What do I need to upgrade to make Oblivion run smoother

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#1 jessex360
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According to www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri/ I am in the "recommended" zone for the requirements of oblivion, however it's running so choppy with lowest possible settings :S What do I need to upgrade?!?! Please help me. My computers specs... Windows XP Home Intel Core Duo CPU 2.30GHz 3GB of RAM Sound: Realtek HD audio output NVIDIA GeForce 7050
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#2 Animatronic64
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Video card.

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#3 millerlight89
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Your GPU, might want to look at your PSU before you do that as well .
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#4 jessex360
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Which GPU should I get?? :O
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#5 millerlight89
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Which GPU should I get?? :Ojessex360
What PSU, motherboard, case do you have? By the way, this would be better suited for the Hardware section.
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#6 sinpkr
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a word for the wise. oblivion will never run smooth . I went from a 8800 to a 6870 and it still has sudden stops and random low framrates. Its playable and after a while u get used to it but u will never get super smooth gameplay with oblivion

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#7 Bangerman15
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a word for the wise. oblivion will never run smooth . I went from a 8800 to a 6870 and it still has sudden stops and random low framrates. Its playable and after a while u get used to it but u will never get super smooth gameplay with oblivion

sinpkr
really? what are ur settings under CCC? cuz i run it great all the time... it only takes up alot if u have all the distant trees and grass at max also, that takes up alot of gpu power haha try lowering those a bit :)
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#8 Animatronic64
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a word for the wise. oblivion will never run smooth . I went from a 8800 to a 6870 and it still has sudden stops and random low framrates. Its playable and after a while u get used to it but u will never get super smooth gameplay with oblivion

sinpkr
I have 60fps in Oblivion... There's only a few areas in the game that drop bellow that, but it never goes bellow 40 fps.
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codmw2 5830 and me take it to class in 1680 or lower stabily with 50+fps on highest san aa and af (5000 series and under was never good with aa and af i dont trust it)

i dont use multisampling in the game menuthat is a broken setting lol

seriously though just get an actualy gpu.. given that you have a gf7050 onboard i imagine your mobo has a pci-ex16 slot of some kind or in rare case and agp x8. i recommend looking into that as well as your psu.. but even a 50 dollar gpu would give improvements EXPONENTIALLY

in fairly certain a 9400gt or hd 5450 would kick the bojangles out from under your onboard.

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#10 mitu123
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a word for the wise. oblivion will never run smooth . I went from a 8800 to a 6870 and it still has sudden stops and random low framrates. Its playable and after a while u get used to it but u will never get super smooth gameplay with oblivion

sinpkr

What's your cpu and ram?

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#11 useLOGIC
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you can also look at something called "Streamline" or "Stutter remover". they both reduce stutters, obviously. but you can only use one at a time.

also theres a script optimizer. even though i get good fps in oblivion, without these, the game can still be choppy.

also, theres something that allows the .exe file to address >2 gigs of ram.

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#12 Shonuff331
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a word for the wise. oblivion will never run smooth . I went from a 8800 to a 6870 and it still has sudden stops and random low framrates. Its playable and after a while u get used to it but u will never get super smooth gameplay with oblivion

sinpkr

I have super smooth gameplay with oblivion even when turning 1 of my GPU's off.

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#13 telep_man
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I think Ati HD 5670 is the best choice for you IF you have a PCIE 16x slot. That's the fastest graphics card that doesn't have additional power connectors, so there's no need to worry about power supply. Besides, you CPU would probably bottleneck anything beyond that.

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#14 Caladfwich
Member since 2008 • 104 Posts

Get this mod:

http://tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=10400

And set it to aggresive, hopefully you will get a acceptable FPS with it, otherwise you will need a pc upgrade.