The Oblivion screenshot thread

[Zink Whistlefly]

Can you lucky peeps who already have the game give us poor folk who are still waiting something to drool over in the form of some gorgeous screenshots please ?

My copy should arrive today/tomorrow at least so I'll hopefully get some nice pictures in here for the weekend.

Posting your system specs and average indoor/outdoor FPS will also be helpful (FRAPS can be used if necessary).

Jim

[Hivetyrant]

Rightio, I will post a few screenies when I get a chance tomrrow.

My specs and average FPS are as follows:
Outside FPS: about 36fps constant
Inside FPS: generally 50-60fps
Dungeon FPS: about 30-40 depending on lighting and wether I have HDR or 6xAA and bloom on

My PC specs are as follows:
CPU: AMD X2 4800+
RAM: 1.5Gig of Giel DDR400 Ram
Video card: Radeon X1900XTX
MoboFI Lanparty UT crossfire edition

Of course, all settings are set to max, and the reason my average fps arent awesome is because I run this on my Dell 24" monitor and the game is running at 1920x1200 which takes quite a bit of power [img]smile.gif[/img]

Plus I have not even begun to overclock yet, but I reckon I can hit the frame limiter when I do.....

Well, I will try anyways

[vesselle]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...creenShot1.jpg

you'll have to settle for a screenie of my current character. i've been too busy playing to actually take screenshots and convert them. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

V***V

[vesselle]

getting ready to enter a dungeon that i had no idea would get me all topsy-turvy. i think i wandered around for 2 real hours trying to find my way back out of this one.
just got no sense of direction. irl or ingame. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

V***V

[vesselle]

showing off my big sword. it's a little rainy outside now, but way preferable to that durned old dungeon.

V***V

[vesselle]

my redguard from Morrowind.
using better bodies/better heads/better clothes and leia's dual wield mod.

i showed you mine!
now show me yours [img]tongue.gif[/img]

V***V

[vesselle]

still level 1 & 3/10, but enjoying the scenery as much as ever. [img]smile.gif[/img]

statue at chorrol fountain.

V***V

[InjaYew]

Oh wow. Those are beautiful.

This is killin' me...

Thanks for posting

[Ziroc]

Here are some of mine.. Nature is awesome

http://www.ironworksforum.com/hosted/ScreenShot10.jpg

http://www.ironworksforum.com/hosted/ScreenShot9.jpg

http://www.ironworksforum.com/hosted/ScreenShot4.jpg

http://www.ironworksforum.com/hosted/ScreenShot5.jpg

http://www.ironworksforum.com/hosted/ScreenShot6.jpg

http://www.ironworksforum.com/hosted/ScreenShot7.jpg

http://www.ironworksforum.com/hosted/ScreenShot0.jpg

http://www.ironworksforum.com/hosted/ScreenShot1.jpg

http://www.ironworksforum.com/hosted/ScreenShot11.jpg

http://www.ironworksforum.com/hosted/ScreenShot2.jpg

http://www.ironworksforum.com/hosted/ScreenShot3.jpg

[Zink Whistlefly]

Thanks for posting guys, there's some gorgeous shots there (especially 2 and 3 Ziroc - lovely lighting there as the sun is setting).

I finally found some time to install it on my system over the weekend. Not got very far yet but here's a random selection so far (resized slightly from 1400*900):











Settings were 1440*900 (tried 1680*1050 native but things got a little laggy ~ 15fps outside) high detail (which it auto detected) and then I increased the grass distance and shadow sliders to max. I'm quite impressed at how well this game is running on my 13 month old system - generally 20-30 fps outside, ~ 40fps within cities and ~ 50fps in dungeons:

• Winchester 3000+ @ 2.65 Ghz
• 1GB OCZ PC3200 VX @ 241 Mhz, 2,2,2,6 1T
• Connect 3D Radeon X850XT @ 570/594 (SM 2.0 so no HDR )
• 74GB Raptor
• Dell 20" 2005FPW

My first impression when I walked outside was a combination of "Wow!" and "Wtf, eeeugh!" I couldn't believe how poorly implemented the LOD was, with the distant terrain looking like one massive, low res, blurry blob . I searched around a little and found some improvements that can be made to the oblivion.ini file which has sharpened up the distant terrain at the expense of the water going a little buggy. It looks miles better though, and the framerate hit really is minimal. Here is the edit:

• Locate Oblivion.ini (should be in My Documents -> My Games etc)
• Backup file
• uGridsToLoad = 10 (5 default) - this should make distant terrain much sharper
• uNumDepthGrids = 1 (3 default) - this mostly should fix the water problems

It's not perfect but I couldn't cope with all that blurry mess! Hopefully this will be addressed in a patch, with there being additional LOD sliders in the video options menu.

That aside it truly is a beautiful game.

P.S. Hive you have a KILLER system there (ponders ordering an X1900XT and X2...)

[ 03-27-2006, 04:00 AM: Message edited by: Zink Whistlefly ]