NJspeed
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I found this rather easily, it's stickied on elderscrolls.com forums:
What the developers are using
In addition to the official system specs, we also know some of the machines the actual developers are using. Here is the standard set of specs used in what appears to be the "standard" dev machine, according to the German magazine GameStar:
o AMD AthlonXP 2500+ or 2600+ (Barton Core, 333MHz FSB)
o 1024MB (1GB) RAM
o ATi Radeon 9800pro, AGP with 256MB video RAM
The above settings would likely run the game at a fairly decent clip, and more importantly, if such machines are in use for development, they obviously run the games with all the settings "turned on."
Note that there are MANY different types of PC in use at the BethSoft HQ. From what I understand, the PC used to render that mind-blowing trailer used a pair of GeForce 6800 (GT or ultra) cards in SLi-mode. Also, the machines have varied processors; a dev (Steve Meister, a.k.a. MSFD) noted that Dell is the company's main supplier of PCs; he apparently works at debugging and optimizing from his computer, which is the same as the one mentioned by GameStar, except that it has a 3.0GHz Pentium 4. MSFD also stated that he still uses the same computer he had when Bloodmoon shipped, (in 2003) to code, test, and play Oblivion. It is believed that he has the following specs:
o Intel Pentium 4 3.0GHz with hyper-threading technology
o 1024MB RAM
o ATi Radeon 9800pro, AGP with 256MB video RAM
Additionally, when it comes to the question of video cards, I think we could take a look at a poll made by Pete Hines, director of PR and marketing. While sadly, the poll has been taken down, he refers to a card such as the Radeon 9800pro as "mid level" while calling a card like the Radeon X800XT or GeForce 6800GT as "the latest."
There's a lot more to read too, about AA, multithreading, running Oblivion on weaker systems, etc etc:
http://www.elderscrolls.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=251097
What the developers are using
In addition to the official system specs, we also know some of the machines the actual developers are using. Here is the standard set of specs used in what appears to be the "standard" dev machine, according to the German magazine GameStar:
o AMD AthlonXP 2500+ or 2600+ (Barton Core, 333MHz FSB)
o 1024MB (1GB) RAM
o ATi Radeon 9800pro, AGP with 256MB video RAM
The above settings would likely run the game at a fairly decent clip, and more importantly, if such machines are in use for development, they obviously run the games with all the settings "turned on."
Note that there are MANY different types of PC in use at the BethSoft HQ. From what I understand, the PC used to render that mind-blowing trailer used a pair of GeForce 6800 (GT or ultra) cards in SLi-mode. Also, the machines have varied processors; a dev (Steve Meister, a.k.a. MSFD) noted that Dell is the company's main supplier of PCs; he apparently works at debugging and optimizing from his computer, which is the same as the one mentioned by GameStar, except that it has a 3.0GHz Pentium 4. MSFD also stated that he still uses the same computer he had when Bloodmoon shipped, (in 2003) to code, test, and play Oblivion. It is believed that he has the following specs:
o Intel Pentium 4 3.0GHz with hyper-threading technology
o 1024MB RAM
o ATi Radeon 9800pro, AGP with 256MB video RAM
Additionally, when it comes to the question of video cards, I think we could take a look at a poll made by Pete Hines, director of PR and marketing. While sadly, the poll has been taken down, he refers to a card such as the Radeon 9800pro as "mid level" while calling a card like the Radeon X800XT or GeForce 6800GT as "the latest."
There's a lot more to read too, about AA, multithreading, running Oblivion on weaker systems, etc etc:
http://www.elderscrolls.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=251097
. Even if it does run sorta slow im ok, I find 20+fps tolerable, and wouldnt mind if thats how it runs on max settings. If it can only barely do 20+ on med-high settings though I will be pissed. But I doubt it.
