Oblivion: New LOD textures!!!

[43st]

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[potato28]

Hawt.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Does this take a bad performance hit?

 

[secretanchitman]

i like the MIBII reference, hehe...but damn, the new hotness looks a lot better!

 

[rise]

i'm going to trey this but i wonder if i need to re-do the .ini tweaks like grids to load?

 

[Painman]

:Q :Q

This looks a LOT better... I think it's a keeper.

 

[BW86]

Originally posted by: Painman
:Q :Q

This looks a LOT better... I think it's a keeper.

any performance hit?

 

[potato28]

Originally posted by: BW86

Originally posted by: Painman
:Q :Q

This looks a LOT better... I think it's a keeper.

any performance hit?

Ull lose about... 1fps.

 

[Schadenfroh]

I dont have an Oblivion\Data\textures\ folder..........

 

[BW86]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
I dont have an Oblivion\Data\textures\ folder..........

me neither...

 

[Painman]

Originally posted by: BW86

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
I dont have an Oblivion\Data\textures\ folder..........

me neither...

Extract the archive to Oblivion\Data using folders, it'll make a \Textures folder containing the textures.

 

[igowerf]

Very cool. It doesn't matter if you don't have the folders. Just extract the files to where they're supposed to be. It works great for me. Looking back towards the city from the waterfront always bothered me because half of the hills would be really low res. Now it looks great.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: Painman

Originally posted by: BW86

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
I dont have an Oblivion\Data\textures\ folder..........

me neither...

Extract the archive to Oblivion\Data using folders, it'll make a \Textures folder containing the textures.

So... the game just sees that texture folder and over takes the defaults? No ini edits?

 

[Painman]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
So... the game just sees that texture folder and over takes the defaults? No ini edits?

You got it

 

[TerryMathews]

I have a feeling this game is going to be ubermoddable.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: TerryMathews
I have a feeling this game is going to be ubermoddable.

You never played morrowind, did you?

 

[professor1942]

This makes a big difference... highly recommended

 

[rise]

definitely.

i have a question though. now another guy is releasing some mod for distant shadows. do they all go into the same, newly created folder- oblivion.data.texture etc... or does each get their own texture folder?

 

[Schadenfroh]

Works great and no FPS hit either!

A must have mod.

 

[Zebo]

Works Great!

Hey guys one more MOD I found at elder scrolls forums you should really try for a more PC centric experiance is this RAR ...way less scrolling inside menus and better maps!!!!

Place "menus" folder in C:\Program Files\Bethesda Softworks\Oblivion\Data

Details inside RTF file ... here is PIC

 

[Drift3r]

I got the lod fix mod and it works great but guys try out the "More Climate Sky Mod". This adds more sky maps to the already great skys you see in this game.

Download from this link
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Modding Sites Galore !

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[flashbacck]

I don't get it. How can there be minimal performance hit if you're quadrupling the texture size?

 

[boran]

Because a few2048x2048 textures are nothing compared to the rest.

 

[43st]

Originally posted by: flashbacck
I don't get it. How can there be minimal performance hit if you're quadrupling the texture size?

I think the original blurry LOD textures were legacy due to the Xbox 360. Since we're on a PC, with better hardware we can load and run these larger textures without much issue. It was probably a conscience design decision to keep the Xbox and PC version as similar as possible, it would also reduce design resources within the company to co-develop like that.

I'm just happy some of these mods are coming out. I'm not much for messing with the game but this, in my opinion, is essential.

 

[LiekOMG]

Originally posted by: flashbacck
I don't get it. How can there be minimal performance hit if you're quadrupling the texture size?

As long as you have enough texture memory (256mb should be more than enough), then there shouldn't really be a performance hit at all.