Terrible Oblivion Performance

MeatLoaf · 2 Mar 2007 at 23:26

My spec is in my sig :

Running at pretty much any settings @ 1280x1024 is get real lags, in fact the game stops and stutters for several seconds when any enemies come into play.

My system should eat this game for breakfast. Any ideas?

This has only happened since is went over to core 2 duo. On my old A3500+ 7600GT and a gig of RAM it was MUCH better than this.

Ive installedthe latest official patch as well

MeatLoaf · 3 Mar 2007 at 09:53

Anyone?

the-void · 3 Mar 2007 at 10:18

Page File Fragmentation?

MeatLoaf · 3 Mar 2007 at 10:23

Maybe, ive uninstalled it now, im going to reinstall later and try again. If its still the same i will leave it defragging overnight

smit101 · 3 Mar 2007 at 11:38

I found this tweak guide very helpful when I initially installed the game.

[noodle] · 3 Mar 2007 at 12:27

Turn off AA, turn down tree shadows, grass shadows, etc. The Game engine hates them. If all else fails, kick your PC.

MooSey-UK · 3 Mar 2007 at 12:43

aye read the tweak guide and follow it closely, especially for configuring your oblivion.ini file.
also i assume oblivion has auto detected and adjusted your sliders?
you'll have to do this manually for best performance. trial and error im afraid.
tweak guide shows you the difference for each setting though.
the stutter/lag is load cell buffers loading whilst you move around, its only really apparent whilst outside. i've been playing with this a lot lately. here's how to alieviate it.
firstly folow the tweak guide. he suggests .ini cell buffer sizes for given amounts of ram and an overall preload size. adjust to suit. (note increasing values above his guide values does'nt do much.
adjust your texture size accordingly for video ram. the large setting caters for 512. medium 256 and small 128. these do make a difference as textures chug thru. if you are using a LOD texture fix such as Quarls or Shajas you really want 512 and fast video memory.
i have yet to play with agp aperture size to see if this effects things. (bf2 had a marked performance increase with 256 set)
move your pagefile to a seperate disk than the os. ensure it has fixed size. eg 3072 min and max for 2 gig ram. (set a small pagefile 2-50mb on your os disk for safetey - bigger one used by default though)
move oblivion onto a fast disk which does'nt have your os on.
basically you're trying to streamline the massive and constant data flow between harddrive/pagefile and ram. oblivions open world means its always updating (hence changing loadcell buffer sizes)

make sure the multithreaded options within .ini are enabled (tweakguide)

tweakguide/fast gaming disk/seperate pagefile testing of graphic settings should get you running smoothly.

i think even with the best hardware in the world, whilst maxed out at hi rez oblivion will still stutter occasionally. it is a beast on your hardware.

look upon it as a labour of love otherwise you'll go mad

let us know how you do

wizard91 · 3 Mar 2007 at 12:53

But dont expect Oblivion to run like butter.

MooSey-UK · 3 Mar 2007 at 13:03

also, with AMD if you went from single core to dual core you really wanted to uninstall, install dual core optimizer and then reinstall. game stuttered otherwise.
not sure how intel deal with optimization. at the very least delete your .ini folder (in documents/my games/oblivion) and restart the game. it'll auto set to your new system.

you'll still not be able to run at max settings and all sliders fully set. you'll be wanting an 8800GTS for that

im saving up now.

GFX707 · 3 Mar 2007 at 13:21

I found the game got much faster when I switched from a P4 to a conroe.

Besides that, the engine is terrible. It lags and skips all the time on my system. Should have been thrown out after Morrowind. Won't buy another Bethesda game until they stop using crap old engines for their new games without even fixing the bugs from the old game. They've been doing that since Arena.