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Originally posted by Aelia Jusa:
I meet the minimum requirements, a smidgeon off recommended (I can't believe how much ram I have!! I thought I had 512 but turns out I have double that!  ). The only thing I don't meet recommended requirements on is the video card - I have a RADEON X300 SE apparently. It meets minimum requirements but not recommended - any ideas as to how this will affect my game if (okay, when  ) I get it?
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Sorry Aelia - you will really struggle to play the game on the X300SE. It has very little memory bandwidth which will pretty much limit you to running 640x480 and its low pixel fill rate/polygon throughput will mean pretty much everything will have to be set to minimum, and even then you'll probably have you FPS in the single digits, perhaps teens at best (especially outside). It's not the way to enjoy such a beautiful game
. If you wanted some suggestions as to some good value cards that would vastly improve your Oblivion performance just shout.
Just to give you a resonable reference point, the following screenshot is from quite a powersul system, but with a Radeon 9600 pro graphics card (similar polygon throughput and fillrate, but it has 3 times the memory bandwidth over the X300SE!) - everything was set to low, and resolution was 640x480 - even when it's not really rendering anything at all the FPS never gets out the 20's
