8600M GT and Oblivion

How well will this game runs, as in estimated FPS in medium and high settings? Also, maybe with a T7300 and 2GB RAM. Vista or XP, doesn't matter?

 

Performance on XP would be better.

The game runs fine on my X1600, so I would assume it runs well on an 8600GT with medium or medium-high settings. Keep AA off and you will probably be fine.

 

It should run fine on high at 1440x900 (native for me) without AA. I get ~17 FPS outside, 25-ish in towns and 40-ish inside with a GO7700, so you'll be getting much higher. You should be able to run it at native res.

 

Well they had some other screen of other good looking games on high settings with mid AA. I can't think of one of those games but it should be able to do more than Mid settings, eh?

 

Depends on the resolution you run it at.

My desktop's 7950GT KO could run Oblivion maxed out at 1680x1050 and hold respectable frame rates even outdoors, FWIW.

 

I think at 1440x900, HDR on, 2x AA and 16x AF with medium settings should run great. But Oblivion is a poor coded game, so it may vary.

 

This means that on a 1200x800 screen with high settings, I'll be looking at a 30FPS average, which is perfect. I don't think I should upgrade to a 1680x1050 screen since I like running things at native and the FPS would probably really suffer. Thanks for all the quick replies.

 

You'll likely get more than 30 FPS avarege on a 1280x800 screen with a 8600M GT. It's like 2/3 better than min or something, so performance should bet quite a bit better. More like 30 FPS avarage on a 1440x900 screen. However, for future gaming, gogin with the low-res screen is the better choice. As games get more demanding, the 8600M GT will have a harder time keeping upp at high settings and a low native resolution will have the games looking better.

 

Sounds like you want to buy a Sager NP2090.

Rest assured, at 1280x800 you could probably max the settings and still get >30fps.

 

Lets think. My X700 scores 2400 3dmark05 points, while the 8600GT scores 6000.

I play at 1280x800, with Bloom On and medium settings with 20 fps average.

Your notebook has to play it at 1280x800, HDR On, high settings, 16x AF and 2x AA at 30 fps.

But like I said, Oblivion is a weird coded game, so you can never be sure.

 

That seems about right.

 

I played the game with 25 fps outdoors, it looked nice. But with 40 fps you can see the butterflies much better. It looks really nice. For getting 40fps avg outdoor i use 1440*900 with medium settings and almost no internal and external shadows. I do use tree company shadows. I dont use HDR, but i do use 16X AF and 2X AA. (ofcourse i use max textures and i did some tweaks in oblivion.ini)

 

Pulsar, I prefer 16x AF and 2x AA one hundred times more then HDR with no AA and no AF. Truelly, AF is amazing with Oblivion.

 

Yes, I do have my eye on the Sager NP2090. That's pretty good of you to deduce that haha.



I always wanted a laptop that can handle Oblivion, and from the looks of it, it seems I have finally found one. I think it'll be pushing it to ask that Crysis runs fairly well on medium settings at 30 FPS right now though. But I guess I'll rely on a desktop for that.

 

Well, FPS-game are more dependant on frames per second than RPG's. Oblivion is playable at 17-ish fps. Very barely, but it's playable. One thing i forgot to mention is that I OC when i game, so that gives me a few extra fps (they are already included in my first post). If you OC, you should get a nice boost in performance. Maybe just a few fps, but still noticable.

 

I probably won't OC, since I'm looking to get a 3 year warranty with my laptop, but I'm guessing I'll be fine with stock settings after reading all this. And yeah, while FPS isn't as important in RPG's as FPS games, I'm those people who really notice when the game jitters and get distracted from it.

 

But i heard the 2090 has the sucky 512mb version.

 

Asus G1S all the way! lol. just my two cents.

 

Ya really oblivion fps are more dependent on the number of monsters in the frame you are in than any setting.

The biggest problem with outdoors is the monsters are spawning and walking around in areas youre not even in. If you can sit invisible for a while you will overload any computer.

 

If by sucky you are talking gddr2, then yeah. It is the gt though and even though it wont hit the 3d06 mark that the g1s did, it shouldnt be too far off.

 

Well, I only OC when I game. Otherwise, I keep it Underclocked. And there's really no way to see if you have oc'd the card. Unless you like fry it cause you set it too high a clocks and leave it there. But you'll notice other stuff then, so it's not likely you'll keep it at those clocks.

 

In that case, I could always OC if my FPS isn't what I want it to be.

Well, that's why I'm waiting for the reviews to come out before I make a concrete decision. I'd like to know what the stock clocks are. Hopefully, Compal didn't underclock like it did with the 7600.

 

Yup. I've found that the profile system that AtiTool (works with nVidia) is quite excellent. A few other pluses are that it ahs a built in find "max clock" function and artifact scanning (artifacts appear when you've clocked to high and mean that you're system is not stable). I should note that running it at higher clocks than stock will lessen the life of your card, but keeping it at lower clocks at standard usage makes it live longer, so it evens out in the end.