Processor-Centric Tweaks

[billypnats]

WTF. I have 2gig 800mhz, X2 4000+, ATI 4850

 

everythings high and I get like 20-30 frames outdoors and 20-50 frames in doors

 

=(

 

and you haven't tweaked stuff yet, that means you should be getting more frames =)

 

BTW, try running oblivion on a very high res, see if it makes any difference.

[urthman]

Some might disagree, but imo Oblivion looks great at Ultra-High, HDR on, and AA off. It goes without saying that if you run Oblivion at these settings vs. Maxed-Out, the GPU finishes tasks faster, which in turn helps keep the rest of your hardware at optimum speeds.

 

Thanks for the advice. Are you saying Ultra-High is not the same as Maxed Out? Do you mean "Maxed Out" would include lots of AA, or are you referring to some in-game setting?

[urthman]

Albeit the CPU is a bit outdated you have pretty impressive results even without tweaks at the sets you stated at the first post. I didn't follow the link pointed by Varus Torvyn yet and maybe what I'm to say here is covered there, but...

Was found one annoying issue that heavily affects fps being related with the sound instead graphics itself. It happens when the game load and reload the sound file to each leg of each creature around (seems NPCs doesn't triggers the issue). You can try the "quiet feet" mod (or something like this, the mod's name) that eliminate those sounds, inaudible most of them anyway. It's a compromise of sorts and, for me, a worthy one.

 

Edit: with those fps I would try changing the screen resolution to 1280x1024 or 1152x864 and maybe reducing AA to 2x if it becomes an issue and FPS is down bellow 20. Larger screen resolution is better than trying to force AA high, but I think at least 2xAA is a must have. With your video card, graphics itself will fare just well at higher screen resolution and even texture resolution isn't the first concern here, toward performance.

 

 

Thanks for the tips. I'll try out the sound tweak you suggest.

 

Increasing my screen resolution would be a good idea, except I have an old, small LCD that can't do anything higher than 1024x768. Getting a larger monitor is definitely the next upgrade I want to make, though.

[Varus Torvyn]

Thanks for the advice. Are you saying Ultra-High is not the same as Maxed Out? Do you mean "Maxed Out" would include lots of AA, or are you referring to some in-game setting?

 

Ultra-High is not the same as Maxed Out. In the latter, you take every available setting the game provides and set it all the way up. I won't argue the fact it makes things look great, but why add more microseconds to the processing time and possibly take a huge hit in FPS?