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Question regarding 5870 Oblivion (modded) performance

hughythomas

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Hi guys!

I recently purchased an ASUS EAH5870 Volt Edition for £280 delivered to replace my GTX285 which I sold on for £165 (including waterblock - someone got lucky on auction!).

I really bought the card to increase performance on my favourite game...Oblivion. Yes yes I know its old but I have been tweaking/modding it for a while and I literally have over 100+ mods installed such as:

QTP3
OOO 1.33
Better Cities (full)
Unique Locations
Flora/Fauna replacement textures

It isn't really any quicker in Oblivion (and I have tweaked my ini). In fact, in towns it is slower.

This leads me to believe that because of all the huge textures I am maxing out the 1GB of VRAM.

Does anyone know if theoretically I was to buy a 2nd 5870 and crossfire them would Oblivion see 2GB of VRAM or is it cloned?

I just really want to play this game maxxed out with all my mods!

Cheers Tom
 
VRAM is cloned when in crossfire.

As for the rest of your questions, I couldn't help you there, I have no clue how much VRAM a modded Oblivion takes up, sorry.
 
i do believe you'll only get access to 1gb of the memory, i don't see how that card is struggling with oblivion tbh but i wouldn't lose faith in it remember they're releasing another elder scrolls and you'll need the 5870 for that ;)
 
hughythomas said:
Hi guys!

I recently purchased an ASUS EAH5870 Volt Edition for £280 delivered to replace my GTX285 which I sold on for £165 (including waterblock - someone got lucky on auction!).

I really bought the card to increase performance on my favourite game...Oblivion. Yes yes I know its old but I have been tweaking/modding it for a while and I literally have over 100+ mods installed such as:

QTP3
OOO 1.33
Better Cities (full)
Unique Locations
Flora/Fauna replacement textures

It isn't really any quicker in Oblivion (and I have tweaked my ini). In fact, in towns it is slower.

This leads me to believe that because of all the huge textures I am maxing out the 1GB of VRAM.

Does anyone know if theoretically I was to buy a 2nd 5870 and crossfire them would Oblivion see 2GB of VRAM or is it cloned?

I just really want to play this game maxxed out with all my mods!

Cheers Tom
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Game engine is buggy. runs like garbage on my 4870 x2 its never ran well random stuttering and fps drops left right and centre.
 
Try running Streamline etc, operation optimization to cut down script usage.

Otherwise get a 5970 enhanced edition which will have 2 GB of working memory. (4gb total)
 
Interesting thread.

When I play it, I run many graphics related mods for Oblivion (including QTP3 and the flora/fauna replacement textures, diverse grasses and water mod) using my old-skool BFG 8800GTXOC2 768MB. I run at maximum settings with a resolution of 1680x1050 (the maximum my 22' screen will allow) and get between 45-50 FPS... ;)
 
Marshall Blyth said:
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People still run that res? :p

I also tried modded Oblivion on a 4870x2, I'm pretty sure I noted >1GB of VRAM usage @ 1920x1200. The game was never finished and thus never optimized properly.

The Streamline util didn't help me much, so unless you can live with "unmaxxed" settings you'll need to get a 2GB card. :(
 
Orangey said:
People still run that res? :p
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Whilst I may be a GFX whore and have a large desk, I still only have one 22' screen. The main reason for this is that I am short-sighted and tend to sit right infront of the said setup. :D

Triple monitors etc. are just wasted on me, although if I had an extra £200 I would have liked a 24' screen to go with my next build/buy, which I'll be doing in June hopefully... ;)
 
Orangey said:
People still run that res? :p
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Meh, still running at 1600x1200 here (or less) on my 15 year old 21" HP P1100 CRT, which cost a recommended £1100 new at the time( I paid £400 for it at a show)...how times have changed :)
 
OK thanks for the info guys.

Such a let down for me to have bought this 5870 in the hope it would solve my FPS issues in Oblivion...

I may as well wait untill the next gen of cards come out and come back to Oblivion to play through again (for like the 5th time ha ha!) once they come equipped with more than 2GB of RAM as standard.
 
The game is/always was cpu bound as far as I remember. I get similar fps all the way from an x1900xtx up to my 275 gtx.
 
Runs pretty smoothly at everything maxxed out (HDR instead of AA) with opencities, better cities, natural environments full hdr etc on this machine.

I never finished downloading qarl's texture pack though, so that's probably to be expected.
 
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