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- DARNIFIED UI OBLIVION AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS WINDOWS
If you have 2GB of RAM, turn of HD caching completely, so that XP keeps the cache in the RAM. Go to the system panel of XP, and change memory usage from "programs" to "system cache".
DARNIFIED UI OBLIVION AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS WINDOWS
Next, if you have more than 1GB RAM, you can do some things in Windows XP to optimize performance. Play with the options in the settings panel in the game and the iMinGrassSize value until you have found the compromise that is best for your system. It's a matter of taste and priorities, really. On my system, I can leave it at 80, but going to 110 will bring me extra display speed. On most systems, this will give you a massive boost for your framerate. This variable will influence the density of the grass. Go to the Oblivion.ini in your "My Games" folder and find iMinGrassSize. But if you have to compromise visual appearance beyond what is pleasing to your eyes, then try an. I can't give you a perfect answer, because your system will most likely be different from mine. It all depends on what your GPU is capable of doing. If this isn't enough, turn off tree canopy shades. Turn off self shadowing, shadows on grass and reduce specular light distance. If yours is still below that, what can you do? If you are like me, and want to keep the view distance for obejcts, items, trees grass and actors nearly maxed, there are certain things you can tune now. I think you want to have a framerate of at least 18 for a rewarding gaming experience.
DARNIFIED UI OBLIVION AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS HOW TO
I can't tell you exactly how to do this tweak on an ATI card, but someone helpful will certainly post this to our forums. This is the coolbits.exe for NVidia cards (Forceware): For me, it raised framerates to 19 in the hot spot I saved. Use all three numbers, check with your save game and see which setting gives you the best result. To set one of the values, go to the "advanced 3D settings" tab in your control panel for your video card (after you have installed the coolbits tweak) and enter the numbers there.
In order to get this working, you will have to switch off VSync under "Options" in the Oblivion launcher. The second tweak we will apply to your graphics card is that we will set coolbits to either 0, 1 or 2 from the standard 3. On my system, framerate on my saved spot raised from 11 to 16 with this tweak. This will degrade the image quality slightly (it's really hard to notice with higher resolutions), but in return, it should give you a boost in fps. Go to the control panel of your card, and if there is an option to change the quality of the display, set it to "high performance". Now save the game: we will have a reference point for later to check if we actually improve the framerate.Įxit the game now, and we will tune your graphics card. On my untuned system, the lowest value I got was 11fps, with grass, trees, objects and actors maxed. Walk around, find a spot with lots of grass and lots of trees, and when your framerate reaches a low, stop. Go into the forest, and watch your framerate. Now proceed through the tower on the road to Chorrol and to turn left immediately after you have left the ruin. Now type "tdt" and hit enter - a framerate counter will be shown in the top right corner of your screen. Once you arrive in Ash, bring up the console by typing "~". We will go there to find a spot with very low framerates. One thing I have learned is that on my system, Oblivion is processor limited - most of the time, it doesn't matter which resolution I use, the FPS will be exactly the same.īefore we apply the first tweaks and mods, I'd suggest that you fast travel to the Tower of Ash, which is situated between the Imperial City and Chorrol.
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After having done all the tuning proposed here, Oblivion runs with full eye candy (minus some minor things) and shows framerates between 18 (densest forest areas) and 80 (dungeons), being above 30 in about 98% of all moments in 1280x1024 with HDR on. I haven't overclocked my system at all, since my motherboard lacks the BIOS to do so. I run Oblivion on an Athlon 64 3700+ with 2 GB RAM, a Nvidia 7800GFX 256 MB and a Soundblaster X-Fi Extreme Music edition. Your mileage may vary because you use different hardware, but I think you can easily adapt the steps I show you to suit your circumstances.
I know there are guides out already - mine will differ with a step to step tutorial how to apply these tweaks and changes.īefore we begin, let me note that these tweaks, naturally, show the best results on my rig.
DARNIFIED UI OBLIVION AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS MODS
The first part will deal with performance tuning and visuals, the second one with the mods I use for tweaking the game mechanics. In these two articles, I want to show you how I optimized my gaming experience with Oblivion.
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