{"id":107,"date":"2008-01-11T21:16:57","date_gmt":"2008-01-11T21:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/linfa\/play\/2008\/01\/11\/system_specs_and_performance\/"},"modified":"2008-01-11T21:16:57","modified_gmt":"2008-01-11T21:16:57","slug":"system_specs_and_performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/2008\/01\/11\/system_specs_and_performance\/","title":{"rendered":"System specs and performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the hardware I have to deal with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CPU: Pentium 4 with HT, 3.2 GHz, 3 Gb of RAM<\/li>\n<li>Video card: ATI HD 2600 AGP, 512 M of VRAM<\/li>\n<li>Resolution: 1280&#215;768 in windowed mode<\/li>\n<li>Graphics options: HDR, Tree Canopy shadows, fixed trees LOD<\/li>\n<li>Oblivion installed on dedicated SATA 10,000 RPM drive<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I want to play with these &#8216;heavy&#8217; mods:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Almost Everything Visible When Distant (standard version)<\/li>\n<li>Qarl Texture Pack 3 redimized <\/li>\n<li>Unique Landscapes, better Cities mods<\/li>\n<li>OOO + MMM<\/li>\n<li>Illumination Within Revived<\/li>\n<li>City Life + Cats + Dogs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>From experience, a comfortable framerate expectation is around 20 to 25 frames per seconds.<\/p>\n<p>To help absorb the load, I installed the following optimization mods :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>QuietFeetMax<\/li>\n<li>Low tri-poly grass (from RPGBlackDragon, levels s-2).<\/li>\n<li>Natural weather only (no optional Natural Environment mod, only the weather)<\/li>\n<li>Enhanced Water (low resolution)<\/li>\n<li>Texture, meshes and sound .bsa file distributed on three hard drives for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/TES\/2008\/01\/load_balancing_for_oblivion.html\" class=\"broken_link\">load balancing<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m also using a performance utility without which I would simply not be able to experience the game in the way I would like to: <\/p>\n<p>Streamline 3.1 beta (20\/15 fps target, uGrid settings for Streamsight : 12\/12)<\/p>\n<p>The results:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Anvil docks: 9 to 15 fps<\/li>\n<li>Anvil city: 10 to 25 fps<\/li>\n<li>Road from Anvil to Kvatch: 10 to 25 fps<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Close to the target framerate, a little bit on the low side. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#215;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 &#8216;heavy&#8217; mods:&hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/2008\/01\/11\/system_specs_and_performance\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[28,40,43,44],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-elder-scrolls","tag-mods","tag-oblivion","tag-optimization","xfolkentry","clearfix"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8frwa-1J","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}