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Those who play Oblivion on nice hardware (7800/x1800)

checkout IGN dude.
IMO, I dont find the graphics amazing (7800gtx sli, 1680x1050, 4XAA)
Highly average. Far cry is 3x better...
 
i have a 7900gt superclock. the game looks just like it does on bethesda's website. it runs a little more clunky than i would like/expect. i think patches will fix this..but even 20-80fps is playable. id show u some fraps shots...but there really isnt a point. it looks very good. the only bad things are 1...if selfshadows are on npc's look like they got beards....turn em off...they still cast shadows on the ground and hdr lights and darken their faces...but the beards go away LoL. and 2....in the distance the far away textures....look horrid...can fix this by editing the .ini files..and it really doesnt slow the comp down to do it. if you are buying a game just for graphics..you shouldnt buy it anyway. this is an awesome game to play, id play it even if it looked like ******.
 
Originally posted by: Gomce
checkout IGN dude.
IMO, I dont find the graphics amazing (7800gtx sli, 1680x1050, 4XAA)
Highly average. Far cry is 3x better...
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farcry is not better /slap

edit: your also not playing with HDR ...... farcry looks alot worse =P but it runs fast. They should have done more optimization for PC hardware to make it run better.
 
I have a X1800XT512 and i run the game @ 1600 x 1200 and in the outdoor areas it runs like shite. I'll take some shots for you later. Im thinking of returning this game anyway, it plays & looks like a console game.
 
Originally posted by: Dkcode
I have a X1800XT512 and i run the game @ 1600 x 1200 and in the outdoor areas it runs like shite. I'll take some shots for you later. Im thinking of returning this game anyway, it plays & looks like a console game.
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um it is a console game... the 360 was written first the PC is the port =p
and its amazing on 360.. just small stutters when it loads a new area.
 
Thats the problem, at least for a hardcore PC gamer. It plays on the PC not the way it was intended to be played, the previous titles was developed on the pc to be played on the pc and it worked well and all was good. This time they have (from a good buisness point of view, and is the case with big developers these days) taken the console route and the PC version suffers for it. Consoles are where the money is, i can accept that, but i dont give a toss about the money, i only care for good PC games and this aint one.

If they had taken 2 months or some extra time and optimized the graphics engine & changed the interface a little to suit the keyboard and mouse i would have said "yeah this aint to bad of a game"
The funny thing is, today while picking up oblivion from my store, i picked up operation flashpoint for a fiver. This 5 year old game with half life standard graphics, to me, far exceeds a so called "next generation" game.
It seems to me if you want good old pc hardcore'ism, Indie games will be the only way to go.
 
Is there a downloadable demo available?

The screenshots aren't particularly impressive of the outdoor scenes. The long drawing is reminscent of Dagoth Moor Zoological Gardens and that's SEVEN years old! :shocked:

Polygon count for the win folks.
 
screenshot22.jpg looks quite naughty....😛

from all the shots of the game ive seen, i know that "tiled" pattern of the terrain in the distance would get on my nerves. seems like it would really take away from the immersion. admittedly, i dont own the game, so thats just an assumption on my part.
 
I've never done more than watch Farcry over someone else's shoulder, but imo the lighting always looked very unrealistic to me.

Oblivion's graphics are incredible, that's all I can say. Easily the best looking game I have ever played, including WoW, which I also give very high marks to.
 
Originally posted by: Markbnj
I've never done more than watch Farcry over someone else's shoulder, but imo the lighting always looked very unrealistic to me.

Oblivion's graphics are incredible, that's all I can say. Easily the best looking game I have ever played, including WoW, which I also give very high marks to.
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wow?
low polys, small textures, no effects kind of game, graphicly speaking its a few years behind farcry and oblivion, its just that wow has an awsome style 🙂

 
Originally posted by: Arkane13131
Originally posted by: Gomce
checkout IGN dude.
IMO, I dont find the graphics amazing (7800gtx sli, 1680x1050, 4XAA)
Highly average. Far cry is 3x better...
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farcry is not better /slap

edit: your also not playing with HDR ...... farcry looks alot worse =P but it runs fast. They should have done more optimization for PC hardware to make it run better.
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FARCRY IS better. Not by ALOT but it is better. Played both with HDR and features up.

oblivion is not running particularly well on my spec, but its fun.


 
You cant see what the "gameplay" is like with screen shots.
You would need to see a video.
And unless you make that video at 1600x1200, you still wont know for sure.

I do have a 7800GT and I could show some shots when I get off work.

TO MR Dkcode:
Turn off the grass. Move the slider all the way to the left.
In outdoor areas that is the biggest performance hit. It is also the least appealing visual. And it hides sh1t on the ground.
(I also agree that it was poor planning to design it for the console and then port to PC.)
 
Originally posted by: Czar
Originally posted by: Markbnj
I've never done more than watch Farcry over someone else's shoulder, but imo the lighting always looked very unrealistic to me.

Oblivion's graphics are incredible, that's all I can say. Easily the best looking game I have ever played, including WoW, which I also give very high marks to.
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wow?
low polys, small textures, no effects kind of game, graphicly speaking its a few years behind farcry and oblivion, its just that wow has an awsome style 🙂
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Exactly
 
My .02...

-Oblivion looks better than any other game presently available for PC (or rather, can look... That's my only problem with the game, as countless others have mentioned, it's poorly optimized for the PC).
-I'm one of those people who hates consoles because of their effect on PC Gaming, but this game is just too good to let it go because of a little console-itis.
 
its just that wow has an awsome style
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Precisely true. Is this thread about which game uses the most technical tricks? Or is it about which game looks better? The Blizzard guys outdid what most teams can do even using more restrictive gpu feature sets, and not by a small margin either.

In any case, nobody can say with any credibility that Oblivion's graphics aren't impressive 🙂.
 
 
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