Saturday, March 25, 2006
22:52 by FoxTwo I have been busy lately playing Oblivion. To say that the game is amazing is an understatement. There are no words to describe how great it is. Hats off to Bethesda for pulling off yet another masterpiece in RPG gaming.
Graphics wise, screenshots do not do it justice. If you thought Half Life 2's graphics were jaw-dropping, you should see Oblivion's in action... live, in front of you. Trees and grass sway in the breeze, shadows from the trees provide shade along a country path... small details like these make the difference.
Of course, the graphic processor required is relatively high. For example, I can run Oblivion pretty smoothly on my system:
Then there is the much vaunted AI, which Bethesda called "Radiant". It was supposed to be the cutting edge in game AI. After a few days of playing Oblivion, I made 2 movies to illustrate examples of how the Radiant AI worked in the game. Both are pretty funny too!
4 attempts at attacking same NPC
Funny riot in the town of Chorrol
As you can see from the movies above, the Radiant AI is pretty cool... and funny too. It definitely is heaps better than Morrowind, that's for sure. I am sure Oblivion will live longer on the HD than Morrowind ever did.
The best thing is - Oblivion works, right out of the box. With Morrowind we had numerous crashes and slowdowns. We had to tweak INI files, to make it stop crashing. With Oblivion - nada. The only time I ever crashed to desktop was when I had a ton of things running in the background. If you unload all your background tasks (including your anti-virus, anti-spyware, firewall etc), and I mean ALL, your background stuff, Oblivion will run steady as a rock. Yes, there isn't really a reason for you to be online to the Internet when you're playing Oblivion anyway - there's NO Multiplayer in Oblivion. It's strictly a single-player game, so it makes sense to run Oblivion on a bare-bones bootup configuration.
I suspect Oblivion is just memory hungry. I have run Oblivion for 6 hours straight on a bare-bone bootup without a single crash, and I have crashed under 3 mins on a regular bootup with all the background software on. Seems like Oblivion needs about 1.5GB RAM to run comfortably.
Ok enough yakking. Time to get back into Oblivion :)
22:52 by FoxTwo I have been busy lately playing Oblivion. To say that the game is amazing is an understatement. There are no words to describe how great it is. Hats off to Bethesda for pulling off yet another masterpiece in RPG gaming.
Graphics wise, screenshots do not do it justice. If you thought Half Life 2's graphics were jaw-dropping, you should see Oblivion's in action... live, in front of you. Trees and grass sway in the breeze, shadows from the trees provide shade along a country path... small details like these make the difference.
Of course, the graphic processor required is relatively high. For example, I can run Oblivion pretty smoothly on my system:
P4 3.0 GhzOn a friend's PC, he had 512MB RAM and a GeForce 5200. Oblivion simply refused to run. Or, when it did, it was crawling and was so slow, that he had to give up and pull the power plug to turn off the PC. Get this - he was on LOW settings, and still his PC lagged like crazy. It was like a Powerpoint slideshow presentation, only slower.
2GB RAM
GeForce 6600GT
Then there is the much vaunted AI, which Bethesda called "Radiant". It was supposed to be the cutting edge in game AI. After a few days of playing Oblivion, I made 2 movies to illustrate examples of how the Radiant AI worked in the game. Both are pretty funny too!
4 attempts at attacking same NPC
Funny riot in the town of Chorrol
As you can see from the movies above, the Radiant AI is pretty cool... and funny too. It definitely is heaps better than Morrowind, that's for sure. I am sure Oblivion will live longer on the HD than Morrowind ever did.
The best thing is - Oblivion works, right out of the box. With Morrowind we had numerous crashes and slowdowns. We had to tweak INI files, to make it stop crashing. With Oblivion - nada. The only time I ever crashed to desktop was when I had a ton of things running in the background. If you unload all your background tasks (including your anti-virus, anti-spyware, firewall etc), and I mean ALL, your background stuff, Oblivion will run steady as a rock. Yes, there isn't really a reason for you to be online to the Internet when you're playing Oblivion anyway - there's NO Multiplayer in Oblivion. It's strictly a single-player game, so it makes sense to run Oblivion on a bare-bones bootup configuration.
I suspect Oblivion is just memory hungry. I have run Oblivion for 6 hours straight on a bare-bone bootup without a single crash, and I have crashed under 3 mins on a regular bootup with all the background software on. Seems like Oblivion needs about 1.5GB RAM to run comfortably.
Ok enough yakking. Time to get back into Oblivion :)
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