How to configure Streamline 3.1 for better performance ?
Difficult question to answer since it depends on so many parameters : your CPU, memory, video card, hard drive, services running on your machine, other mods you selected. Any of these can require different adjustments to your Streamline configuration. There is no “one size fits all” set of parameters.
The only solution is really to read the instructions and try different settings for the oblivion.ini and sl.ini files.
Here are a few settings to look for in SL.ini to get you started (the values are the ones I am using):
set SLh.SLmode to 3 ; Memory Purge Mode (1-6) (Default: 3)
— to change the frequency of memory purge in your system. Increase or decrease depending on your memory or if you get stuttering.
set SLfpsmon.High to 20 ; Highest minimum FPS (top of range)
set SLfpsmon.Low to 15 ; Lowest minimum FPS (bottom of range)
— to set your desired framerate target. Streamline will try to adjust visual details to keep the framerate within these limits.
set SLv.maxVLOD to 80; Highest overall level of detail (%)
set SLv.minVLOD to 10 ; Lowest overall level of detail (%)
— to set the limits of level of details. These values ensure that level of details will not drop to 0 (10 % minimum) but will not go to the maximum either (80% maximum). You can try 100% or other values depending on your configuration.
set SLv.MinDistanceFog to 17000; Min distance before fog starts (0%)
set SLv.MaxDistanceFog to 71000; Max distance before fog ends (100%)
— change these values using the .htm document you will find in the documentation folder. You will have to edit your Oblivion.ini file manually to set two uGridDistant and uGridDistantTrees parameters. Mine are set to 12 and 12. If you look at the .htm file in the documentation folder, you will find values for min and max distance fog corresponding to uGrid values. Use these values here.
This is a basic overview of what you will have to do to tweak your Streamline. There’s a lot more SL can do to adjust to your configuration but this should get you started.