Poor Oblivion Performance on a Laptop that Runs Skyrim

Finished Skyrim a while back and until Dawnguard comes out I thought I would fire up Oblivion on my Laptop. My laptop plays Fallout 3 at Ultra no prob and Skyrim at Med-High settings, and yet Oblivion is almost unplayable at Medium. What gives. One potential problem is that under the game's config settings it isn't detecting my comp's discrete gpu, instead listing my primary adapter as the Intel HD series integrated graphics. My laptop has an option to turn the discrete graphics on and off, and the gpu is definately switched to on.

Specs:

i5 2430M 2.4ghz (turbo boost up to 3.0ghz)

Nvidia Geforce 540M

4gb RAM

Finished Skyrim a while back and until Dawnguard comes out I thought I would fire up Oblivion on my Laptop. My laptop plays Fallout 3 at Ultra no prob and Skyrim at Med-High settings, and yet Oblivion is almost unplayable at Medium. What gives. One potential problem is that under the game's config settings it isn't detecting my comp's discrete gpu, instead listing my primary adapter as the Intel HD series integrated graphics. My laptop has an option to turn the discrete graphics on and off, and the gpu is definately switched to on.

Specs:

i5 2430M 2.4ghz (turbo boost up to 3.0ghz)

Nvidia Geforce 540M

4gb RAM

yomonkey

well its clearly that its not using the right GPU, ive heard these can be really finicky especially in older games before this feature ever exsisted. IDK anything about it unfortunatley but I would search the net for how to force games to see the right GPU.

I'll patch it up... also you make a good point about morrowind, lol. Even after playing through skyrim, morrowind might be my favorite TES game. Still I was hoping to replay Oblivion, this time with a bunch of mods... get rid of level scaling etc. Btw the copy of Oblivion I have is a legal disc version, and I have not yet applied any mods so thats not my problem. I'll download the latest patch and see how it goes. Otherwise its on to Morrowind.

I'll patch it up... also you make a good point about morrowind, lol. Even after playing through skyrim, morrowind might be my favorite TES game. Still I was hoping to replay Oblivion, this time with a bunch of mods... get rid of level scaling etc. Btw the copy of Oblivion I have is a legal disc version, and I have not yet applied any mods so thats not my problem. I'll download the latest patch and see how it goes. Otherwise its on to Morrowind.

yomonkey