diosoth Posted May 19, 2012 Share Posted May 19, 2012 So far I've noticed no performance difference in Oblivion regardless of my texture settings. High resolution VS medium resolution on default game settings makes no difference(maybe 1-2 FPS difference, at most), and I have to keep the game on hi-res to keep signs readable, and because some mods require it. I also use the 2048 x 2048 HGEC skin textures with no problem. But I'm also running the game on an onboard integrated Intel video chip, not a dedicated video card, and I don't have much hope of upgrading to a video card any time soon(beyond buying a card I'll need a new PSU to go with it). Can I update the HGEC skin textures to 4096 or will that risk a serious performance hit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnimalRiot Posted May 19, 2012 Share Posted May 19, 2012 Short answer: yes. Textures eat Video RAM when loaded in-game. So bigger textures would need bigger available VRAM or else your game will slow down or at the worst crash to desktop. Since you're running with integrated video, I would not recommend using such hi-res textures for gameplay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evenstargw Posted May 19, 2012 Share Posted May 19, 2012 How close would you have to get to a character to see the difference anyway? Most of the time it will just be displaying the lower mipmap levels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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