Ok, so my oblivion config was running pretty smooth about 7 months ago when I had to stop playing (stopped using this computer entirely). Now that I'm back oblivion takes a LONG time to load a savegame, (like seeing many, many different loading screens for a long time) as well as when changing cells.

Is the game mad at me for leaving or what?

As a comparative note, my rig runs battlefield bad company 2 extremely well on almost all max settings, as well as stalker call of pripyat.

Would it help if I deactivate/delete some of the mods I'm no longer interested in?

Thanks for reading.

Try deleting the .ini file in your My Documents\My Games\Oblivion folder....it is the configuration file named Oblivion. Delete it, then refire up the game so a new one gets generated...see if there are any improvements then.

Wow that made a HUGE difference! Initial loading of a saved game took like 40 seconds (compared to multiple minutes) and changing cells took about 10 ish seconds. Thank you for helping!