Oblivion

[Guest]

Field of view? What the hell are you talking about? You would better enlighten us about HOW TO CHANGE it?

 

[rmthompson]

SO i went out and got the game...

Installed.

Started game. It automatically gave me high quality settings... so I went with it.

Sewers = fine.

Outisde area to the first guy = fine

I TELEPORT to the next city I am supposed to go to, and I start to climb the mountain... my FPS is around 24 - 35... and then BOOM it drops to 1... then kicks back... then 1... cant move... stuck...

I dont know what happened? I dont think i changed anything buy maybe added to the antialiasing....

so any ideas on how to get it to run smoother?

 

[TheGreatGrapeApe]

Field of view? What the hell are you talking about? You would better enlighten us about HOW TO CHANGE it?

Simple go into console "press the ` / ~ symbol" and then type;

FOV #
So FOV 90 is 90degrees of FOV , FOV 70 is 70degrees.

You must do this every game IIRC as it's not an .ini adjustable setting IIRC.

 

[Vokofpolisiekar]

Thanx for the FOV(POV) - never thought about that one.

If the joke is aimed at me - let it rip. But family, nope. Thanx for the consideration 8)

 

[spontayo]

I don't know if any of you play oblivion on xbox 360, but my friend found a cool glitch in that version at least. When you are picking a lock get the first rod then move the pick between the first and second rods. When the pick passes between the two, press the auto attempt button and the lock will be picked. This may take a few tries, but works on all locks
(easy-very hard).

 

[illicitsc]

does anyone kno how to stop npcs from harassing u like forever if u attack them..

 

[Vokofpolisiekar]

Sure, get 'n shotgun about 10m due north of the big tree in the town center, and teach 'em a lesson with some shell spray... :lol: :lol: :lol:

Just kidding - in three days time, when we eventually get the darn game here in southern africa, I'll get back on this one

 

[pauldh]

esc and load a point prior to you attacking them. 😉

 

[illicitsc]

thats gay. they should patch it cuz the fucking npcs will follow u everyhwere even into oblivion and when im invisible so fucking gay.

 

[jhkokst]

hold block and activate them. If your rep with them is high enough, you can concede a fight.

 

[TheGreatGrapeApe]

Bit Tech has their review up with some performance figures.

Don't like the fact that it's highest playable since they didn't compare the apples/apples of the GF6800GT and X1600XT for HDR or even attempt Bloom + AA, but looking at it's performance it's holdiing up pretty well against 2 cards that pretty much destroy it in everything else. Kinda fits the expeiences I've been having on friend's computers. Can't wait to see what happens with optimized ATi drivers (since they use the Beta nV 84.25s);

http://www.bit-tech.net/gaming/2006/03/31/elder_scrolls_oblivion/1.html

 

[pauldh]

Yeah, I agree; not enough info there. At least [H] shows the framerate graph and used to give apples to apples also(I miss that). I like these kind of results if we have plenty of other reviews, but I like when they at least take the highest playable setting of the best card and show how the others do apples to apples vs. it. Take the 6800GT for example. I would not like trying to sink arrows or dodge blocks at 15 fps. How often did it get that low? I'd rather have seen the 6800GT at the X850Xt settings with bloom instead of HDR.

 

[naktau]

My card x1900xtx. Using FRAPS.
Indoors/ caverns 80 to 180 fps. When I go near to doors/ walls 243.
Outdoors 19 to 80. It gets down to 19 during loading area sequence.
1280 X 1024. No AA.No self shadows.
Other details set to the max. HDR.

The game is graphic card intensive. I bumped up my prescott 670 to 4.2Ghz but there's no difference to the FPS.
I'm using Corsairs twin xms PC6400.

 

[ExaByte]

At the lowest rez it is more like a slide show, doesnot run at all.
P4 prescott 3Ghz, 1MB pc3200 dc, 6600 ultra 1740 256 MB, no oc.
Would not uninstall, had to perform a system restore.

 

[Ian]

Something is wrong with your comp.

Check your drivers, make sure you have 84.21 or at least some new drivers, 84.25 are nice too.

You most likely have to tweak the configuration a lot to get it to look nice and still be playable. Make sure shadows are somewhat low, grass shadows off, etc. Also use bloom lighting, not HDR. Just fiddle with it a bit. You should be able to get nice fps and have it look quite nice with your rig.

 

[Rabidpeanut]

You can pre order oblivion at bt games dude, they have one in brooklyn and northgate and there are 2 others, i think one is in fourways and they are starting one up in centurion and another in the pavilion. Not sure about the other, but anyway, the normal is ~R300 pre -order and the other is ~R450 but you get all the shiny collectors stuff('gold' septim, etc). What i do is i wait for them to put out a pre played copy 'cause there is always smoeone who has a too slow pc and they return the game and you get it for about R200 instead, just it has been opened. There has been an illegal one circulating the country so i have seen the game already, KICK ASS. I thought bt said it was coming on the 5th of april. I got FEAR for R200 brand new, only open and tribes for R75. The only problem with this game is the bump mapping is bloody everywhere, so unless you turn up your detail in your driver settings it can look really bad. I am sooooooooooo buying the collectors, unless i save the money for my new pc and then get a pre played later, i am sure that someone is bound to hate the game, hopefully they hate the collectors edition. PS, the narrow kick polisiekar in the nuts.

 

[uberclops]

I pre-ordered mine from BT Games, i'm a bit worried though (the last game I pre-ordered from them they sold to someone else before I got there...). I recently upgraded my pc to play this game 😀

ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe
AMD Athlon-64 X2 4400+ Toledo
Sapphire X1900xtx 512MB

That's the new stuff. People forget a few simple things to help improve performance on their pc's.

* Install the latest omega drivers. ATI drivers are optimized for benchmarking, not playing games 😀
* Un-install FDDShow, I used my friends copy to test it on my pc and when I quit oblivion I had +-30 copies of fddshow running in my taskbar 🙁
* Use the least ammount of desktop icon possible.
* Don't use a wallpaper.
* Don't use any Windows XP themes or fancy fading or anything like that, turn it all off and repent!!!
* Close down programs you arn't running (I know this sounds obvious, but I've seen people running a pc with 20 programs running in the background).
* Close down any explorer windows, and if you must use a file manager use total commander (uses 600KB as opposed to explorers 20MB).
* Defragment your harddrive before installing oblivion.

Just doing these few things helped me increase my FPS 5 - 10 😀 Omega drivers help keep the framerate relatively stable, a lot more stable than the official ATI drivers.

Anyway, I realize that a lot of what I said has probably already been said in the topic, but I thought putting it all together would be nice 😀

Hope it helps.

 

[dmantech]

I get sweet frames in Oblivion and I do not have a
single problem.
AMD 64 X2 4400+
2Gigs Corsair ram.
X1900XT 512MB
Creative Xfi
550 PSU
Asus AN8 SLI Premium

 

[uberclops]

What make of gfx card do you have? ATI, Sapphire, ASUS etc... ?

 

[naktau]

I played again Oblivion with FRAPS on and now I getting different FPS count.
Indoors 30 to 60. Outdoors 20 to 40. Can't figure out why FRAPS posted high FPS count the first time I ran it.

 

[TheGreatGrapeApe]

Oblivion has a built in framerate counter, just go into the console '~' key and type in: TDT

 

[uberclops]

Got my x1900xtx yesterday. Picked up oblivion this morning. 1280x960 everything on max except for self-shadows (look so retarded) + HDR and outside my FPS never goes lower than 28FPS. 1600X1200 gives pretty much the same performance, but my desktop is set to 1280X960 and I really don't see what difference 1600X1200 makes, so i'll stick to what my desktop has.

 

[Vokofpolisiekar]

Tomorrow, I will be joining in on the Oblivion madness. It finally arrived in ZA, and just to make sure I do get it, I pre-ordered from three sites. First come, first payed. :twisted: :twisted:

So, I'll most likely not be posting nonsense for 3 days or more. So enjoy the time minus me.... :lol: :lol: :lol: Just kidding....

 

[Dr_asik]

Here is my configuration:

P4 2.8 GHz
512MB RAM ddr400
ATI Radeon 9600SE

Well, the game is perfectly playable, framerate is more stable then in Morrowind, but pretty low: probably 14-28fps. I am playing at 800x600, bloom, large textures, normal water detail and all reflections on; no shadows whatsoever; trees, grass and objects pretty much all the way down. Still, it looks very impressive and I am not spending hundreds of dollars on better framerates and anti-aliasing.

1024x768 with 2x antialiasing looks much better but is only playable in dungeons.

EDIT: just ran the game with FRAPS. Worse than I thought: in a thick forest, the framerate doesn't ever go higher than 15fps, hovers around 11. Forced to turn off the grass completly, which doesn't look quite so good.Looking down from the Imperial City into the west, on top of my horse, I get 15fps, but there are not many trees around. Disabling LOD makes Oblivion look like crap, but gives me around 22fps, which is much more playable. 960x720 looks much better than 800x600 but cost me 1 or 2 precious fps. Forget about AA.

In short, Oblivion is torture for my configuration, but it is playable if you can tolerate low fps and forests with no grass.

 

[severeon]

im gettin between 25-60 with VSync off (cause i dont get screen tears unless im doin like 40 360's in a row) bloom on, 1280-1024 res, medium textures, AA 2x, and view distances somewhere between 100% and 80%.

oh ya, I got a Pentium D 830, EVGA GeForce 6600GT, 1GB OCZ Gold Series DDR2 667 speed, MSI 945P Platinum Mobo, and a Spinpoint 200GB Sata-II Hard Drive.