Finally got around to re-installing Oblivion after not playing it for a while, and i completely forgot the mods i had that had the game running at around 20-30fps. hoping someone could give me a few suggestions.


Video card: nvidia GeForce 6200 256mb vram
Ram: 1.5Gb
processor: 1.7 GHz intel pentium 4 (yes i know its underpowered)

anyone able to give me a few suggestions on mods or programs to increase performance?

You could try Streamline, though it auto adjusts your settings on the fly. I ended up taking it off cause it kept scaling my settings back too much, but I think you can customize it. I'd avoid heavy mods like OOO if possible, since all the scripts can be heavy on older CPUs. You could also try the Oblivion Stutter Remover and Oblivion Cell Purge (don't need this one if you have Streamline). They're all on TESNexus.

Thanks for the quick reply, I'll try them out. Appreciate it.

Try Quiet Feet too if you don't have a sound card and rely on onboard sound like I do. It can give you a bit more FPS in situations with a lot of animals/NPCs cause your CPU won't be doing footstep sounds. It can also help to disable music in your ini file, depending on if you want music or not.

EDIT: You can also just check here, plenty of help from installing mods to performance.
http://sites.google.com/site/oblivionpoinfo/

Hi,
I use the already mentioned OSR (Oblivion Stutter Remover), Streamline 3.1 (patched, with stream smooth off), Quiet feet MAX.

I also use Low low ploy grass, Reduced_Distant_Land_Textures_MAX_1_1 & Optimised_Distant_Land_MAX_1_1.

All on the nexus.

You may want to check this out :

http://sites.google.com/site/oblivionpoinfo/optimization

(Tomlong's TESIV:POSItive)

Hope this helps

EDIT: arrg ghost beat me to it with the link! lol

Thanks Ghost and wastedUk, just gonna grab all those mods and test out how high or low my FPS is. Just hoping to get it up to a 20 minimum so i can play the game normally. Thanks!

Also make sure you get the PyFFI utility and optimize all your meshes. It will require a bit of work on your part but the performance gain will be worth it. I gained 5-10 FPS using that one.