I have all the correct tweaks along with oblivion stutter remover.Game does stutter when entering new area's though. I hear an ssd is perfect for oblivion and fallout 3. Is this true?

An ssd? Is that a super shiny device?

I have similar problems with stuttering, even though my rig is far more powerful than it should have to be to run Oblivion smoothly. I use OSR too. I had to do a lot of tweaking to its .ini file before I saw any improvement from it though. Unless your hardware is really old/underpowered, I don't think upgrading it is really going to help a lot. The truth is Oblivion's engine is not very well made. It wastes memory, does the same tasks multiple times, and is just plain poorly optimized.

SSDs are solid state drives.

Good hardware can actually make stuttering worse. High frame rates (when they drop suddenly) make the problem more obvious.

That said, are you really seeing "stutter," or is this "loading lag" which only occurs at the cell boundaries? If it's the latter, a faster drive might help, although I doubt that it would eliminate the problem completely.

Hey guys let me tell you what I did that solved the problem of stuttering for me.

I have an Nvidia Geforce GTS 360M 1Gig an i7 and what I did was went into the Nvidia control panel and went to the drop down for Oiblivion and turned off all the AA, all the extra stuff. ANd now when I play Oblivion in 1080p with all the stuff turned on (sides grass cause I like the look better without grass) and the shadows so I dont get that messed up glitch I Get 60 FPS and NO stuttering. If you have an Nvidia card I would check those settings and turn them all off just for Oblivion.

The game is fickle with newer hardware

I have tried turning off everything, and it makes no difference. I have tried it on 3 different machines as well. It is just a poorly coded game. Fallout 3, which has better graphics, runs smooth as silk with everything turned up. They obviously fixed all the issues with the engine by then.

Well from what i have researched an ssd helps to pretty much eliminate loading stutter.

My primary Oblivion play-through is installed on a dedicated Crucial M4 64gb SSD. Here's what I've noticed, all unscientific observations:

In-game cell loading while traveling in the wilderness is indeed smoother overall, provided you aren't in an area that over-stresses other components. This is main advantage of an SSD, so far as I can tell. Loading Screen type cell transitions (like entering a city, building, or dungeon section) might be somewhat faster too, but not normally enough to get excited over.

If your stuttering is due to the game over-stressing your GPU and / or CPU a SSD likely won't help. That one area of Bravil Barrowfields (Unique Landscapes) near the southernmost sheep pens is as much of a stutter-fest as ever. If a beast gets in amongst the sheep it's quasi slide-show time. There, of course, the problem likely rests on all the active mob A.I. thrown on top of hefty graphics. (Despite that, Barrowfields might be my favorite UL.) My problem is, I think, that while my i7 930 is an awesome CPU it is clocked at 'only' stock 2.8. I'm often tempted to overclock it to around 3.4 and see what happens.

I should point out that my computer is fairly modern and powerful: i7 930 CPU @2.8, Nvidia GTX470 (1.2gb video ram), 6gb DDR3 1600 ram, X-fi soundcard with Oblivion profile (for hardware accelerated audio), Win7 64bit and so on. Oddly, I still play at 1280x1024. I bought a highly recommended Samsung 1920x1080 wide-screen monitor intending to use it with my main computer. What I found is that while it makes Cyrodiil look even more glorious during sunshiny daylight hours, its blacks are not nearly as black as my ancient Viewsonic VP191b standard-width LCD monitor. I love super dark nights and dungeons. (I use a number of mods to achieve this.) When all was said and done the fancy Samsung was transferred to my secondary computer (which houses its own Oblivion install) while I retain the old Viewsonic. Such is life.

In any case, the gist of it is that for me, yes, an SSD did show subtle / welcome improvement in some situations, but not others. Your mileage may vary. They are still dreadfully expensive on a per-gig cost-basis. Depending on your circumstances, a different system improvement might be the better choice.

-Decrepit-

i dont need a different system. i have core i7 with 6 gig of ram. I too have a 470 and added another recently and it improved my fps alittle.

SSD aint just for stutter but for when i have tons of mods also. SSD will be better in this situation.