Why isn't oblivion running well with my pc???

Jay1646 · October 24, 2008

okay so i just bought oblivion

and i have an acer 5520

specs:

AMD Turion 64x2 TL-58 (1.9Ghz, 2 x 512 kB L2 cache)

Nvida Geforce 7000M

2gb DDR2

160gb HD

windows vista

with all this i should run oblivion fairly well right?

even system requirement labs say i can:

http://i36.tinypic.com/i2ixrm.jpg

but even with all this, the game crashes when i try to play (it will get to the old guy talking then crash)

so i had to use oldblivion and it runs like doodoo even at medium settings

whats wrong? am i not using my pc to its full potential

please help

WoogieMonster · October 24, 2008

I hate to be the bringer of bad news, but your rig is at the bare minimum to even run Vista, much less Oblivion on Vista. Vista and Oblivion are both memory hogs and your low-end video card is probably sweating bullets every time you boot up the game. Medium settings may be as good as you're going to get.

A few people here have Vista, hopefully someone will know some tricks to help you out.

catmagnet · October 29, 2008

I doubt there'll be much of a remedy. Iirc 7000m is chipset gfx, so that's zero true video memory. Maybe increasing its share of RAM in BIOS will help, but I see little hope in conjunction with Vista. Getting a stripped down XP to set up a dual-boot could be worth a try, there's stuff going around in shady corners of the net with a footprint as low as >90MB. Your responsibility to check if that's legal where you are, supposing you own a copy of xp. But even then we're still facing a slow hd. Anyway, you'll need some computer skills and dedication to try that. Sorry, but that's the only way I see and I wouldn't even bet on any results.