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[deepfried]

Right, About 3 weeks ago i bought myself a shiny new 7600 gs 256 mb agp card.

(i wanted a 7800gt but alas none were in stock on the net that i could find lol)

anyway, I bought oblivion after checking if itd run on the microsoft game advisor.

it came in well above reccomended.

however, even if i run the game at 800x600 without lighting fx enabled ( hdr or bloom) with the shadows, effects etc at standard, the game stalls to hell as soon as i get in a fight with anything. (when outside imperial city the game just sucks

)

ive got latest forceware, which i hate as it seems worse than older releases, and my specs are as follows

pentium 4 ht socket 478 3.0ghz (oc'd at 3.5 ghz, 44c resting 55 at load)

1 gigabyte of elixer ram

7600 gs agp 256 mb

c-media 7.1 sound

ive tried the game at stock speeds, and with the card and cpu oc'd (forceware reckons i can oc the cards core from 400mhz to 600 but i dont believe this for a second)

anyone got any ideas?

 

[!TIMMY!]

Another gig of ram? Isnt Oblivion Ram hungry? I did run it on a p4 3.0 oced to 3.4, 2gb ram, 7800GS @ lowish detail 1280x1024.

 

[mVp24]

I could run oblivion on 1280x1024 with my 7600 GT xXx, Pentium D930, and 1 GB ram on high medium/high settings :| At 1680x1050 I could run at medium settings...

 

[deepfried]

Then i guess that leaves my disk.

ive not formatted for a year or so now and my disk is quite fragmented

let you knwo more when i try new things.

 

[Azreil_2]

weird i thought i already posted on here :S.

yea i'd suggest a fresh format, maybe you have driver issues or somthing else thats conflicting?

 

[deathwish]

yea the biggest improvement will be ram make sure that you don't have any ram hungry apps running in the background also get another gb of ram

 

[Sprite]

what PSU have you got ? Maybe the card isn't getting enough power ?

 

[deepfried]

550 watt, and i only have the bare minimum of drives and fans, (although temp isn't an issue)

its all very strange :\

altho its becoming apparant that oblivion is very picky about hwo your drives laid out.

also my hdd is quite old, im wondering if its simply too slow/damaged to handle the massive amount of data transfer oblivion needs?

 

[Sprite]

What mnake is the PSU and how many amps on the 12v line does it have ?

 

[deepfried]

No idea lol, but its fine fr what I have, its from my bros old pc and he never had problems using it on a more power hungry pc.

I think iv'e narrowed it down to drivers tbh.

Ill get back to you all when ive tried drivercleaner etc.

 

[deepfried]

UPDATE:

I checked my PSU manually, and it turns out the 12 volt rails been raping itself for a while now, changed to a 500 watt PSU and now the Gpu peforms much better (Y)

strange thing, even though im On a 7600gs, my pc can't play Vietcong 2 properly, anyone know of any known bugs?