Can anyone tell me how my system might run Oblivion?

My system specs are in my sig. I meet all of the recomended system settings. Would I be able to run the game and have it look just a little bit lower than it does on the 360 and get a steady (around 30) FPS?

 

6800go doubt it.
your system will be pinned to get the game loaded.

correct me if I am wrong but I think you need a new video card(no upgrade for laptop) to compair to a 360...

 

... Go 6800..... are you kidding. It would kill your computer, then bring it back to life, then kill it again.

 

i agree a 6800 go hasnt got a chance in hell of running oblivion i reckon to play on reasonbly high you want a 7900 go

 

it should play oblivion on mid settings, though certainly not to the level of the xbox.

 

It won't be pretty, and I mean that in several ways. Try a demo if possible before you shell out $50 for it.

 

What's with all the hostility? The Go6800 is a good card. It won't run Oblivion like the Xbox 360, after all, it's an old card now. But it will run it pretty well.

 

The 6800Go was a great card for its time. Here are some posts praising it...until you search for the word "Oblivion".

 

go 6800 would run oblivion better than the x1600 a lot of people have and much better than the x1400.

It would run it better than a 7700 go in certain settings because it has 256 bit bus.

it would run it at near max settings in an xbox resolution which is around xga

 

That's misinformation; the Go6800 is a fast card, and has more processing power than today's Go7600/X1600

HavoK and a few other posters are right. Your system won't have any trouble running Oblivion and it should look quite nice.

 

The meaning of "recommended requirments" for PC games is so frustratingly arbitrary.

Meeting the recommended requirments for FEAR allowed me to play the game with the majority of the settings on high (The paralaxed mapped textures and lighting that make the game so beautiful were present, but the resolution was only 1024x800 and FPS jumped around between 25 to 60 with 30 something being the average, no soft shadows). My friend's Desktop just meets all of STALKER's recommended specs (although he actually has 2x the recommended RAM) and he runs the game at a good FPS (I'm guessing average FPS is 30 something) with only a few of the settings below their highest setting.

I meet all of Oblivion's recommended settings and, from what you guys are telling me, I'm either gonna have to choose between a terrible FPS and mediocre graphics or terrible graphics and a mediocre framerate.

I wish that there was some kind of standard for what the specs listed on the back of a game mean. If a system that meets recommended requirments of a game and can't play that game with medium high settings and have an average fps above 30, then they shouldn't list those as the recommended settings.

 

Many of the posters on the previous page were mistaken; read the last half or so of posts and you'll see that you won't have to settle for either of those options.

 

xbox 360's max game resolution is 1280x720, anything else is scaled from that res.
I've played my laptop at the same time as someone playing the xbox360, both of us playing oblivion, and everyone agreed, the laptop looked better!
I get about 25fps average with maximum settings, except no AA, just hdr. on my x1600 laptop. I have never owned a 6800, but I have owned an AGP 6600GT, which hardly runs the game at all in even the lowest settings! but that's probebly got to do with it's OLD 1.2GHz AMD

Since you have a 3GHz P4, I think you'll run it much better. but nothing more than max settings without hdr or aa @ 1280x720



systemrequirementslab.com would be a nice place to see if your pc is fast enough!
uhh.. is it just me or do they really not have oblivion in there!!?

 

Many of the posters on the previous page were mistaken; read the last half or so of posts and you'll see that you won't have to settle for either of those options.
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Ooops. The more positive posts weren't there before I started writing my last one. Sorry

 

even the low end 7400go could run oblvion in medium settings anything better than this card should do okay

 

It is under :The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

 

I can run oblivion on med to low settings with my x1400, so you'll be more than fine with your 6800. It's older than my card but waaaaaaaay much better. you'll play it really well at high settings. Maybe not the highest resolution.

 

How is this possible? I had to sacrifice quite a bit when I played Oblivion on my X1600 OC'd. No AA, No HDR, medium AF, no grass, low trees, low object fade. And still the game ran choppy in crowded areas and battles. Maybe I'm just used to CS:S's 100 fraps average, but I certainly felt performance pain. I had 1280x800 native resolution though, that's something I'm unwilling to sacrifice.

Regarding the 6800Go, I may have underestimated its power, but I was not that far off in my initial estimation.
Here is an AnandTech article on the mediocre performance of a pair of 6800GS's in SLI. Just search for "6800" in the article.

Here's a direct quote:

I believe the desktop GS version of the card is more powerful than the Go, and even so you'll see that the 6800 is consistently below the 7600 and X1600 in all of the tests. AnandTech may not the the end all of all tech reviews, but it's pretty darn good. Granted we are talking desktop cards, but unless they did something truly special for the laptop version of the 6800, it's a good measuring stick.

You should also ask around and see what people get on their 6800Go's. But there's not a snowflake's chance in hell you'll get the game to be playable at high settings.

 

A geforce 6800 is still a previous generation's high end. MOST people can't run the game at maxed settings anyway, even with modern hardware. Turn off HDR and turn down tree/actor/object fade, disable grass, and you should get performance that is more than playable.

 

even though a 3d mark test is going to show my 7700 go is better than a 6800 go, in reality its not going to be in most games.

This is because as i said, the gpu is slower but the buss is twice as large.

 

Huh? 3DMark? Ack... just look at the links I provided, they tried to run Oblivion on desktop 6800's and it didn't turn out too well, consistently bottom of the barrel performance. People with Inspiron 9300/9400 with the 6800Go say the same thing, look at the first link. That's all I have to say about it.

 

Ok I just looked at the links you posted and from the sounds of it the Go6800 will probably perform on par or just a little worse that a X1600. So if that is the case Oblivion will certainly be playable just your settings will be around medium with no AA, Shadows or other eye candy. A lot just depend on how much you want to tune the settings though.

Just as a side note though, while oblivion has a lot of cool looking graphics you will need to learn that RPGs are ultimately about game play and story line. If you are getting it for the graphics the game will become very boring very fast. Sorry form my little ramble but just take it into consideration.

 

Check this out http://www.gpureview.com/show_cards.php?card1=186&card2=453. the 6800 Ultra is definitely better than the X1600.

 

ASUS Z81sp has the regular go6800, not the go6800 Ultra.

 

a go6800 will play the game fine.......hel, even my go6600 can play it at Mid-MidHigh settings @ 23fps (which is fine for this game).so a go 6800 can play it at mid-high and even lower-high at 25+ fps............

EDIT: i dont use HDR, AA, or AF

i run at 1280x800
texture quality--HIGH
TREES----FULL
OBJECTS---FULL
GRASS---SLIDER in the lower mid section
VIEW DISTANCE---FULL (distance objects/trees/hills/mountains off, i like the foggy effect )
SHADOWS----low
HDR off
BLOOM on
WATER---HIGH (full)
Blood on

 

To improve outside performance on mid-to-low systems, an absolutely MANDATORY download Low Poly Grass: http://planetelderscrolls.gamespy.com/View.php?view=OblivionMods.Detail&id=1479

It makes your framerate outdoors improve IMMENSELY while simplifying the grass models (you'll notice they're very simple when viewed from right above the grass, but not when viewed from the side of the grass).

I run grass at full distance now that I have this mod and it barely knocks my frames down. I used to average about 7-13 FPS outdoors even with grass at 25% distance. Now, with Low Poly Grass, I average about 17-22 FPS outdoors with grass at 100% (and HDR on) with the following settings:





x1400 on my Dell E1505 (2Ghz Core 2 Duo w/ 2GB RAM) with almost all settings maxed, except tree fade is at 25%, exterior shadows are 25%, water detail is Normal and shadows are on Low filtering. Otherwise everything else is maxed.

Oh, and it's at 720x480 which is FINE for me, in fact I almost find 1280x800 (my monitor's max) too sharp and, well, it runs like crap that high too, so it kinda has to work for me, which it does. I would MUCH, MUCH rather have HDR on than high resolution. HDR brings the game to life and should not be turned off if it doesn't have to.

Keep in mind this is inlcluding HDR being on. I simply cannot look at this game without HDR; it's too dull without it. So, if you don't need HDR, you can get a few more frames per second.









So, yeah, get Low Poly Grass because it makes the outdoors ACTUALLY PLAYABLE EVEN WITH HDR!!!

 

My RADEON X700 can handle Oblivion well on Med-high levels with decent fades and maximum view distance with the resolution at 1280x800. A 6800go will do better than that, no doubt. Some of the people in this thread have no idea what they're talking about.

 

*UPDATE*

I bought Oblivion last friday and....

The autodetect put the settings on high. The framerate was jumping all around so I turned bloom and HDR off and it runs about as smooth as the 360 version in terms of FPS (I do get some FPS hiccups, but so does the 360 version) Looks really good. A far-cry from "killing my computer, bringing it back to life and then killing it again."

Well, that settles that.

 

Use this link to squeeze out some more juice:

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

 

Here, use this website to see if your computer can run it. It's called system labs, it will test out everything and recommend the game or no.

http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/referrer/srtest

 

i was wondering weather the 256mb go 7600 could run the game...i haven't bought the laptop yet but its going to be the dv9000t.

 

Just to correct a fallacious statement from someone earlier:
the 6800 Go is NOT weaker than the 6800 GS desktop version. Laptop architectures are much much different, and in most cases the mobile version of cards with equivalent designations perform better. (and cost more money). The highest end of the market is generally always closed to notebooks, but they can get darn close, especially with setups like SLi 7950 GTX. Point being, platform performance generally goes UP when made mobile, not down. The reason laptops aren't considered the best gaming platform is because they are stuck in the mid-high range, with the mega cards (i.e. the current nvidia 8800 Ultra) being out of range for at least a generation or two. Also, cooling options are limited on notebooks, making overclocking impractical and in some cases even detrimental to the system. This is a pretty common misconception though.

Edit: To above poster, yes, the 7600 should run it just fine.
Edit2: The system requirements lab told me my computer couldn't run Oblivion (failed recommended), with a 9700 Pro, but I have personally run it with medium to medium high (if I sac some res or draw distances) around 30 FPS outside and 60+ inside. Perhaps my card is underrated.

 

I don't think your card is underrated, i think you didn't used the recommend settings in that game.

 

Point being, platform performance generally goes UP when made mobile, not down.
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Really? Cause I know that laptop cards always have less pipelines than their desktop cousins ( for example, the mobility x800 has only 12 pipelines as opposed to the 16 in the desktop version)

 

My bad guys, I didnt read this correctly, i thought this was about the Go 6150. Your system will run it pretty well, you have nothing to worry about.

 

Hey, the lowest widescreen resolution that appears to me is 1280x800 which is way to high for my system, and the details i use in game, so i use 800x600 which gives me some black bars in the sides of screen...

How do you enabled this?

thanks and sorry for my bad english

 

Oh yes it will run it, just not at max settings. I also noticed a sizeable improvement when I used the drivers from www.laptopvideo2go.com. I get 30 fps almost consistently with no grass, full distance, 1280x800, max tree distance, and bloom lighting. Also, by using the nvidia control panel, I forcibly turned off Antialias, anisotropic, turned on to performance texture filter, and no trilinear.

I think it looks sexy, but then again, I can't usually tell the difference between antialias being on or not; I guess I'm just not that 'hardcore'

 

should the system in my sig be able to play obliviono.. im getting it next week..

 

Yes it can play Oblivion but at low settings.

I have a comparable system, I think you will run it at:

1280x800, Bloom On, Medium-Low settings, No shadows, Full range of view.
The 1920x1200 screen is a downside here, playing at 1280x800 will make everything look so blurry.

 

and in most cases the mobile version of cards with equivalent designations perform better. (and cost more money).

This can't be true what's written above. Take ny 7800GTX as an example in my XPS M170 was first off underclocked from Dell, now overclocked to 440/1200, 10MHz on the core above the equivalent desktop 7800GTX I compared too. However in most cases the notebook GPU's are weaker than the desktop parts. Just take a look at a go 7950GTX which isn't on par with a 7900GTX desktop in terms of speed. This being said my go 7800GTX gets it's ass kicked compared to a 7800GTX 512MB which is much more higher clocked than mine according to GPU review.