TES IV: Oblivion (Pentium M 730, Geforce Go 6600, 2 GB DDR2-533)

[FanBoyPC]

i can play on High Settings?

Windows XP, SP2

Intel Pentium 4 3,20 Ghz HT

2GB DDR2-667mhz

Geforce 7600GS 256mb

HDD 80GB

[fire1202]

@ mobius1aic

I've put my laptop out of commission when it comes to gaming. And regarding the VRAM thing, I was reply to his comment which stated he had a Geforce Go 6600, same as mine, but with 64 MB of RAM. He removed it, unfortunately. The reason why, I don't know. Anyway, I'm talking about comparisons between same GPU models but with different configs. I'm getting tired of all the crap I hear that people think more VRAM = more performance without any regard for the type of memory being used.

[fire1202]

BTW, your last suggestion of OCing = big no-no. It's already clear that I'm using a laptop. You want me to fry my GPU? Thanks, but no thanks. I'm not that desperate for performance. For gaming, 70% of the time is spent on the Xbox 360 and PS3 while the 30% is spent on my relatively decent Athlon X2 7750 BE + Radeon HD 4770 equipped PC which I usually use for online games and the occasional PC exclusive or games I'd like to play on the PC (mostly RTS and RTT titles).

[PlayStationMidget]

man im really amazed to see this running with such a low spec pc and it runs so well xD

[arjunkie12]

who can help me with something

if i play oblivion it wil lag sometimes but i play medium settings what can i do to play it smooth just like the video, and i have the same specs just like fire1202

[arjunkie12]

how can you have 265 mb video card when i have the same card but have 128 mb, can you tell me how?

[fire1202]

Not all Geforce Go 6600s are the same. Some have 128 MB while some have 256 MB. Mine just happens to be the 256 MB version. They both use the same memory type though, DDR.

[arjunkie12]

so that means that there where 2 versions 6600s and i have the ****** 128 mb version and there are not the same :(

[fire1202]

The GPU's RAM doesn't matter anyway unless you play at high resolution. It just happens to be that my laptop's resolution is 1680x1050 so the additional VRAM helps. Once you make a small bump in resolution and notice a big hit in FPS, it's the VRAM being the bottleneck. DMC4 for me. Jumping from 1024x640 to 1152x667 cuts my FPS nearly half. Despite the small jump, in resolution, the FPS drop was relatively big.

[arjunkie12]

but do you play in medium or high quality

[mobius1aic]

You have to remember that the ROPs are having to deal with a big load too, it's not always a VRAM issue. Going from let's say 1280 x 800 resolution (1,024,000 pixels) to 1440 x 900 (1,296,000 pixels) doesn't seem like much, but it's a 30% jump in resolution increase for the ROPs to render. If they were already pretty much bogged down at the lower resolution, they are going to suffer more the higher you go, whether you have the VRAM or not.

[mobius1aic]

Depending on your visual settings, I'm somewhat doubtful your VRAM amount is being a real limitation. If VRAM really was such a limitation, the 320 MB 8800GTS i had in my last desktop wouldn't have ran Crysis at high settings at 1440 x 900 while maintaining decent FPS like it did because there is alot more data in Crysis being shoved through the GPU than what Oblivion is doing, BY FAR. Also your memory speed might be holding your 6600 back a bit, maybe try OCing it a bit?

[Nonamekroon]

I even have a 64MB Nvidia Geforce go 6600 in my laptop ^^

[Siasio]

I have gf6600 256 GDDR2:)

[psp4lifefull]

Can my laptop play this game in low settings?

intel celeron 1.6ghz M

ati radeon 200M series

2GB DDR2 RAM

16GB free hd space

thanks!!!!!!!!!!!

[fire1202]

@ psp4lifefull

Eh... No. Your laptop is quite slow, both the CPU and GPU. Let me guess, you have an ASUS A6R? Noh?

[psp4lifefull]

I got the game, it runs it pretty well. MUCH better than I thought it would.

Im saving for a quad core 8800gt computer, Im sure that they'll go down alot since the i7 quad core and 280gtx came out!

[psp4lifefull]

OH btw its a toshiba satellite L35-S2171 I upgraded to 2GB RAM (I really have 2.526GB RAM, but can only use 2GB) Is there a way to use my left-over RAM with my video card to sorta improve performance? THANKS!

[Typhoon07]

How well would this run using a 2Ghz dual core, 4GB RAM, ATI 3470 on Vista?

[fire1202]

I've got a friend with a laptop that has similar specs. 2.0 Ghz Core 2 Duo, 3 GB DDR2-800 RAM, and an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3450. His Oblivion runs a bit slower than my laptop's, probably because of the slower video card.

[quipster811]

I got the same uniwill laptop 780 P-M, 2GB Ram, 120GB 7200rpm HD and I'll update the MXM GFx from 6600go to Mobility 3650 this week.

Still a decent laptop even for today and with dual graphics it was ahead of its time.

Still got the first battery and it still lasts round 5 hours on the onboard solution :-)

[fire1202]

May I know what specific make is your MR HD 3650? I've been eying the Geforce 8600M GT but all I can find are the ASUS ones which only work on the ASUS C90s. My laptop also lasts 4+ hours using the GMA900. For an old laptop, it's still running well. Mine's looking particularly old though. =/ My sweaty palms during gaming already left noticable black marks on the wristpad area below the keyboard. It needs a paint job. What color do you think might suit my laptop? Mine's currently silver/black.

[quipster811]

Don't have the card yet but hope to get it either today or tommorow. I chose the 3650 over the 8600M GT 'cos of slightly better performance, and also the 8600M series are known to have a high failure rate. Actually, the ASUS card works with this model. The only thing is that it causes to run a 30 secs error code with a blank screen, but eventually it boots up and works just fine. I assume this behaviour can be fixed by flashing the BIOS of the card to Acer Bios, as other users have confirmed.

[quipster811]

I guess the heatsink will have to be ground down a bit at one spot, as one chip looks a little higher on the 3650 compared to 6600 go. No biggie.. Also I swapped out the blue heatpad on the 6600 GPU for copper. Thermal compound on both sides of a small square of copper (1mm thickness) placed in between the GPU die and the heatsink lowers the max temps round 8-10°C. I also plan to do this with the 3650, and then max the card out clockwise :-).

I'll keep u updated on my findings.

[quipster811]

Oh, I purchased the ATI for 125 Euros (I'm from Germany)so it's a bit cheaper than the 8600M GT. Mine is dark silver and black, too. Not the most beautiful of colour combos, but I don't mind. Have you ever thought about an adhesive plastic wrap job (I'll call it that way for lack of a better term), you know, the one you can get for cars and stuff?

Should be way easier to do than a paint job, and might yield similar results.

[quipster811]

Bye for now. About ASUS 8600M GTvcards I had better written they SHOULD work, as I cant assure you 100%.

[fire1202]

The ASUS card I meant isn't even the same shape as my GF Go 6600, so I'm thinking you're talking about another card. I read the Acer ones fit perfectly, but I can't find them. Then again. 125 euroes for a new GPU is too expensive. MSI recently unveiled their new 15" laptops with an ATI MR HD 4670 and Amazon has them for less than $800. I can get a brand new and much faster laptop for about 5x the price of a GPU upgrade. I'll probably just get a new laptop. Thanks for the advice though.

[imadipsticklike]

& what is the laptop make/model?

[fire1202]

My laptop is a Blue XTRM Cobalt, but its generic name is the Uniwill 259EN. The Alienware M5500, ABS Mayhem G4 Revolution, Rock Pegasus 650, some other laptops are just rebranded/rebadged, sometimes with cosmetic changes, but these laptops are the same as mine. Those companies got their stocks from a single manufacturer in Taiwan, in this case, its Uniwill.

So there's really no point in mentioning my laptop's make, only its specs.

BTW, what did you mean by "How have you managed that?"?

[imadipsticklike]

I see. & I meant that it was running very well for your hardware specs. ;D

[fire1202]

Oh. Well, I did download some mods that increase performance like Streamline for Oblivion since I added graphics enhancing mods. If I ran the game with the additional graphics mods without the performance tweaks, it'd be a little slower than this. BTW, many of those other game videos you see on YouTube are recorded using Fraps which directly records the game BUT will slash the FPS by more than half because it's running the game and recording at the same time. I recorded this with my camera.

[fire1202]

BTW, here are my settings:

Resolution - 1280x768

Water detail - normal (I don't see a difference between normal and high)

Int. Shadows (amount of shadows drawn indoors) - 6/10

Ext. Shadows (" outdoors) - 3/10

Shadow filtering - 0/10 (I prefer smooth and sharp shadows over soft ones, and turning this on kills performance too with very little increase in detail)

No HDR or Bloom lighting (I don't like HDR or Bloom effects, affects performance too)

No Anti-aliasing

Everything else maxed out

[imadipsticklike]

How have you managed that? :|