itt we post .ini tweaks

ignatios on 23/3/2006 at 19:09

I found (http://www.elderscrolls.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=283055) this one over at the Oblivion forums. The gist is that by lowering the grass density, you can dramatically increase your frames per second (and even increase the grass distance). You sacrifice a bit of the lushness of the world (no more seas of grass swaying in the wind), but folks on the lower end of the requirements scale might appreciate the change.

Also (http://www.elderscrolls.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=282542) this thread which is about improving graphical quality.

(http://www.elderscrolls.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=277963) Unofficial Technical FAQ thread

Post more as you find 'em, d00ds.

io organic industrialism on 23/3/2006 at 20:03

and please, if sombody figures out how to disable the "wobble" on the 3rd person camera, PLEASE let me know. more info in this thread:

(http://www.elderscrolls.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=278151)

Renzatic on 23/3/2006 at 20:08

It gave me a few extra frames...so if you've already got a computer that's up to spec this'll help out tremendously.

Uncia on 23/3/2006 at 21:01

How about a quality boost? Far Away Lands may be preferrable to fog, but it'd be nice if their texture wasn't the size of something a 3Dfx card would run. :erg:

ignatios on 23/3/2006 at 21:04

spamsk8r mentions increasing the draw distance for textures in (http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1425723#post1425723) this post. I can't try it right now (being at work) but I'll definitely be trying it tonight.

io organic industrialism on 23/3/2006 at 21:18

Quote Posted by Uncia

How about a quality boost? Far Away Lands may be preferrable to fog, but it'd be nice if their texture wasn't the size of something a 3Dfx card would run. :erg:

i tried enabling 16x Anisotropic filtering. strangely, you can see the dividing line between where the textures look good, and where they look crap. it's about 1/2 way across your field of view :(

GRRRR on 23/3/2006 at 21:23

I think thats what you are looking for :

My Documents->My Games->Oblivion->Oblivion.ini

uGridsToLoad=5 (set it to 7 or 8)

That'll improve the looks of faraway terrain, at the cost of performance of course.

ignatios on 24/3/2006 at 13:00

I didn't see any difference when I tried it (and yes I edited the proper .ini file).

Maybe I was looking too far into the distance?

Also, could you post some comparison screens?

Papy on 24/3/2006 at 15:44

One thing that would be great is if tweaks could be divided into processor tweaks and video card tweaks. For example, I have an athlon64 3000+ with an X800 XL and, in this case, the processor is clearly the bottleneck. Going from 800x600, no AA, no bloom to 1280x768, 4xAA and bloom cost me only about 3 or 4 FPS. So any tweaks that would ease the video card are not really useful with this configuration.

Is it possible, for example, to stop the grass from moving to see if it has an impact on the framerate ?

io organic industrialism on 24/3/2006 at 16:11

Quote Posted by Papy

it was the bloom that decreased your fps, not the res. i can run 2048x1536 at the exact same speed i can run 800x600 .... :(