Munkay,May 3 2006, 06:08 PM Wrote:Less than 30 FPS with everything turned up on an absolute top of the line rig, at only 1200x800? Ouch.
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Not even 'everything' was even turned up. Oblivion further hides its Hardware stress by generally keeping battles small, and certain image quality but performance chugging options turned off or kept low (water reflections grass size, shadows, decals..). If you tried to up the combat AI ante with dozens of creatures, or further customized the user directory ini settings you'd be creeping to a crawl without extreme CPU threading power alone.
I saw articles on Quad SLI / Crossfire. It took 4 top of the line GPUs to run at 60 fps for 1280x1024 most of the time, and it still wasn't enough for the ultra wide screen resolutions that 30" displays have.
Boys and girls, we have a new standard.