How to reduce stuttering outside in Oblivion???

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Hi, Now I have my 8800gtx, i've started playing oblibion again. With the graphics set to either "High" or "Ultra High", the game runs perfectly - i.e I'm getting a constant 60fps (I have v-sync on which limits my frame rate to 60fps)

HOWEVER, when i'm outside and running forwards the game stutters and you can see it loading details in the distance. As soon as the details have loaded it's back up to 60fps until I move another 15meters or so forwards and it stutters again.

It seems to me the card can handle the game fine, but Oblivion is stuttering every time it needs to load more details into the game. Is there a way around this???
 
Hi mate!

How much ram do you have?

I would recommend 2GB with a game like Oblivion.

May also be worth considering defragmenting your hard drive and making sure your page file is ok?

Thats all I can think of, hope its of some use!

If not, I'm sure someone will be along soon with some more suggestions.
 
what you are experiencing is the "cell buffers" loading. RAM is allocated an amount for internal (dungeons/rooms etc) and external (the outside world) as you move around the cell buffers are loaded. it is exasperated by faster travel - eg riding on a horse or characters with high athletics/speed attributes.

if you look up the TWEAKGUIDE for oblivion the guru will tell you what values to edit your oblivion.ini file as load cell values are preset regardless of your amount of RAM.

secondly hard drives play a huge part in performance as data is dynamically loaded constantly.

you will never completely get rid of the odd stutter, but here's what to do to make your game as smooth as possible.

1. read TWEAKGUIDE and edit your oblivion.ini file
2. load oblivion onto a seperate hdd from your OS. make sure it is a fast SATAII drive. prefably 2 Raptor X's in RAID 0 !!!
3. relocate your pagefile to a seperate hdd from your OS and fix the min and max values to 1.5 x your system RAM.
4. if your video card only has 256MB memory set textures to medium and don't use Quarls texture pack.
5. every 1/2 hour of gaming enter console and type "pcb" (minus quotes). this is purge cell buffers which clears RAM of redundant loaded textures.
6. turn off internet connection - anti virus - clear system tray. reclaim as much RAM as possible.
7. do a clean boot if you are really suffering.
8. if you do not have a sound card or dual core cpu you may suffer slowdown.
9. do a "dxdiag" to find out if any codec's are causing trouble. (oblivion is very sensitive to codecs)
10. read tweakguide again!!!

i have a dual core cpu/x-fi/2 gig ram and 512 video ram and suffered stuttering. i did'nt have any bad codecs and my system has a relatively clean boot. by loading oblivion and pagefile onto a seperate hdd and employing the tweakguide tips i've finally got oblivion running about as smooth as i'll ever get it. the biggest hit was most definetely the hdd fix. drastic for a game but i love my oblivion :D

TWEAKGUIDE linky

hope this helps mate.
 
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Interesting... I too now find oblivion unplayable on my 8800GTX using quarls pack. Im using vista x64 and drivers 101.41 betas.

Thanks to moosey-uk. :)
 
it's the only game i play nowadays so im happy to research and fix problems i encounter and try and pass any findings along.
i put posts up regarding stuttering in the official elder scrolls forums and did'nt really get much help.
the hard drive fix and .ini were the single biggest improvements i made to stutter. (assuming your pc is already well optimized and set up).
this is what i love about oblivion, the community is huge. the challenge to run the game is demanding, the mod content is limitness, and the game is still a wow factor to look at nealy a year after its release.
 
wasc said:
Hi, Now I have my 8800gtx, i've started playing oblibion again. With the graphics set to either "High" or "Ultra High", the game runs perfectly - i.e I'm getting a constant 60fps (I have v-sync on which limits my frame rate to 60fps)

HOWEVER, when i'm outside and running forwards the game stutters and you can see it loading details in the distance. As soon as the details have loaded it's back up to 60fps until I move another 15meters or so forwards and it stutters again.

It seems to me the card can handle the game fine, but Oblivion is stuttering every time it needs to load more details into the game. Is there a way around this???
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Doesn't that mean you're running your monitor at 60Hz?

Try setting your refresh rate to 75Hz....you won't believe how much better it looks....
 
GFX707 said:
Doesn't that mean you're running your monitor at 60Hz?

Try setting your refresh rate to 75Hz....you won't believe how much better it looks....
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My monitor is an LCD, so they tend to prefer the 60Hz refresh rate.
 
MooSey-UK said:
what you are experiencing is the "cell buffers" loading. RAM is allocated an amount for internal (dungeons/rooms etc) and external (the outside world) as you move around the cell buffers are loaded. it is exasperated by faster travel - eg riding on a horse or characters with high athletics/speed attributes.

if you look up the TWEAKGUIDE for oblivion the guru will tell you what values to edit your oblivion.ini file as load cell values are preset regardless of your amount of RAM.

secondly hard drives play a huge part in performance as data is dynamically loaded constantly.

you will never completely get rid of the odd stutter, but here's what to do to make your game as smooth as possible.

1. read TWEAKGUIDE and edit your oblivion.ini file
2. load oblivion onto a seperate hdd from your OS. make sure it is a fast SATAII drive. prefably 2 Raptor X's in RAID 0 !!!
3. relocate your pagefile to a seperate hdd from your OS and fix the min and max values to 1.5 x your system RAM.
4. if your video card only has 256MB memory set textures to medium and don't use Quarls texture pack.
5. every 1/2 hour of gaming enter console and type "pcb" (minus quotes). this is purge cell buffers which clears RAM of redundant loaded textures.
6. turn off internet connection - anti virus - clear system tray. reclaim as much RAM as possible.
7. do a clean boot if you are really suffering.
8. if you do not have a sound card or dual core cpu you may suffer slowdown.
9. do a "dxdiag" to find out if any codec's are causing trouble. (oblivion is very sensitive to codecs)
10. read tweakguide again!!!

i have a dual core cpu/x-fi/2 gig ram and 512 video ram and suffered stuttering. i did'nt have any bad codecs and my system has a relatively clean boot. by loading oblivion and pagefile onto a seperate hdd and employing the tweakguide tips i've finally got oblivion running about as smooth as i'll ever get it. the biggest hit was most definetely the hdd fix. drastic for a game but i love my oblivion :D

TWEAKGUIDE linky

hope this helps mate.
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Damn - that was an informative post. I'll give it a try and get back to you.
 
happysappy said:
Try unpacking the texture and meshes bsa files in the oblivion data folder. I did that and it helped the stuttering quite a bit.
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How do you do this?
 
You can tweak this game till yer blue in the face and you won't get rid of the stutters. You may reduce them a bit, but this engine just doesn't stream very well.

You just have to learn to live with them.
 
Well, at the moment the game runs at 40-50fps maxed running about outdoors, but that doesn't matter because the second you get on a horse and go anywhere at speed it's stutter, stutter, loading area, stutter stutter :mad:

Anyone else get that?
 
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