Since my PC uses components that were created after Oblivion was released, although its quite powerful (Radeon HD 5770, Phenom II 955 x4, 8gb RAM) it does not run Oblivion amazingly. Newer games seem to run faster on it simply because they were optimized for newer components. I can run it max detail at only 40fps, compared with fps in the 100's for some newer games. Along with that the newer engine may just run faster than the old one.

Anyone else think this will be the case for their PC?

Oblivion only uses one core.

Skyrim will probably use two or more. So yes, for a quad-core system with a quality but not top-end graphics card like yours, it will run smoothly.

"Optimized for newer components" isn't necessarily true. It's mostly just how many cores it uses and how much RAM it can manage.

Well all of the games that are coming are made for xbox and that platform is old 6 years so as long as you have hardware that is max 1 year old you will be able to run any new game on high settings, i mean a game made for a 6 years old console can't ask for some NASA pc can it? i have the same configuration for like 1 and a half year and i can play anything on high or ultra, the most recent game was The witcher 2 and it was running superb

I think the Creation Engine will be much better optimized than Oblivion's. Oblivion's engine literally had like 6 months to be fit the Xbox 360's hardware, while the Creation engine has had alot more time, so hopefully itll be better optimized.

You can also use custom setting ,I don't know about Radeon but with Nvidia you can, on Oblivion I use custom Nvidia settings for the game to max it to the highest settings you can go to. With custom Nvidia setting on a game you can go be on the limits and make a game the super beautiful .
Using Custom Nvidia settings their are about 15 different ways to set your computer to max the game farther then its limits like using both Antialiasing and HDR lighting together, Oblivion will not allow you to use both HDR and antialiasing together.
but on Nvidia custom setting you can force the Antialiasing and pick HDR lighting in the game to have both working for a super looking game.
I'm going to do the same with Skyrim for a beautiful game.
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Well your card is DX11, and Skyrim will make use of DX11 optimization features, so it's possible.

But you should be able to max out vanilla Oblivion at 1920x1080 with that card. Maybe you have some setting on your AMD Catalyst that is forcing AA? Could that be why you get such crappy frame rate for Oblivion?

I can get constant 60fps with vsync enabled with all settings maxed (no AA or AF because HDR is enabled).

With most other recent games I cannot get 60fps. For example FO3 if I max all settings I get below 30 fps.

And my laptop 5830 card is based on the same die as the desktop 5770, only it is underclocked and limited to GDDR3, so you should get better frame rate than me for Oblivion.

Oblivion was horribly optimized for PC.

Fallout 3 was much better.

I'm sure they've made the new engine with better optimization in mind.

I upgraded to my 5970 from an Nvidia 9800GX2 expecting a huge increase in performance. Nearly nothing changed when I booted up the game. It wasn't until I upgraded my processor that I saw a change, so you can infer that Oblivion is very CPU heavy. When I installed good cooling and overclocked it, FPS rose proportionally as well.

Yes, it's CPU-bound because it uses all of the graphics card but only one processor core.

I upgraded from a dual-core Intel E6600 2.4GHz to a quad-core Intel Core i5 750 2.67GHz. Despite the doubled cores and a significant graphics card upgrade (7950GT to 5850) I saw only about a 10% increase in average performance. Lo and behold, the difference between 2.67GHz and 2.4GHz is about 10%. I overclocked the CPU to 3.8GHz, about a 40% increase, and saw a 40% increase in performance.

I just hope Skyrim won't have the weird sound card problems Oblivion had. That thing made Oblivion nearly unplayable, and I'd hate to have to download a Skyrim version of the Quiet Feet mod to "fix" it again.

It seems Oblivion is the only Game with a problem to run on Machines of today, yet i have Games from the 80's on my PC running with the Dos Program and Both my PC/Games are Perfectly Fine.

Only thing that bugs me though is, with every New Game i get, theres some Blue Screen of Death.

Yeah, something also tells me Skyrim will run better on my PC than Oblivion does. It's called FO3.

I thought this was just me... I could swear someone was going on about how F3 was more resource intensive than Ob..

I was like, that's weird because I had the opposite experience.

http://www.tweakguides.com/Oblivion_1.html is your friend. There's options in the oblivion.ini file to enable more threads, though i'm not sure whether it actually uses them. Still, give it a go

I force AA at 1920 x 1080 using the nvidia control panel. Combine that with a ton of mods (RAEVWD for example) and remember that oblivion doesn't have dual/quad-core supp.. It's not too hard to slow down oblivion from 60 fps to 30 fps

They'd better have quad-core support for skyrim, cuz I don't have an i7 for nothing! If they do - it'll run a lot better than oblivion.

Fallout 3 and NV run much better than Oblivion on my machine. I don't expect Skyrim to have much higher requirements, so it should indeed run better. Oblivion is fine as long as I'm just out in the wild, but the lack of optimisation for multiple cores shows when you enter cities or get into really big fights.

I did not read all replies yet because after reading this post my brain just went 'wait what?!'.

40fps compared to 100fps, don't want to complain or anything, but I doubt that most games even run at 100fps when your PC could do it. Don't they lock the fps on games?(at least often in first person shooters and whatnot?)
2ndly, why would you care if it is 40fps or 100fps, you can't see more then 28fps.
Now on topic itself, I doubt it will actully run faster. Ofcourse it will be optimized more, so that if they were same graphics it would run faster, but I doubt it will be optimized SO much that it will run faster with the better graphics.