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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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Here is the hardware I have to deal with:CPU: Pentium 4 with HT, 3.2 GHz, 3 Gb of RAMVideo card: ATI HD 2600 AGP, 512 M of VRAMResolution: 1280x768 in windowed modeGraphics options: HDR, Tree Canopy shadows, fixed trees LODOblivion installed on... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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- 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 : ... Read more
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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 GuideNote: 'over tweaking' the oblivion.ini file can result in degraded... Read more
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