GTX 480 Oblivion performance

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iusahell

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Yesterday I started to play oblivion with all the highest values in the menu of the game, and in the nvidia control panel I put the following configuration:

triple buffer - active
Texture filtering - high quality
negative lod - fixation
Anisotropic filtering - 16x
limit of the extension - activated
Ambient Occlusion - quality

I ran the game with 32xAA and gamma correction, plus 8x TMSAA and... i got 20fps(totally unplayable):confused:, then only with 32xAA and gave me 35-40fps with ups and downs and sometimes 60fps, i wonder is normal these results to a gtx 480?:confused:

im using 1920x1200 monitor, vsync is on, 257.15 drivers.

how many fps would have to have with this video card? not notice any difference in using 32xAA with 8xTMSAA, should be constant 60fps in this game only 32xAA? or is normal and I have to go down to 8xAA to be at 60 fps all the time?:confused:
 
Personally, I'd just turn down AA.

I'd also set the oblivion application profile to have 0 or 1 frames rendered ahead.
 
I was only able to run Oblivion on my HD 4850 at 1280x960 with 8xMSAA, or else 4xADAA. This did NOT run at a butter-smooth 60fps, but ran at a playable frame rate. I have yet to try the game on my GTX 460.

You only have a little over twice that much power in the GTX 480, and you want to run:

Nearly double the resolution.
Maxed-out AA plus transparency AA
Ambient Occlusion

And you expect 60fps?

Be realistic man. You can probably turn off transparency AA because the underbrush plants are already filtered (it's only the tree leaves that are not). I'm not sure if Ambient Occlusion actually does anything for Oblivion, so you can try disabling that.
 
defaultluser said:
You only have a little over twice that much power in the GTX 480, and you want to run:

Nearly double the resolution.
Maxed-out AA plus transparency AA
Ambient Occlusion

And you expect 60fps?

Be realistic man. You can probably turn off transparency AA because the underbrush plants are already filtered (it's only the tree leaves that are not). I'm not sure if Ambient Occlusion actually does anything for Oblivion, so you can try disabling that.
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i think ur right but after many years and oblivion+crazy aa, still a demanding game:eek: i thought ill fly even with crazy maxed out options:D

So, in order to get 60fps i should disable any kind of AA and TSMAA right? or have to lower other options? maybe with vsync off:p
 
iusahell said:
i think ur right but after many years and oblivion+crazy aa, still a demanding game:eek: i thought ill fly even with crazy maxed out options:D

So, in order to get 60fps i should disable any kind of AA and TSMAA right? or have to lower other options? maybe with vsync off:p
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Oblivion was a hungry game when it was released. No card in existence at the time could run it at 1280x1024 all high 60fps - not even the x1900 XTX. And since you have to force AA if you want to see HDR lighting, you're tossing the game's built-in AA engine, so performance suffers even more.

Video card performance has only roughly quadrupled in those 4 years, so you can easily see why you can't run it at those extreme resolutions and settings. One doubling goes toward your high resolution, and one doubling goes toward your AA - combine all that, and you still won't top 60fps.

You don't have to disable settings entirely - just dial them down to something reasonable like 2x or 4xMSAA.
 
yeah, oblivion was a bear.. still is a bit.. with all the common texture and weather packs loaded at 5760x1080 and only 2x AA and 16x AF my two 470s are challenged.. well, outdoors for sure...
 
k. Heres what you want.

Qarl texture pack lite (gets rid of laggy stuff without any real visual change)
silent footsteps mod (makes footsteps go away during fights, SERIOUSLY helps)
Make it pretty mod pack (water, sky, weather, grass, foliage, lighting all get better)


First thing you should do is turn off vsync. If your FPS goes below your monitor's refresh rate (which i assume is 59-60hz) by just 1 frame, then it automatically knocks you down to 30fps.

Second thing you should do is turn down the AA. With the qarl pack you wont need it above 16x because the resolution is so high that the jaggies are hard to see. :)

I've been modding oblivion for a good 4 years now :D

I run with an 8800gtx and keep my AA at 4x with all the above mods, and i only lag when i fight more than 4 beasts at a time on grassy hills. So then i knocked down the grass from the Make it Pretty mod pack. :)
 
Don't forget Oblivion also needs a beefy CPU. I remember my framerate doubled on x1950xt when I upgraded from pentium D to E6700.
 
Coltan said:
Don't forget Oblivion also needs a beefy CPU. I remember my framerate doubled on x1950xt when I upgraded from pentium D to E6700.
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Right, and make sure that you have as much single-threaded power as-possible. Oblivion is multi-threaded, but it only sees a 5-10% performance boost from a second core.

I've never actually set 60fps as a target for my game play on Oblivion, so I have no idea what kind of CPU power you need to reach it. But your Core 2 Quad at 3GHz should be enough.
 
thesecond said:
k. Heres what you want.

Qarl texture pack lite (gets rid of laggy stuff without any real visual change)
silent footsteps mod (makes footsteps go away during fights, SERIOUSLY helps)
Make it pretty mod pack (water, sky, weather, grass, foliage, lighting all get better)


First thing you should do is turn off vsync. If your FPS goes below your monitor's refresh rate (which i assume is 59-60hz) by just 1 frame, then it automatically knocks you down to 30fps.

Second thing you should do is turn down the AA. With the qarl pack you wont need it above 16x because the resolution is so high that the jaggies are hard to see. :)

I've been modding oblivion for a good 4 years now :D

I run with an 8800gtx and keep my AA at 4x with all the above mods, and i only lag when i fight more than 4 beasts at a time on grassy hills. So then i knocked down the grass from the Make it Pretty mod pack. :)
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that's pretty good.. my 8800GTX would die with any AA on.. but I only had a e6600 @ 3.2GHZ then.. I guess those optimized texture packs give some frame rate love back.. I'm still running all the unoptimized ones.. maybe it's time to switch ;)
 
thesecond said:
k. Heres what you want.

Qarl texture pack lite (gets rid of laggy stuff without any real visual change)
silent footsteps mod (makes footsteps go away during fights, SERIOUSLY helps)
Make it pretty mod pack (water, sky, weather, grass, foliage, lighting all get better)


First thing you should do is turn off vsync. If your FPS goes below your monitor's refresh rate (which i assume is 59-60hz) by just 1 frame, then it automatically knocks you down to 30fps.

Second thing you should do is turn down the AA. With the qarl pack you wont need it above 16x because the resolution is so high that the jaggies are hard to see. :)

I've been modding oblivion for a good 4 years now :D

I run with an 8800gtx and keep my AA at 4x with all the above mods, and i only lag when i fight more than 4 beasts at a time on grassy hills. So then i knocked down the grass from the Make it Pretty mod pack. :)
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thanks mate, but now I have a different problem, my gtx480 squeals a lot when I'm gaming (not previously occurred) and my pc shuts down, at first only did when i loaded 3d applications, then after just five minutes of surfing and general use and now immediately turns off as having some short so i took everything out of the case and test just with:
1 hdd
1 ram stick
mobo and cpu
psu and gtx480

works for almost 2hrs no problems yet....although i havent tried any game. The culprits could be: ram,vga,psu. Mobo is brand new (1 week only and cpu is rma from intel so i don't think it has anything to do with them). What could be? my vga has never been overcloked and temps are fine just once 94°C i think, but most of the time 68°C and i recently installed my true black 120. Coil whine and squeals mean faulty card? had not noticed this noise before and im afraid of rma with zotac cause i could receive another worse.. ram can cause this?.. or psu maybe? i dont have spare parts to test:(
 
Not sure if anyone has said this already but, of course the max fps your going to get is 60 with vsync on.
 
I think there was a Qarl's texture pack 3 version called redimized, which keeps the high quality texture look with lower system resource hogging. I tried it and it looked just fine, no real loss in quality.

Definitely turn down the AA. I don't think there's that much of a need for it with this game.

Also, squealing will happen, it's not that big of a deal. Yeah, it does suck. It still kinda freaks me out but that's just how the cards are made these days. I get the squeal a lot with folding@home for gpu and occasionally for games. Tried painkiller recently and it sounded like it was screaming lol. So bottom line, squealing isn't a bad thing.
 
Turn down the AA. Seriously. Give it a shot with just 8x AA and see what happens. Then see if you can actually notice the difference after playing for 30 mins (not hunting screen shots with zoom).

That much AA is going to be requiring insane amounts of memory and memory bandwidth. Oblivion wasn't exactly a slouch to begin with.
 
vengence said:
Turn down the AA. Seriously. Give it a shot with just 8x AA and see what happens. Then see if you can actually notice the difference after playing for 30 mins (not hunting screen shots with zoom).

That much AA is going to be requiring insane amounts of memory and memory bandwidth. Oblivion wasn't exactly a slouch to begin with.
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I agree.. Oblivion isn't exactly Crysis, but it did require a high-end PC at the time to even approach 30 FPS at medium-high settings (which is fine for an RPG, this isn't a multiplayer shooter...). With everything maxed and mods and the texture pack installed, it can be almost as demanding as some of the latest games.
 
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