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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
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Life away from my computer will go to oblivion march 20...
My PC will run it. On full apparently.
As for PS3... dead in the water now,far as I can tell.
I think oblivion will run on a lot of PCs though, bethesda have been sensitive to the problems of morrowind that if you didnt have an at the time brand new pc it was sooooo slow. oblivion has huge scalability.
I cant wait what game to buy in the mean time though... i was thinking star wars: empire at war, but it seems too simplistic. I want to micromanage, dammit!
Tried Hearts of Iron? You can micromanage to your hearts content then!
true but I think if I had the money for a 360 I'd just spend it on bits for my PC.
my PC has the min specs, just about... but like most new games now, my radeon 9600 is unsupported, lowest is 9700 do'h!
it'll still run it though
MSI MB (cant remember which one but its abuot 4yrs old)
AMD XP2100 (1.73Ghz)
RAM 1256MB
HDD0 - 120GB
HDD1 - 20GB
GFX - ATI Radeon 9800SE+ 128mb
OS - Win2000 sp4
But i want to upgrade the CPU to a AMD Dual core 64bit, which means i'll have to replace the MB, and more likely the Gfx as well. should get away with the ram and hdd.
I'm glad that this game is finally coming out, been waiting too long for it...
great site :thumb:
my PC actually came higher than I expected, 3/4 of the way between minimum & recommended
for recommended though I need...
Recommended CPU speed: 3 GHz
You Have: 2.1 GHz Performance Rated at 2.6 GHz
Recommended: 128MB Direct3D compatible video card (NVIDIA GeForce 6800+ / ATI Radeon X800+)
You Have: RADEON 9600 SERIES (ATI RADEON 9600 Series AGP (0x4150))
[Although it does have all the required minimum specs]
oh, and more RAM.
To get a raelly nice performance boost, try installing 'softmodded' drivers for the radeon 9800se, its exactly the same card ive got, and i did the same to virtually upgrade it to a 9800 pro. It may not work and cause artefacting (strange objects in the screen, textures not displaying, etc. just random weirdness), in which case roll back to normal drivers.
Softmodded drivers can be found here: http://www.techpowerup.com/softmod/downloads.php
The downside - It seems to be just as sluggish as Morrowind, even on high-end PCs. The default setup is not very well optimised. I've had to change quite a few settings and fiddle with INI files to get average performance (whilst still looking nice). It also sounds to be a bit buggy (folk have had crashes and some of the quests seem a bit broken) and so far I am not "drawn in" as much as Morrowind.
The good side - It looks good, and most of the gameplay elements have improved.
and the game keeps crashing on me ;(
Yeah a few people seem to be getting crashes. Bit naff that really.
Couple of crashes, nothing I can duplicate though, just sporadic really.
I think its drawn me in more than morrowind. I like the way it feels a lot more like im in it rather than playing a game. Problem is that its very hard to put down. Theres so much to try on it and ive played with the tiniest fraction. Cant work out whether i want my next character to be a thief or an archer or a mage or what!
One issue, dragging things with 'z'. If they dont belong to you, it counts as stealing, which i didnt realise. In my stats it now says ive stolen 96 items . My char is a pious knight defending good ordinary people, not a blooming thief. Just curious, thats all . I like throwing melons in the air and hitting them on the way down.
what would you say if a stranger started picking up your things and throwing them around ? ;p
I was merely dragging them
One thing thats strange, it might just be mine though... go up to a cabinet full of stuff and pick up something in the middle say... everything else will 'float' up a little bit, sometimes things topple off because of this, its bizarre!
(that is a bad description butr thay are like four quarters that dont join but look like a cruciform) i tend to find skeletons firt then come across ghosts (that once killed give you ectoplasm) in them
all over the map there are quite a few of them! you just have to explore