Frame Rates in Oblivion

**Tate1234** · January 04, 2007, 05:27 PM

It Really weird with my new 7800GS AGP im getting the same FPS In Oblivion as i did before with my 9800 Pro my Fps is 15-20 in oblivion and i have no shadows on

But on Medieval 2 Total War i get way better FPS then my old card i get like 30 fps even in the big cities

**Richard the Lionheart** · January 04, 2007, 05:36 PM

Originally Posted by Tate1234

It Really weird with my new 7800GS AGP im getting the same FPS In Oblivion as i did before with my 9800 Pro my Fps is 15-20 in oblivion and i have no shadows on

But on Medieval 2 Total War i get way better FPS then my old card i get like 30 fps even in the big cities

Hmmm...you know, I recently bought the same card and have wanted to try oblivion out on my pc. It sucks there's no demo for it.

**zYn** · January 04, 2007, 05:43 PM

Is VSync on?
And how much RAM do you have? Oblivion is such a memory hog.

**SPARTAN VI** · January 04, 2007, 07:09 PM

Haha, I'm noticing the same. I upgraded from a 7800GT > 7900GT > X1900XT > 8800GTS in a year, and I'm still getting the same framerate that I did with the 7800GT in Oblivion.

**Incinerate_IV** · January 04, 2007, 08:17 PM

Probably CPU bottlenecking then, Oblivion is a pretty CPU intensive game.

**SPARTAN VI** · January 04, 2007, 08:45 PM

Originally Posted by Incinerate_IV

Probably CPU bottlenecking then, Oblivion is a pretty CPU intensive game.

Nope, I was actually getting way better performance out of my 7800GT SLI set up back then. I went down to one 7800GT to pay for car repairs. I've been single card ever since.

Gonna have to rule out CPU bottleneck.

**__PoweradePaladin__** · January 05, 2007, 03:28 PM

Originally Posted by Incinerate_IV

Probably CPU bottlenecking then, Oblivion is a pretty CPU intensive game.

It is. I had an AMD 2800+ underclocked @ 1.25 ghz after some overclocking abuse after a while. hehe. And the game ran. sloooooooooooooooooooow.

After getting an Intel Core 2 Duo e6600 with my radeon x850 and compliant motherboard etc etc I got a 30 fps OUTSIDE (yes outside) at the game's "Ultra High" settings (self shadows off, they look like ****) and a stable 25-30 fps frame rate. I love my new c2d. Makes me feel all fuzzy inside.

**Tate1234** · January 04, 2007, 11:18 PM

Well my Cpu is a AMD Athlon XP 3000 i guess its kinda old that sucks if its just my cpu

**Spart** · January 05, 2007, 06:41 AM

It really runs better with Ati, so no wonder you can't see a big difference. I used to have a Ati X800XL, and when I changed to 7600GT (same power as 7800GS), I lost like 10 fps... I don't play Oblivion that much anymore, so I don't mind.
But nothing wrong with your pc I quess, it's just the geforce.

**SPARTAN VI** · January 05, 2007, 10:26 AM

Originally Posted by Spartacus(FIN)

It really runs better with Ati, so no wonder you can't see a big difference. I used to have a Ati X800XL, and when I changed to 7600GT (same power as 7800GS), I lost like 10 fps... I don't play Oblivion that much anymore, so I don't mind.
But nothing wrong with your pc I quess, it's just the geforce.

That sounds about right. The X800XL was comparable to 6800GT in the day. I loved my X800XL, too bad it was a terrible OC'er, but overall great value (got it for $250 when they were going for $300!). Now the 7600GT is also similar to a 6800GT, so I'd expect about the same performance, and some performance degradation in Oblivion. But 10fps hit all the way around sounds like a huge difference.

Do you have HDR enabled now? That would explain it..

**Spart** · January 05, 2007, 11:26 AM

Yes, I have HDR enabled, and I had to turn textures down a bit for that. But whatever the settings, geforce performs slower. In other games it's 10-20% faster than X800XL, but well.. It's Oblivion.

I've seen tests where x800-series beats 7800-series and even 7900-series. That's nasty