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Posted March 03, 2012
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iainmet: There is another one called Oldblivion which works great on lower spec older hardware :

http://www.oldblivion.com/index.php

Probably well worth grabbing and trying out, screen shots look promising. It makes the game run on pre DX 9 cards. Could work wonders and possibly worth a shot.

I would also grab OBMM (Oblivion Mod Manager) for installing the mods you want, makes life much easier.

Once you get your gaming rig back up and running a must have mod is Quarls Texture pack. It reskins virtually the entire game with high res textures and looks amazing (Download is around 1.5 Gb of textures!). I wouldnt try this one though with what you are running on now!
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sloganvirst: How can I get Oldblivion to work? (anything to get the framerate up) I downloaded, it said simply run the Oldblivion exe and it would work, but I have not noticed any difference at all...
I think you are to knock it down to ultra low textures and a lower resolution. It makes the game look like it is higher resolution than what it is. All I can really suggest is having a look through the forums on the Oldblivion site and the FAQ. I have never used it myself in all honesty but know people that have had success with it on older lower spec hardware.

I will dig about and see if I can find out a bit more info for you.

Maybe this thread from their boards will help you :

http://www.oldblivion.com/sm/index.php?topic=8587.0
Post edited March 03, 2012 by iainmet
Posted March 03, 2012
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iainmet: I think you are to knock it down to ultra low textures and a lower resolution. It makes the game look like it is higher resolution than what it is. All I can really suggest is having a look through the forums on the Oldblivion site and the FAQ. I have never used it myself in all honesty but know people that have had success with it on older lower spec hardware.

I will dig about and see if I can find out a bit more info for you.

Maybe this thread from their boards will help you :

http://www.oldblivion.com/sm/index.php?topic=8587.0
Interesting, that guy has almost identicle hardware as me except I am running windows natively and I have 3gb of RAM. I already have it on low textures, it looks like crap but it boosted the frame rate a litte, but how much of a difference will resolution make?
Posted March 03, 2012
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iainmet: I think you are to knock it down to ultra low textures and a lower resolution. It makes the game look like it is higher resolution than what it is. All I can really suggest is having a look through the forums on the Oldblivion site and the FAQ. I have never used it myself in all honesty but know people that have had success with it on older lower spec hardware.

I will dig about and see if I can find out a bit more info for you.

Maybe this thread from their boards will help you :

http://www.oldblivion.com/sm/index.php?topic=8587.0
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sloganvirst: Interesting, that guy has almost identicle hardware as me except I am running windows natively and I have 3gb of RAM. I already have it on low textures, it looks like crap but it boosted the frame rate a litte, but how much of a difference will resolution make?
The higher the resolution the more taxing it is on the hardware. I would try it on 640x480 or 800x600 and see how it runs
Posted March 03, 2012
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sloganvirst: Interesting, that guy has almost identicle hardware as me except I am running windows natively and I have 3gb of RAM. I already have it on low textures, it looks like crap but it boosted the frame rate a litte, but how much of a difference will resolution make?
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iainmet: The higher the resolution the more taxing it is on the hardware. I would try it on 640x480 or 800x600 and see how it runs
Well, I have it on 800x600, textures on low(actually most things on low), but I normally have the view distance for actors and tree's about half - is that a really system killer?
Posted March 03, 2012
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iainmet: The higher the resolution the more taxing it is on the hardware. I would try it on 640x480 or 800x600 and see how it runs
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sloganvirst: Well, I have it on 800x600, textures on low(actually most things on low), but I normally have the view distance for actors and tree's about half - is that a really system killer?
Yes, viewing distance can be a killer as the VGA card has to render everything in the forground, further ahead that you render the more it taxes the system. You may actually be able to up your texture quality slightly if you reduce viewing distance and actors. Keep the rendering close to your character and you should see an increase in performance.
Posted March 03, 2012
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sloganvirst: How can I get Oldblivion to work?
Are you running it on Steam? Sometimes mods on Steam games require you to rename to exe.
Posted March 03, 2012
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sloganvirst: How can I get Oldblivion to work?
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Parvateshwar: Are you running it on Steam? Sometimes mods on Steam games require you to rename to exe.
Well... sort of...

I have it on Steam, installed and all that, but I was also running it in my backup version (Steam version but I used a nocd on it so it isn't Steam dependant anymore).

What do you mean 'rename to exe.' ?

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iainmet: snip
Ok... so would it be ok if I turned almost all viewdistances down except maybe actors? I would like to see if the guards are still chasing me or not! :p
Post edited March 03, 2012 by sloganvirst
Posted March 03, 2012
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Parvateshwar: Are you running it on Steam? Sometimes mods on Steam games require you to rename to exe.
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sloganvirst: Well... sort of...

I have it on Steam, installed and all that, but I was also running it in my backup version (Steam version but I used a nocd on it so it isn't Steam dependant anymore).

What do you mean 'rename to exe.' ?

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sloganvirst: Ok... so would it be ok if I turned almost all viewdistances down except maybe actors? I would like to see if the guards are still chasing me or not! :p
Yeah, knock the landscape view distance down but leave the guards view distance the way you have it. Landscape view distance can really hammer your system
Post edited March 03, 2012 by iainmet
Posted March 03, 2012
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sloganvirst: Well... sort of...

I have it on Steam, installed and all that, but I was also running it in my backup version (Steam version but I used a nocd on it so it isn't Steam dependant anymore).

What do you mean 'rename to exe.' ?


Ok... so would it be ok if I turned almost all viewdistances down except maybe actors? I would like to see if the guards are still chasing me or not! :p
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iainmet: Yeah, knock the landscape view distance down but leave the guards view distance the way you have it. Landscape view distance can really hammer your system
Yay! Followed your advice, I was even able to put texture size up to medium and it is still smooth most of the time, it is only when there are 3 or more people fighting that it slows down, so even if there were 3 or more people on the screen unless they are fighting it stays smooth. Not sure why, but I don't really care anough to find out.

Thanks IainMet!
Posted March 03, 2012
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iainmet: Yeah, knock the landscape view distance down but leave the guards view distance the way you have it. Landscape view distance can really hammer your system
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sloganvirst: Yay! Followed your advice, I was even able to put texture size up to medium and it is still smooth most of the time, it is only when there are 3 or more people fighting that it slows down, so even if there were 3 or more people on the screen unless they are fighting it stays smooth. Not sure why, but I don't really care anough to find out.

Thanks IainMet!
Welcome mate, anytime :)

Oldblivion works wonders in the way it works its magic with the game engine.

Once you get your gaming rig back up make sure you get the Quarl texture pack I mentioned previously.
Posted March 03, 2012
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iainmet: Welcome mate, anytime :)

Oldblivion works wonders in the way it works its magic with the game engine.

Once you get your gaming rig back up make sure you get the Quarl texture pack I mentioned previously.
Yeah.. not sure that i'll get THAT machine back up in running (fried northbridge)

Do you reckon a GeForce 9600gt 512mb, 2gb DDR2 RAM, Pentium 4 3.2ghz would be enough to run it on high and maybe with that texture package?
Posted March 03, 2012
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iainmet: Welcome mate, anytime :)

Oldblivion works wonders in the way it works its magic with the game engine.

Once you get your gaming rig back up make sure you get the Quarl texture pack I mentioned previously.
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sloganvirst: Yeah.. not sure that i'll get THAT machine back up in running (fried northbridge)

Do you reckon a GeForce 9600gt 512mb, 2gb DDR2 RAM, Pentium 4 3.2ghz would be enough to run it on high and maybe with that texture package?
The requirements for that mod are higher than that unfortunately. You should have a better experience though with the standard vanilla version of the game. To give you an idea of the textures I am attaching a shot of Leyawin with Quarl in 1920x1080, had to crop image slightly due to size limitations
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Posted March 03, 2012
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sloganvirst: Yeah.. not sure that i'll get THAT machine back up in running (fried northbridge)

Do you reckon a GeForce 9600gt 512mb, 2gb DDR2 RAM, Pentium 4 3.2ghz would be enough to run it on high and maybe with that texture package?
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iainmet: The requirements for that mod are higher than that unfortunately. You should have a better experience though with the standard vanilla version of the game. To give you an idea of the textures I am attaching a shot of Leyawin with Quarl in 1920x1080, had to crop image slightly due to size limitations
Pretty demanding then.. I had a Dual Core pc before, but as I said the northbridge fried itself..

What are the requirements for that mod?
Posted March 04, 2012
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iainmet: The requirements for that mod are higher than that unfortunately. You should have a better experience though with the standard vanilla version of the game. To give you an idea of the textures I am attaching a shot of Leyawin with Quarl in 1920x1080, had to crop image slightly due to size limitations
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sloganvirst: Pretty demanding then.. I had a Dual Core pc before, but as I said the northbridge fried itself..

What are the requirements for that mod?
I believe it is 1Gb ram on the VGA card and minimum Dual Core processor, textures need more ram than anything else. You could try it by all means but may find you need to knock a few details back. Game itself came out 2006 and is DX9
Posted March 04, 2012
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sloganvirst: Pretty demanding then.. I had a Dual Core pc before, but as I said the northbridge fried itself..

What are the requirements for that mod?
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iainmet: I believe it is 1Gb ram on the VGA card and minimum Dual Core processor, textures need more ram than anything else. You could try it by all means but may find you need to knock a few details back. Game itself came out 2006 and is DX9
I also have a GeForce 9500gt that has a gig of ram.. would that be better?
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