An Elder Scrolls: Oblivion thead

sachinbadiani · 25 Mar 2006 at 13:55

Just closed one of the gates. The game is getting much more beautiful (for what I can see in the scene before me). However, I've had to turn down almost all the detail to get a playable fps at 800x600. Mind you, I do have a few programs running in the background. Upgrade time soon if I wont hold for AMD AM2.

Another bug I found is that my horse and I got stuck in a mountain / building place (no spoilers here!) so I cant get out.... though I do save my game very frequently. Just kinda reminded me of Daggerfall's and Morrowind's void bug

Mobius 1 · 25 Mar 2006 at 13:56

Persil said:
Anyone help me with darkness? What i mean is in a cave/dungeon i cant see anything.. Unless i use a torch or potion ...potion only last 10 secs or so and the torch works fine but as soon as i have to fight someone it all goes dark!!
Its spoiling a good game because i dont want to go anywhere dark!!

Help me!!

Persil

Heh, exactly why i was the Khajiit race, you get a night vision spell, which you can cast free of charge :cool:

sachinbadiani · 25 Mar 2006 at 13:56

About the UI - I'm sure BS will correct that in a patch.... just like they improved on the journal system in Morrowind.

Hostile_18 · 25 Mar 2006 at 14:02

sachinbadiani said:
About the UI - I'm sure BS will correct that in a patch.... just like they improved on the journal system in Morrowind.

Yes but now theres a strong presence of Microsoft. I'm sure BS will be under a lot of pressure to make both versions almost exactly the same.

Yewen · 25 Mar 2006 at 14:03

sachinbadiani said:
Just closed one of the gates. The game is getting much more beautiful (for what I can see in the scene before me). However, I've had to turn down almost all the detail to get a playable fps at 800x600. Mind you, I do have a few programs running in the background. Upgrade time soon if I wont hold for AMD AM2.

Another bug I found is that my horse and I got stuck in a mountain / building place (no spoilers here!) so I cant get out.... though I do save my game very frequently. Just kinda reminded me of Daggerfall's and Morrowind's void bug

About that bug with the horse's, when *hmm* and *hmm* are around and your heading through the mountains, there is a bridge that you cant fit under and have to walk over the railings on your horse to cross, its the quickest way to do it as the other route takes you 2 hours, as I found out

Mobius 1 · 25 Mar 2006 at 14:04

I find that..even though i'm an assasin.. When i sneak into someones house and kill them straight off with a bow and arrow or a sword to the head.. The guards still run into the house quite often. Why is this?? It was a stealthy kill. :/ I hope they fix this in an update.

sachinbadiani · 25 Mar 2006 at 14:15

OMG!!! I totally mis-followed the nvidia tweak.... I misread replace 3 with 0 to mean replace 0 with 3!!!

Gonna set the value to 0... lets wait and see

Mobius 1 · 25 Mar 2006 at 14:16

sachinbadiani said:
OMG!!! I totally mis-followed the nvidia tweak.... I misread replace 3 with 0 to mean replace 0 with 3!!!

Gonna set the value to 0... lets wait and see

Worked for me i think. Not too sure XD

sachinbadiani · 25 Mar 2006 at 14:35

Just tried it, and it also works. Cranked up the slider settings and put back 2x AA (as well as bloom), along with shadows and self shadows and all that. In doors speed is very nice, and outdoors one is just hovering at 20 fps.

Mobius 1 · 25 Mar 2006 at 14:40

sachinbadiani said:
Just tried it, and it also works. Cranked up the slider settings and put back 2x AA (as well as bloom), along with shadows and self shadows and all that. In doors speed is very nice, and outdoors one is just hovering at 20 fps.

I just got mine with HDR on, no AA. It looks nicer with full HDR IMO :cool:

Lord-Jaffa · 25 Mar 2006 at 14:57

Whatever you do don't just do the main quest, completed the game already and its surprisingly short :eek:

Mechanical Arts · 25 Mar 2006 at 14:59

Lord-Jaffa said:
Whatever you do don't just do the main quest, completed the game already and its surprisingly short

Really?? how long did it take roughly?

Khrest · 25 Mar 2006 at 15:18

I bought the Prima guide today and I must say I'm impressed.

This is a return to old skool guides with 350 pages, hundreds of stat tables and dozens of maps. Clearly written by people close to the developers.

At £12.99 I can highly recommend it.

Chaos · 25 Mar 2006 at 15:19

PeterNem said:
This isn't neccesarilly the kind of thing you can mod, odds are it's pretty hard coded... it's nt something you can fix by replacing texture files or anything like that.

I stand by my point though... using your logic where do you end... you could have 50 different spells, do ou want 50 hot keys? that'd just be nuts.

I certainly would like more than 9, considering there are like 80+ different spells in the game, then there are custom spells that you can make.

PeterNem said:
I certainly generally hack and slash my way through a dungeon using 3 hot keys.... 1 for blade, 2 for some kind of damage on target, and 3 for heal self. I really don't see why you'd need that much more - the enemies in any given dungeon tend to have similar characteristics, so it's not like you'd need to swap between 4 or 5 spells as some are only effective some of the time!

Well I dont use any weapons so I need various spells to slow down and stop the mobs so I can get range, spells to heal, if im fighting a mage spells to silence, some mobs are resistant to stuf so spells to reduce resistance, if im getting ganked I need to conjure to help, if im getting blasted with magic wheres my resist fire,shock,ice spell etc..

So 9 for me is not enough.

Chaos · 25 Mar 2006 at 15:22

-Tauren- said:
Buy a logitech G15. I have one

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Online_Catalogue_Keyboards_2.html

So do I

Still no use though.

Combat squirrel · 25 Mar 2006 at 15:23

Hey all, great game ! although I would like to know how to make a lot of money and FAST ! currently im raiding dungeons and stealing stuff

, but I want to buy a house and a horse !

at 5000 a pop, its well difficult, any tips ? any quests that will earn me 12k +

Mobius 1 · 25 Mar 2006 at 15:30

Combat squirrel said:
Hey all, great game ! although I would like to know how to make a lot of money and FAST ! currently im raiding dungeons and stealing stuff , but I want to buy a house and a horse ! at 5000 a pop, its well difficult, any tips ? any quests that will earn me 12k +

You could always go into robbing. And robbing good swords and armour etc. Thats what im doing atm. it aint bad money. If you know where to sell it. I think you have to be in the thief guild though.. not sure. Great fun though

Lord-Jaffa · 25 Mar 2006 at 15:31

Combat squirrel said:
Hey all, great game ! although I would like to know how to make a lot of money and FAST ! currently im raiding dungeons and stealing stuff , but I want to buy a house and a horse ! at 5000 a pop, its well difficult, any tips ? any quests that will earn me 12k +

Join Dark Brotherhood, you get one for free after doing some quests. Areana is good for a few k as well.

Combat squirrel · 25 Mar 2006 at 15:35

Lord-Jaffa said:
Join Dark Brotherhood, you get one for free after doing some quests. Areana is good for a few k as well.

Oohh wheres the dark brotherhood ? and whats areana ? lol :eek:

easyrider · 25 Mar 2006 at 15:35

nickels said:
will this game run maxed on

x1900
amd64 dual core 3800+
2gb ram

i got the game but doesnt run as good as i want, so time for upgrade

That cpu is the bottleneck.If you overclock that cpu you will see a massive increase in FPS