"Lag in Oblivion"

I´m experiencing some stuttering problems on Oblivion when I first attack a foe and after I kill it. The game "pauses" for like 0,5 seconds everytime I do it.
It runs fine when I´m not in combat and even in combat, unless I´m performing the first or final blows. This is very annoying and I would be really grateful if somebody could help me. I´m quite sure my pc meets the system requirements for the game but even at the lowest settings this problem appears.

My guess is RAM / memory - how much do you have, and what OS are you running

But isn´t it supposedly to hurt overall game performance?

I´ve already tried, but even at the lowest settings this problem appears. It doesn´t seen to be a performance problem with the video card because the game runs smothly almost all the time. I only have problems when I first attack an enemy and in the final blow. Like: when I first use a destruction spell, the game pauses right before it hits the foe, for about 0,5 to 1 second. The other attacks go fine until I kill it, when the game stops again, right after the enemy is killed. It happens with every character I attack and it´s most noticeably with creatures like wolves, ogres etc.

That card should be fine for Oblivion. The music in Oblivion is amazing, its a real shame your missing out on this
If you are on W7 i assume you are dual booting?

Hi. I was having the exact same problem as you guys are. One thing you can try that worked for me is going into the Oblivion.ini file (Start>My Computer>My Games>Oblivion>Double Click Oblivion Configuration settings>Under audio section) and setting just the fMaxFootstepDistance to 0. Someone mentioned this on another forum where people were having the exact same symptoms. This will turn off all of the footstep sounds from everything (And hopefully fix the choppyness, it did for me). It seems that they do not mix well with on board audio cards. I wanted to have at least my characters footsteps though so I messed around with it and the lowest I could set it to AND keep just my character/horse footsteps on was fMaxFootstepDistance=128.0000. It might vary I have no idea I guess just play around with it and see if it works for you. I ended up buying a new sound card and that fixed my problem 100% so it was definitely an audio related issue for me. Best of luck guys hope this helps!