180fps on Oblivion with a 7900gs?

[BlindMelon7]

As some of you already know I just built a computer for my brother consisting of an Asus M2N-E, an XFX 7900gs, an AM2 3200+ and a few other bits. I installed Oblivion on it and put all the settings up to full with a resolution of 1280x1024 just for giggles. I started playing and I was very suprised to see that I was getting anything from about 80fps to 180fps . After looking closely I realised that the resolution had, infact, not changed. It was still on 800x600 or something. Try as I might I cant seem to get it to change. What have I done?

[BlindMelon7]

Looks like its happening with all games. Very strange. Can anyone help me?

[nvening]

You have the latest drivers right and it was a new format on the hard drive right?

[Clunk]

drivers? have you got the desktop resolution set low for some reason?

edit: beat me to it.

[BlindMelon7]

Yep, all the drivers are there (well, the ones that were on the cd) and the desktop is set to 1280x1024. Sould I try and download new drivers for the graphics card?

[nvening]

Always start with the new drivers so yes

[BlindMelon7]

Awww, does anyone know what the product code for mine is? I REALY cant be bothered to take the damn computer apart.

Edit: This is the card. http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Produ...oductID=465243

Edit: Ignore that. I found it. Downloading now.

[shaithis]

Do you have a second display connected?

I have noticed that games only present you a list of resolutions valid for the primary display.....sometimes the displays can get reversed....so if you have a 800x600 screen (probably a TV) connected to the second port, you may need to swap the connectors around.

[SpawnofSonic]

I have a XFX 7900gs 512Mb and oblivion will barely running on my AMD S939 3000 XP 64 using an Abit AV8-3rd Eye board, any one got anythoughts on that as were on it

[BlindMelon7]

Do you have a second display connected?

I have noticed that games only present you a list of resolutions valid for the primary display.....sometimes the displays can get reversed....so if you have a 800x600 screen (probably a TV) connected to the second port, you may need to swap the connectors around.

I dont have a second display atm but I will have soon so that is very usefull advice

I have a XFX 7900gs 512Mb and oblivion will barely running on my AMD S939 3000 XP 64 using an Abit AV8-3rd Eye board, any one got anythoughts on that as were on it

Do you mean it will only run on low graphics settings or it wont run at all? If it doesn't run at all it is more likely to be software related.

[Blitzen]

I have a XFX 7900gs 512Mb and oblivion will barely running on my AMD S939 3000 XP 64 using an Abit AV8-3rd Eye board, any one got anythoughts on that as were on it

You have definitely got a p[roblem on that somewhere then.
My specs are around yours (even though i have LGA775 overclocked) and Oblivion runs beautifully with decent frame rates.

[BlindMelon7]

Okay, I installed the drivers and it still doesn't work *sob*. The only reason I care is that if it doesn't work properly by brother will taking it apart to fix it (we all know where that leads). Any other ideas?