{"id":118,"date":"2008-03-08T09:06:20","date_gmt":"2008-03-08T09:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/linfa\/play\/2008\/03\/08\/oblivion_on_a_mac_pro\/"},"modified":"2008-03-08T09:06:20","modified_gmt":"2008-03-08T09:06:20","slug":"oblivion_on_a_mac_pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/2008\/03\/08\/oblivion_on_a_mac_pro\/","title":{"rendered":"Oblivion on a Mac Pro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<br \/>\nAfter 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 though only two out of the 8 cores are used at any given time. Spreading the load of .bsa files across two SATA drives help a lot as well.<br \/>\nFor now, I am going to leave most of my optimizations in place (except for re-enabling the flickering of candle light). With these optimizations and the new hardware, I am finally reaching framerates between 30 and 70 fps in some outdoors areas while remaining above 20 fps in some crowded city areas.<br \/>\nStill, even with the increased power, the game tends to crash a lot more if I try to play with a resolution above 1280&#215;900 pixels. And since I had to trade my ATI card by an Nvidia, I have been confronted to the ugly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tesnexus.com\/downloads\/file.php?id=11167\">Nvidia black screen bug<\/a>.<br \/>\nThe fun of troubleshooting just never ends&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/2008\/03\/08\/oblivion_on_a_mac_pro\/\">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":[28,40,43,44,47],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-elder-scrolls","tag-mods","tag-oblivion","tag-optimization","tag-play","xfolkentry","clearfix"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8frwa-1U","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","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=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}