Uhm...because you didn't do research?

As a matter if fact, I did, but the information it told me is completely opposite of what I'm being told now.

No, what we told you was that it would only pull low settings in Oblivion.

I did some before that. I was told that I'd be able to do quite well by some idiot at Best Buy.

Meh, I'll live with medium/low settings...

Better bump this before it disappears

Strange I can't find my old card here: GeForce 8500 GT

This is a hand-me-down card I put in the general-use house computer when I upgraded to the 9800 GTX+ in my game machine.

I can find the 8600 GT and I suspect this card is similar. It's on an Intel Core 2 Duo E6550/2.33GHz CPU running Win/XP

If there is any interest I would be happy to load OB GotY to test it.

The 8500 GT is a step down from the 8600 GT. It will still run the game fine, but you will probably have to turn the eye candy down some.

Thanks!

I went up on the Nvidia site and they place it squarely between the 8600 GT (High-end) and the 8400 GS (mid-Level.) Even my 9800 GTX+ bogs down with 16x AA and AT Filtering.

Hello.

ATI Radeon HD 4200

Will it run Oblivion?

You should also post something about how your Video card can be the best ever, but if the rest of your PC svcks, it still won't run well.

Low settings.

I vote this should be stickied. I look at this thread all the time, and it's annoying to search back several pages each time.

I wonder where the GeForce GTS 250 would be located on that first list.

Edit: Nevermind. Basically the same as 9800 GTX+.

Hello, i'm looking to get a graphics card but i've never bought or installed one before so i was hoping i could get some advice.

My main specs are,

CPU - Intel® Celeron® CPU E3200 @ 2.40GHz

RAM - 3 GB

OS - Windows 7

Video Card - Intel G41 Express Chipset

Hard Drive - 1 TB


I can actually get Oblivion to run suprisingly well with most video settings at medium, but no grass or HDR/Bloom lighting. I've found the two main things that make the game unbearable for me are the long grass and some of the light sources.

I'm hoping i could get a reccomendation or two for my new(and first) graphics card. I'd be looking for something around or under ?70 or $100.

Thank you.

Need to know if you have an AGP, or PCI-E video card slot. If you are unsure, post the make/model of your PC, and we can find out.

Hello, thanks for responding.

My PC is a HP Pavilion p6205uk. I would've posted a picture of the inside of the PC tower but i broke my digicam a few months ago. Sorry about that.

Edit - Here's some more info I got from googling it,

Operating system Genuine Windows ® 7 Home Premium
Operating system mode 64-bit
Processor brand Intel
Processor model Celeron
Processor Number E3200
RAM memory size 3GB
RAM memory type DDR3
RAM memory clock speed 1066MHz
Hard drive capacity 1TB
Hard Drive Spin Speed 7200rpm
First hard drive interface SATA
Optical drive type DVD-Rewriter
Graphics card brand Intel
Graphics card model GMA X4500HD
Soundcard type Onboard
Number of audio channels 5.1
Outputs 3.5mm
Number of USB ports 6
Built-in WiFi and type No
Network LAN and type Yes - 10/100/1000 Ethernet
Keyboard and type Yes - Wired
Mouse and Type Yes - Wired
Monitor Brand HP
Monitor Model 2009
Monitor display size 20 inches
Maximum Monitor Resolution 1600 x 900
Contrast Ratio 1000:1 The higher the contrast ratio the better the picture quality
Response rate 5 ms
Video inputs VGA
Touch screen enabled NO
Multitouch NO
PC weight 9.6 kg
PC height 414 mm
PC width 175 mm
PC depth 387 mm

Ok, you DO have a PCI-E slot, but, a somewhat wimpy 300 watt power supply, that is going to be the limiting factor......

What kind of budget are you looking at? And what are your goals? would you be willing to replace the power supply as well?

I was hoping to spend around ?70/$100 but i'd be willing to save up a bit more if you feel something a little more expensive would be beneficial. I'd be willing to get a new power supply but i'm not sure how i would go about repleacing it as i'm not sure what it is. The card itself i know how to install.

I'd just like to get the best Oblivion experience possible, although i won't bother with any graphics enhancing mods as i'm happy with how oblivion looks already.

Well ,the budget is a limiting factor here that a power suplpy change won't be necessary. These will work fine for your system...

Radeon 4670:
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/173705
http://www.cclonline.com/product-info.asp?product_id=36305&tid=gsearch

GT 240:
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/179659

Radeon 5670:
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/190648
http://www.cclonline.com/product-info.asp?product_id=43051&tid=gsearch

Thank you for the suggestions. I could buy any of those now, but do you think it would be worthwhile to wait a bit longer and get something a bit better?

There won't be anything that you can buy in the near future that will be any better than the ones suggested, be as affordable and work with your power supply.

So no, it wouldn't be worthwhile to wait.

Ok, i think that settles it then. Thanks everyone for your help. I'll let you know how it works out.

Hi, I'd like to ask what kind of FPS I should expect in Oblivion. I use: Vista 64, E8400 Core 2 Duo (3 Ghz), 4 gb ram, geforce 9800gx2.

I run all options maxed with HDR at 1900x1080 except I have self shadows turned off, AF at zero, and no AA. I can get 50 FPS in cities, but some scenes can dip it down into the teens, such as outdoor combat, and intensive areas like the fountain/tree area in Mania (the lighter part of the main city in Shivering Isles). Is this normal FPS or should I expect to have it max out at 60 almost consistently? I've tried this with and without mods, and the FPS seems to stay the same, it isn't like turning all my plugins off makes my FPS soar. I've done some tweaks like oblivion.ini editing. I was sort of expecting a machine like this would be able to run a 3+ year old game very easily.

It bothers me that Oblivion is so inconsistent. Crysis can run better, sometimes. Is something terribly wrong or is this just par for the course for Oblivion?

It hasn't been optimized very well, I'm afraid. You can't expect a consistent framerate. Other people can explain it better than me, though.

I got the Radeon 4670 and it runs Oblivion like a dream. There's some noticeable slow down in heavily populated areas(i'm using NPC mods) and the usual stutter but aside from that it's brilliant.

Thanks for helping me out guys.