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#1 Future_Of_War
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I have a AMD Athlon XP 3200+ 2.20 GHz,1GB of RAM,Radion 9950 and (i dont know if it matters but ) Radeon 9950 secondary,and 149GB memory space. Please tell me what i need to upgrade and how much it would cost.
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#2 ProudLarry
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A Radeon 9950? I've never heard of such a thing. The highest end 9xxx series card was the 9800 XT. And what do you mean by secondary? Untill the Radeon X800 series (a generation newer than yours), ATI cards couldn't be run two at a time.

Im a little iffy if that's the actuall video card that you have. But still, as long as its a higher end Radeon X800 or 9xxx series, you could probably run the game, with what you have, as long as you turned down video settings.

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#3 BewilderedRonin
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You should upgrade your video card. I'm assuming the 9950 is AGP, right? You could get an ATI X1950 or an NVidia 7800 card for about $200 from newegg.com. Either of those cards would be able to run Oblivion seemlessly on max settings.
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#4 Marfoo
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He probably means the Radeon 9550, I used to have one of those, it's basically an underclocked Radeon 9600. I'm not sure what the graphics card requirements are for Oblivion, you should be able to run it on low settings, but as for the rest of your system, only the graphics card is holding you back (Secondary is the way ATI refers to setting up dual monitor and changing settings on separate displays, primary and secondary, he doesn't have two cards)
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#5 Future_Of_War
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Thanks thats way less expensive than what I thought!
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#6 BounceDK
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A 7600GT will be perfect for that system. They play together quite nicely.
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#7 BewilderedRonin
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Just FYI, I have an X800 8X AGP on my rig and I can run Oblivion with everything max except shadows. (the x800 really isn't very good for rendering things like soft shadows)
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#8 Future_Of_War
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Just got oblivion!It runs great,even with distant lands,trees,and buildings on and i can still run it on medium with great FPS.
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#9 henri1960
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low settings or get a better card.
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#10 Kiwi_1
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Just got oblivion!It runs great,even with distant lands,trees,and buildings on and i can still run it on medium with great FPS.Future_Of_War

Not with an awful Radeon 9550, you can't. Maybe indoors, running the tutorial in the caves and sewers, but just wait until you start the game itself, and take that awful POS outside. It'll barely crawl, then.

On the off chance this was an Asus, Gainward, or Leadtek video card (those three tend to create their own unconventional model names), I ran a Google search. All it found were a lot of other newbies with too many 9's and too few 5's when they wrote about the dreadful 9550, plus an Asus model of an nVidia card, whose proper name was "FX 5900" (slightly faster than a 9550, but not much!) 

Remember, all it really is, at the very core of its little silicon heart, is a 9600 SE.  SE never did mean "Special Edition", not really, what it really amounts to is sh***y edition, meaning lousy (nVidia uses "LE" for their crippled GPUs).

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#11 Future_Of_War
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Yeah when I went outside I had to change it back to low