Dissapointment in performance...

[madog]

I do meet minimum requirements. But, right from the beginning it is laggy as hell. I turned everything down as low as it could go and still I lag like crazy. I'm getting like 5-10 fps when I'm in the jail cell and pretty much throughout the entire game. I've done everything I can to help make it run faster. Downloading the new driver, defragging, lowered everything, etc. but the game just still won't play at a normal pace! Not to mention it already looks shitty as hell from all the lowering. I'm debating if I should take it back now or wait and hope for something to happen. ;(

 

[phantomdesign]

http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=102956

 

[madog]

http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=102956

He can at least play the game alright. He is complaining about outdoor scenes being 19-25 fps when my indoor scene don't even get that much.

 

[OmegaX]

Well, what are your system specs? If they just meet the minium requirments don't expect it to run very well at all.

 

[madog]

512mb ram
2.8 GHz processor
Video card: Nvidia GeForce FX 5200
I don't meet the recommmended requirement but I do mee the minimum. Thing that pisses me off though is that I have EVERYTHING as low as it can be and the game still lags like a bitch. I guess it just wasn't meant to be. I'm taking it back ASAP.

 

[Shakermaker]

512mb ram
2.8 GHz processor
Video card: Nvidia GeForce FX 5200
I don't meet the recommmended requirement but I do mee the minimum. Thing that pisses me off though is that I have EVERYTHING as low as it can be and the game still lags like a bitch. I guess it just wasn't meant to be. I'm taking it back ASAP.

Dude, u need an upgrade. Buy at least 512MB of RAM with the money you get back from Oblivion and start saving money for a new vid card. The FX5200 was nVidia's budget card 2 generations ago. U need at least a 6200.

 

[DESSTROYER]

i cant freaking play this game on medium settings on outdoor areas. i get about 5-10 fps in battling outdoors.

system specs:

3gb of system ram

intel pentium D 3.0ghz processor

windows XP pro 64 bit

Nvida geforce 6600 256 MB

running at 1280 x 960

and i get this crappy performance...

 

[Qonfused]

Turn down your resolution some, man. Your system is great up until the video card.

 

[Lemonking]

Dude, u need an upgrade. Buy at least 512MB of RAM with the money you get back from Oblivion and start saving money for a new vid card. The FX5200 was nVidia's budget card 2 generations ago. U need at least a 6200.

like totaly,even 1gig aint enough,Im really want 2 order a another gig,but I just orderd 8meg cable internet...so I aint sure If I will do that.

 

[DESSTROYER]

Turn down your resolution some, man. Your system is great up until the video card.

my monitor is a 1920 x 1440, so it looks really fugely any lower than that. and it still lags at 1024 X 768

 

[Glirk Dient]

Minimum specs means minimum to run it, not run it well

So STFU you can't expect to play the most graphically demanding and visually appealing game to date and complain that it doesn't run perfectly on a 5 year old comp.

 

[madog]

Minimum specs means minimum to run it, not run it well

So STFU you can't expect to play the most graphically demanding and visually appealing game to date and complain that it doesn't run perfectly on a 5 year old comp.

eh more like 3 and a half. anyway im just playing my little bros 360 version and taking back the pc one. maybe one day i will obtain a computer good enough. Until then, I am not worthy of your glory, Oblivion. Goodbye

 

[destrukt]

i'm actually pleased with my performance.

- xp 2500 @ 2.035ghz - i'm going to bump it up to 2.2ghz, i should get a nice little extra bit of performance.
- geil 2x512mb ddr 400 in dual channel.
- asus 6800 gt 128mb agp [slightly overclocked] - 84.25 beta.

i run it @ 1024x768 on 'high' and it's basically perfectly smooth indoors and outdoors and it looks great (except for textures @ a distance).

i do get crashes 'kind of often' (anywhere between 5mins and 1hour) and it can be annoying.


i can't believe you people expect to play it on your aging systems (mine is like 2 years old, but i'm lucky it runs well), it reminds me of how people complain about vista using more memory; new versions of windows have been requiring more ram every version, just like with games & software.

 

[Steel.Inferno]

Too bad they didn't make it scale properly for people who can't afford the latest. I'd rather not spend the money to get a mobo that can get more RAM so I can pay for more RAM. I think I'll get it over the summer when I can use a better PC for a few weeks.

Maybe they should've taken a gander at Valve's survey results and noted the MASSIVE amount of gamers that have under a gig and optimized a bit better.


Hopefully some low-end custom configs will be made shortly.

@Above, of course we expect to be able to run it. I can run easily every game I've got with atleast 30fps, and according to people even with better comps than mine Oblivion is almost unplayable.

 

[madog]

Too bad they didn't make it scale properly for people who can't afford the latest. I'd rather not spend the money to get a mobo that can get more RAM so I can pay for more RAM. I think I'll get it over the summer when I can use a better PC for a few weeks.

Maybe they should've taken a gander at Valve's survey results and noted the MASSIVE amount of gamers that have under a gig and optimized a bit better.


Hopefully some low-end custom configs will be made shortly.

@Above, of course we expect to be able to run it. I can run easily every game I've got with atleast 30fps, and according to people even with better comps than mine Oblivion is almost unplayable.

Ya, this game is the first game I will not be able to play on my comp. I was able to run doom 3 just fine. This looks very similar yet I can not run it on the crappiest settings there is. PErhaps it was just too powerful.

 

[Narcolepsy]

Your card is the lowest end of the GeForce FX Series. The FX series in itself was a joke - it's built around Pixel Shader 1.4, which is pretty much your grandma's technology. Nowadays, all the cool kids are tossing around fancy words like HDR and diffraction and refraction and all kinds of other stuff that I don't know much about. Oblivion was built around this kind of technology, which uses Pixel Shader 2. But because your card only supports PS 2 (and that only as a tacked on afterthough), you should be thanking the stars that it even runs in the first place.

Do you by any chance remember the terrible performance in HL2 with a GeForce FX card? Valve had to revert to DX8 mode because these cards simply couldn't cut it in DX9. Oblivion runs in DX9, so your card is screwed.

 

[madog]

Your card is the lowest end of the GeForce FX Series. The FX series in itself was a joke - it's built around Pixel Shader 1.4, which is pretty much your grandma's technology. Nowadays, all the cool kids are tossing around fancy words like HDR and diffraction and refraction and all kinds of other stuff that I don't know much about. Oblivion was built around this kind of technology, which uses Pixel Shader 2. But because your card only supports PS 2 (and that only as a tacked on afterthough), you should be thanking the stars that it even runs in the first place.

Do you by any chance remember the terrible performance in HL2 with a GeForce FX card? Valve had to revert to DX8 mode because these cards simply couldn't cut it in DX9. Oblivion runs in DX9, so your card is screwed.

Thank you for your help. I think I may reconsider keeping the game and spend a couple hundred to get the newest GeForce. I've seen many threads of FX users complaining now so it seems the problem is my shitty card and not my 512 mb of ram. Though a gig would be nice. Processor is probably fine at 2.8 GHz

 

[Narcolepsy]

Thank you for your help. I think I may reconsider keeping the game and spend a couple hundred to get the newest GeForce. I've seen many threads of FX users complaining now so it seems the problem is my shitty card and not my 512 mb of ram. Though a gig would be nice. Processor is probably fine at 2.8 GHz

Yeah, 512 RAM isn't helping anything, but your main bottleneck here is the graphics card. It really is a piece of junk in today's market.

 

[Llama]

Mines is a 9550SE 128mb, I know its absolute crap but its at least DX 9. Will my system (9550, 512 RAM, 2.8 Pentium 4) run as badly as his?

 

[Lucid]

Do you by any chance remember the terrible performance in HL2 with a GeForce FX card? Valve had to revert to DX8 mode because these cards simply couldn't cut it in DX9. Oblivion runs in DX9, so your card is screwed.

Funny, I never had a single problem with HL2... and I got it way back in November of 2004.
I can play most games of today just fine and my system's nearly identical to madog's.

 

[DESSTROYER]

what ever happened to the "supposedly" nvidia driver that was optimized for oblivion?

 

[destrukt]

what ever happened to the "supposedly" nvidia driver that was optimized for oblivion?

84.25, which is out ?