Where would the ATI 5670 fit in all this?

5670 will run the game without problems, at whatever resolution you really care to play at, provided some other piece of hardware isn't the choke point.

This thread is amazing and has helped me a lot, thank you.

I realized why my computer wouldn't run Oblivion - _ -

But I was wondering about the Intel? Graphics Media Accelerator 4500M, I didn't see it on the list but would that run Oblivion? I've wanted to get a new laptop for a while but one major thing for me is that it can run games and run them quickly, especially Oblivion.

...Is that Intel-thing even a video card? - _ -;

(Sorry, I'm hopelessly lost as to the inner workings of a computer and all things related.)

Sadly, it's a non-gaming video chipset. Even though recent Intel chipsets like this one have the shaders to run Oblivion (just barely), their drivers don't support them.

You can get it to work, sort of, with the latest drivers (from Intel directly, not from your laptop manufacturer) and a bunch of tweaking. But it will never be pretty.

Well thanks anyway

Well, my 4850 hasn't run Oblivion as well as I'd hoped it would, but then again, it is the 512mb version, and I only have 1.5 g of RAM, so maybe it's not a surprise. :shrug:

And what is you CPU has that could be holding it back, else it could be driver related..try using 9.6 thru 9.9..newer drivers do not work or perfrom that great with oblivion..

I can agree with this as well. I settled on Catalyst 9.9 for both Oblivion and Fallout 3. All the newer ones gave a performance hit in OB for whatever reason.

Oh, running a Radeon 4870 1GB

Well, under processor (in the dxdiag report), it says Intel® Pentium® 4 CPU 3.20 GHz (2CPUs). Would that be holding it back?

Oh yea, most certainly. Pentium 4/D (Netburst-based) CPUs were inefficient technology to begin with and are pretty slow by today's standard. Pairing up a Pentium 4 with a Radeon 4850 will certainly present bottlenecks in this game in certain areas.

Would it be worthwhile to upgrade to a newer version of the 9 series catalyst drivers? I'm still using 9.4 simply because it's been problem free with all the games I play. My modded Oblivion (aprox. 130 mods so far) runs pretty well so far except for loading jags when traveling and the inevitable cpu bottleneck when I get a lot of humanoid actors on screen.

Current system:

Gigabyte EP43 DS3L
Intel Core2 Duo E8400 Wolfdale 3.0 ghz
Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 1 Gb
4 G g-skill ddr2 (actually around 3.3 Gb since I run XP)
WD 1001FALS 1TB HD 32Mb cache 7800 rpm
1920x1200 Acer G24 monitor

I use the 9.12 drivers and they work fine for all my games pretty much.

If everything work then no need to update, 9.6 may give you litter better fps..



Starforce9

Have you read this thread in relation to shadow with 9.12 Drivers..Textures Issue

I had the same problem with 9.12 on my 3650 has everyone else did using the 9.12 Drivers..

http://www.gamesas.com/bgsforums/index.php?showtopic=1062040

They may be better in other games but they do not like oblivion that much..

Corepc

Hmmm, it turns out that the computer isn't recognising the CPU properly; it's actually a 3.5 GHz model. So hopefully that makes a difference. (I'm not currently sure about any other details of the cpu...I'll find that out later.)

That's mine. I didn't know it's classed as "extreme". Cool.

3Ghz
2GB RAM
Geforce 7600 GT

Works really well with Oblivion on high settings. Not highest though, not because of performance problems but it looks to "plastic" for me then.
Even better, I?m about to start Morrowind soon and since that?s an older game I don?t have to upgrade this time :woot: :woot:

You are going to want to get MGE (Mororwind Graphics Extender). It has the capability to make morrowind look VERY nice.

Whoa, shouldn?t this be in the Morrowind section :rolleyes: Anyway, I have Morrowind Visual Pack and numerous other mods so I guess it would look nicer than vanilla. I actually got the advise to stay away from MGE for the time being though I still have downloaded it

I had hard time deciding whether to post here or start a new topic, but this seems to be video card related enough to be posted here.

Specs:
Radeon HD 5770
AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition @ 3.4GHz
4GB 1333MHz DDR3
Windows 7

Resolution: 1920 x 1080

The problem: When turning the HDR on, the green goes gray (when in the interiors of the imperial prison) or grayish green (when outside.) I've tried all the other settings turned on and off and the only thing that seems to be causing problems is the HDR. I'm wondering if 5770 isn't supporting Oblivion's HDR in general, or if it's a faulty card, or if there is something else going wrong. I haven't been able to test this on any other game that uses HDR.

Overheating and lack of power is out of the question, seeing as the system is powered by a 750 Watt PSU and the card GPU doesn't even hit 50C. Neither should anything in the system be lacking when running Oblivion at the highest settings.

Start a new thread, and post your dxidag. I am curious what driver version you are running.

I'd like to state that the GeForce FX 5700 Ultra can actually run Oblivion very well on Low settings. I get up to 105 FPS indoors and around 30-50 FPS outdoors while using Oldblivion. Of course the game looks bad but I'm willing to sacrifice eye candy in favor of having a playable framerate.

Screenshot below
http://i911.photobucket.com/albums/ac320/techno-atom/ScreenShot2.jpg

System Specs
Windows XP: Professional SP2
2.80 Ghz P4 Processor (Overclocked from 2.50 Ghz)
1.25 GB's DDR PC3200 Ram
BFG Asylum GeForceFX 5700 Ultra (Overclocked)

Tweaks used:
Oldblivion
Grass toggled off

Is that not exactly what was said in the opening post? It can *run* the game on low settings, but is advised to use Oldblivion.

Yeah but it said that it would be slow and not smooth even on low settings. That sounds discouraging to gamers who are on the extreme low-end with their machines. It should be changed to make it seem like it could actually run it decently in my opinion. I was actually hesitant to even pick up Oblivion for a long time because of that statement about the 5700 Ultra. But I svcked it up and gave it a go and I've been surprised at how well it handles Oblivion.

Right, but you said that you were running it with Oldblivion to get a decent framerate. If you were running WITHOUT Oldblivion then you'd have a valid argument, but the idea is that you still need Oldblivion to run it decently.

What the HD 4850 is doing in the "Egad!" category ?

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3338&p=10

http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/amd_radeon_hd_4850_geforce_9800_gtx+/page8.asp

These links clearly show the 9800GTX+ is faster (not by much though) than the HD 4850 in oblivion, even at high resolution and AA.