The Oblivion Thread vol. II

[Imran Siddiqui]

Fast travel is great for things like that .

[Skanky Burns]

Someone asked for low-quality screenshots before. These are with all settings turned off or put to the lowest setting possible.

The pictures were all taken in the market district of the capital, if someone wants to take screenshots of higher quality in the same area for comparison purposes.

[Skanky Burns]

The road in town.

[Skanky Burns]

And inside some random building. The inn, I think.

[Nostromo]

The road in town.

It looks a bit like water

[Skanky Burns]

Lets try that again.

[Nostromo]

Poor thing. Do you want us to send you money for a new video card?

[Skanky Burns]

[Dis]

it doesn't even look like the same game I'm playing.

[snoopy369]

Originally posted by Kassiopeia
Haha.

Spoiler:

I didn't want to part with my uber armour and weapons and all my cash, so I just flat out refused when asked and started hacking away at everybody there and then.

I wonder if you can permanently join the Cult and suddenly turn to Daedric worship? Would you get a quest from Dagon to kill Martin? Hmmm.

Spoiler:

Well, I didn't even get a chance to do that ... I was on Sneak, saw a mythic dawn guy, thought "hmm, a nice arrow through his throat at 3x damage would be helpful here...", killed him in one shot, and then proceded to take my friendly Daedroth on a tour of the facilities. Hadn't found anything that a daedroth (or two, sometimes) couldn't handle, until now, where some dread zombies apparently can kill a daedroth if there are two of them ...

[snoopy369]

Originally posted by Spaced Cowboy


I'm basically looking for a card that will help my pc limp through the next year or so. I have a 9800pro now and a mobo that won't take nvidia. So I don't actually mind spending more for it, I do want to see an improvement. Oh and I'm stuck with APG. (wishes the 7800GS would work in my system...the easy choice).

I'm confused ... you want a card just for the year, but you don't worry about the money? Getting mixed signals here...

Basically, assuming you care at least a bit about money, i'd argue that anything with SM 3.0 is going to be fine for this year. X1600Pro is better than the X1300, though X1300 plays Oblivion fine. If you don't think you're going to play anything "worse" than Oblivion, get whichever (1300 or 1600) that you wish; 1300 will be a few tens of dollars cheaper ($100ish vs $150ish), but 1600 is somewhat better (12 vs 4 pixel pipelines, though iirc a pretty similar GPU overall).

Actually, it looks like if you go Sapphire, you can get an X1600 Pro for $129 ... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814102653

That's a great card, and I'd think should be more than adequate for the next year or more.

[snoopy369]

Originally posted by Dis
it doesn't even look like the same game I'm playing.

Actually, it's mostly the small -> large textures. I know, because I tried turning the textures down to small for a bit

Spoiler:

During the garridan's tears campaign, where I couldn't find the last tear for the life of me. Found it eventually, doing the tried and true "look where the cursor turns into a hand" approach ...

and it looked an awful lot like Skanky describes (not quite as bad, but a lot of similarities). You couldn't read the signs, and the road looked like cr@#$%.

[Skanky Burns]

There is a thread specifically for Oblivion hardware.

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=150478

[Sandman]

Posted without reading the thread(s).

Got the game. It runs alright on my PC (better than Morrowind did on my last machine). Not wonderful or anything, though. Horses and forests can be a bit painful.

My first instinct is that it's essentially Morrowind with spoken dialogue and ragdoll physics. Not a bad thing. Although the kamikaze wolves are annoying. Cautious pack hunters, they ain't.

I chose a custom character this time around - unlike Morrowind where I went for the pre-programmed characters. My templar is basically a slightly modified knight/crusader. I can see myself sticking with him, he's pretty good.

I'm trying to do a bit of serious role-playing - I bought/'borrowed' a set of normal clothes for city intrigue type missions. It felt a bit stupid to be clanking around in Blades armour when I'm supposed to be incognito. Oh, and I try to avoid NPCs catching me in my underwear. Not that they care. I might even try to get a robe for mage missions (I had a magic disease resistant one, but sold it).

In addition to that, I found a nice amulet of water-walking and a dagger with a fatigue draining effect (which I equip for afore-mentioned intrigue missions).

The police force is stupidly zealous. I accidentally picked up a radish (worth one gold). The innkeeper didn't seem to care, but a soldier burst into the inn and tried to haul me off to the castle. For stealing a radish. However, you can swipe things from boxes in market squares and no-one gives a damn.

Interface: Unusually, I have some sympathy with the PC uber alles types. It is clunky. The sliders are infuriating, for example. And I would have put that radish back, but I didn't fancy digging through my inventory for it.

[Solver]

Skanky, that looks quite similar to what I had when I started, but I did then tweak some settings to make it look marginally better.

And turn the texture size down to get rid of that thing that's covering the road there...