Elder Scrolls IV:Oblivion running painstakingly slow

[MrCoffee]

I'm referring to playing at 1280x1024 or higher with HDR, you can't use AA and HDR in Oblivion.

ok then, well I get playable rates at 1024*768 with hdr and everything high with my apg 7800gs

 

[Ridlyn]

I do 800*600 w/ hdr, on high settings with playable framerates, on my 6800 Vanilla 16/6

 

[Nubius]

If you want to have a really good experience with Oblivion a 6800 line card will be very nice.

It'll still chew that card up and spit it out like nothing. I've got 1gb of RAM OC'd to 233MHz, a dual core currently sitting at 2.565GHz and my 6800GT OC'd to 440/1200 from stock 350/1000, that's well beyond Ultra speeds. I still can't run it maxed out. I have to run it at 1280x1024 because I'm on an LCD and 10x768 just looks nasty.

So I suppose if you were on a CRT then you could knock it down to 1024 and it'd look decent enough and you could crank some settings up.

 

[sprtnbsblplya]

I'm running at 1280x1024 with HDR and everything set on high except for shadows on grass and trees and I have the landscape draw distance scaled back just a tad on my 7600GT, and it has never shown slow frame rates.
So no, you dont require a 7800GT to enjoy HDR.

 

[Jorsoft]

It'll still chew that card up and spit it out like nothing.

I didn't mean to say that you could max it out, but you'd at least be able to run it at decent settings. I suppose I should've said atleast a Geforce 6800. The E3 demo ran on a 6800 vanilla so I figure that'd be the minimum you'd want.

 

[bonehelm]

remember oblivion at 8x6 is worthless coz its just like morrowind
if you want to get the best out of it u need at least good 50-60 frames at 10x7