the latest patched version. No mods, no SI.

 

Make sure all your drivers are up-to-date; motherboard, soundcard, gfx, etc.. Try disabling your sound card altogether and seeing if it is that.

 

Run a stability test with some benchmarking software. Get 3DMark to ensure those tests work ok.

 

Do a search for your gfx card on the official forums and see if others have a similar problem.

 

Those are my suggestions if, of course, you havent't already tried them!

[Falcata]

Pattern Recognition: the game lags a lot more when using an nVidia graphics card, but not an ATI card.

 

Perhaps Oblivion has issues with nVidia cards. If there hasn't always been a problem with nVidia in the past, then I propose an experiment: reinstall Oblivion, and run it without any patches. See if there is any difference in the frame rate.