TennysonXII Posted November 20, 2008 Share Posted November 20, 2008 I'm pretty sure I have a decent setup, but I can't run Oblivion at 1440x900 with everything going full steam. Is it just not possible with my system? Note: I don't have QTPIII installed. It chewed up my FPS Specs:Motherboard - Asus A8M2N-LA (NodusM)CPU - DualCore AMD Athlon 64 X2, 2000 MHz (10 x 200) 3800+Memory - 1G DDR2GPU - BFG GeForce 8800 GT 512MB Even at 1200x800 (I think that's right) I have major stutter in roads and in the Great Forest. As in less than a frame every 2 or 3 seconds. What can I do to speed things up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dezdimona Posted November 20, 2008 Share Posted November 20, 2008 are you running a lot of mods?a lot of save games will eat up FPS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stampede Posted November 20, 2008 Share Posted November 20, 2008 a lot of save games will eat up FPS Really? I honestly did not know that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dezdimona Posted November 20, 2008 Share Posted November 20, 2008 a lot of save games will eat up FPS Really? I honestly did not know that.I read at the official site a while back that having a lot of saved games and also repeated overwriting of said games will cause fps and other problems,If I'm wrong then I'm sorry.Just passing on what I had read Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stampede Posted November 20, 2008 Share Posted November 20, 2008 a lot of save games will eat up FPS Really? I honestly did not know that.I read at the official site a while back that having a lot of saved games and also repeated overwriting of said games will cause fps and other problems,If I'm wrong then I'm sorry.Just passing on what I had read No harm in that, I don't doubt it. Just a bit of a catch 22...using the same save over and over is never good...but it seems having lots of saves can be detrimental as well? Best to just back up old saves in a seperate folder then. But I wonder, how much counts as a lot? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bben46 Posted November 20, 2008 Share Posted November 20, 2008 You only have 1 G of ram. That can limit you some, even though the vid card is supposed to perform the video stuff. If you really want to squeeze more out of it, take a look at this site for optimizing. Start with the part about optimizing your system, that will help everything, not just games. Then the Optimization for your video card, that will help with all games. Then do the Optimization for Oblivion. http://www.tweakguides.com/Oblivion_1.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TennysonXII Posted November 20, 2008 Author Share Posted November 20, 2008 I only have a couple save files. I probably need at least another gig of RAM, though. I looked at the Oblivion tweak guide (before posting, that is), but I couldn't get through it. I have the attention span of a squirrel on speed. So until I can upgrade, what settings should I use? I need the game to be playable, but I've been playing it on 360 for two years and I never complained about the graphics then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bben46 Posted November 20, 2008 Share Posted November 20, 2008 Every system is different and needs different tweaks. What works on mine might make yours worse. If your System and video board aren't set first, the Oblivion game tweaks probably won't help much. Start by making sure you have the latest Microsoft fixes installed. Then be sure you have the latest drivers for your video and audio boards. Vista needs more ram than XP. 1G on XP will play fair (not great), but on Vista it won't. When I first started playing Oblivion, I had stuttering too. And I only had 1G of ram. I traced part of it to not having a separate sound card. I was using the on board sound from my motherboard. I installed a dedicated sound card and turned off the on board sound. that improved it some. The on board audio takes part of your system ram. Then when I installed another 1G of ram it improved some more. I have 3G now, but that 3rd gig did not make nearly the difference the second one did. As I use XP it would not pay to get more RAM for my present system. Vista can handle quite a bit more. But most motherboards will only support about 8Gig. 3 - 4 Gig will play very well. Other things I did was to turn the grass distance down, turn interior shadows all the way down, turn exterior shadows pretty low, turn off AA and HDR, Set resolution lower, turn off water effects and reflections. - All of these are discussed in the Tweak Guide. what each one does and what you can expect when you adjust them. You will reach a point where the game runs great but looks ugly. Then you decide what is acceptable, a little higher FPS, or a little better video. With your video board (I have a 7600 GT) you should be able to turn a lot of the settings back up all the way if you can get the rest of the game tweaks (non video related) to run smoother. I have thousands of saves and have not noticed any stuttering caused by them. I have even tried moving most of my saves into another folder and did not see any difference in FPS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nosisab Posted November 21, 2008 Share Posted November 21, 2008 You gave us few informations for a precise diagnostic, yet some symptoms are characteristics. Seems you have a high cell loading rate and/or memory flushing. For starts you have a very high end video board for both your CPU and mainly RAM amount. Streamline would go nuts here if it's memory purging feature isn't restricted to very few points, like only in fast travels or sleep/rest, for example. Under such pressures (read video resolution mainly) the already bad memory management under XP is greatly enhanced (toward the worst) with too much paging (virtual memory), if is Vista you just don't have enough RAM. This picture just worsens if you run too many mods and mainly high demanding ones. If is something that happens just recently and ran better before you have good points to start looking for the latest installations. As said before, giving us more details will help doing a more precise analyze of the problem. absolutely need is the OS you use, mods you have activated (with load order) and everything else you deem will help almost certain will. Again talking about streamline (if it is even is used, of course) the high end GPU may be fooling it to give more than the rest of the hardware can chew. To try minoring the issues, try reducing mods that penalizes the CPU more than the GPU, like heavily scripted ones, being those that places many creatures and/or NPCs the more suspected. Although reducing resolution may help it isn't because the video card, so you can even charge high at details and texture resolution at will without noting performance loss. Mods like "quiet feet" may help and be big help when near creatures (don't matter if you can see them or not). good luck PS: Nvidia have a feature that can wonder miracles in this setup of yours, that is changing a notch or two the maximum "pre-rendered frames", try first reducing it. You may need to use some utility that enables the feature, one named nHancer may help in this and other things too, google for it. But since reducing the pre-rendered frames may increase stuttering sometimes you may need to experiment, even maybe increasing it above the default 3, or it may not help at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TennysonXII Posted November 21, 2008 Author Share Posted November 21, 2008 Woo! Upgraded to 3 gigs of RAM. Runs (almost) smooth as butter now. Woo! Thanks for the advice, especially bben46 and nosiab. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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