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I don't think your hardware is the problem. Many people with 7800 and 7900 series cards have reported having problems with Oblivion - check Bethesda's tech forum for Oblivion and you will see plenty of posts on the issue. There are a couple posts on this site about it as well. It seems to be ONLY Nvidia cards that are having the problem as most ATI users are reporting beautiful performance (even older cards like the 850 work flawlessly). So the general consensus is that its a compatibility problem with the game itself - hopefully it can be fixed quickly with a patch.
 
Originally posted by: imaheadcase
You wouldn't happen to have a X-Fi sound card would you? Quite a few are having issues with it in Oblivion (not to mention tons of games and systems, worst soundcard to date).
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No I don't
 
Originally posted by: Richmomz
I don't think your hardware is the problem. Many people with 7800 and 7900 series cards have reported having problems with Oblivion - check Bethesda's tech forum for Oblivion and you will see plenty of posts on the issue. There are a couple posts on this site about it as well. It seems to be ONLY Nvidia cards that are having the problem as most ATI users are reporting beautiful performance (even older cards like the 850 work flawlessly). So the general consensus is that its a compatibility problem with the game itself - hopefully it can be fixed quickly with a patch.
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Agreed, I don't know what everyone else is smoking.

CPU, shouldn't be a problem, but OC is always a good option.
RAM, 1 gig should cut it, but 2 gig is always nicer.
Video, seems your heat is rather high at idle, but that's not too bad.

It sounds more like a game issue than anything(It is a new game, and others stated that other people with roughly the same specs are having the same problems)

I laugh at the people that just bought 500 dollar video cards and complain a few months later when games don't run on ULTRA EXTREME MAX CUSTOM HIGH settings.

That being said, I just bought an X850XT a month ago for 150 bucks and I love it.
Can't get enough of Age of Empires 3!
 
Originally posted by: Richmomz
I don't think your hardware is the problem. Many people with 7800 and 7900 series cards have reported having problems with Oblivion - check Bethesda's tech forum for Oblivion and you will see plenty of posts on the issue. There are a couple posts on this site about it as well. It seems to be ONLY Nvidia cards that are having the problem as most ATI users are reporting beautiful performance (even older cards like the 850 work flawlessly). So the general consensus is that its a compatibility problem with the game itself - hopefully it can be fixed quickly with a patch.
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link??
 
Here is a link to one topic from Bethesda's forums: 7900GT owners!, what FPS are you getting??

There are many on this topic but you may need to scan through several pages as their forum is very active at the moment. You can also find a couple topics that mention it on these forums; just search for "Oblivion" in the Title and Summary segments.

It looks like most of the FPS problems crop up while running around outdoors - FPS in cities and dungeons are much better.
 
i'd check all of your other settings. just because you are playing at 1024x768 doesn't mean you can have everything on full with full AA and grass shadows. This game cranked up on full will even burden the newest gpu's.
 
i definatly think there is something wrong. my comptuer is a athlonxp 3200 with 1gig or ram and a 6800gt and it will run at 1280x1024. it only slows down when i am outside in huge open areas. i found it actually ran better at 1280(native resolution of my momitor) then 1024. i have it at pretty medium settings overall but it runs pretty good.
 
a 2 gig kit of RAM may help. but im more interested in seeing what your settings are? have you turned a lot of shadows etc on?
 
Originally posted by: Richmomz
Here is a link to one topic from Bethesda's forums: 7900GT owners!, what FPS are you getting??

There are many on this topic but you may need to scan through several pages as their forum is very active at the moment. You can also find a couple topics that mention it on these forums; just search for "Oblivion" in the Title and Summary segments.

It looks like most of the FPS problems crop up while running around outdoors - FPS in cities and dungeons are much better.
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I'm getting about 9fps indoors (i haven't even played past the dungeon you start of at because it's sooo slow). i've tried the coolbits fix, underclocking, resolution changes (640*480 with everything cranked down) up to (1680*1050 everything cranked) and still only 9fps.
 
Originally posted by: cantbprince
Check my sig.... I have no idea why it's running soo poorly.. i can play COD2 everything cranked and no problems.. and for some reason it's sooo choppy even at 1024*768 in oblivion. I don't understand. My 3dmark05 score was about 7500 (which is kinda low) i have a 7800 gt co.... At a real loss...


Directx9.0c (version 4.09.0000.0904)
ForceWare 81.98
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hey dude.

nvidia has a beta driver released specifically for oblivion. you may want to give that a try.

edit http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_downloads_winxp_2k_32bit_84.25.html
 
Originally posted by: totalcommand
Originally posted by: cantbprince
Check my sig.... I have no idea why it's running soo poorly.. i can play COD2 everything cranked and no problems.. and for some reason it's sooo choppy even at 1024*768 in oblivion. I don't understand. My 3dmark05 score was about 7500 (which is kinda low) i have a 7800 gt co.... At a real loss...


Directx9.0c (version 4.09.0000.0904)
ForceWare 81.98
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hey dude.

nvidia has a beta driver released specifically for oblivion. you may want to give that a try.

edit http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_downloads_winxp_2k_32bit_84.25.html
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Yeah... I'm running that now... And still i get the above posted result (9fps no matter what res)
 
Originally posted by: Lasthitlarry
Originally posted by: Richmomz
I don't think your hardware is the problem. Many people with 7800 and 7900 series cards have reported having problems with Oblivion - check Bethesda's tech forum for Oblivion and you will see plenty of posts on the issue. There are a couple posts on this site about it as well. It seems to be ONLY Nvidia cards that are having the problem as most ATI users are reporting beautiful performance (even older cards like the 850 work flawlessly). So the general consensus is that its a compatibility problem with the game itself - hopefully it can be fixed quickly with a patch.
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Agreed, I don't know what everyone else is smoking.

CPU, shouldn't be a problem, but OC is always a good option.
RAM, 1 gig should cut it, but 2 gig is always nicer.
Video, seems your heat is rather high at idle, but that's not too bad.

It sounds more like a game issue than anything(It is a new game, and others stated that other people with roughly the same specs are having the same problems)

I laugh at the people that just bought 500 dollar video cards and complain a few months later when games don't run on ULTRA EXTREME MAX CUSTOM HIGH settings.

That being said, I just bought an X850XT a month ago for 150 bucks and I love it.
Can't get enough of Age of Empires 3!
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Wow, kudos to this guy --^ , ive been reading through this thread and its full of generalised crap like "its your CPU" "get another gig of ram" with no explanation whatsoever.

Yes its most likely a game issue, although 3200+ A64's can be up to 3 years old (and the OP's isnt) theyre nowhere near obsolete to be enough of a bottleneck to cause "poor" framerates, also 1GB of ram is enough unless your running crazy resolutions(which the OP isnt). If you are then you will most likely know you need more ram.

Update the driver, get a patch, reinstall the game, google the problem. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: cantbprince
Originally posted by: totalcommand
Originally posted by: cantbprince
Check my sig.... I have no idea why it's running soo poorly.. i can play COD2 everything cranked and no problems.. and for some reason it's sooo choppy even at 1024*768 in oblivion. I don't understand. My 3dmark05 score was about 7500 (which is kinda low) i have a 7800 gt co.... At a real loss...


Directx9.0c (version 4.09.0000.0904)
ForceWare 81.98
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hey dude.

nvidia has a beta driver released specifically for oblivion. you may want to give that a try.

edit http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_downloads_winxp_2k_32bit_84.25.html
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Yeah... I'm running that now... And still i get the above posted result (9fps no matter what res)
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try disabling Vsync, then report back.
 
Originally posted by: Soviet
Originally posted by: Lasthitlarry
Originally posted by: Richmomz
I don't think your hardware is the problem. Many people with 7800 and 7900 series cards have reported having problems with Oblivion - check Bethesda's tech forum for Oblivion and you will see plenty of posts on the issue. There are a couple posts on this site about it as well. It seems to be ONLY Nvidia cards that are having the problem as most ATI users are reporting beautiful performance (even older cards like the 850 work flawlessly). So the general consensus is that its a compatibility problem with the game itself - hopefully it can be fixed quickly with a patch.
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Agreed, I don't know what everyone else is smoking.

CPU, shouldn't be a problem, but OC is always a good option.
RAM, 1 gig should cut it, but 2 gig is always nicer.
Video, seems your heat is rather high at idle, but that's not too bad.

It sounds more like a game issue than anything(It is a new game, and others stated that other people with roughly the same specs are having the same problems)

I laugh at the people that just bought 500 dollar video cards and complain a few months later when games don't run on ULTRA EXTREME MAX CUSTOM HIGH settings.

That being said, I just bought an X850XT a month ago for 150 bucks and I love it.
Can't get enough of Age of Empires 3!
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Wow, kudos to this guy --^ , ive been reading through this thread and its full of generalised crap like "its your CPU" "get another gig of ram" with no explanation whatsoever.

Yes its most likely a game issue, although 3200+ A64's can be up to 3 years old (and the OP's isnt) theyre nowhere near obsolete to be enough of a bottleneck to cause "poor" framerates, also 1GB of ram is enough unless your running crazy resolutions(which the OP isnt). If you are then you will most likely know you need more ram.

Update the driver, get a patch, reinstall the game, google the problem. 🙂
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Originally posted by: fisher
run the game and check your memory usage in the task manager and see if it's maxing out. you might need more ram.
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not sure how that is "no explanation whatsoever". i'm running bf2 at 1280x1024 and it definately eats up more than 1gb of ram. this is a different game yes, but it was worth checking out, which is why i told him to check the task manager and see for sure.
 
I remedied this problem by uninstalling all my video drivers, booting into safe mode use driver cleaner and flush out all video drivers (both Nvidia and Ati...had an ATI card before) rebooted in normal mode and re-installed the lastest video drivers.
 
didn't read all the posts inbetween but..
1. your gpu can't handle oblivion with aa/af on, nor could the 7900gt
2. weak cpu
3. 2 x 1gb ram
4. your gpu can't handle games at high res in the 2005fpw (esp with aa/af on)

thats why your picture quality and gaming exp is so bad
 
Originally posted by: LOUISSSSS
didn't read all the posts inbetween but..
1. your gpu can't handle oblivion with aa/af on, nor could the 7900gt
2. weak cpu
3. 2 x 1gb ram
4. your gpu can't handle games at high res in the 2005fpw (esp with aa/af on)

thats why your picture quality and gaming exp is so bad
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Someone needs to learn to read. He's fixed the problem.
 
I run Oblivion at 1280*1024 with 2xAA and no shadows and no long distance effects. It performs quite decently on my system which is a 3000+ on a 6600 with 2gigs of ram.
 
Originally posted by: Richmomz
I don't think your hardware is the problem. Many people with 7800 and 7900 series cards have reported having problems with Oblivion - check Bethesda's tech forum for Oblivion and you will see plenty of posts on the issue.
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Runs great with my 7800GT Extreme card even at 1600x1200 res,yes I do have 2 GB of ram,I would say more ram might help in your case and reduce shadowing until then.
 
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