High FPS- Drops around certain areas. (Vanilla Game)

[Juicy Jay]

Hello,

i get strange fps drops to 40 fps in certain areas. mostly cities.
general fps is bad too. (MAX 60/80 fps)

My Rig

GTX 1060 6gb
i5 4430 3,2ghz
16 gb RAM

I really wanna enjoy the game again, but it strangely runs really crappy on my system which is quit solid in my opinion.

Are there any ways to cure this problem ?

[the_randomizer1889]

Glad I'm not the only one suffering weird issues with framerate and pacing, etc, what drivers are you using? I believe the most recent one was from July 9th? There's also a patch that allows the game to use more than 4 GB and an anti-stutter patch.

[Juicy Jay]

Newest Drivers.. try´d all these fixes.

I mean, bad fps has nothing to do with RAM as i know.
Stuttering has something to do with RAM, but i don´t have stuttering. Just when it loads new area which is completely normal.

[Juicy Jay]

ideas ? anyone `?

[the_randomizer1889]

Change ImpactAudio (or something like that) in the INI from 32 to 16

[Juicy Jay]

Originally posted by the_randomizer1889:

Change ImpactAudio (or something like that) in the INI from 32 to 16

what means this `?

[Sam90]

You can't do much about it. The game is from 2006 and was programmed to support only single core. Even though your system is fine, a single core at 3.2 GHz from 2013 hardware is not going to help to get consistent 60 fps.
I have the same issue with my 5960x in cities like Cheydinhal and Leyawiin.
Also 40 fps is not crappy at all, it is very payable since this is not a fast-paced game.

[Juicy Jay]

mh.. maybe cap the frames at 40 to have a more persistent feeling. but when u have 60 and then fall down it´s mehh.

[Juicy Jay]

i was getting insane fps results after reducing fade distance of objects, characters and so on.
from 45 to 60fps setting some of the fades to 50%.

[Juicy Jay]

Originally posted by Sam90:

a single core at 3.2 GHz from 2013 hardware is not going to help to get consistent 60 fps.

yeah, was thinking the same. since bethesda games always profit from good cpu and ram. gpu isnt that important.

[the_randomizer1889]

Originally posted by NEONiCON:

Originally posted by the_randomizer1889:

Change ImpactAudio (or something like that) in the INI from 32 to 16

what means this `?

There's a setting in Oblivion's ini/configuration file under sound. ImpactSound is how load sounds are, change it from 32 to 16.

[Double]

It's fine to play vanilla but I highly recommend at least installing some performance/stability mods and unofficial bug patches, and applying recommended tweaks to this game. Without them, you're going to have stuff like this and worse bog down your experience. You can find all of these by searching around on Google.

For starters, I would follow this guide's recommendations under the "stability mods" section down to the "better saves" line. :https://www.ne xusmods.com/oblivion/mods/47591 (apparently Nexus mod links are blocked on Steam now for some odd reason. Go figure lol. Just remove the space.)

You can find some additional performance tweaks throughout this guide too, but they mostly pertain to the mods listed and you probably don't want that. I'd search other sources for that. You might want to look into Oblivion Reloaded (mod) which improves the stability, performance, and graphics (and more) of Oblivion.

[Juicy Jay]

I already installed Oblivion Reloaded, 4gb RAM Patcher, & Stutter Remover

[Kenign]

its old game, blame the engine... if u figure it out, i got same problem as you lol