It is possible to run Oblivion with 150+ mods and no crash to really speak of (except when I don’t let my game breathe and try to push it too fast). I know for a fact Oblivion is very sensitive to system bottlenecks. Meaning that you have to think about anything that may get in the way of Oblivion running…
Tag: Optimization
Oblivion on a Mac Pro
The game feels like a very different beast now that I had a chance to upgrade my main desktop to an 8-cores Mac Pro. After installing bootcamp and migrating my files (including my customizations of Morrowind and Oblivion), I could take the game for a drive on this new machine. Multiple cores really make a difference compared to Hyperthreading, even…
Load balancing for Oblivion
A great optimization tip picked up on the development thread of Jaga Telesin’s ORB – it is possible to spread your .bsa files across multiple hard drives. Simply create a (short name) folder on other hard-drives you may have in your machine and move heavily used .bsa files to these folders. For example, I created a : E:\TES and G:\TES…
Streamline in a nutshell
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…
System specs and performance
Here is the hardware I have to deal with: CPU: Pentium 4 with HT, 3.2 GHz, 3 Gb of RAM Video card: ATI HD 2600 AGP, 512 M of VRAM Resolution: 1280×768 in windowed mode Graphics options: HDR, Tree Canopy shadows, fixed trees LOD Oblivion installed on dedicated SATA 10,000 RPM drive I want to play with these ‘heavy’ mods:…
Optimizations
Granted.. I don’t have the latest rig available. But my P4 3GHz with HT, 3 Gb of RAM and Radeon X1600 is able to run other graphically intense games smoothly – including Call of Duty 4 or Crysis. I keep reading of people running several mods and getting framerates in the 40 to 60. The most I can get at…
Hard Drive tips for better performance with Oblivion
Hard Drive access is definitely a bottleneck for Oblivion and the cause of a lot of Crash To Desktop.. Oblivion will run smoother if you follow these tips with regards to Hard Drives. – Install it on the fastest hard drive you have (if you have more than one)Use softs like HD Tack to measure speed of your drives :…
Two performance boost tips
– Disable the background music altogether and use only sound effects. The constant loading of new MP3 files for the background music can have a serious effect on you performance depending on your system. Edit oblivion.ini file and set : bMusicEnabled=0 – Remove the Natural Vegetation part of Natural Environments, especially if used in conjunction with Unique Landscapes Mods. –…
Optimizing Oblivion
Here are a few tweaking guides for Oblivion that helped me squeeze some performance from this game: Optimizing Oblivion v3.0: Into Modblivion (atomic pc) Oblivion Tweak Guide Note: ‘over tweaking’ the oblivion.ini file can result in degraded performance. Especially if you switched to the 1.2 version of the game (either with the official patch or through Shivering Isle). If you…