Oblivion Requirements

[Deleted4704462User]

My computer surpasses the recommended requirements for oblivion, yet I have constant stuttering, even with the OBSE stutter fix. My fps improves if I overclock my GPU but it still stutter in places like the waterfront or imperial city market place.

 

My PC has:

Athlon XP 3200+ @ 2.2ghz

2GB DDR2

Geforce 7300GT 256MB OC'd @ 550mhz core, 850mhz memory

Windows XP

Edited September 25, 2012 by Guest

[Illiad86]

You meet the bare minimum to run the game IMO. Never trust the system requirements they give you :P You're not going to be able to play the game maxed out.

 

What graphics settings are you using and at what resolution are you running the game? There is no way you will be able to run the game on high with a 7300GT. A buddy of mine had the same card and he had to run it on medium...and he had a dual core AMD chip and more RAM.

 

Athlon XP hehe, I feel so old now. I remember when I first got that chip. Oblivion is very CPU intensive. If you could possibly OC your CPU a little bit, it could improve the stuttering.

 

Mess around in the game's settings. Turn off AA, turn off the grass, lower the resolution and textures.

 

Good luck

Edited September 25, 2012 by Illiad86

[bben46]

For any improvement you are going to have to strip your system to bare essentials and optimize it as much as you can. Some advice on that here.

 

Here is a link to my troubleshooting blog.

http://s1.zetaboards.../4751769/1/#new

This is updated often so come back later for more.

 

What you want is the General section with its links to improving the computer performance.

 

If you use any of this and have some success - or even if nothing works - please post back here what you did that worked or didn't work. That kind of information can be invaluable to other members having the same or similar problems - And to me in fixing any problems in the blog.

 

If you follow the advice, you MAY get some improvement - but with your system don't expect anything like high resolution or high FPS with lots of mods.

[Deleted4704462User]

I took your advice and reduced my settings and followed an ini tweak guide, works much better, gone from stuttering stanley to muttering mike, it's now more than playable, thank you :) very much

I know my comp is woeful but I'm fairly new to PC gaming and I got it on the cheap. On the bright side atleast I can play oblivion.

[Vindekarr]

Exactly! It's not about owning the Skulltrail* it's about having what you need to play the games you love. Afterall, you can't get better than 60 FPS, so why try? it's a waste of money. I only upgrade my rig when she actually needs it, she's nothing fancy, and a mixture of eras-I could afford much better, but she's more than powerful enough to run modern games at their best settings, so why would I need some ridiculous triple SLI crossfire octo-core fire spewing Khornate PC of doom? And we all start out small too-my first gaming machine was frankly rubbish, but it got me interested, and over time I transformed it into a monster, a tiny piece of which is actually in my current machine, which is the fifth full generation(sixth when the CPU is replaced next year)

 

*The Skulltrail was an insane prototype PC Intel made a few years back, it had sixteen processors, a purple/skulls spotty paintjob that looked like the print from kid's pyjamas, and a truly bonkers amount of fans. It also cost more than my car.

[Illiad86]

Indeedy. I have more than a few friends say "If you like computers so much, why don't you upgrade all the time?" It's a waste of money like you said. My computer is fast and awesome, it does everything I want it to do. Why do I need to go and buy a new motherboard just because this one is 3 years old? :rolleyes: Finally showed one buddy of mine that upgrading every 6 months does nothing lol, took 3 years :P

 

When I saw OPs set up, I smiled. My first gaming rig was an Athlon XP 3500+, 4GB DDR2, and a GeForce 2MX. When I got Oblivion, it wouldn't even start. That old card couldn't play it. So I upgraded to a x800GTO. I couldn't play Oblivion maxed out, but just being able to play it on medium made me happy. Eventually, it evolved into what I have now.

Edited September 26, 2012 by Illiad86

[FMod]

*The Skulltrail was an insane prototype PC Intel made a few years back, it had sixteen processors, a purple/skulls spotty paintjob that looked like the print from kid's pyjamas, and a truly bonkers amount of fans. It also cost more than my car.

Actually it wasn't anywhere that insane. Just two CPU. They tried to match AMD's "4x4" platform - at that time Intel had just started contesting AMD's title as the king of CPU. Intel's Core architecture had higher OP per clock, but AMD won the quad-core race and built up a lead there. The cost was about the same as a dual-socket system today, $600 for a mobo and $1,000 for each CPU.

 

Both platforms were lame showoffs and pointless for any practical use, especially since nothing could even use 8 cores at the time. Almost nothing can even now.

 

Note that while, much later, LGA1366 was not a showoff, LGA2011 seems to be one - the extra cores add little, and four memory channels seem to, bluntly, not even work: the gain from o/c the RAM from 1333 to 2133 on LGA1155 is greater than from moving from 1155 to 2011, despite the latter being supposed to, in theory, have considerably more performance.