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    Performance fixes for Oblivion?

    Just wondering, does anybody know of any performance fixes, so to speak, for Oblivion? I know there are tweakguides and the like, but that's not what I'm after. It performs horribly, and whilst I'm running at max settings, it's a pretty old game, and I'm using a Q9550, 8GB of RAM and a 5870.

    For the sake of certainty, I've just run Oblivion in 640x480, with everything set to minimum, and got an average framerate of about 100 fps. Even better, it still suffers from slowdowns, dropping to 16 fps at one point with major, noticeable lag.

    No other game I play has this problem, only Oblivion. So are there any easy fixes, so to speak? Searching google just tends to turn up people having trouble running it on 7600 cards, which is a whole different ballgame.

    I posted a similar thread a while back, but that turned out to be more of an early bug with New Vegas than anything else.

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    Re: Performance fixes for Oblivion?

    Something way wrong with your drivers I expect. Oblivion should absolutely fly with that card. Try renaming the exe to something else in case a profile is messed up.

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    Re: Performance fixes for Oblivion?

    Have you patched it up to latest build? You should be getting much more out of it than that. I know there is also an issue with quad core and this game, try starting it up then alt tab out when on title screen and open task manager, then in processes find the Oblivion exe file and right click, then select processor affinity, leave two CPU's with the tick in the box and untick the others then ok it. Then alt tab back into the game and see what you get when you start.

    Then theres the Tweakguide which you already mentioned :

    http://www.tweakguides.com/Oblivion_1.html

    I would try the affinity first and foremost though.

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    Re: Performance fixes for Oblivion?

    I've already tried the affinity, didn't make a blind bit of difference. It's on Steam as well, so definitely all patched up properly.

    Will give the driver trick a go later on.

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    Re: Performance fixes for Oblivion?

    Have you tried changing the exe to XP compatability mode, may be worth a shot. Looking about online I have also came across posts that mention add in soundcards can occasionally cause a problem.

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    Re: Performance fixes for Oblivion?

    This might help

    I remember reading a while ago that if your card isn't one that's on the auto-detect list, it often gets the settings wrong, hence the performance issues.

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    Re: Performance fixes for Oblivion?

    Quote Originally Posted by kalniel View Post
    Something way wrong with your drivers I expect. Oblivion should absolutely fly with that card. Try renaming the exe to something else in case a profile is messed up.
    Quote Originally Posted by Ferral View Post
    Have you patched it up to latest build? You should be getting much more out of it than that. I know there is also an issue with quad core and this game, try starting it up then alt tab out when on title screen and open task manager, then in processes find the Oblivion exe file and right click, then select processor affinity, leave two CPU's with the tick in the box and untick the others then ok it. Then alt tab back into the game and see what you get when you start.

    Then theres the Tweakguide which you already mentioned :

    http://www.tweakguides.com/Oblivion_1.html

    I would try the affinity first and foremost though.
    Quote Originally Posted by Ferral View Post
    Have you tried changing the exe to XP compatability mode, may be worth a shot. Looking about online I have also came across posts that mention add in soundcards can occasionally cause a problem.
    Quote Originally Posted by Lucio View Post
    This might help

    I remember reading a while ago that if your card isn't one that's on the auto-detect list, it often gets the settings wrong, hence the performance issues.
    Right, still pretty stuck with this.

    I have tried Lucio's trick, no luck. Have also tried Ferral's advice, even tried disabling sound altogether, still no change. Done Ferral's other advice, no change there either.

    And re: drivers, I've just reinstalled Windows, this is on a completely clean install so still no explanation.

    Where on earth do I go from here? It's ridiculous at the moment, 20 fps is a joke from this machine!

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    Re: Performance fixes for Oblivion?

    You could try the unofficial oblivion patch, contains various fixes and performance improvements. Though your rig really should run it without issues.

    http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=5296

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    Re: Performance fixes for Oblivion?

    Yep, done that too - and Streamline as well.

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    Re: Performance fixes for Oblivion?

    have you tried changing the graphics settings for the game? some games will work well if anti-alisasing is disabled or v-sync for example (tried running it in a window rather than full screen?)

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    Re: Performance fixes for Oblivion?

    As I said in the first post, I tried running it at 640x480 with everything at minimum :/

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