Lowest possible system Oblivion will run on.

nick_m100 on 3/10/2006 at 00:08

can you give me a link to a site that i could find that?

Striker on 3/10/2006 at 00:18

(www.microsoft.com)

Or it should be on the Oblivion disk.

nick_m100 on 3/10/2006 at 02:56

it only took two hours to download the program and oblivion works great it was well worth the wait

The-Bleh-Bleh on 11/12/2006 at 22:21

I dno if i could use oblivion on my pc with decent settings... i might want to upgrade some stuff my pc isnt bad...

512 megs of DDR2 Ram
Pentium 4 CPU 3 GHZ (2 cpus if that matters)
ummm a ATI Radeon X300 vid card (128 v-ram) 400 mhz
enough free hard drive space
XP pro Sp2

am i leaving something out?
Anyway, whats my bottleneck? Ram or vid card do you think.... i have plenty of expansion space...
Any reccommendations?
Ty :)

Thelvyn on 12/12/2006 at 01:19

Well that video card is really low end on the other hand you dont have enough memory either. If you have to pick just one thing I would say get another gig of ram. If possible do both ram and video card.

Rogue Keeper on 13/12/2006 at 07:40

3Ghz CPU should suffice, but with 512 ram you'll have long load times and lot of swapping perhaps and X300... well... that's the weakest link.

If you want to play it anyway, look out for some of those handy tweak guides.
I have changed many things in Oblivion.ini that have impact on performance.

Now I have decently playable framerate in the woods (not ideal) on my 3GhzA64/6600GT128
on 1024x768 + HDR and medium settings.

You know what is eating A LOT of performance outdoors? That tall complex grass! If you don't want to turn off it's drawing distance completely, look for Grass settings in the INI and change it's density from default 80 (that's really too dense) to 120 or 140 or 160. But in your case Bleh Bleh, I'd better turn off the grass completely.

Or ideally you might try Oldblivion. (http://www.oldblivion.com/)