Strange.

I've found Oblivion runs fine, and I've experienced none of the jerkiness
you describe.

I'm running:
Vista Home Premium
Athlon Dual 6000+
GeForce 8800 GTX
2 gigglebytes of RAM
A couple of SATA hard drives
on an Asus Crosshair board

Hey Andy,

I apologize for not quoting the message I was posting a response to. I
can see how my post may have seemed confusing and out of left field.
I've quoted your response to my message below.

Rather than rehash all the unsuccessful remedies I tried in an attempt
to get Oblivion to run smoothly on Vista, I'm happy to say that I
finally found a remedy that's worked beautifully for me.

I followed most the recommend steps posted by heavensgate on the bottom
of this page -
'NVIDIA Forums -> Oblivion really jerky on 8800 GTS 320Mb'
(http://tinyurl.com/2glb2t)

I say I only followed most of the recommended steps, because while I
edited the Oblivion ini file, I did not decrease any of Oblivion's
resolution or graphical effects. I'm running Oblivion (1920x1200) with
all the sliders and effects maxed and it's running extremely smooth and
fast.

heavensgate's solution is targeted at people who are running
8800GTS/GTX. Luckily, I have a GTX.

heavensgate also has some optimizations for people running multi-core
processors.

PLEASE NOTE: For anyone who'd like to try making the changes
recommended by heavensgate, make all the changes to the Oblivion ini
file located in "My Games", not the ini file located in the Oblivion
install directory. For Vista users, the correct ini file can be located
going to Start -> Search for -> "My Games" which will popup a window
with the ini to edit.

Oblivion works like a freaking charm on Vista now!


'Andy [YaYa Wrote:
[..]

I'm one that doesn't feel that a game has to run at 60fps to be good, or
have to have flawless play to be enjoyable.

I played Bioshock through at 12-20fps at 1024x768, so... thrilled for you
and your "1337" rig, I knew you'd figure it out, game has a large enough
following that most problems usually get fixed by someone within days of the
discovery.

Once you're done with Oblivion don't forget to pick up Portal.

-A.

"Rodin" <eric.artman> wrote in message
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[..]

snip
>>
>> I haven't been able to narrow down the cause. Seems like it's due to -
>> 1) Oblivion - Vista/Direct 10 issue
>
> Oblivion doesn't use DirectX 10, so that's not an issue (if the game
> doesn't use it, then it's not used). Oblivion came out before Vista so
> yeah, that's probably the problem. Not sure if you noticed, but if you
> watch Divx movies (or any video type) in Vista you'll occasionally get a
> similar result (video slows, audio continues then video speeds up to catch
> up to audio).
>

Really? If that's so then why have I never experienced this issue nor have
the multitudes of builds I've done.

Bottom line, if your game is having display issues then it's a driver issue
and near as I can tell 8800 cards still have far too many issues with
various games that should have long been sorted out in their drivers.

"Any" <junk> wrote in message
news:a484
> snip
>
> Really? If that's so then why have I never experienced this issue nor have
> the multitudes of builds I've done.

Because you're lucky. I'd say it was my hardware, but XP and Ubuntu don't
exhibit the same problems on this system. I should of said "in Vista I will
occasionally get a similar result" so I apologize, I don't meant to imply
your system had a failure of some sort even though you seem to be new to
this conversation. /shrug.

> Bottom line, if your game is having display issues then it's a driver
> issue and near as I can tell 8800 cards still have far too many issues
> with various games that should have long been sorted out in their drivers.

Or your hardware is failing, or your hardware combination has some fault
that causes problems, or you have viruses, or you have some applications
mucking up the gunk.

You can't possibly label this problem into a 1 size fits all category here.
We are talking about PCs, last time I checked the possible combination and
filure rate of PC hardware was "slightly" high.

-A.

Oblivion has many issues with Vista, jerkiness is a common problem. I
myself have not experienced any issues with two totally different
systems. I may be very lucky in that regard. But, it is a known problem,
even admitted to by Bethesda. But, Oblivion was released before Vista,
so problems aren't really surprising.

2.4 quad core
4 gig 800 mhz ddr2 ram 5-5-5-12
geforce 8800gt
vista


well i for one have the same thing happing to me ...

only thing i can do to keep it from being jurky is turn grass all the
way off...

the game run 100% fine in XP, when it starts jurking in vista the HDD
light is not coming on at all...

i think its something up with drivers or vista... i have all new
drivers and trust me im no noob on my PC... its not about FPS, FPS is
fine its about this stupid jurky crap if it's doing this crap to me
then its doing it to alot of people.

oh and what was said from the vistagamefourm I THINK IS BS...

first of all you say you tested the game on vista.. what drivers? what
cpu? ram? video card?.. how much did you test? did you turn every
thing up as high as it can go? because i tell you!!! iv seen videos of
it on youtube played by people with vista and it does the same thing,
with high setings.. and in SLI mode with 2 8800gt cards it goes slower
then one...

"abushido" <bushido2481> wrote in message
news:cczb
[..]
> first of all you say you tested the game on vista.. what drivers? what
> cpu? ram? video card?.. how much did you test? did you turn every
> thing up as high as it can go? because i tell you!!! iv seen videos of
> it on youtube played by people with vista and it does the same thing,
> with high setings.. and in SLI mode with 2 8800gt cards it goes slower
> then one...
>> --
> abushido

Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6400 @ 2.13GHz
NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT
2 GIGS RAM
Vista Home Premium

Oblivion runs great on my computer. I turned everything to the max except
music. I don't like the music in any of these games but the other sound
effects were fine. I didn't notice any jerkiness. I added Knights of the
Nine and Shivering Isles also with no problems.

"abushido" <bushido2481> wrote in message
news:cczb
|
| 2.4 quad core
| 4 gig 800 mhz ddr2 ram 5-5-5-12
| geforce 8800gt
| vista
|
|
| well i for one have the same thing happing to me ...
|
| only thing i can do to keep it from being jurky is turn grass all the
| way off...
|
| the game run 100% fine in XP, when it starts jurking in vista the HDD
| light is not coming on at all...
|
| i think its something up with drivers or vista... i have all new
| drivers and trust me im no noob on my PC... its not about FPS, FPS is
| fine its about this stupid jurky crap if it's doing this crap to me
| then its doing it to alot of people.
|
| oh and what was said from the vistagamefourm I THINK IS BS...
|
| first of all you say you tested the game on vista.. what drivers? what
| cpu? ram? video card?.. how much did you test? did you turn every
| thing up as high as it can go? because i tell you!!! iv seen videos of
| it on youtube played by people with vista and it does the same thing,
| with high setings.. and in SLI mode with 2 8800gt cards it goes slower
| then one...
|
|
| --
| abushido


I recall posts from a few weeks ago dealing with this subject - it
would seem that changing the values of some of the parameters
within the 'oblivion.ini' file will cure the problem. I'm sorry but
have no exact info. Try searching forums specific to Oblivion.
Alansd