I am playing oblivion all maxed at 1680x1050, now am gettin extremely low FPS at times, as low as 11! Mostly outdoors, and this goes down to 8! When am by an oblivion gate! Am very puzzled by this because the rest of my system is fine!
Edited from distraction. heheh The gates are the most intense, demanding areas of the game. It could be just too much maxxed out at 16x12. Turn down the shadows, it should be better, also go here http://www.tweakguides.com/Oblivion_1.html These tweaks allow for maximum performance without losing too much, or hardly noticeable eye candy
Message edited by jaydeejohn on 04-27-2008 at 09:25:27 PM
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This actually seems about right for that video card. Check out toms video card charts to verify. Also they are using the higher end 8800 GTS then you are as well. I would knock down the anti aliasing and that resolution to 1280 by 1024 and you would get much better performance.
Yes it was rated for 23 FPS, however that number that is available on Tom's charts is an average. The OP mentioned that his gets AS LOW as 11/8....so the average would reasonably be around 20.
And like I pointed out initially, Toms hardware is testing it with the better version of the 8800 GTS.
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Make sure in the Nvidia control panel you are not assigning high AA+AF to Oblivion, you can set it game by game if needed. I've gotten better results with my 8800 GT playing at 1600X1200.
you know, i can get better fps with one x1900 at 19 x 12 so something definately ain't right, that thing should be better than both my cards put together especially since he has the better proc.
Yeah, you can't go by one review though. Firingsquad tests a pretty demanding foliage section of the game and shows with fsaa an overclocked 8800GTS G92 can't touch a stock 8800GTX, never mind an ultra. IMO, while the GTS is an excellent Oblivion card, the 8800Ultra is without doubt the better Oblivion card. Of course, SLI kicks butt in the GPU demanding foliage. Like FS, I see near 100% SLI scaling in parts of Oblivion.
http://www.firingsquad.com/hardwar [...] /page6.asp http://www.firingsquad.com/hardwar [...] /page8.asp
Yeah, stranger, 19x12 with an X1900 does seem like you would need to tweak the settings. I know my X1950XT and 8800GTS 320MB could not come close to maxing 1650x1050 with 4xaa/16xaf. Most of the game sure, but not off pathways in the woods/foliage. All it took was a few tweaks of shadows, shadow filtering, and min grass height to get it playable with 2xaa/16xaf.
I'm surprised the OP sees 11 fps with the G92 GTS even if he has aa/af cranked and is running a high res texture mod. Something seems wrong there. But the game does stress both the GPU and CPU quite a bit, and a massive battle near an Oblivion gate is one of those low fps areas.
Message edited by pauldh on 04-28-2008 at 04:47:59 AM
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This actually seems about right for that video card. Check out toms video card charts to verify. Also they are using the higher end 8800 GTS then you are as well. I would knock down the anti aliasing and that resolution to 1280 by 1024 and you would get much better performance.
