Extremely low FPS on High End System (same old story, eh?)

[Praxis Abraxis]

down to as low as 10.
I run a i5 3570k and a Titan X with 24g ram\
but I know that doesnt account for much.

Grpahically Im using Qarls textures and some other stuff, but primarily
Oblivion Reloaded

I tried using an enb as well but I kept crashing so I deleted it.

From research it look slike this is likely a sound issue,
I just cant seem to find a fix for me.

anyone have any ideas?

[Tobblerone]

not sure how the engine uses graphics cards but I know oblivions engine can only utilize 1 CPU core so if you're running mods that is CPU taxing. The cpu is bottlenecking your graphics card. Only way to improve your FPS is to either overclock your CPU (don't know how much that will actually help) or delete the CPU taxing mods.

[Praxis Abraxis]

well, I basically have to run with shadows off and exterior shadows at very low distance. pretty sad, but the saddest part is that barely fixes the fps problem. but at least it jumps up pretty high at times now.

I accept this though.
you know
this is literally like the tenth go Ive had of oblivion
Modding it is a major pain in the ass, it seems. and Ive given up after doing everything seemily right and having a broken game each time.
Now, I seem to have a mostly working game
(and I am NOT NEW TO MODDING have been doing it since morrowind)
It still crashes or freezes at random

but I just quicksave every two minutes, hoping that doesnt break my game down the road.

The funny thing is, the most of a 'go' Ive given this game was on the 360 giving it about 40 hours of my life before I threw up, buried the game in a ditch, and decided this boring tech demo wasnt worth my time......

But now, on PC, well

modded
its pleasant. Enjoyable.
if it DOES fit into an uncomfortable location in PC gaming from back when single core processors still seemed to rule....

It is still worth my time.

It will just never be morrowind, like syrim which followed....
which, still, as carefully modded as can be.... still ctd at random.

Unlike stalwart Morrowind. Which I have recently rebought for steam because my disc copies kept installing corrupt installations.

Morrowind, fully modded and redone,

doesnt crash at all
runs beautifully
and is aesthetically superior, and even graphically rivals these later titles in certian aspects...

Not trying to flamebait here,
it just amuses me.

[chris183]

some tips about the crashing, download the 4gb memory patch
oblivion by default can only use 2 so with 4 your a lot less likely to experience crashes

http://preventcrashesinoblivion.page.tl/4GB-EXE-Patcher.htm

just open the .exe and find your oblivion.exe and run it (no its not a virus)

also with whatever mod manger you're using use archive invalidation and automatic plugin sorting (i used nmm but im sure other mods managers have these functions as well) every time you install a mod check to see if the game closes properly, launch in windowed mode and just load a save and then exit the game, if your game crashes then something is wrong


other stuff

oblivion reloaded has its own ini file in steamapps\common\Oblivion\Data\OBSE\Plugins

some notable things with oblivion reloaded an enb installed make sure you turn all your shaders and effects to 0 in oblivionreloaded.ini so that tne enb does all that stuff and doesnt cause any conflicts (i had no water) even with bUseWaterDisplacements=0 in the oblivion.ini


also under main CameraMode = 0 and fov 75.0 (you can also turn off sleep/equipment and combat mode if you want)

cameramode was bugging out for me making my shield take up the whole screen when i blocked and my torch was back to vanilla style moving all over the front of my screen instead of being off the side like oblivion reloaded fixed, so camera mode = 0 fixed that for me


you can turn fov up but when you go to talk to someone in first person mode it will zoom into their face then back out to the fov you set and its annoying to me, 75 is the default value in the oblivion.ini

also the lock on mode you can change that in Data\Ini\OblivionReloaderdEsp.ini with StayOnTarget to 0

grass can also be changed in oblivion reloaded in steamapps\common\Oblivion\Data\Shaders\OblivionReloaded\Grass

turning down grass density may help with fps as well, and get oblivion stutter remover if you dont already have it

no idea if any of this will actully help you fps wise but crashing can be due to mods not being installed correctly or just having too many mods and making the game run out of memory and become unstable

[atomic boom]

Sounds weird, but try to disable anti aliasing if it's enabled in game's options, and enable anti aliasing inside the nvidia control panel.

[chris183]

aa isnt supposed to be on ingame or on control panel if you are running oblivion reloaded

most mods require hdr and you cant run aa and hdr together with ingame options but if you have an enb it will do aa for you

[Praxis Abraxis]

thanks for the advice. I had already loaded the 4gb patch, but thos eother tweaks were new to me so I am checking them out. If I notice a difference I will post here again.