Oblivion gone gold

**BDC** · 03-27-2006, 20:10

Works fine on my x700 with a 2ghz P4 and 1gb ram. Works better outside than in. Jumping about beats walking too, less emmersion but not everyone has 6 hours to spend walking across a mountain.

**Xiahou** · 03-27-2006, 22:07

Originally Posted by BDC

Jumping about beats walking too, less emmersion but not everyone has 6 hours to spend walking across a mountain.

I've adopted the self-imposed restriction of walking to a new location for at least the first time. Then, for subsequent trips to the same locale, I'll use the map travel if I want to.

This way, I still get to do a good bit of exploring and find lots of ruins, ect and (for RP purposes) I also get the feeling of forging a new path to a location- after which, retracing it should be relatively uneventful. But, to each their own.

**Lemur** · 03-27-2006, 22:16

It's sort-of-running with a 9700 pro, 800 x 600 with a fair number of effects turned on, 2x aa. It's not great, and I'm not as happy as I could be, but there it is. For some reason certain spell effects turn it into a slideshow.

Great game, though. Once I've upgraded my machine it should be mezzo-spiffy. I've been thumping around as a sort of stealth archer-mage dude. A Breton with a bow, and he's not afraid to use it. Slapping down the really long shots is way more fun than it should be.

Now I just have to find four more hours in the day so's I can play as much as I want ...

**Xiahou** · 03-28-2006, 04:24

Originally Posted by Lemur

It's sort-of-running with a 9700 pro, 800 x 600 with a fair number of effects turned on, 2x aa. It's not great, and I'm not as happy as I could be, but there it is. For some reason certain spell effects turn it into a slideshow

That's probably because of your 2xAA. I bet if you turned that off you'd see much better performance. I have an x800xl and even I cant run any AA without certain effects turning it into a slideshow.

**Sasaki Kojiro** · 03-28-2006, 04:53

I remember Morrowind being really boring and really addictive. In Oblivion can you move along continously on the main quest or do you have to do a bunch of "optional" side quests in order to get your character up to the required level?

Also how does the archery compare to M&B?

I may want to get it in 3-4 years...

**BDC** · 03-28-2006, 07:48

Combat is not so good really. Looks pretty and dramatic though. M&B has better, smoother combat.

**Bartix** · 03-28-2006, 08:29

Originally Posted by BDC

Jumping about beats walking too, less emmersion but not everyone has 6 hours to spend walking across a mountain.

In Morrowind I was always jumping. Very silly. Getting stats up.

Originally Posted by Sasaki Kojiro

I remember Morrowind being really boring and really addictive.

That is summing it up! Same thing is WoW, may be?

**Lemur** · 03-28-2006, 15:26

Originally Posted by Xiahou

That's probably because of your 2xAA. I bet if you turned that off you'd see much better performance.

Actually, I'd classify it as a "who knows" kind of situation. Over on the Oblivion boards they're trading .ini files like baseball cards. Apparently you can fine-tune the video settings like a madman. So yeah, turning off the AA would probably fix the problem, but there might be a much more elegant way. I'm gonna go ask for a file ...

**Sjakihata** · 03-28-2006, 15:44

Anyone remember that little graphic tool that came to morrowind? Made it a lot smoother and increased the view distance with 200% (if you scaled it max) - Im hoping for such a thing for Oblivion as well - another good reason to go PC you get access to mods and small neat programs.

**Lemur** · 03-28-2006, 18:15

Here's a decent primer on tweaking your settings. There may be a better one, but this is the best I've found. Sorry to say it's PC-only.

**Xiahou** · 04-07-2006, 03:37

Originally Posted by Lemur

Actually, I'd classify it as a "who knows" kind of situation. Over on the Oblivion boards they're trading .ini files like baseball cards. Apparently you can fine-tune the video settings like a madman. So yeah, turning off the AA would probably fix the problem, but there might be a much more elegant way. I'm gonna go ask for a file ...

Show, did you find a way to get AA to work without the game turning into a slideshow when you cast a summon, ect?

I've tried playing with the AA settings in the ATI tray tools... you dont get the slowdowns, but it doesnt looks as good as when it's set ingame for some reason.

**Sjakihata** · 03-27-2006, 22:21

Originally Posted by Xiahou

I've adopted the self-imposed restriction of walking to a new location for at least the first time. Then, for subsequent trips to the same locale, I'll use the map travel if I want to.

Well, you can only travel to known locations (whenever you come to a new place, it says Blah blah found) then you can use the map travel.