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    Oblivion Beauty Shots - Post Here

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Osserpse, Aug 13, 2007.

  1. Osserpse

    Osserpse Notebook Evangelist

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    Post all your oblivion beauty shots here :) .

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    This one just strikes me for some reason. Took it on my 1520.
     
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    I had so many but deleted them last week, I might have a few laying around. Just curious as to what you guys are running Oblvion at with the 8600GT. I believe I run 14x9, 2xaa, all high with bloom.
     
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    Here you go 1920x1200

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  6. Magnus72

    Magnus72 Notebook Virtuoso

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    And the second shot

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    Damn, this game look good. can't wait to play it on my new 1720 :)...
     
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    I use Qarl texture pack 2 for my Oblivion, looks awesome.
     
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    [​IMG]
    Shot at 2007-08-15
     
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    Akilae Hunter Notebook Consultant

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    Buns, what mods do you have in... Most of that shot looks non-stock.
    Im interested in modding my Oblivion.
     
  14. ronkotus

    ronkotus Notebook Evangelist

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    For anyone who want's to make Oblivion beautiful as hell, just carefully browse through the site I mentioned earlier ( http://devnull.devakm.googlepages.com/obliviontextureoverhaul). There's lot's of texture packs and other visual improvement mods for Oblivion and this site constantly gathers the best of them to one good collection. Especially pay attention to the screenshots taken before and after installing a particular mod, and be amazed. What you have to consider is which mods do you really want since most of them give somekind of performance hit, many of which can totally kill framerates with lesser video cards. There's lot's of information, installation guides and shots of each of them, so the decision is made as easy as possible. Personally I can't give guidelines which mods to install since it depends so much on your personal tastes and of course your computer's configuration. What I mean that even the desktop Geforce 8800gtx compined with the best currently possible CPU can't handle the game too well when some of these are installed. Just browse through all of the "Overhaul categories" and read through the information given and you should find what is suitable for you.

    But since this thread is about Oblivion Beauty shots and not about framerates or good gameplay, I would like to see someone with decent computer to post screenshots with most of those mods of that site correctly installed and game graphics settings set to maximum. A mod that I'm personally very amazed is the "More Than Almost Everything Visible When Distant"-mod found in "Other improvements" category, which can bring down the strongest of machines, but certainly looks insane. Mikal33's textures and Qarl's texture pack 3 are also amazing improvements.
     
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    Oh my 8800GTX handles Qarl 3 amazing + numerous visual enhancement mods, no problems here running at 40 minimum in heavily wooded areas to 75+ outdoors. You just have to optimize the game so damn much to make it run really well. Then I have lots of visual mods installed.

    That 1920x1200 shot was take with my XPS M170 with an overclocked 7800GTX.
     
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    @Magnus72
    Correct me if I'm wrong, but in this case doesn't the optimization also mean choosing the right visuals-mods, the ones that won't hurt performance too much (like the "More Than Almost Everything Visible When Distant"-mod) and actually somewhat lowering the visuals with tweaks (e.g the grass tweak). Did you also know that, you can actually go past the maximum of some in-game settings by editing the .ini file. That's what I would like to see and what this thread is about, making the game look as beautiful in screenshots as possible and not caring about framerate optimization.

    Here are some shots I posted very long time ago: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showpost.php?p=1673442&postcount=1173
    They dont look anything amazing, but the game was optimized for gameplay anyway.
     
  17. Magnus72

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    Yeah my Oblivion is purely optimized through the ini file.