Bad performance!

[Derko1]

So I just got a new PC a little over a month ago and decided that I wanted to play Oblivion again before I got into Skyrim... the game was running at 60fps with no drop at all anywhere, the whole time. Then I had an issue with the HDD I had and replaced it with an SSD and also got a second vid card to do crossfire. I reformatted the PC and everything was good. Skyrim runs at 60fps pretty much 90% of the time and I don't really have any issues with any other games.

 

One last week I decided to install Oblivion. Before I installed any mods, I went into the game with my saved character and noticed stuttering... so I thought maybe some setting wasn't working or something wasn't on/off. Checked everything and it was all good. I checked the frame rate and that was the issue... I was getting dips into the 30s in some places. I can't believe it! I was getting perfect performance before and now with an SSD and CF, I should be getting even more performance out of a 5+ year old game. Anyone know what might be wrong? What are somethings I should look into?

 

I tried going back to the drivers I was using before Skyrim and nothing. Still the same performance. Some places give me 60fps with CF disabled and then with it enabled I lose 10-15fps. BUT in some areas turning CF off I also lose around 20fps. I really would like to finish the MQ for Oblivion, but hate the micro stuttering I get cause the game is running under 60fps.

 

My specs:

i7 2600k @ 4.6Ghz

8gb G. Skill Ripjaws X DDR3 1600Mhz

OCZ Vertex 3 SSD

2x HD6870s 1gb

Corsair TX V2 850W PSU

 

It can't be a driver or hardware issue. It's gotta be something I didn't think about in regards to the game when installing it. Some setting that I changed or didn't change... ? I don't think I have the best system in the world, but it should be able to more than handle Oblivion I think. Also, I tried making a new character, thinking my old save might be the issue, but I still have the same problem.

[David Brasher]

Oblivion just doesn't run well on new computers. I upgraded my computer so it could handle Skyrim. I went to play Oblivion thinking I would now have a totally awesome framerate. Disappointingly, my awesome Skyrim computer plays Oblivion no better than it did before the upgrade.

 

Some people say that what you need is a very lightly modded game played on an old computer that was a hot rod for its day with a really fast single core processor.