I have the eVGA 6800 GS on a 3.0 Pentium 4 with HyperThreading (630HT)
and 3 GB of RAM.
All hardware is at stock, and when I first ran Oblivion I let the game do its hardware detect thing and I went along with all of its suggestions for my card. As I recall this included HDR (definitely) and all three of the 'Distant View' types turned on, as well as 1024 x 768 resolution.
I'm very pleasantly surprised at how well the game plays on this setup. I had expected not to be able to run the game in such a 'pretty' fashion. I can't hardly believe that I've not seen a frame rate below 25 FPS. It makes sort of wonder if I should try to run it at 1280 resolution.
I'm using a program called Tweaper to increase the number of threads Oblivion is using, the intensity of those threads, and the amount of RAM that Oblivion has access to use. I noticed that (in Tweaper) when I turned these functions to 'ON' my area load times went wayyyyyy down in time required to load. It only changes some ini file settings, which you can do yourself as you probably know, but the author has put about 30 valuable tweaks into a simple ON/Off console. I did notice that when I turned those three functions to ON, my whole Oblivion game sped up quite a lot. I think it's at tweaper.com or tweaper.net . If you write to the author he may be willing to provide you a license key as he tests tweaper before official release. (He did so for me.)
and 3 GB of RAM.
All hardware is at stock, and when I first ran Oblivion I let the game do its hardware detect thing and I went along with all of its suggestions for my card. As I recall this included HDR (definitely) and all three of the 'Distant View' types turned on, as well as 1024 x 768 resolution.
I'm very pleasantly surprised at how well the game plays on this setup. I had expected not to be able to run the game in such a 'pretty' fashion. I can't hardly believe that I've not seen a frame rate below 25 FPS. It makes sort of wonder if I should try to run it at 1280 resolution.
I'm using a program called Tweaper to increase the number of threads Oblivion is using, the intensity of those threads, and the amount of RAM that Oblivion has access to use. I noticed that (in Tweaper) when I turned these functions to 'ON' my area load times went wayyyyyy down in time required to load. It only changes some ini file settings, which you can do yourself as you probably know, but the author has put about 30 valuable tweaks into a simple ON/Off console. I did notice that when I turned those three functions to ON, my whole Oblivion game sped up quite a lot. I think it's at tweaper.com or tweaper.net . If you write to the author he may be willing to provide you a license key as he tests tweaper before official release. (He did so for me.)
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