I just upgraded my gaming system for Skyrim and decided to give Oblivion a run while I'm waiting. I know that Skyrim is going to push a system to its limits so I went pretty high end.

For my Oblivion install I downloaded all of the texture and LOD mods and fired her up.

MAX SETTINGS! 60 FPS!

I've never had that before! Oblivion looks pretty good when you can turn everything on high.

Has anyone else just recently been able to run Oblivion on top settings? Or have you always had a boss system?

My current puter and the one before it were built to run Oblivion - plenty of gigajuice and such. I've always been able to run at max settings and always been delighted with the resulting graphics display and smooth performance. I run some mods, but only ones to enhance or tweak things that I want to improve. I've never seen the need to improve the scenery because it looks beautiful to me. :foodndrink:

Maxed out, full HD, and 400+ mods. It looks stunning.

I have always been able to run it maxed out, plus tweaked, and I am very glad about that, having seen it elsewise.

I don't actually run everything max. Oh, I'm fairly close. But a few sliders are not pegged at far-right. Grass visibility distance for one...it's roughly at the 3/4ths mark. That's a sacrifice I make in the name of performance. I've been thinking to up it, but still not to 100%. Unlike Acadian I do run a number of graphics/scenic enhancing mods of various sorts....some ULs, RAEVWD, better textures and the like. In particular it would be hard for me to do without RAEVWD. Once you get used to seeing most structures at distance it's hard to go back.

My one feeble foray into mod creation has been on the visual-improvement side...attempting to create better quality distant landscape textures and meshes, which I consider one of the game's weaker aspects.

Even my secondary computer can run Oblivion at mostly high quality settings, though with it I have to be far more selective with graphics addons.

-Decrepit-

My computer can handle maxed settings but I don't use maxed settings. Currently I have everything maxed out except for View Distance - currently at 50 - and Distant Buildings and Distant Trees, which are turned off. I also made a mod to pull the fog in very close to my player, probably a little closer than it was in Morrowind.

I think Oblivion's near-infinite view distance is as butt-ugly and cheap-looking as a model railroad layout on a 4x8 sheet of plywood. I don't want to have to look at it. So thanks to these changes I don't have to see the White Gold tower from virtually every square inch of Cyrodiil and Cyrodiil feels like a much large and much more mysterious place to me.

I voted soon after it was released. But it might have been on release. As I recall my first Oblivion computer was a 7800 GTX which was pretty powerful at the time. at one point however my video card burnt out. I actually upgraded at that time.

For a long time since then I've been running with very maxed cards and have been able to run Oblivion at Ultra settings with no lag.

The game is extremely beautiful, particularly with mods. Even though it is was released long ago.

3-4 year old computer and running near max. Everything is maxed at 1280x720p with a little lower AA quality, but still get the occasional pop-in graphics stutter. If I try to put it at 1080p then the stutter becomes more unbearable.

Edit: Oh, and self shadows off.

I voted a couple of years. I built this system nearly two years ago.

My previous system could run vanilla Oblivion nearly maxed out, but had to have settings scaled back when I went to replacement textures and distant view.

However I soon will be getting a new PC, which will allow me to play with Max Settings

Every graphics related slider to the left, except for the Actor and Object Rendering.

Even with that my AMD Turion 64 latop STILL can't handle 7+ characters mobbing me, so melee svcks.

I did a computer overhaul this spring and put Oblivion on it. Like OP said, damn it's nice to be able to turn everything up. I run several mods and I have improved textures. I have my game capped at 30 FPS though. I don't notice a difference.

After reading some of these comments I realized there are more mods out there I hadn't heard of (like RAEVWD). So I added that and a couple others and now I'm down to 35 fps.

But it looks gorgeous and 35 fps is pretty smooth.

Also, I'm running just a single card when I should have two. One went kaput so I'm waiting for it's replacement from newegg. As soon as I get the second 6950 I should be good to go again.

What are the main Beautifying Mods that people use?

I've got:
Qarls Texture Pack
RAEVWD

hmmm. Can't remember the rest. I'll update when I get home tonight.

Including Shadows on self and Shadows on Grass? Those are two settings wouldn't use even on a supercomputer.

I feel bad saying this, but... if I recall correctly, two (or more) cards will at best do very little for Oblivion - if anything - and at worst, might even reduce FPS. I hope it is the former, of course, and I suspect it is. But even so, I am fairly sure that Oblivion is very badly optimised (if at all) for Crossfire. Or SLI, most likely, for that matter.

Hopefully, I do not recall correcfly, in that instance...



First and most of all, http://tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=30054, and http://tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=37825 to go with it. All other graphical mods fade into the background, relatively speaking, in terms of how much impact they will have..

And, while I cannot remember all the many, many mods I use, http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1213147-oblivion-the-beautiful/ might prove to be rather useful for you, along with whoever else happens to be interested.

I do thoroughly recommend just about anything by InsanitySorrow, or AmpolX (if you can find the latter, that is). In addition, All Natural is a must, along with Cava Obscura. Oh, and most definitely DarNified UI, or DarkUId DarN if you prefer - playing Oblivion is maddening without one of these, or a similar UI mod.

But anyway, I imagine that the thread I linked to will be more helpful than any list of mods I could name here and now.

Best of luck with it all. Make sure you use http://tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=22368, of course, and if you need some help with that - most people will - there is an excellent tutorial right http://tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=35230. And lastly, bookmark http://tescosi.com/wiki/Main_Page and read as much of it as might apply to you and your modding. A (very) few things might be slightly out of date there, but for the most part, it is still entirely relevant.

Have fun! ( ... and, if you feel like it, post some screenies over at the Oblivion Mods foruim, in the Modded Oblivion Screenshots thread, which is generally to be found within the first two or three pages ... )

Have had a boss system for a couple of years now but before it was horrible. Upgraded it bit by bit and now, max settings and no performance problems at all :foodndrink:

I was so curious about what this thread was going to be about from the title! :lmao:

I used to have oblivion for PC but I was a noob back then and didn't know much so I guess I just had it on whatever the default settings were. I have oblivion for xbox now, no way in hell could my computer run it anymore.

Oh, you′re a nasty girl :laugh:

Thanks for the great info. Looks like I'll be downloading a few more mods when I get home.

And I can deal with Oblivion not supporting crossfire so long as Skyrim has support.

Never. :confused:
But I'm upgrading my PC so I can play Skyrim. I'll give Oblivion a try, always wanted to play it on max.

Oblivion can take advantage of crossfire. Nothing special has to be coded for that. That is internal to DirectX.

What Oblivion does not take full advantage of is multiple CPUs.

But Crossfire will benefit Oblivion.

I voted for sob, because no matter what machine of mine it is on, Oblivion runs like crap. I do have most of the graphics effects turned up on my current box, an i7 with 12gig of ram and a GTX 580, and I can get about 100 fps. But it still stutters quite a bit. Even turning all the graphics options down does not help. I get about 300 fps, but it still stutters. That is with OSR mind you. Without it, the stuttering was worse.

I upgraded my PC back in July for Skyrim, so only a few months. However, I got Oblivion in early 2010 and I could run high settings then.

By max settings, I mean all settings to the max, 1920x1080 resolution, and no lag. I've also got more mods for Oblivion then I have on Morrowind, Fallout 3, and Fallout New Vegas. Not combined obviously, I've installed a lot of mods for Fo3 and FNV.

Cap it at 30 and it'll look a lot better. It's when the FPS changes is when it stutters. So if it's capped at a relatively low number, then there will be less stuttering.

Aye, this be what OSR recommends and is set to as default (with my version at least). I consider my Oblivion game-play relatively smooth except for a few isolated areas. Of course I'm helped by my play-style. My avatar pretty much travels at a walking pace at good 95% percent of the time. Walking doesn't triggers stutters as readily as does running/galloping. I'd say my most stuttery area is Bravil Barrowfields approaching the southernmost sheep pens. Even at a walk stutters are evident there, especially when a beast gets into the pens and attacks sheep. If my avatar kicks his horse into a gallop there the game becomes little better than a slideshow Silly me, my chief wish for Barrowfields is that it include more RAEWVD material, which would of course make performance even worse. Heh

-Decrepit-

And I've also found this to be true. My "stutter" is down to the occasional s-s-syllable.