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| 806155 | 2009-09-02 01:11:00 | Hello everyone. I recently grabbed myself a copy of Oblivion and am real excited to play it but i'm a little confused. I set the graphic options as low as possible and even tweak the resolution but i still get awful framerate. My computer does meet the requirements so i'd guess that at low i'd be fine. Here are the minimum requirements for the game: * Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows XP 64-bit * 512MB System RAM * 2 Ghz Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent processor * 128MB Direct3D compatible video card * and DirectX 9.0 compatible driver; * 8x DVD-ROM drive * 4.6 GB free hard disk space * DirectX 9.0c (included) * DirectX 8.1 compatible sound card * Keyboard, Mouse And know here are my specs: Windows XP Pro 1GB RAM 2.7GHZ AMD Athlon Dual-Core 512MB NVIDIA Geforce 8300 I'm a little confused here :s |
LarsJohann (13010) | ||
| 806156 | 2009-09-02 01:15:00 | Minimum system requirements on a game don't mean a lot. Your PC will not get any decent frame rates on Oblivion no matter how much tweaking you do, it's a pretty intensive game. I'd turn off all the grass etc, and make sure anti aliasing isn't turned on. 512MB RAM on the card doesn't mean a lot, you need to look at clock speeds and pixel pipelines, by no stretch of the imagination is the 8300 a gaming card. You'd want to get a minimum of an 8800GT and see where that got you. A friend who had a PC with 3GB RAM, an Athlon 6400+ (3.2ghz dual core) and an 8600GT was still mildly unhappy with performance, he had to play at 1024*768 and low settings to achieve about 25fps. An 8300 will not cope well at all unfortunately. |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 806157 | 2009-09-02 01:16:00 | Oblivion * 128MB Direct3D compatible video card 512MB NVIDIA Geforce 8300 Misleading. Your graphics card while it has more RAM than required is NOT a gaming card by any stretch of the imagination. There is more to it than just RAM. Oblivion when it came out was a very GPU hungry game. Upgrade the card to a decent gaming card and you'll see an improvement. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 806158 | 2009-09-02 01:29:00 | Hit Google, here's entire websites dedicated to making Oblivion play better :) | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 806159 | 2009-09-02 01:41:00 | Minimum Specs usually are what you need for the game to actually run. Recommended Specs are usually what you want to look at - a better indication of what you need to run fairly playable with reasonable quality. As posters above have said, Video cards are far more complex than just memory. a 512MB 8800GT will destroy a 512MB 8300 in anything, anytime, despite the same quantity of RAM, for example. I would probably want at least a 3GHz CPU, 1GB if not 2GB of RAM, and a 7900GT video card, to play Oblivion. To run it well, at high res, take that to at least 2 if not 4gb RAM, and an 8800GT or better. |
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