I thought I'd post this here as it's not a technical problem, the opposite in fact. I recently upgraded my pc and now Oblivion pretty much gets a solid 60fps in all areas and cities...after so many years of watching this game stutter it's way across every platform I've used I can't quite get my head around the idea that it's possible to brute force a solid framrate out of this game. Bravil, Skingrad, Cheydinhal, Leyawiin and every other previously laggy location is now smooth as could be.

The game never really maxed out any of my previous cpus so I assumed it was just that badly optimised but it seems the single thread performance of recent Intel chips pushes the engine just that little bit further. I'm not running many visual mods (the most resource hungry of which is a cut down version of RAEVWD) but even so the game used to get bogged down really easily.

So anyway, it's possible to brute force more frames from this engine, hallelujah