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post #1 of 48
3/22/06 at 7:04pm
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I'm seriously thinking about buying Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion. My question is how well it will run on my 8104.

So please anybody who had a chance trying it out on a 8104 tell me your experiences. I probably set the resolution to 1024x640 (using powerstrip). How much eye-candy can I turn on using that res? Do you get decent frame rates on medium settings maybe?

Any comments would be appreciated.
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post #2 of 48
3/24/06 at 3:48pm
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Well, I guess nobody has the game yet.

I ordered it just now. It should get here sometime next week. So if anybody interested I'll be able to give you an update how it runs.
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post #3 of 48
3/25/06 at 3:30am
I ran it on my Ferrari 4005, which has comparable specification to 8104. With the resolution you are going to set, it'll run smooth. I set it to 1680x1050, and I think my video card is burned now since it shows up garbled line when I boot my computer.
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post #4 of 48
3/25/06 at 5:04am
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Originally Posted by bill7531
I ran it on my Ferrari 4005, which has comparable specification to 8104. With the resolution you are going to set, it'll run smooth. I set it to 1680x1050, and I think my video card is burned now since it shows up garbled line when I boot my computer.
Ouch.

This game is pretty rough on the system requirements. The game is beautiful, eye-candy wise, but it barely runs at 640x480 on my desptop (which runs an nVidia 5900). I'm debating tossing it onto my 5672, but I'm afraid of wasting my life installing circa 5 gigabytes of information.
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post #5 of 48
3/25/06 at 6:34pm
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Originally Posted by bill7531
I ran it on my Ferrari 4005, which has comparable specification to 8104. With the resolution you are going to set, it'll run smooth. I set it to 1680x1050, and I think my video card is burned now since it shows up garbled line when I boot my computer.
What in-game settings did you use? Did you have any crashes?
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post #6 of 48
3/26/06 at 2:19pm
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One question guys: Does Oblivion detect Pentium M properly? I mean when it gives you the recommended settings does it consider PM 2ghz as a P4 2ghz or it recognizes properly???
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post #7 of 48
3/26/06 at 2:41pm
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What in-game settings did you use? Did you have any crashes?
I turn most of things to highest, including Bloom, but with most shadow off, but I am still in the beginning dungen, so it shouldn't be that much burden to the graphic card.
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post #8 of 48
3/26/06 at 3:52pm
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One question guys: Does Oblivion detect Pentium M properly? I mean when it gives you the recommended settings does it consider PM 2ghz as a P4 2ghz or it recognizes properly???
It didn't detect my core duo properly, it just defaulted everything to medium settings. It does run on medium settings on my 5672, I'm surprised. Even more so because I got the cheap version with only 1gig of RAM

The game looks reasonable inside, but foliage and stuff outside gets butchered by the combination of low resolution and interpolating it to widescreen :-\
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post #9 of 48
3/26/06 at 4:35pm
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StrakenAur: Why don't you use a proper widescreen resolution? At last resort you can use powerstrip to create a custom res like I have: 1024x640
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post #10 of 48
3/27/06 at 12:11pm
Game runs "OK" on my 8104. I set the res to 1200 x 800. The auto detect function freaking sets the res to 640 x 480!!! I didn't even f'ing test it at that res! I do not know what detail settings I have, I didn't change anything from auto detect except for the resolution slider.

In the beginning dungeon, when you are fighting rats and those zombies, it runs fine. However, once you get outside, and have to fight that first tiger guy, it gets pretty slow. I'm debating upgrading to 2 gigs ram, and seeing if that helps (see my other thread about memory)
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post #11 of 48
3/27/06 at 2:09pm
It runs marginally well on my 8104 at 1024x768 on an external display using catalyst 6.3 drivers for the x700. I use bloom, no AA, medium distance, shadows off. It heats my 8104 up to the point it worries me.
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post #12 of 48
3/27/06 at 8:51pm
You use medium draw distance? That is a bummer, makes everything just look like a fog is out there instead of the trees/mountains/etc

Well, i have an 8204 and the game defaulted to High Quality w/ 1024x768. I turned ON HDR and inside i was getting about 30 FPS, outside 20FPS. WHen I started getting into real fights (gladiator arena, fighting 3 enemies at once) with the High Quality eye candy on i got destroyed in FPS dropping to about 5. I have a friend w/ an x800 and 3.4P4 (alienware) whose FPS would drop to 1-2 on high quality when he cast a complicated spell


the game destroys high end systems. i ended up turning off both HDR and AA and now get about 40-50 FPS outside, which is overkill, but COMBAT otherwise is ridiculous with high settings.
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post #13 of 48
3/27/06 at 9:13pm
I wonder if it's not an issue with the game. That sounds crazy regarding the friend with a P4 3.4GHz with an X800... Can't be right, I don't think.
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post #14 of 48
3/27/06 at 9:33pm
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Originally Posted by bill7531
I ran it on my Ferrari 4005, which has comparable specification to 8104. With the resolution you are going to set, it'll run smooth. I set it to 1680x1050, and I think my video card is burned now since it shows up garbled line when I boot my computer.
Hey Bill 7532..did you fix your card problem? Were you able to get your Ferrari running again? I too have a Ferrari 4005 and I am seriously thinking of getting this game but your comment worries me to the point of hesitation.



Last thing I need is for a game to destory my laptop.
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post #15 of 48
3/28/06 at 2:52am
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Originally Posted by bveld
StrakenAur: Why don't you use a proper widescreen resolution? At last resort you can use powerstrip to create a custom res like I have: 1024x640
I ended up bumping the resolution to 1200x800, and pushing the draw distance to about halfway. I turned off every other graphical option when I did this. The game runs reasonably, but the framerate does get choppy with multiple baddies on the screen at the same time, and depending on my current locale within the game, it can get downright unplayable.

/thread hijack over, carry on
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post #16 of 48
3/31/06 at 2:34am
well I am having a very wierd problem. I am using the newest omega drivers, and 5 minutes into the game my acer 8100 just shuts off. No warning nothing. When I touch the bottom of it its so hot I can barely touch it.

The graphics and everything look smooth but I have it for medium details with anti aliasing off.

seems to run smoothly for battles as well.
I have also shut of anti virus, and any other runing program.

Has any one else experienced this?
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post #17 of 48
3/31/06 at 8:04am
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jami1: I just installed the new omega drivers (6.3). I'll let you know how it goes this afternoon. When your notebook completely shuts off all the sudden that's definitely an overheating issue!

Has any of you had weird crashes? I had two so far... Oblivion crashed to the desktop. Don't really know how to fix that.
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post #18 of 48
3/31/06 at 2:17pm
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jami1: I just installed the new omega drivers (6.3). I'll let you know how it goes this afternoon. When your notebook completely shuts off all the sudden that's definitely an overheating issue!

Has any of you had weird crashes? I had two so far... Oblivion crashed to the desktop. Don't really know how to fix that.
I am interested to see if you have the same problem.
this way I can see what I can do to fix it. I played the gam for 5 minutes and I love it. I dreamt about it.. it would be a big problem if I can't play it on my laptop because its my only computer for right now as I am over seas.
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post #19 of 48
3/31/06 at 3:48pm
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OK. After installing the new omega drivers (6.3) and playing oblivion for 2 hours I had one crash "only". And Oblivion was "only" crashing to the desktop; no restart or anything like that. It is just the usual crashing... (btw I never have any crashes with any other game)

I don't have the problem what you are talking about. Maybe try re-installing the omega drivers... you used driver cleaner, right? Maybe you can also undervolt your cpu that helps a lot with temperature and stuff.

I've been playing games for 10 years and I have to say that Oblivion is far the best ever. Not only because of it's graphics, but also it's gameplay, story, etc. I just love it!
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post #20 of 48
3/31/06 at 4:34pm
What settings are you playing it in?

I was thinking maybe I will try to play with the laptop on a harder surface.
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