Afternoon all,
I can't help feeling a little disappointed with Oblivion performance so I thought I'd share my experiences and see if it's just me or whether it happens to others with similar hardware. All settings are maxed and I'm using AA rather than HDR.
Generally speaking the game runs perfectly smoothly in 'normal' play (ie travelling to different places, light combat, magic) Galloping on a horse is definitely a little choppy.
Wolves for some reason give me a visible and serious performance hit.
It really does slow to a crawl when trying to escape guards across country - after five minutes of running/galloping constantly through the countryside with perhaps two guards, a few monsters and a couple of wolves chasing me we're talking perhaps 5 fps.
The above all are taking place with default .ini settings. Extending the scenery draw distance (as per the .ini tweak) does hit performance (understandably). Standing on that lake with all the vicious slaughterfish, setting ugridstoload = 10 is largely fine. 15 drops me to about 15fps and setting it to 20 brings it to about 2fps.
I'd be interested to hear whether the above symptoms are typical.
Specs:
Athlon64 X2 4400+
256MB GeForce 7900GT
Asus A8N-SLI Premium
2GB Crucial DDR RAM
Windows 2000
I only just built this thing with the intention of it being a beast of a gaming PC so am understandably a little bit miffed to experience any form of slowdown whatsoever. I'm also using the latest Nvidia drivers. Any idea what gives? TIA!
[ 04-19-2006, 08:59 AM: Message edited by: shamrock_uk ]
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