The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (PC game)

[Setter32]

....any of you bitches got this yet?.....

.....nice atmosphere.........really nice graphics....

....a little disappointed on the AI......

.....they hyped the AI up so much......that I expected sentient beings in the game......I a reckon...

......I walked up to a deer.....

....the deer looked freakin amazing..........but stupid....

.....it didn't run away......or even took notice of me.....

.....I kept bumping in to it.......nudging it................and it's gnawing on the grass with no never mind to me......

.....snobbish twat...

....

....any of you guys with the game..........have frame rate probs......with the distance set to max?......

......when I'm outside........the frame rate drops quite a bit.......

.....I have the 4400 AMD.....with a 7800 GT card....

......is this slow down........due to the physics of the floral population in the game...reacting to the wind....

......if so.........will getting a second 7800 GT card alleviate this prob......

....or is it totally a cpu thing............cuz it's physics number crunching and all.....

.....

.....anyhoot............great game..........even though I don't think it lived up to the hype....

....came close though.....





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[pAint]

F Morrowind!

Its all, and always gonna be about Half-Life 2.



.....and tetris

[nefarious-az]

Dude are you a retard??? "Morrowind: Oblivion"???
It's the Elderscrolls IV: Oblivion

Get it right or the fucking Ninja Monkies will EAT YOUR SOUL!

In any case go get the latest nvidida drivers that they released specifically for Oblivion. There is no reason a 7800 GT should be lagging at all in that game, hell my X800 XT PE burns it up. If you are lagging outside on a 7800 GT you have somthing wrong going on...BUt hey if you want to go SLI the game is built for it:)

[Setter32]

Originally posted by nefarious-az
Dude are you a retard??? "Morrowind: Oblivion"???
It's the Elderscrolls IV: Oblivion

Get it right or the fucking Ninja Monkies will EAT YOUR SOUL!

In any case go get the latest nvidida drivers that they released specifically for Oblivion. There is no reason a 7800 GT should be lagging at all in that game, hell my X800 XT PE burns it up. If you are lagging outside on a 7800 GT you have somthing wrong going on...BUt hey if you want to go SLI the game is built for it:)

.....so you got Oblivion........and you have the view distance set to max.....object max........items max.....shadows....etc. etc.

....and resolution at 1024 X 768.....(default res...I think)

......and your frame rate is not choppy?........

.....hmmmm..........interestin...

......I'll look into the new nividia driver....







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[Setter32]

....the new driver helped.....

...I can increase the distance a bit.....

....but I still can't set everything to max........and not noticeably slow it down....

....dag nab it....

....

......I can't wait.....to get the nudity mod for this game....






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[blndweasel]

do you have anti-aliasing turned on? that caused a major slowdown on my system.

[Setter32]

...nope....

....it has two options in the game..........

....you can use anti-aliasing (what ever the hell that does).....or some other function....

....I chose the other function (which helps your frame rate).....

.....if you choose one......it'll automatically disable the other....

.....The game is running fine.............it just annoys me..that I've spent all that money on high ends......and I still can't turn everything on to max setting...

....poo.....







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[bckwerd]

Anti-aliasing smooths out all the 'jagged edges' that you see, most noticable along fence posts, electrical wires, but happens to anything that is not parallel or perpendicular. The downsides is that it takes a lot of graphics power to run anti-aliasing, especially at higher resolutions.

If its lagging...another possibility might be your RAM. If you have less than 1GB of RAM, then that could very well be holding it back.

If that's not the case...there are a lot of other things that can cause it to slow down.....but I'm too lazy to go through that

[Setter32]

.....can't be the memory....

.....I got 4 gigs.......dual channel.............so my system is reading it at 2 gigs......

...

.....actually........I tried turning off the other function......and tried the anti-aliasing X2 last night......

.....the edges did looked way better......

.....the lighting looks different (better IMO).........and I think it ran faster.....

......but then I also turned the distant land option off also...

......the only reason I'm bitchin......about this..........is cuz I ran the game "FEAR" at max setting............and it ran flawlessly....

.....and now I feel like I'm going on speed bumps.....

......

.....it's a game in itself........just playing with all the options.....






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[soulofadra6o]

i want the change out my integrated vid card for a nvidia 6800GT probably =)

[Setter32]

Originally posted by soulofadra6o
i want the change out my integrated vid card for a nvidia 6800GT probably =)

.....don't know how much you can spend...........but it would be worth it to go SLI with the 6800s.....

......the price on those are real good now.........so go with 2 if you can.....

......SLI motherboard wise.............don't go with ASUS.......I've been having bad experiences with them..............along with a bunch of other fools....

......I got fed up........and recently switched to a BioStar T-force........

......so far........it's workin reliably......

.....and it's cheaper than the ASUS too.................go figure....





:D

[ValValline]

It's a fantastic game that is a bit flawed by it's console roots...

To get the best performance check out the tweak guide..

http://www.tweakguides.com/Oblivion_1.html

Also be sure to check out some of the mods that are being put out. They address a lot of the things most people don't like about the game.

http://www.elderscrolls.com/forums/

http://www.tessource.net/files/

[mythran]

Oblivion = fun ^_^

The system I've been playing on it with:
AMD Opteron Dual Core, O/Ced to 2.5 or 2.6 Ghz.
Nvidia 7900GT
2 GB DDR ram

Most of it is maxed settings except for some grass shadowing, couldn't do AA because I had that other setting on, forgot the name

It's purty, but it still seems very geared toward combat based if you wanna finish the main story.

[bckwerd]

I posted a while back about speeding up this game, but after playing it and talking to some other people, the game is just that crazy. Everybody I know, regardless of the system they play it on, has some lag, especially outside while fighting. I think it's too intensive of a game for the stuff currently out there.

[Setter32]

...I'm hoping.....there will be a patch soon..........to make the codes a bit more efficient......







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[Kyoseki]

Originally posted by bckwerd
Anti-aliasing smooths out all the 'jagged edges' that you see, most noticable along fence posts, electrical wires, but happens to anything that is not parallel or perpendicular. The downsides is that it takes a lot of graphics power to run anti-aliasing, especially at higher resolutions.

The big problem with anti aliasing is that it's essentially rendering the scene multiple times.

With no anti aliasing, you get 1 sample per pixel, if you use 3x3 anti aliasing, you've moved up to 9 samples per pixel, so you get better sampling (a reduction in jaggies) but at the cost of a 9 fold speed decrease in render speed.

Obviously it doesn't actually decrease to a 10th of the frame rate, because the overhead isn't THAT bad, pixel samples aren't the entire cost of rendering, so it's only a certain part of the render loop that gets repeated 9 times, but this is a major cause of slowdown - obviously it's resolution dependent as well, higher resolutions have more pixels so that compounds the complexity of the anti aliasing dramatically.

Anything to do with physics isn't graphics card dependent, so an extra 7800 isn't going to help you, but I'm pretty sure the game doesn't bother with physics on grass and stuff, I certainly haven't noticed any soft body dynamics going on, just the rigid body stuff.

This is, however, why games programmers should never have top end systems :)

[jasinner]

I'm going to crash this nerdy thread:

Anybody play EQ2 here?

Afriend (Butcherblock)
Jasinner (Butcherblock)

[Setter32]

Originally posted by jasinner
I'm going to crash this nerdy thread:

Anybody play EQ2 here?

Afriend (Butcherblock)
Jasinner (Butcherblock)

....no online multiplayer role playing crap allowed......in this thread!!!! :mad:

....it urks me........that you pay 40 or 50 bucks for the software.....

.....then you got to pay an additional 10 or 15 bucks a month to play?......

.....I'll stick with off-line......:tongue:







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Originally posted by ValValline
It's a fantastic game that is a bit flawed by it's console roots...

To get the best performance check out the tweak guide..

http://www.tweakguides.com/Oblivion_1.html

Also be sure to check out some of the mods that are being put out. They address a lot of the things most people don't like about the game.

http://www.elderscrolls.com/forums/

http://www.tessource.net/files/

.....thanks for the links....

.....last night.......I've tried the AMD X 2 driver......the hot fixes......and editing the registry as they suggested.......

.....didn't do anything for this game....

......but in the past.........with Sim City 4........I did have major problems with the game speeding up.....and slowing down....and speeding up.......and slowing down......etc..etc...

.....I'll re-install Sim City 4......and play it again........to see if these fixes solved that issue.....





:D

[Setter32]

......was playing with the graphic settings last night......

......it made.....very little difference.....

......which leads me to suspect..........it's the CPU.....

.....maybe the slow down.......is due to the AI?......if not the physics....

.....the stuttering.....(though very subtle).....is really buggin me....

....

.....now I can see why........they had such a huge delay for the release of this game....

......I really hope there will be a patch for this.....

.....also.........maybe Vista......when it's released.......will help to utilize the dual core CPUs more effectively.....








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[mojo mofo]

By the time Vista launches, Oblivion will be oblivion. What Vista is supposed to do right is to reduce the OS overhead and give more direct lower level process access to the hardware resulting in fairly substantial gaming improvements.

[Setter32]

Originally posted by mojo mofo
By the time Vista launches, Oblivion will be oblivion.

....what's your guestimate......on the arrival of Vista?....

.......or SP3?.......






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[Setter32]

...link on an performance article.....for the game.....

....interestin really....

http://www.gamespot.com/features/6147127/index.html






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[mojo mofo]

Latest estimate for shipping on Vista is beginning of '07. However, it has been delayed many times already and I wouldn't doubt that there could be further delays.

[Setter32]

...the more you play this game...........the more surprises you find...

....the possible combination.......of things happening at random is so numerous....

....what a trip.....

.....any other pale skin....easy chair lovin....diaper wearing.....unsociable bitches out there......................diggin this game as much as me?.....

...

....is there like.........a group therapy thing for this?........preferably with alot of scandally cladded chiks....






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[ValValline]

Originally posted by Setter32
...the more you play this game...........the more surprises you find...

....the possible combination.......of things happening at random is so numerous....

....what a trip.....

.....any other pale skin....easy chair lovin....diaper wearing.....unsociable bitches out there......................diggin this game as much as me?.....

...

....is there like.........a group therapy thing for this?........preferably with alot of scandally cladded chiks....


:D

Yup. I'm totally hooked.

Should get game of the year.

[mojo mofo]

I am assuming you are familiar with the "topless" mod that is now available and hence the MSRB wanting to change the game's rating to mature :rolleyes:

[cbrsmurf]

i only have a non-pro radeon 9600 and 512mb and somehow my comp manages to run it with setting fairly low. But when there's an oblivion gate around, holy crap I can almost count the frames.

Anyways, the game is a lot of fun... go rpg's :D

[Setter32]

....yeah......same here....

....I have a slightly more modern card :p .......but when the gate....or aftermath of the gate.....enters the scene........................the frame rate goes to hell....

....the grass......also hits the frame rate big time...






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[Dominus]

I recently acquired this game for the xbox 360...yeah...I'm a console kind of guy...but I haven't delved into the game too much yet but I'll let you know how it goes.

[Sinaz]

Originally posted by mojo mofo
I am assuming you are familiar with the "topless" mod that is now available and hence the MSRB wanting to change the game's rating to mature :rolleyes:

I hear in a similar fashion, all movies must now be rated "R" by the MPAA when they reach DVD because you can tape a playboy centerfold to your television while watching the movie, thus injecting user-added adult content to it.:rolleyes: ;)

[Setter32]

....haven't tried......the topless mod.....

.....I'm waiting.....for the all out....no holds bar.....dirty and nasty.......full blown nikkidness mod....






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[cbrsmurf]

geez, when did boobies ever hurt anyone??????

[Kyoseki]

Originally posted by cbrsmurf
geez, when did boobies ever hurt anyone??????
.. I got a couple of black eyes once...

[Sinaz]

For those of you playing on a PC, I'm going to release a mod soon...

It will add the ability to "upgrade" soul gems by combining two of like kinds of empty gems in a necromancy altar, the ability to combine two souls from like kind filled gems into a higher level gem in an altar, and the ability to release souls from filled soul gems using an altar.

Plus it will have a quest to earn these abilities that branches off the necromancy altar subplot from the mage's guild quests.

[blndweasel]

hmmm... i like the idea of freeing occupied soul gems. but i'm not sure i agree with combining smaller soul gems together to make larger ones. seems like you'd need a lot of equipment to melt down a stone and cast it into a larger mold, if you will.

[mojo mofo]

Originally posted by Sinaz
I hear in a similar fashion, all movies must now be rated "R" by the MPAA when they reach DVD because you can tape a playboy centerfold to your television while watching the movie, thus injecting user-added adult content to it.:rolleyes: ;)

That is about the truth of it unfortunately :(

[Setter32]

Originally posted by Sinaz
For those of you playing on a PC, I'm going to release a mod soon...

It will add the ability to "upgrade" soul gems by combining two of like kinds of empty gems in a necromancy altar, the ability to combine two souls from like kind filled gems into a higher level gem in an altar, and the ability to release souls from filled soul gems using an altar.

Plus it will have a quest to earn these abilities that branches off the necromancy altar subplot from the mage's guild quests.

....sounds cool......

...and when I release the souls.......the female ones..........will they be nikkid?.....







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[Orpheos]

Yeah, this game is a time sucker. The only sucky part of the game so far is Burst keeps playing so can't! Bastardo!

I got it on the 360, and totally dig playing it reclined on the couch. Very well done game. Can you make me a Mod that makes it so I can kick Burst off? haha (J/K)

[Burst]

:lol: :lol: