Possible Poor Oblivion Perfomance.

[Fry750]

I've recently purchased an XpertVision 320mb 8800GTS. Numerous people and reviews have said this can run Oblivion with everything turned on and a decent frame rate. Oblivion lags something rotten with me, indoors is fine but outdoors it lags nigh all the time. Resolution is 1280x1024 which isn't very large. Only reasons i can come up with is either 8800GTS can't handle it, or lack of RAM. I'm running with 1GB on Vista so could this be the problem?
Thanks

 

[Darkwave]

I think that 1GB RAM under Vista is most definitely your problem here.

 

[LoadsaMoney]

I think that 1GB RAM under Vista is most definitely your problem here.

Agreed, 320mb GTS can easily handle Oblivion maxed out, i play it fine maxed at 1280x1024 with 2xAA/16xAF+HDR on and Multisampling (used to use the SuperSampling but found some parts lag a bit, where as under the Multi its all fine) under XP with 2gb Ram.

 

[Rroff]

320GTS is fine if your not using the high res texture packs

 

[LoadsaMoney]

Ive even got that LOD texture pack on that sorts the distance out (so its not blury).

 

[Darkwave]

Ive even got that LOD texture pack on that sorts the distance out (so its not blury).

Think he meant ones like Quarl's that really go mad with the textures.

The problem here is clearly the 1GB RAM and Vista, doesn't Vista set aside RAM as well for while it's gaming?

 

[JoyPadJedi]

Latest patch fixes the LOD issue somewhat. I don't use the mods anymore as a result. Whack on 16xAF and 8xCSAA and you're laughing...............as long as you have 2GB RAM or more, esp. under Vista.

CPU also plays a big part - what is your CPU Fry? A lot of the posters here may also have OC'd CPUs, which definitely helps in Oblivion!

 

[LoadsaMoney]

Yeah probably, the one i use is fine though, i think the ones i use are only 2048x2048, but you can get a 4096x4096 one as well which would probably hit it.

 

[JoyPadJedi]

Oh and Vista reserves RAM and VRAM for Aero desktop but releases it in full screen gaming. What ever amount of RAM you have, Vista will usually use 20-30%.

 

[gurusan]

ewww... vista + 1gb ram is not a nice thought buy some more! It's so cheap right now!