What kind of Hardware will Oblivion take advantage of?

[TheRyuu]

I was just wondering, what kind of new hardware (like dual core) will Elder Scrools 4: Oblivion take advantage of?
I know of this (although I don't know if its right):
Dual Core CPU's (and 1MB of L2 cache on each CPU)
512MB's of vid memory

Thats all I know, what do you know?

 

[rise]

i know what you know isn't right


it'll clearly be a taxing game but they won't make it so that 3% of the pc market can play it

dual core will be nice but the cache won't matter. and i'm not saying single cores won't play it, just that i'm sure there'll be some driver optimizations for dual cores.

5125mb graphic memory? now thats just silly.

i bet 2 gigs of system ram will be very beneficial.

 

[Malak]

Cache matters, but not the way you are thinking. 1mb-2mb of L2 is good, but less can hurt performance. That's why Celeron's suck.

 

[TheRyuu]

So would you compare the way Oblivion will run, to the way FEAR runs? (only oblivion will look better) Will it be that taxing of a game?

 

[Looney]

Oblivion would have been my killer app for the 360.

 

[Zugzwang152]

Originally posted by: Looney
Oblivion would have been my killer app for the 360.

I'd rather they do it right, then rush it out the door.


As with every other game, Oblivion will one day look like utter crap anyway.

 

[videogames101]

Your forggetting PPUs, i'm pretty sure oblivion can use them.

 

[Malak]

Originally posted by: videogames101
Your forggetting PPUs, i'm pretty sure oblivion can use them.

Yep, and a PPU upgrade could keep you from upgrading everything else to the latest and greatest. PPU's can already be taken advantage of by a handful of games, they just aren't releasing them yet until a few more games come out.

 

[hooflung]

Originally posted by: Zugzwang152

Originally posted by: Looney
Oblivion would have been my killer app for the 360.

I'd rather they do it right, then rush it out the door.


As with every other game, Oblivion will one day look like utter crap anyway.

Depends on what level you are talking about. One day, very soon, games will not be so different from real world graphics. However, the difference from Oblivion to that will have a far less signal to noise ratio that double dragon on NES has to Shenmue on dreamcast. The gap is closing between generations.