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Originally posted by shamrock_uk:
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.
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Your problem isn't your pc, it works the game quite fine. The problem is the bad programmers of Bethsoft who decided for some reason that non-human footstep sounds should be in another format which slows down your 'puter IMMENSELY if you don't have an über soundsystem. So search on TESSource a bit for a mod that removes the non-human footstep sounds, it's there, and it works.
My puter is a AMD Athlon XP 2400+
1.5 Gb RAM
Windows XP pro
GeForce 6600 (256 ram)
I run on the lowest res, no HDR or AA, no shadows except for canopy, and the rest doesn't matter. When in fights or cities, the framerate drops somewhat, sometimes enough to make it frustrating. I've seen my vidcard do 800x600, with HDR and full character shadows with 30 average FPS, so I know it isn't that which gives me problems. Any ideas? Is it the CPU?