Oblivion

the only thing you could do would be too buy a video card. Most likely an ATI or Nvidia card, with atleast 128mb, preferably 256MB. There's nothing you can do to your current graphics controller to boost the power. If you're using a laptop, you're not going to be able to just add in a new video card like you would be able to if you were using a desktop computer.

It's only possible to increase the performance of stand-alone video cards. And that is done thru over-clocking, or installing good software drivers, of which there are many.

You can however, boost the RAM by adding more. It's usually pretty easy. It's tricky on laptops sometimes, depending the type of laptop model. It's fairly cheap to add another stick of 512MB. usually around $50 USD. Price may vary a tad depening on what type of RAM you have.


Edited by Illuminati - 09-Jun-2006 at 20:29

yup, thats exactly what i was looking for.

you actually don't have a video card. you have whats called an integrated graphics controller, with 96MB backing it up.

Oblivion would destroy a 96MB videocard. An integrated graphics controller wouldn't even stand a chance. You may be able to install it, and perhaps get it to run, but you'll have to turn the graphics all the way down, turn off the shaders off, etc...

Personally, i wouldn't buy Oblivion. No matter what you do, it'll run still  choppy and lock up all the time. It's a hugely demanding game

Originally posted by funkyflea I'm not really sure about my video card!! do you know how i might be able to find out?

yup. It's real easy.

1. right click anywhere on desktop
2. Click on "properties"
3. that'll pop up a window called "display properties"
4. click on the "settings" tab
5. click on the "advanced"
6. That will pop up a new window prolly entitled "plug and play...."
7. there are a bunch of tabs at the top, one of which is your video card. The name of the tab varies depending on what kind of card you have.

to help you narrow down which tab it may be, you can ignore these tabs...general, adapter, monitor, troubleshoot, and color management.

jsut copy me whatever information is displayed once you select the tab that corresponds to your video card (or possibly, your integrated graphics controller) and I'll be able to tell you what kinda stuff it could handle.


Edited by Illuminati - 07-Jun-2006 at 23:07

I'm not really sure about my video card!! do you know how i might be able to find out?

I have a standard intel pentium 4 processor windows xp with 2.99ghz and 512mb of ram! will it be slow if i buy oblivion?

LOL... My friend always plays games. He rents a least 2-4 games a week, from Blockbuster. Some games are crappy, some are okay, some are great. But he also works out, goes to school, take showers, etc. He is a hugh gamer for sure.

He not that hard core its very possible to beat the game in less than 5 days if you just do the mainquest and no sidequests.

You must not be a true fan of the elder scrolls series then.

Did anyone get the collectors edition it comes with a cool coin and guide to the history of the empire.

Its actually over 200 hours of fun and missions.