Poor Performance on high end system

[ThunderTurtle]

I have a GTX 1060, an AMD 6350, and 8 gigs of ram, but somehow in places like the mage's guilds, I get 25 fps. I only have a few mods running. I managed to get my framerate back to 30+ by removing Immersive Interiors but things are still pretty sluggish for a game that is 11 years old.

[KingyWingy]

The area that will result in the lowest frame rate is the imperial city market district during/after noon on a sunny day when it becomes the most populated with NPCs. Most of the people will congregate, if you can call it that , in the center of the road crossing. Go to either end of the curved road and stand near the guards there and look at the NPCs in the middle of the area. Your frame rate will crash hard, likely done into the 20s if you have a modern gaming CPU.

I have tried many tweaks to improve the frame rate but none have worked.

[NikiUh]

The Gamebryo Engine used in Oblivion,Fallout 3 and New Vegas is not optimized for modern hardware. So even with a high end system in your house you will not be able to get smooth performance.

[Met A Demon Once]

Originally posted by Belanos:

Originally posted by Met A Demon Once:

I run 32 GB RAM and routinely use 14-15 GB when running at max.

No you don't. Oblivion is a 32 bit program, and as such can never use any more than 4 gig of RAM on a 64 bit OS. And that's after making it Large Address Aware with some third party utility. Otherwise it will never use more than 2 gig.

Originally posted by Met A Demon Once:

It has been my experience that anytime more than 50% of your available RAM is being used by the system it starts getting boggy.

Wow, you're just full of misinformation. Windows 10 itself only uses up about 1 gig of RAM. With a maximum of 4 gig for the game on top of that, anything over 5 gig is overkill and not necessary. You really should learn how things actually work before trying to give people advice.

I am referring to everything that is running besides the game. I normally run close to 15 GB or RAM on my machine due to all the processes running. I can technically run the same stuff on 8 GB machine but the machine is BOGGGGYYY if I do.

[Met A Demon Once]

Today is a light day. I am not running any game so I am only using 11.5 GB of RAM.

[Met A Demon Once]

Keep in mind that the CPU tells the GPU what to do and the GPU converts those instructions into a image you can see. The two are interrelated and cannot operate well if either one is overloaded. If the CPU has too many processes making demands on it and using too much RAM then the GPU is going to be a bit slow. It is not all one or the other.

The technical term is "bottleneck" and can happen both ways. A overloaded CPU can bottleneck the GPU or an overloaded GPU can bottleneck the CPU.

[ᵉʳᵍᵒ]

The game is locked to use only one CPU core. Everyone has ♥♥♥♥♥♥ performance to some degree.

[Met A Demon Once]

I have a screaming machine but it is because I put a very heavy workload on it. My GPU is more than adequate for my needs so the two balance out and give me very good performance. I run medium settings on my GPU.

GT72 7gen CPU 32GB RAM 1 TB SSD GTX 970m and I store many of my games in a portable SSD connected via USB 3.0.

[Carloscool5]

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[Carloscool5]

i actauly have a 970 and a fx 8350( not overclocked) and 9gb i stay at 60 fps all the time except a few big battles and some minor stuttering

[crazycupmuffin]

Originally posted by Met A Demon Once:

I consider 8GB RAM at the bottom end anymore especially if you are running Windows 10. A 8GB RAM system seems like a dinosaur to me. I run 32 GB RAM and routinely use 14-15 GB when running at max. My suggestion is you look at your underlying RAM first. You can speed things up significantly by replacing a hard disk with a SSD. I run a 1 TB SSD which significantly increases performance. In essence everything I run is in memory. Either on a SSD or in RAM.

I can read, copy and write a backup to a 5GB database in 8 seconds.

PS. I run a GTX 970m card. Not nearly as good as yours and I have no difficulty playing any game on Steam. Which means it is your other hardware which is "probably" bogging you down.

Lol. You made an old computer engineer's day with that one. :)

[Ghost]

Your pc should be perfectly fine running the game. You have stated that in some places like the mages guild your fps drops to 25. What other places is this occuring at?

Also, are you using any tools such as LOOT, BOSS, Wrye Bash, OBMM, NMM etc?
Posting your load order would be a help aswell.

[ralphtobybob]

Originally posted by Belanos:

Originally posted by Met A Demon Once:

I run 32 GB RAM and routinely use 14-15 GB when running at max.

No you don't. Oblivion is a 32 bit program, and as such can never use any more than 4 gig of RAM on a 64 bit OS. And that's after making it Large Address Aware with some third party utility. Otherwise it will never use more than 2 gig.

Originally posted by Met A Demon Once:

It has been my experience that anytime more than 50% of your available RAM is being used by the system it starts getting boggy.

Wow, you're just full of misinformation. Windows 10 itself only uses up about 1 gig of RAM. With a maximum of 4 gig for the game on top of that, anything over 5 gig is overkill and not necessary. You really should learn how things actually work before trying to give people advice.

I'm on Win 10. The only app loaded beside the default Win stuff is Steam. I'm using 2.1 gb out of a total of 10gb.

I don't think I've ever seen it lower than that.

[Mad]

For Oblivion, high end GPU or lots of RAM won't help.
What you need is strong CPU with strong SINGLE core since game uses only one core. For example, 3 GHz dual core CPU is better than 2 GHz quad core.

4GB enabler will enable game to use around 3.5 GB of ram which can help, but if you go crazy with hi res texture packs and various graphical mods, you'll exhaust that as well.

[antoniofalzone]

Hi so just reading above the comments, but its not the frame rates thats the issue, its all the bugs, crashing to desktop and crashing to black screen, forcing a hard reboot i had, my pc is latest 13th gen intel i5, 64 gig ram, ssd m2 drive , radeon rx 6600xt, and the game ran like really poor, i think its just too old and never properly designed for PC.

Im shocked it even started on windows 11.

Play skyrim instead.

[4K_240hz_MLED]

Originally posted by ThunderTurtle:

I have a GTX 1060, an AMD 6350, and 8 gigs of ram, but somehow in places like the mage's guilds, I get 25 fps. I only have a few mods running. I managed to get my framerate back to 30+ by removing Immersive Interiors but things are still pretty sluggish for a game that is 11 years old.

i'm sorry, but even for 2017 standards, GTX 1060, FX 6350, and 8GB RAM is not high end. You'd need at least GTX 1080, FX 9590 (heavily overclocked), and 32GB RAM for your PC to be considered high end before. And as the others have said, Oblivion is a heavily CPU bound game that is limited to using only 1 CPU core. The FX Bulldozer chips have decent multicore performance for its time, but absolute garbage single core performance.

I actually have an inferior GPU to you, the GTX 1050, but because I have a far superior CPU and faster RAM (DDR4 instead of DDR3), I get far better performance in Oblivion than you ever will hope to achieve. The Core i5 9300H is definitely outdated for 2024 standards, but it's fast enough to trade blows with the Core i7 7700K or Ryzen 7 1800X with Turbo boost enabled (also, I won the silicon lottery too).