ES: Oblivion

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Bit-tech just posted their in depth article on Oblivion. It shows you what the highest, medium and lowest settings look like, and also how most of the popular gfx cards fare at running this demon of a game.

http://www.bit-tech.net/gaming/2006/03/31/...oblivion/5.html

I linked straight to the mid-range performance tests cos thats what we were talking about, but there's some high-end tests and other nice info on previous pages. According to their tests the max playable settings (with 15-37.2fps) on the BFG 6800gt OC was:

-1024x768
-HDR on
-8x AF
-Large textures
-Medium details
-Medium draw distance

This game is even more demanding than FEAR was! And to get the best visual quality out of it (not always important :P), the only way is by investing in an X1900XTX or 7900GTX OC...

The 360 version is tempting, but I'd have to run it letterboxed, scaled up and with 2 speakers instead of 5.1 (dont have a digital amp), and I dislike playing first person games with analog sticks. The AF seems to be pretty poor too, but at least the draw distance is good..

Originally posted by Choupolo@Mar 30 2006, 03:34 PM
Heh, oops sry dude. :dennis:

You should find Oblivion in pretty much all stores by now. Maybe they were just out of stock when you went in since it's just been released.

The game is basically an fp-rpg set in an absolutely enormous fantasy world (almost too big!), complete with cities, towns, countryside, forests, swampland, mountain ranges and of course undead skeleton filled dungeons! You can get involved in the main story which goes on about murdered kings long lost sons and demon portals etc....go around hitting enemies, talking to npcs, levelling up, stealing peoples things etc... or you can just wander round and take in the views and do side quests. The rpg elements are pretty in depth with detailed character creation, character levelling, magic, enchanting weapons, thousands of items, but they purposely simplified the whole process so that its not so overwhelming for players new to the genre.

People have been saying very good things about Oblivion. If you've played any of the Elder Scrolls games like Morrowind or previous ones, you'll know what to expect from the gameplay, but the gfx in OB are spectacular in places. The only draw back would be that you either need a beastly PC to run it in all its glory, or get an xbox 360. But I suppose neither are really drawbacks if you've got enough cash lying around.

I'm waiting till the end of the month to buy this though cos of exams, since I know how addicted I'd get to it if I got it now!

You can't handle school and Oblivion?? lol, wow!! it must be a pretty "off the hook" game man

:bucky!:

heh, tis

I was talking about revising for my uni finals though, which I'm currently crapping myself about lol! ;)

got the game its really good,, i let the game set my settings for me,, it put me on high settings with 1024x768 , my pc is
p4 3.6
x850xt pci express 256 mb
2 gig ram
and it runs it flawlessly i have gotten out of the sewers and on my way, i just wonder if i should explore more before finishing the quest,, i wanna see it all if possible. i just found a big city ,, for get the name of it .. this game actually runs better then fear, for me anyway.

Well I run the game in 1280x1024, with 2x AA, bloom on, details: high characters: high, everything else on high except the grass at 2/3 of the bar. the game runs at a constant 20-25 fps, but i prefer eye candy to performance, i'll make screenies so you get an idea of how the game runs for me.

hmm i will boost my settings up and see how it runs.. like i say i only let the game select my settings. i prefur eye candy my self where do u set the 2x AA and is that the highest setting?

Try editing the Oblivion.ini file in \My Games\Oblivion. I did and I gained a huge fps boost!

I can post my .ini file if you want?

yes please

Okay, remember to back up your orinigal oblivion.ini file first. I disabled things like grass, which gave a big fps boost. You have a much better card than me (I have a Radeon 9800pro), so you can obviously have more candy on the screen than myself :nxs:

Just copy and paste this into the oblivion.ini file LINK HERE

That should give you a nice fps boost.

I'll check it out. I hope it's not one of the ini tunes that gives chars blank faces and such.