Oblivion had me so hooked up. There were a lot of mods to up the graphics a lot. Even today I have it installed with so many mods for photorealizm. It's the game that made me upgrade from my ATI x800xt agp to x1950pro IIRC. X800xt couldn't do HDR graphics but even if it could it wasn't fast enough for the game at max settings. I still have the x800xt in a box perfectly working. I am just afraid it could die on me so I don't run it all the time. It's the last ATI card with win98 drivers.
Thanks for the comment! I've upgraded to the 7900 GS back then, which is the X1950 Pro' competitor, with the X1950 Pro being way better in Oblivion, I still remember the review from Anandtech. The X800 / X850 XT on AGP is one of the cards that I desire the most, but it's very rare unfortunately...so keep it secret, keep it safe :)
I have never played this game before, so I really wanted to take away as much info as possible…but I just couldn’t focus for laughing at your superb delivery 🤷♂️😂. Great video - subscribed!
What PC did you have when you first played Oblivion? Back then, I played Oblivion on a Core 2 Duo E6400, an overclocked XFX GeForce 7900 GS and 4 GB of RAM.
@Mr. Sophistication That AA was not a good idea :) I agree with the CPU being a bottleneck, in this video I've PC the Athlon XP and the FPS improved, even when using the Radeon 9600 XT.
First time I played this game was on Asus k54c with intel celeron b800 1.50ghz, 8gb ram and intel hd graphics, it ran at medium settings and 1366x768 resolution. It ran horrible until I installed some patches and mods and it ran well.
My favourite thing to do in Oblivion; set every skill I will never use as "major" and becoming an overpowered lvl 1 character. I played hundreds of hours on the Xbox360 version, trained athletics and acrobatics to 100 in the starter dungeon before exiting the sewers so that any new character I made would automatically have them. Between Oblivion and Guild Wars 1, Jeremy Soule occupies so much of my gaming music nostalgia.
Oblivion is a very "cheesable" game, and the whole thing with major skills for leveling and world scaling almost forces you to find all kind of workarounds. However, this has not stopped a lot of us from playing the game for an obscene number of hours. Jeremy Soule is like the Hans Zimmer of games :)
I found that back in the day distant land/building/trees setting made very little difference on my Radeon 9600 Pro (256mb) and the game was reasonably playable.
Oblivion is a very demanding game. I’ve tried playing with an Athlon 64 X2 5000 and then with the X2 6000 but it would sometimes drop frames no matter if I used my X1950XT or a more modern card like a Radeon 7850. Even the E8500 struggled sometimes but was better. Only on my modern 9700K did it run perfectly smooth at all times.
Imagine that Oblivion was released when the Radeon X1900 XTX was the top dog! I've played Oblivion on the GeForce 7900GS, but Oblivion is one of those games that is best played on a more modern computer.
@@MidnightGeek99 yes. Back in the day I bought a PC around the time Oblivion came out. An Opteron 165 that I overclocked with 2GB RAM and a 7800GT. But it kept crashing so I bought it for Xbox 360 instead.
one thing i saw when looking up benchmarks a while back was that oblivion was not very good at utilizing any additional cores so the performance gain was less than optimal
@@MidnightGeek99 i think it would be nice to see how older games perform between the two, since some p4s had hyper threading and dual cores were only just being introduced at the time
Imi aduc aminte de zilele cand incercam sa rulez Oblivion pe primul meu PC de prin 2005 (P4 1.19Ghz, RAM 256mb DDR400, GeForce FX5500)... Noroc de Oldblivion :))
I finished Oblivion on a 9600 XT and Sempron 2100+, but I remember running a bit better, maybe it was an earlier version. It was getting really slow anytime a daedra was killed or some fog was present.
I did not have the patience now to finish it on the minimum requirements :) Well, what you said is kind off my experience in this video, if there are less special effects on the screen, and not many enemies, the game runs...decent.
@@MidnightGeek99 Oh no, I didn't meant you to finish it on a 9600 XT, enjoy it on a more powerful card at full resolution. It wasn't a good experience for me, but I didn't had a choice haha
I knew that CPU was a bottleneck in all the scenes where FPS dramatically plummeted and that 1900XTX could handle the game properly. So, it was reasonable that C2Duo will fix the issue.
The video: "At 1600x1200 you don't really need antialiasing". Meanwhile me, using VSR to supersample older games from 7680x4320 down to my monitor's native 4K:
I had Athlon XP 2600+ 2gb DDR 2 and 9600 pro 256MB , must say Oblivion didn't like the 9600pro good card but not for Oblivion. Sold my 9600pro and bought 7600gs 512 mb overkill for XP 2600+ but Oblivion was happy and playable on 21 CRT Sony Trinitron 7600GS served me well until i switched to Q6600 system, and HD3850, and after some time i switched HD3850 to HD4850
Oblivion was very demanding for its day and age, but as you can see, you can play it even on an Athlon XP and a Radeon 9600 XT. I've played Oblivion the most in the period when I had a Core 2 Duo E6400 and a GeForce 7900 GS, both of them overclocked to insanity, because I was a mad lad back then :)
@@MidnightGeek99 I played it on 7600GS with some compromises but it run ok but running ok in those days and now days are two different things. I was happy with 30fps if i could achieve that. If i ever cross on cheap AGP 7600gs i will retest it and see how "good" was running, And latter i reply Oblivion with GTX570 sonic platinum with tons ant tons of mods and that card was awesome.
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Oblivion had me so hooked up. There were a lot of mods to up the graphics a lot. Even today I have it installed with so many mods for photorealizm. It's the game that made me upgrade from my ATI x800xt agp to x1950pro IIRC. X800xt couldn't do HDR graphics but even if it could it wasn't fast enough for the game at max settings.
I still have the x800xt in a box perfectly working. I am just afraid it could die on me so I don't run it all the time. It's the last ATI card with win98 drivers.
Thanks for the comment!
I've upgraded to the 7900 GS back then, which is the X1950 Pro' competitor, with the X1950 Pro being way better in Oblivion, I still remember the review from Anandtech.
The X800 / X850 XT on AGP is one of the cards that I desire the most, but it's very rare unfortunately...so keep it secret, keep it safe :)
I have never played this game before, so I really wanted to take away as much info as possible…but I just couldn’t focus for laughing at your superb delivery 🤷♂️😂.
Great video - subscribed!
Thank you for the kind words :)
Stick around, I have a lot of games that I want to further review, I just need to get my stuff together!
Another well crafted video, nice work! Great game too.
Yes, another classic game :)
This was literally my first real gaming PC specs. Lol cool video.
Nice system, the Radeon 9600 XT was a really cool card back then!
What PC did you have when you first played Oblivion?
Back then, I played Oblivion on a Core 2 Duo E6400, an overclocked XFX GeForce 7900 GS and 4 GB of RAM.
@Mr. Sophistication Hmm, your PC should have run Oblivion with decent settings and framerates.
What settings and resolution were you using?
@Mr. Sophistication That AA was not a good idea :)
I agree with the CPU being a bottleneck, in this video I've PC the Athlon XP and the FPS improved, even when using the Radeon 9600 XT.
@Mr. Sophistication Yeah, maybe, but Oblivion had huge requirements...thank you Bethesda!
First time I played this game was on Asus k54c with intel celeron b800 1.50ghz, 8gb ram and intel hd graphics, it ran at medium settings and 1366x768 resolution. It ran horrible until I installed some patches and mods and it ran well.
I think I had amd athlon thunder bird 1400 with a 6800le card for Oblivion in 2005. Those were the days :D
GeForce 6800 with Athlon 1400...now that's a nice pair, it's like those couples that you see on the street, she has 30 years, and he has 60 :)
My favourite thing to do in Oblivion; set every skill I will never use as "major" and becoming an overpowered lvl 1 character. I played hundreds of hours on the Xbox360 version, trained athletics and acrobatics to 100 in the starter dungeon before exiting the sewers so that any new character I made would automatically have them.
Between Oblivion and Guild Wars 1, Jeremy Soule occupies so much of my gaming music nostalgia.
Oblivion is a very "cheesable" game, and the whole thing with major skills for leveling and world scaling almost forces you to find all kind of workarounds. However, this has not stopped a lot of us from playing the game for an obscene number of hours.
Jeremy Soule is like the Hans Zimmer of games :)
I found that back in the day distant land/building/trees setting made very little difference on my Radeon 9600 Pro (256mb) and the game was reasonably playable.
to be fair though, my expectations were low as well. So maybe like 20 - 30fps
20-30 FPS in Oblivion was godlike back then!
@@MidnightGeek99 yeah I mean, my expectations have just skyrocketed in recent years. But definitely playable!
Oblivion is a very demanding game. I’ve tried playing with an Athlon 64 X2 5000 and then with the X2 6000 but it would sometimes drop frames no matter if I used my X1950XT or a more modern card like a Radeon 7850. Even the E8500 struggled sometimes but was better. Only on my modern 9700K did it run perfectly smooth at all times.
Imagine that Oblivion was released when the Radeon X1900 XTX was the top dog!
I've played Oblivion on the GeForce 7900GS, but Oblivion is one of those games that is best played on a more modern computer.
@@MidnightGeek99 yes. Back in the day I bought a PC around the time Oblivion came out. An Opteron 165 that I overclocked with 2GB RAM and a 7800GT. But it kept crashing so I bought it for Xbox 360 instead.
@@wertywerrtyson5529 Why Opteron?
one thing i saw when looking up benchmarks a while back was that oblivion was not very good at utilizing any additional cores so the performance gain was less than optimal
Now this would be a nice video, testing older games for multi core VS single core performance.
@@MidnightGeek99 i think it would be nice to see how older games perform between the two, since some p4s had hyper threading and dual cores were only just being introduced at the time
Imi aduc aminte de zilele cand incercam sa rulez Oblivion pe primul meu PC de prin 2005 (P4 1.19Ghz, RAM 256mb DDR400, GeForce FX5500)...
Noroc de Oldblivion :))
Te inteleg, crede-ma :))
E foarte interesant acest mod, poate ii fac o proba in curand, sa il incerc pe un GeForce3 Ti 200!
Very informative video. Do you have plan to make more of these "minimum vs recommended" videos with other demanding games of the time?
Thanks. I have in plan to make for all games :)
I finished Oblivion on a 9600 XT and Sempron 2100+, but I remember running a bit better, maybe it was an earlier version. It was getting really slow anytime a daedra was killed or some fog was present.
I did not have the patience now to finish it on the minimum requirements :) Well, what you said is kind off my experience in this video, if there are less special effects on the screen, and not many enemies, the game runs...decent.
@@MidnightGeek99 Oh no, I didn't meant you to finish it on a 9600 XT, enjoy it on a more powerful card at full resolution.
It wasn't a good experience for me, but I didn't had a choice haha
@@mcDragoon Yeah, I know that you didn't, I was comparing myself to you, who finished it...and I didn't :))
Very nice
Thank you!
I knew that CPU was a bottleneck in all the scenes where FPS dramatically plummeted and that 1900XTX could handle the game properly. So, it was reasonable that C2Duo will fix the issue.
Yes, the CPU and the RAM also.
The video: "At 1600x1200 you don't really need antialiasing".
Meanwhile me, using VSR to supersample older games from 7680x4320 down to my monitor's native 4K:
:))) Whatever makes you click my friend!
I had Athlon XP 2600+ 2gb DDR 2 and 9600 pro 256MB , must say Oblivion didn't like the 9600pro good card but not for Oblivion.
Sold my 9600pro and bought 7600gs 512 mb overkill for XP 2600+ but Oblivion was happy and playable on 21 CRT Sony Trinitron
7600GS served me well until i switched to Q6600 system, and HD3850, and after some time i switched HD3850 to HD4850
Oblivion was very demanding for its day and age, but as you can see, you can play it even on an Athlon XP and a Radeon 9600 XT.
I've played Oblivion the most in the period when I had a Core 2 Duo E6400 and a GeForce 7900 GS, both of them overclocked to insanity, because I was a mad lad back then :)
@@MidnightGeek99
I played it on 7600GS with some compromises but it run ok but running ok in those days and now days are two different things. I was happy with 30fps if i could achieve that. If i ever cross on cheap AGP 7600gs i will retest it and see how "good" was running,
And latter i reply Oblivion with GTX570 sonic platinum with tons ant tons of mods and that card was awesome.
So, it was basically Starfield of it's era... But the graphics at ultramax settings were actually impressive, even if unplayable.
Yeah, for that time, the graphics were impressive!
I wish i had the money to buy a pc to play this modern masterpiece
Well, you can buy the game on GoG for $8, and for $100 you can get yourself an older PC, install Windows XP and then have fun playing the game :)
"It just works"
:)