After having to play oblivion for years on the lowest settings and not being able to play OOO because it was too hard on my system, I finally got an upgrade.

*Does Happy Dance*

I got a HD 4670 1GB RAM for dirt cheap and finally saw oblivion at some decent visuals, and I want MORE!

Do you think I will be able to run some/all of the upgraded texture packs? If so, can you please provide me some recommendations/links. I want to get oblivion/ooo looking as beautiful as possible and get to playing.

Thanks all

http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/gaming-graphics-cards-charts-2009-high-quality/Sum-of-FPS-Benchmarks-Totals,1830.html What are the rest of your system's specs?


Edit: The 4670 is supposed to be cheap.

Edit: There are plenty of graphics enhancers that can make any system stutter. Try them out, keep your specs in mind, and you'll figure out how much performance you're willing to trade. We all have to make that choice. Use the console command "sdt 13" to get an approximation of how much texture memory your setup is using in a given area.

graphical enhancements thread - http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1089475-need-plugins-that-improve-oblivion-graphic-quality/page__view__findpost__p__15885254__hl__Improve%20Oblivion%20Graphics__fromsearch__1

Rest of system:

Intel E7200 CPU
3GB RAM
Vista Home Premium
Etc...

Thanks for the link

Hi, c_lbnc.
I was as extatic as you with GTX 240 (1GB too) till I was told it svcks.
Why? They bot belong to the so called low-end cards. They both are inferior to the good old GTX 8800 768MB.
So, my solution: Upgraded to GTX 260 (1.8GB) - middle end card.
For really good things you should go ATI 5870, or GTX 295 or SLI.
Money, money, money, must be funny in the rich men's world... said ABBA and were right.

However, your card will be able to almost max it. Insted of QTP3, I would go to combination between:
1. Bomret's Normal Maps - texture replacer without any FPS hit. + Bomret's cave textures + all addons by Bomret.
2. Corepc's Vibrant Texture (all of them- safe and cool) fully compatible with Bomret's
3. InsanitySorrow's Enhanced Normal Maps for armors (all vanilla armors covered)
4. Enhanced Vegetation Hi-Res (strongly recommend)
5. Book Jackets Hi-Res
6. Improved Signs
7. Improved Ship Textures
8. Better Cities
9. Enhanced Water 2.0 HDMI variant
10. From the options of the Oblivion Launcher choose HDR
11. From the ingame menu - options - video change details for water to max - turn on all refraction options
12. Improved Vegetables and Meat
13. Beaming Sunglare
14. Better Horse Eyes
15. Automatic Windows Lighting
16 Better Cities.
17. Anything from Unique Landscapes
18. Kafiei's Better Amulet Replacer and Better Ring Replacer

Bought one the Christmas it came out, still going strong. What a beast...

Though apparently the latest cards are 2x the frames according to that benchmark Tomlong posted, so it looks like my 5 year upgrade cycle was a good idea, and come next Christmas I should be able to get my hands on a monster...

Unless I realise that, as a student, I am currently experiencing institutionalised poverty.

There is one main reason that I went with the card I did, I did not need to upgrade my 300W power supply. Better video cards require far more juice, and the HD 4670 is the champ of low power gaming, so I understand. I bought a dirt cheap Acer system and dropped in a dirt cheap video card upgrade. I can play games I love just fine (Oblivion and Fallout 3).

I will probably not buy a decent gaming rig until the next Elder Scrolls game is released.

But, this is not a thread about my hardware purchase decisions...

Yeah...that 300W power supply is a strong leash...