Radeon 9600 comments/questions

All right, I bought oblivion and found out that when they said
"supported video cards are" they meant that the technology had changed
and earlier cards would not work. My 8500--which make Morrowind look
gorgeous and plays for hours between crashes now that I've learned to
play it with the game set to exacty match my desktop screen (so there
is NO changing of graphics modes)--simply could not display the game
(everything gets whited out).

So, I switched to my husbands machine which as a 9600. The sewers were
not too bad. But I found fights in the open, at default settings, to
be very difficult (the screen "freezes" for a second or two while
opponenet beats up on you, comes back and so you start to look around
to find opponent while opponent beats on you, etc.) I've since turned
everything way down except a little bit of see people at a distance (to
see those opponents coming). It's ok in the fights I've had so far,
but they have still mostly been indoors. I'm not sure what will happen
with multiple opponents, especially in the open.

How are other people doing with a Radeon 9600? Are you finding the
game playable?

DeAnn wrote:
> All right, I bought oblivion and found out that when they said
> "supported video cards are" they meant that the technology had changed
> and earlier cards would not work. My 8500--which make Morrowind look
> gorgeous and plays for hours between crashes now that I've learned to
> play it with the game set to exacty match my desktop screen (so there
> is NO changing of graphics modes)--simply could not display the game
> (everything gets whited out).
>
> So, I switched to my husbands machine which as a 9600. The sewers were
> not too bad. But I found fights in the open, at default settings, to
> be very difficult (the screen "freezes" for a second or two while
> opponenet beats up on you, comes back and so you start to look around
> to find opponent while opponent beats on you, etc.) I've since turned
> everything way down except a little bit of see people at a distance (to
> see those opponents coming). It's ok in the fights I've had so far,
> but they have still mostly been indoors. I'm not sure what will happen
> with multiple opponents, especially in the open.
>
> How are other people doing with a Radeon 9600? Are you finding the
> game playable?
>
I have a Radeon 9600 Pro card which is reasonable as long as I turn off
a lot of effects (shadows, grass stuff etc..) and play at 800 x 600. It
does get quite sluggish and jerky during combat when things are "busy",
i.e. lots of characters in action. Moving from indoors to out can be
painful also with respect to load times but then I only have 512Meg of
ram so I guess more of that would help. I'd love to run this game with
all the sliders to the right but in the meantime I am still having a
hell of a lot of fun

Google for Oblivion optimising guides, there are a lot of useful tips
out there.