Poor Oblivion Peformance

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Stan

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Hey guys, I really hope you can tell me what wrong with oblivion, because I honestly ran out of ideas. I have an e4400 @ 3.3 ghz, Samsung pc-5200 2gb ram, 8800GT 512mb, and a 650 watt psu with 20A on the rails. My frames in oblivion are usually 50-60 @ 1680 x 1050 in doors, and 35-45 outdoors with all maxed out settings without AA. However, as soon as an NPC comes onto screen, my frame rate dips to the low 20s no matter what resolution or settings! I even went all the way down to 800 x 600, or 1680 x 1050 with 8x AA and I still get low 20s whenever I look at an NPC. I tried defragging my hard drive, but that didn't seem to work. :( Hopefully you guys can give me some pointers because my rig can play CoD 4, HL 2, and other modern games perfectly fine.

Thanks,

Stan
 
Oh and I don't think its a temp issue because real temp says my max temp is 56C on core 1, and 65C degrees for core 2 after running oblivion for 3 hours.
 
65c is overheating just about. Never played it but from what I hear its a pretty demanding game., Get better cooling
 
Okay, I just lowered my OC to 3.0 ghz, and lowered the voltage to 1.375 and took a fan to the side of the case. My temps went down to about 45 max load. I'm still getting the low frames in oblivion though. :(


*edit: typo
 
had me scared hehe :) realize temps are diretly related to voltages, the higher vol = high temps.
As far as why your games is messing up. I would try a fresh install. Seems to me if your other games work flawlessly then its the game not the machine.
 
How are you reinstalling? via online or CD? I've heard issues with online d/l's sometimes getting corrupted
 
For clarification, what 650W PSU do you have?

Also, what hard drive do you have?

Did you turn off AA at all during your lower resolution testing?
 
I have a BFG 650 watt PSU that has 2 120mm internal fans. For the hard drive, i'm still using an old 7200rpm western digital ide hard drive. And yes, I did disable AA on the lower resolution test.


Btw, thank you for all those who tried to help. MUCH appreciated!
 
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