[Povuholo]

Tweakguides' Oblivion Tweak Guide is a regularly updated tweak guide for Oblivion.

This article explains many lines of the Oblivion.ini file you can change to either improve the visual quality, performance, or something else.

Both high and and low end machines can take advantage of these tweaks.

It also has screenshots which show what the different game settings do and change in the game.

And there's more. Just go there and start tweaking!

This post has been edited by Povuholo: 16 April 2008 - 11:26 AM

[goseki]

Povuholo, on Apr 8 2006, 05:55 AM, said:

Optimising Oblivion V2.0 is out!

this is a great page! thanks

[mooncow1]

Wow. That helped a lot, I upped my resolution and made the game look better, there.

Thanks for finding that!

[Switch]

Wow, this looks handy. Thanks Pov. ^^ Pin-worthy, methinks.

[goseki]

there are some parts of the .ini file i just can't find

iPreloadSizeLimit=26214400

among others. my .ini fil is called oblivion_default.ini

am i doing something wrong? can anyone help?

[Theta Orionis]

There are two .ini files - the _default one in Program Files\Bethesda Softworks\Oblivion, and one in My Documents\Games\Oblivion. It's the latter you should modify.

If you open the .ini in a text editor you should be able to search for any terms you can't find.

[the_lone_bard]

Followed the guide for low-medium settings and my game locks up and crashes every 20 minutes.

[goseki]

Theta Orionis, on Apr 9 2006, 12:40 PM, said:

There are two .ini files - the _default one in Program Files\Bethesda Softworks\Oblivion, and one in My Documents\Games\Oblivion. It's the latter you should modify.

thanks theta

[silverstar]

Here's a major suggestion for anyone using an ATi card(I'm using a Sapphire Radeon X1600 Pro 512, for instance): Grab and use ATi Tray Tools. You will NOT regret it!

AA 6x enabled through Oblivion: getting ~30 frames in dungeons.
AA 6x enabled through ATi Tray Tools(disabling the application-specific setting): Getting ~40 frames in the same dungeons.

And it doesn't disable taking screenshots in the game! (sorry for posting some of this to the screenshot topic as well.. it applies to both, since I'm getting 10-20 frames more using the driver-level AA, compared to the game-level AA)

Just did an actual performance test with the ATi Tray Tools software(Hardware> overlocking settings> bench) and the performance difference is absolutely freaking astounding! o.o

Without AA: 1881.77
With AA 6x: 3476.85

And to compare it to other cards, the Radeon X800 Pro, which has far more graphics power overall than the X1600 Pro, scores 3558.41.
The rating for the X1600 XT, which is the higher level version of the X1600, only scores a 2671.15 on the benchmark. Which means that by enabling hardware-level AA x6, you're almost doubling your performance.

And no, I'm not overclocking at all.

[webby_0005]

Hey, i used the guide and it made my GeForce 6600 256MB run it on 1280x1024 resolution with everything on nearly full (except grass on lowest view and no antialiesing)

Defenetely Pin-Worthy

EDIT: Removed that link. Looked highly suspicious to me.

This post has been edited by Switch: 29 April 2006 - 11:05 AM