X800GTO and Oblivion

[sugi123]

Hey...
I wanted to know if I can enjoy oblivion with these specs.

-Intel P4 530 1.0 MB L2, LGA775, 3.30 GHz OC
-Gigabyte MB w/ 4-phase Voltage regulator
-Sapphire X800gto 256 MB with 16 Pipes
-350 Watt PS
-80 GB 7,200 RPM HD
-768 MB DDR-400 RAM (OC to 440 MHz)

 

[prozac26]

Maybe on the lowest settings. Not enough RAM, IMO.

 

[sugi123]

so, if I put an additional 256mb, to make 1gb, should that help alot?

 

[dougie_boy]

ur not going to be able to hit the higher settings with that GPU no matter how much extra ram you put in. extra ramw ill give more room of textures but ur x800GTO will struggle with rendering it all. be happy with what you have and medium.

(and once you get past the fact oblivion look fucking awsome, you realise the combat sucks sooo much your going to wish you had never bothered. seriosly. awful.)

 

[icbluscrn]

you should have no problem,
my other system plays it just fine, i do have the video card overclocked **edit i also did the vmod so my clocks are very high. <-Something you might want to try
skt 478 3.0ghz
ecs 865 mb
512mb kingston ddr400
saphire gto2 unlocked and overclocked
mix settings high and med. i am not sure if i played a 1280* or 1024*

As far as ram , my guess is that it will only help when loading a scene.

But with your system will be fine.

and i agree with dougie the game is awful and the graphics don't impress me.

 

[nottheking]

So I take it you've unlocked your X800GTO to be an X800XL?

Don't listen to those that say that an X800GTO, let alone an X800XL, will only get low settings; I'd be willing to be their using nVidia GeForce cards; no offense (or bias) to this, but it just happens that Radeons, particularly X800/X850s, perform a LOT, LOT better than their nVidia counterparts. An alternative is, as is the case of many people that complain that the game runs too slow, they're Counter-Strike junkies, where anything other than 60fps = death in 5 seconds.

Coupled with that sort of processor, you should be able to have it on decently high settings, and still have the power to run it fairly smooth, even at a medium-high resolution such as 1024x768. Note that things will still slow down in towns (where combat is actually rare) as well as in some outdoor areas, particularly those Oblivion gates to be found in the forest...