Right,

I've been doing some performance tweakage and I've followed the guidelines and so forth and I am - to cut a long story short - fairly convinced that some issues I am still having - (after implementing OSR, PCB, turning off music in the ini, increasing min grass etc, running game boost, BOSSing my mods, doubling my interior and exterior cell buffers and my preloadsizelimit from the vanilla values) - are due once again to sound, as I am still getting a lot of stuttering sound-wise which appears to presage a crash. FPS remains good, except when the sound starts to stutter...

Spec-wise I have 4Gb of RAM - (on a 32 bit OS), a quad core CPU, the game itself is on an SSD and I have a Geforce GTX550TI -
HOWEVER - I only have onboard sound - (for various reasons I cannot get an outboard soundcard) -

my question is this, and I am aware that it is not a black and white answer, is there likely to be any benefit to turning OFF hardware acceleration and lowering the imaximpactsoundcount to say 24...?
I currently have hardware acceleration off but given that I don't have separate hardware I'm not convinced it makes a lot of difference, I've also read though that lowering the impactsoundcount but leaving acceleration on can have a detrimental effect?

I am running a fairly heavily modded game, visually, but audio-wise it's pretty much vanilla

I wondered if anyone could clarify this for me please?

Thank you!
Mat

Oblivion.ini OnBoard Soundcard tweaks - http://tescosi.com/wiki/Oblivion.ini#SirDrinkAlot.27s_recommendations_for_users_with_Onboard_Soundcards

Quiet Feet MAX - http://tes.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=12331


The above are for helping out onboard soundcards and other weaker audio-processing situations; however, if the stuttering you are describing is always a precursor to a crash, then there might be something else going on. Have you tried resetting your codecs? If not, maybe you should try either of the last two fixes here (dependent upon which OS you are running): http://tescosi.com/wiki/PCS:Keyboard_and_mouse_stop_working_shortly_after_loading_a_save


Happy gaming!
--Tomlong75210

Hi there,

Thanks for this - I find I'm using TESCOSI more and more these days!

I am actually running whispered feet, with the downsampled bipeds.

I think I will go for lowering the soundcount and see what the deal is.
I have recently updated my sound drivers as well.

I would rather not go for the full quiet feet unless I absolutely have to...

If I recall correctly, don't you run Sounds of Cyrodiil? That adds a good bit of environmental sound to the game. Worse comes to worst you might consider disabling it, at least long enough to see if its removal makes a difference.

-Decrepit-

Well remembered!
I was but I actually disabled it as I found it didn't really add anything, for me, and it was getting in the way of my ability to use eyecandy.

The sound aspect is proving to be quite the performance bottleneck...