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Oblivion weird stuttering

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SouLXIV

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Q9500, 4 gigs of ram, Vistiontek 4870, and Vista 64 bit

I reinstalled the game, and I'm getting really good FPS now. However, in some areas I feel a lot of stuttering that's not fps related. Like I'll be at 90fps, but it feels as if my screen is vibrating and skipping frames or something. Happens mostly inside. Anyone know how to fix this?
 
It's loading from the hard drive. I wonder if running this game from a solid state device would solve that.
 
Sadly Oblivion just does this. I've been unable to really fix it with any of the tweaks people have suggested in the past.
 
well, I didn't have this before I resintalled lol. But before I was having problems with fps lag...weird
 
do you have vsync enabled? i can't say i ever experienced this symptom in oblivion but i'd turn vsync on just to see if that helps.. maybe tearing is just more noticable in oblivion.
 
dont have vsync. Only mod I got is oscuro overhaul. When I turn vsync on, stuff gets fps lag, even the start up screen, the cursor is laggy as hell.
 
SouLXIV said:
dont have vsync. Only mod I got is oscuro overhaul....
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Ok, very good. I was thinking this "might" be the culprit. With Oscuro's, I've noticed that there are several areas in the game, and especially indoors/dungeons, where there are FPS sink-holes. It's as if I could run around the entire map with OOO installed and get 70 FPS until I hit one of these areas or walk into the wrong dungeon and all of a sudden my FPS goes to shit (25-30). In addition to that, I generally tend to get lower overall FPS just by having OOO installed.

In my case, I know it's Oscuro's because I've done a fresh install of the game with Qarl's Texture Pack III as my only mod and played for for a few days with no FPS hiccups or noticeable drops. Then, I'd reinstall Oblivion, only install OOO, start a new game, and viola, the random FPS stuttering and drops start all over again.

My suggestion, remove OOO and try starting a new game without it. However, what you're describing is slightly different than the problems I encountered so there could be other possible issues.

  • Have you tweaked your ini at all? I know turning on any of the water reflections that are off by default can really cause some performance issues.
  • Are you using your on board sound card? The onboard sound card for Intel's Badaxe 2 was known to cause stuttering in Oblivion (I also experienced this first hand). Not sure if your mobo uses the same type of sound card though.
  • Do you have Diskeeper or an anti-virus program running? This may not even be applicable to you, but I once had an install of Diskeeper that wouldn't stop working when I'd start playing games (even though the program was supposed to).
  • Do you run the game with HDR or Bloom lighting? Shouldn't make a difference with this generation of cards but I'd try switching modes just for grins. It might not be the lighting itself but a differing setting in your control panel that doesn't run well with a specific type of lighting.

Other than that I can't say for sure. Which drivers are you running on your 4870?
 
NKDietrich said:
Sadly Oblivion just does this. I've been unable to really fix it with any of the tweaks people have suggested in the past.
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Pretty much the case. I'd guess it's just a function of taking a so-so engine (GameBryo) and doing a poor job of extending it. It's actually more or less the same deal with Morrowind as well, which was built on a similar platform.
 
The flip queue size, as was in the link posted earlier, should be set to 0 for Oblivion. When I had an nvidia card that solved this exact issue, and this is the same setting for ATI cards, so try and get the ATI Tray Tools, and set the flip queue size to 0 :)
 
Oblivion, Fallout, and New Vegas all do it. If you have a 60/59hz LCD monitor it's happening to you too. Some people don't notice it, I don't see how.

Anyways there are two fixes.

1) You use a tool like fpslimiter to cap the framerate (no not vsync) and edit the Oblivion.ini "ifpsclamp=whatever you set the cap to".

2) You use a mod by Skyranger called Oblivion stutter remover. He also has a version for FO3 and NV. It's available at TESNexus.

Divinity 2 has the same stutter which is why Dragon Knight Saga (also a gamebyro game) has a framerate cap.

Damn this is an old thread
 
Fallout 3 (same engine) suffers the same thing and the only way I've ever fixed it is by running specific drivers. For example, in FO3, the 188.25 NV and the 258 drivers work great. ANYTHING in between gives me a ton of stutter even though FPS hold steady.
 
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