The Official PC Topic for TES IV: Oblivion

[ZombieHendrix]

I use BTmod and colored map as well, they're the most useful without being gmae changing. I also use no psychic guards, the way I see it, if I kill someone and no one can see it, why should a guard come arrest me.
I also use a simple smaller crosshair mod, the default crosshair is so big, I wish I could turn it off, but still retain the other icons (open door, open crate, pick that up) that way I know if its illegal for me to do what I'm about to do.

[Swingman]

Oh that reminds me of a recent annoying thing.

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I was doing the quest where you go into the gate with the Bruma guards and their captain. Apparently one of the guards was about dead and I had an errant swing at enemy that had fallen right before I hit attack. Well I killed him accidently. The captain was the only one that survived and he was thanking me profusely for helping him with the gate. Well, I get arrested once I get inside Bruma. That's so retarded.

[Zoglog]

Dammit this game runs like crap on my PC

3.2Ghz P4
Geforce 6800 OC w/ extra pipelines unlocked
1GB Ram....

maybe I just need a new video card? But then upgrade goes the whole system for PCI express =/

Any settings that will prob help? i'm running it @ 1280x720 and w/ HDR. I tried bloom instead of HDR but it didnt seem to help that much.

[Kayden]

I can top that. I went on a mission to clear a cave of vampires. I killed them all and went back to town. I was arrested for two murders. :roll:

And then, someone was kidnapped so I went to the town where she was. (remote shit hole) I found her and the villagers all attacked me at once. I killed them all right propper. I get back to the city and return the daughter. As I'm walking out of their house a guard bursts in and arrests me AGAIN for murder. Side note on this quest. There are like 3-5 named townspeople in this village. When you're trying to get the girl out of the town they attack you on sight. So i stealth killed them all first. However, the game arbitrarily spawns a generic villager when you kill them. I killed the first two people near the girl and as I killed the last she was attacked by 2 other guys that came from no where. I reloaded and tried to change my tactics and they fucking spawned behind me... very cheep.

Oh that reminds me of a recent annoying thing.

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I was doing the quest where you go into the gate with the Bruma guards and their captain. Apparently one of the guards was about dead and I had an errant swing at enemy that had fallen right before I hit attack. Well I killed him accidently. The captain was the only one that survived and he was thanking me profusely for helping him with the gate. Well, I get arrested once I get inside Bruma. That's so retarded.

[Roufuss]

And then, someone was kidnapped so I went to the town where she was. (remote shit hole) I found her and the villagers all attacked me at once. I killed them all right propper. I get back to the city and return the daughter. As I'm walking out of their house a guard bursts in and arrests me AGAIN for murder. Side note on this quest. There are like 3-5 named townspeople in this village. When you're trying to get the girl out of the town they attack you on sight. So i stealth killed them all first. However, the game arbitrarily spawns a generic villager when you kill them. I killed the first two people near the girl and as I killed the last she was attacked by 2 other guys that came from no where. I reloaded and tried to change my tactics and they fucking spawned behind me... very cheep.

That quest is awesome... I killed everyone except two people (the ones who just ran and didn't attack me) and never had any sort of penalities. I also whooped everyones ass easily.

[Kayden]

Oh... then I guess I 'murdered' the two people that were going to run from me... :lol: They shouldn't have had their weapons drawn asking where I was then.

That quest is awesome... I killed everyone except two people (the ones who just ran and didn't attack me) and never had any sort of penalities. I also whooped everyones ass easily.

[Roufuss]

Oh... then I guess I 'murdered' the two people that were going to run from me... :lol: They shouldn't have had their weapons drawn asking where I was then.

Only two people who never wanted to fight where the inn keeper and the general goods lady... also the guy who offers to help you out never wanted to fight.

Its funny how he goes hostile and forgets you after the events are over.

[Kayden]

I slaughtered everyone in the town square. It was fun. I wished the Darkbrotherhood had more missions. I enjoyed killing people... now my wrath is turned upon the towns folk. I've killed every soul in Cheydinhal 3 or 4 times now. :twisted:

[Roufuss]

I slaughtered everyone in the town square. It was fun. I:

lol, did you follow the quest line for it? It's actually kind of messed up what the people were doing, and I'm really sad the game never elaborated on it further then they did... it had a lot of potential.

[ragnahrok]

Dammit this game runs like crap on my PC

3.2Ghz P4
Geforce 6800 OC w/ extra pipelines unlocked
1GB Ram....

maybe I just need a new video card? But then upgrade goes the whole system for PCI express =/

Any settings that will prob help? i'm running it @ 1280x720 and w/ HDR. I tried bloom instead of HDR but it didnt seem to help that much.



Adding more ram would help.
Adding one or two gigs would work wonders

[Genocidal]

Turn your resolution down to 1024x768, and turn some of the other settings I'd imagine you have cranked down or off. I'm running with similar specs (Pent D 3.0Ghz, GeForce 6800, 1GB Ram) and a few tweaks just fine. The CoolBits registry hack where you turn down extra frames rendered from 3 to 0 also seems to add a good amount of FPS if you haven't added that yet.

[ZombieHendrix]

Thanks for 'extra frame rendering' tip, Genocidal, my computer ran this game fine, but there are a few locations that just bogged waaaay down, for no apparent reason (the pirate ship at the imperial city waterfront, for one) and that seemed to have taken alot of the load off.

[Kayden]

lol, did you follow the quest line for it? It's actually kind of messed up what the people were doing, and I'm really sad the game never elaborated on it further then they did... it had a lot of potential.

:hot: O_O O_o! @_@!!!!!

Theres a quest where I get to kill the whole village!?

[Kayden]

I'm running at 1680x1050. Indoors I get 50-100fps and outdoors I get 10-40 FPS.

Grass taking grass off raises it ~18FPS.

Shadow complexity has little to no effect on look, but it costs a few FPS on high, so set it low.

Draw distance on tress doesn't make them pop up out of nowhere. What it does do is affects the distance at which a more detailed texture is put on the tree model. If you set it at about 50% trees about 50-60 feet away will go from dark brown mucky things to lighter brown, normal-mapped bark trees. Going between 0-100 i noticed little impact on FPS

Turning on LOD will cost you 10-15 FPS, but really, it looks so drab without it.

I found turning on water reflection will cost you 5 FPS in the middle of a forest... turn it off if you don't spend much time near water/care how it looks.

Self shadows didn't seem to have much affect on FPS, but they really only detract from the look anyways. They tend to just make the whole model really dark or the shadows don't feel like they're in the right place.

Specular distance... no clue what the hell it does nor does it seem to impact FPS.

Character draw distance seems to have little effect on FPS and at max can let you see enemies about 100 yards away.

Object draw affects how far away things like rock formations and tombstones appear. Maxing it costs about 3-4 FPS, but I think its worth it to avoid popups.

Item draw doesn't really need to be that far. You can't really see items from far aways anyways, even if you could, you couldn't pick them up. But eitherway, it doesn't seem to affect FPS much.

Canopy shadows will cost you a couple FPS, if you're watching a slideshow, turn them off. It essentailly just draws shadows on the ground from the tree tops.

Shadows on grass is probably what it says. I didn't even think about enabling it because grass is cripling enough without realtime dynamic shadowing.

Theres some of the big things I can think of.

[Kayden]

Care to give a bit more info? I googled CoolBits and most of the hits were 3 years old.

Turn your resolution down to 1024x768, and turn some of the other settings I'd imagine you have cranked down or off. I'm running with similar specs (Pent D 3.0Ghz, GeForce 6800, 1GB Ram) and a few tweaks just fine. The CoolBits registry hack where you turn down extra frames rendered from 3 to 0 also seems to add a good amount of FPS if you haven't added that yet.

[Genocidal]

Shamelessly copied from the Oblivion Settings Guide (http://ideveloper.pandora-studios.com/files/OblivionSettingsGuide.txt)

NVIDIA card Coolbits tweak

This is one of the greatest driver tweaks I have ever seen. At first, I couldn't believe my results.
But the benchmarks don't lie; I nearly doubled my framerates after applying this tweak. There is no
noticeable drop in quality and no apparent side effects. I encourage everyone to apply this tweak.
It really is pretty unbelievable. Steps:

1. Download and install the latest NVIDIA ForceWare drivers.
2. Download and install the "Coolbits" registry tweak:
http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=815
(To install, unzip then double-click the .reg file to apply the registry mod)
3. Go to Control Panel -> Display -> Settings tab -> Advanced -> GeForce XXXX (your card model)
4. Expand "Performance & Quality Settings"
5. Click on "Additional Direct3D Settings"
6. Change "Max Frames to render ahead" from 3 to 0.
7. Click "Apply" then "OK" to exit the settings page.

Start Oblivion and note the huge, huge difference in input responsiveness and framerate consistency.
Please note that I have heard that 7xxx card users have not been seeing much improvement from this
tweak. It may only relate to 6xxx series cards and below.

[Kayden]

Cool, thanks.

[Photomotoz]

Here you go guys :
http://www.tweakguides.com/Oblivion_1.html

A huge guide on a lot of tweaks you can do, console commands and more.

The site also has many other nice guides. This one help me a bit but some other guides helped me immensly, depends on your system.

[Kayden]

You bastard!

I spent like 6 hours on that site tweaking my pc.

[Roufuss]

:hot: O_O O_o! @_@!!!!!

Theres a quest where I get to kill the whole village!?

Yea, the Argonian shopkeeper's daughter gets kidnapped in Chorrol, have to go rescue her.

[Kayden]

Yea, the Argonian shopkeeper's daughter gets kidnapped in Chorrol, have to go rescue her.

Oh.. that one... you got me all excited. I was talking about how I'd just sit in Chorrol killing everyone over and over. :lol:

[Roufuss]

Oh.. that one... you got me all excited. I was talking about how I'd just sit in Chorrol killing everyone over and over. :lol:

No... quest goes like this -

You find it this girl is kidnapped, she went to Hackdirt to deliver some goods. You go there, find her horse, no one wants to talk about her... except one guy. He tells you how outsides burned their town, he hates them as much as everyone else, but that he dosen't agree with sacrificing an innocent girl to the Deep Ones. You can find the Deep Ones bible in the church, some kind of freaky religion. The dude gives you a key to go underground to the caverns, you fight the brethern plus the townspeople, find the girl and that's it. You never meet the Deep Ones, the quest never goes any further, it really sucks.

[karsh]

Wow...Oblivion looks awesome now on an X1600 Pro. Wow does that make a world of difference. All that's left is to find a way to make it run faster, as I still only get like 20-25 FPS everywhere. But it looks amazing and it's playable at this point, so I'm happy.

[Kayden]

No... quest goes like this -

You find it this girl is kidnapped, she went to Hackdirt to deliver some goods. You go there, find her horse, no one wants to talk about her... except one guy. He tells you how outsides burned their town, he hates them as much as everyone else, but that he dosen't agree with sacrificing an innocent girl to the Deep Ones. You can find the Deep Ones bible in the church, some kind of freaky religion. The dude gives you a key to go underground to the caverns, you fight the brethern plus the townspeople, find the girl and that's it. You never meet the Deep Ones, the quest never goes any further, it really sucks.

Hmm... i skipped the whole 'talk to people like I care' part. I found a trap door and killed everyone in it. Then I came out and killed everyone topside. :lol:

[Roufuss]

Ok, so what's the deal with stealing? I break into someone's shop, expecting to find that awesome weapon or piece of armor they want to sell me for 6500 gold, but instead the shops are just full of leather, iron, and steel garbage.

When do I start getting more powerful weapons, as well? Kind of sucks I just can't find them in a shop.

[Photomotoz]

You bastard!

I spent like 6 hours on that site tweaking my pc.

I use the XPTC guide on there every time I reformat. Lots of nice tweaks, helps quite a bit.

Now, back to Oblivion.

When do I start getting more powerful weapons, as well? Kind of sucks I just can't find them in a shop.

I got most of my stuff off of bandits, mauraders and rogues. They attack you on roads and some ruins. I killed a couple and got some daedric armor off of them. Is there anything better?


Okay, I wanna hear what you guys have done for fun that is part of the regular gameplay. For instance, I collected several hunderd (600ish) bottles of different alcohols and dumped them on the floor of my shack house on the waterfront. I then proceeded to fire ball them to see the physics effect. Well as cool as it is it causes so much lag, rendering a couple hundred bottles flying and calculating the phyics strains my computer quite a bit.

I also dump stuff the roofs on the water front. Such as cups and plates. Also, in one town I was able to jump on the roofs and jump on the town wall and then jump out with out using a door, it messes up bad. It shows nothing but the foliage. The ground is invisible even though you can walk on it. You can move around and it moves you on the map and you can discover places as well. But you will see nothing and feel nothing but foliage. You could potentially use this method to safley discover everything but I think that ruins half the fun as all you see are trees and shrubs.

[Kayden]

Theres a glitch in the the game where if you draw your bow, go to your journal, unequip your arrows and then try and drop an item it drops as many of that item as you have arrows. I used it to drop 1000 sigil stones. :lol: It crashed my game hard... I also did it with a stack of different arrows and it was hysterical. It made the snake of arrows that thrashed around my house exploding everywhere. Then I went to a merchants and dropped about 500 tower sheilds. The filled a room about 4 feet deep and then poured out the door and down the stairs. :lol:

[Photomotoz]

Theres a glitch in the the game where if you draw your bow, go to your journal, unequip your arrows and then try and drop an item it drops as many of that item as you have arrows. I used it to drop 1000 sigil stones. :lol: It crashed my game hard... I also did it with a stack of different arrows and it was hysterical. It made the snake of arrows that thrashed around my house exploding everywhere. Then I went to a merchants and dropped about 500 tower sheilds. The filled a room about 4 feet deep and then poured out the door and down the stairs. :lol:

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ZOMG I NEED TO TRY THIS IT SOUNDS AMAZING!!!

And to think I was gonna wander around and gather items to trash up my other houses. Thank you!!!!

[CorporalJackson]

how do you kill the last guy at the manor? he is immortal

[Photomotoz]

how do you kill the last guy at the manor? he is immortal

Well by the time I decided to kill him I had mostly daedric armor and I had a daedric longsword. It wasn't too bad.

[Apossum]

Free horse armor code:

OB23518477981

the people at gamestop gave me one for no reason

[Kayden]

Ok... I got a free DL, verified it and installed it.

Its just like any other .esp Oblivion mod. (I think...)

So here seems to be the three main files...

http://www.filefactory.com/?c66986

Extract them to (probably...)
C:\Program Files\Bethesda Softworks\Oblivion\Data

The start the game with the launcher and click on data files. DLC horse armor should be in there, make sure its active and you should be set (hopefully...).

[LaraCroftsLeftBoob]

how well will this run on my system? i'm a pc gaming newb, i just recently got a new computer. my old one had problems running baldurs gate 2 if that gives you any idea how old it was. the biggest thing i'm concerned with is the graphics card. i know it's not a high end one, i don't know if it's even a mid range one, but it's all i got. after having my new comp for only 3 days, i doubt the wife would be too keen on my buying a new card for it. anyway, here's what i got:
pentium 4 3.0ghz w/ht
1 gig ram
256 mb nvidia geforce 7300 le

i went to srtest.com and it said i met both the min and recomended specs, but that doesn't tell how well it will run.

[Roufuss]

Posted for my PC pals as well... Chuck Norris makes Oblivion his bitch -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MP9CHQZ3mHw&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ejoystiq%2Ecom%2F2006%2F04% 2F07%2Fchuck%2Dnorris%2Droundhouse%2Dkicks%2Dobliv ion%2F#comment

[Admiral Ackbar]

Someone has to do a Chuck Norris Mod!

[Admiral Ackbar]

:hot: O_O O_o! @_@!!!!!

Theres a quest where I get to kill the whole village!?

It's in Chorrol. They kidnap the shopkeeps daughter. I think it's Chorrol. It's one of the C named towns.

[Swingman]

how well will this run on my system? i'm a pc gaming newb, i just recently got a new computer. my old one had problems running baldurs gate 2 if that gives you any idea how old it was. the biggest thing i'm concerned with is the graphics card. i know it's not a high end one, i don't know if it's even a mid range one, but it's all i got. after having my new comp for only 3 days, i doubt the wife would be too keen on my buying a new card for it. anyway, here's what i got:
pentium 4 3.0ghz w/ht
1 gig ram
256 mb nvidia geforce 7300 le

i went to srtest.com and it said i met both the min and recomended specs, but that doesn't tell how well it will run.

I think that would run fine.

I have a Athlon 3200+, 1 GB ram and 128MB Geforce 6800 and I can run it on medium-low settings. The memory leak does require me to restart the game after an hour or 2.

[Kayden]

Anyone try my horse pack yet?

[Genocidal]

Yep, no dice.

[Kayden]

Yep, no dice.

Can you tell me anymore than that?

[Genocidal]

Since I haven't tried the download since you changed the link, no, and I can't say if this one's broken as well either... sorta missed the edit. FileFactory seems to not want to load right now though.

Ok, this seems to work just fine. Quest got activated, but since I was about to go close the great gate outside of Bruma, I didn't rush over to the stable and complete it. FileFactory is slow as fuck though.

[Kayden]

Since I haven't tried the download since you changed the link, no, and I can't say if this one's broken as well either... sorta missed the edit. FileFactory seems to not want to load right now though.

I haven't changed the link... What do you mean broken? Are you saying you couldn't even download it?

[Genocidal]

The original link that was up there, which pointed to obliviondownloads.com, sometime yesterday. Although it took a while to grab, this one downloaded and worked just fine.

This link, according to my page history: http://obliviondownloads.com/ESD.aspx?uKEY=e73c2591-62dc-4265-913a-f889edabb6f7

[Swingman]

is this your own version of the horse mod or is this the official mod that Bethesda released? What all is in it?

[Kayden]

Oh... yea. I posted a link for their direct dl from their site that has an installer and a verifier and some other BS.

Then I installed it myself and found the proper files and re bundled them. So they do work then?

The original link that was up there, which pointed to obliviondownloads.com, sometime yesterday. Although it took a while to grab, this one downloaded and worked just fine.

This link, according to my page history: http://obliviondownloads.com/ESD.aspx?uKEY=e73c2591-62dc-4265-913a-f889edabb6f7

[Kayden]

Ok, this seems to work just fine. Quest got activated, but since I was about to go close the great gate outside of Bruma, I didn't rush over to the stable and complete it. FileFactory is slow as fuck though.


Sweeeet. Kayden 1: The Man 0

[RedComet]

Anyone know where the crazed fan goes when you tell him to go away when you're the grand champion? I want him and my Dark Brotherhood guy following me around in game now.

[karsh]

Wow do I love this game now that it runs properly. Definitely spent a good couple hours playing it yesterday, avoiding the main quest and leveling up and such. So much fun.

[Moxio]

Wow do I love this game now that it runs properly. Definitely spent a good couple hours playing it yesterday, avoiding the main quest and leveling up and such. So much fun.

How did you manage to get it up and running?

[Kayden]

It shows 9 people downloaded the horse pack from me, who all did and how's it working?

[karsh]

How did you manage to get it up and running?

I actually ended up buying a new video card, an x1600 Pro, and that made a world of difference. I get like 25 fps outside and 30 indoors, which is smooth enough for me.

It shows 9 people downloaded the horse pack from me, who all did and how's it working?

I downloaded it off you Kayden and the game definitely accepted it as the real thing, but I need to get a horse first to get the armor put on it. As soon as I get one, I'll let you know if it actually worked. I'm fairly sure it's fine since it did tell me about the quest when I started the game up.

[Swingman]

It shows 9 people downloaded the horse pack from me, who all did and how's it working?

I downloaded it and seems to be working fine. The game froze for a 10 seconds or a so a couple times after I installed the mod but who knows if that was related to the horse armor pack or just a game freeze. Also had my first crash to desktop today.

I bought a nice black horse for 5 grand before I got the armor. I'm not sure I really like the look of the steel armor though. The back side (which is what we see most of the time) is very plain looking.

I can't wait til they fix the memory leak. I start the game with just a little lag in the busy areas but after an hour it becomes unplayable until I restart the game. I also found a glitch by the east gate at Cherodil (spelling?). I exited the city's east gate and fell through the bridge into the ditch.

[Kayden]

:lol: 5k for a damn horse? :lol:

I got both of mine for free and all I had to do was kill people! :twisted:

Glad it works for you guys.

I can play the game for like 10 hours with no problems. However, if I put my PC in standby and then start oblivion again it'll randomly crash when I try and save or load. :cry:

I downloaded it and seems to be working fine. The game froze for a 10 seconds or a so a couple times after I installed the mod but who knows if that was related to the horse armor pack or just a game freeze. Also had my first crash to desktop today.

I bought a nice black horse for 5 grand before I got the armor. I'm not sure I really like the look of the steel armor though. The back side (which is what we see most of the time) is very plain looking.

I can't wait til they fix the memory leak. I start the game with just a little lag in the busy areas but after an hour it becomes unplayable until I restart the game. I also found a glitch by the east gate at Cherodil (spelling?). I exited the city's east gate and fell through the bridge into the ditch.

[Swingman]

:lol: 5k for a damn horse? :lol:

I got both of mine for free and all I had to do was kill people! :twisted:

Glad it works for you guys.

I can play the game for like 10 hours with no problems. However, if I put my PC in standby and then start oblivion again it'll randomly crash when I try and save or load. :cry:

I'm a nice guy so I can't steal a horse lol. Although I got in trouble for getting on the Weynon Priory horse that thye gave me. Darn glitch.

My first horse was a painted one for $500 but I didn't want to get armor for it since it wasn't going to be my main horse for the long haul. I found a place that sold white horses for $4,000 but they said they were only the 2nd fastest horse and I want the best damn horse in all the land :). So found the black ones for $5000 and apparently they're the best you can get, at least for speed.

Maybe I'm having issues after just an hour because my PC barely meets recommended requirements. Definitely notice a gradual slowdown the longer I play though.

[Liquid 2]

I just got Oblivion 2 days ago.

It runs fairly smoothly on my comp, although the settings are lower than I'd like.
My load times are always < 10 sec though, thanks to my 2.5 gb of RAM.

My character is a High Elf, born under the Thief, and is a Nightblade.
I cant wait to get farther in, this game is going to take quite a bit of my time from now on...

[Roufuss]

It shows 9 people downloaded the horse pack from me, who all did and how's it working?

Tell me what I need to unzip a RAR and I'll get it from you as well.

[Liquid 2]

I'm thinking of upgrading my video card.

My system specs are:
Pentium 4 3.0 Ghz HT
2.5 Gb RAM (2 gb of which are Corsair) ^_^
128 Mb ATI Radeon x300/x550 series

the graphics card is the only weak link in my system.
Would this card (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814150130) be a good buy?

Tell me what I need to unzip a RAR and I'll get it from you as well.google WinRar

[Moxio]

I'm thinking of upgrading my video card.

My system specs are:
Pentium 4 3.0 Ghz HT
2.5 Gb RAM
128 Mb ATI Radeon x300/x550 series

the graphics card is the only weak link in my system.
Would this card (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814150130) be a good buy?

google WinRar

Not bad, and pretty cheap actually.

However, at this point, I personally wouldn't go anything less than the 7XXX series, as the 6XXX series is virtually out of date now/will be soon.

[Liquid 2]

yeah, but I want to hold out for next year for when I upgrade to Vista and a DirectX 10 card.

Looking at the reviews, people have had great succes playing Oblivion with this,
anyone here playing with a 6800?

[Swingman]

I'm playing with a 6800 but on low settings. I only have 1 GB of memory as well so that's probably a big part of it.

[Moxio]

I'm playing with a 6800 but on low settings. I only have 1 GB of memory as well so that's probably a big part of it.

Really?

I play on my 6600 GT w/ 1 GB of RAM on really decent settings. Then again is it overclocked, so... meh. :/

[Swingman]

Really?

I play on my 6600 GT w/ 1 GB of RAM on really decent settings. Then again is it overclocked, so... meh. :/

I have my card overclocked a little bit. I don't have it on the lowest settings but close to low. I have the resolution at 720x576 but showing distant landscape. It runs smoothly for a while until a leak starts bogging it down.

[Kayden]

You mean the game has a setting lower than Ultra High @ 1680x1050? :-k

:-P

[Genocidal]

Fuck you man, fuck you. :cry:

I guess I can't complain too much about 1024x768 on High, it still looks amazing.

[Kayden]

:twisted:

:rofl:

[Liquid 2]

You mean the game has a setting lower than Ultra High @ 1680x1050? :-k

:-Pdamn kayden, what are your system specs?

[Moxio]

damn kayden, what are your system specs?

Scroll up and then try to cyberpunch kayden but end up breaking your monitor like me. :cry:

[Kayden]

Scroll up and then try to cyberpunch kayden but end up breaking your monitor like me. :cry:

:rofl:

The sad thing is that mine is still like 1k from being totally hardcorerest.

[Photomotoz]

I play on just high at 1280X1024 but bumping it up to all settings on max does not do much. Anything higher than high looks pretty much the same, the difference is pretty hard to notice.

[CorporalJackson]

where can I enchant (spelling is wrong lol) my sword?

[Photomotoz]

where can I enchant (spelling is wrong lol) my sword?

In the Arcane Academy. Join the mages guild then just go to the Academy and it is in one the buildings. It is a shiny gold stand.

[Liquid 2]

I just ordered the graphics card I posted above, I cant wait for it to arrive.

btw, WHERE CAN I FIND LOCKPICKS???
I cant join the dark brotherhood or complete 2 mages guild recommendation quests without them.
And joining the thieves guild would be useless without them, so I'm holding off on that as well.
This is driving me crazy:bomb:

[Genocidal]

If you join the Thieves Guild, the fences sell them. There's also a guy outside the walls of the Imperial City that sells them, I think his name is Shady Sam.

[Photomotoz]

I just ordered the graphics card I posted above, I cant wait for it to arrive.

btw, WHERE CAN I FIND LOCKPICKS???
I cant join the dark brotherhood or complete 2 mages guild recommendation quests without them.
And joining the thieves guild would be useless without them, so I'm holding off on that as well.
This is driving me crazy:bomb:

Just join the thieves guild. You can buy some before you really even join. When you are about to do the quest to get into the guild you can buy tons of lockpicks and when you are in the guild you can buy them as well. Just get a beggar to like you then ask about the Gray Fox. You will be given some information and then you will talk to a guy who gives you the quest to join and sells tons of lockpicks.

Also, there is a quest for a daedric shrine that gives you a skeleton key. A lockpick that can be reused.

[Liquid 2]

thanks for the tips guys,
but I just said fuck it and went and bought an Open Average Lock spell which served my purposes for the time being
do you guys know where I might buy a open very hard lock spell?
the guy I know of in Cheydinhal only sells up to Hard.

[Genocidal]

AFAIK you have to make it yourself. You need an Alteration of 100 to cast it though.

[Liquid 2]

AFAIK you have to make it yourself. You need an Alteration of 100 to cast it though.o_0 you can make spells yourself?
how would I go about this?

[Genocidal]

You have to be able to access the Arcane University, then go in the Praxatorium or something similarly named. You can only make spells with an ability that you already know and are able to cast, however.

Example: The only spell you know is Weak Fireball. The only effect you will be able to use to make a spell is Fire Damage.

[Liquid 2]

alright, thanks, I'm already almost done getting recommendations. I'll check that out as soon as I'm done.
and while I'm in the imperial city, I'll carry out my contract for the dark brotherhood :twisted:

[Kayden]

You don't need recommendations to make spells/enchants. You can just sneak into the Arch mage's room and he has an altar for both.

[Genocidal]

Don't listen to Kayden, he's one of those "bad guys". Just ask him how many innocent people he's killed...

But yea, I guess you could sneak in to the Archmage's room, if that's your thing.

[Kayden]

Innocent? They were all guilty... of not getting out of the way of my sword! :twisted: :lol:

I wouldn't be surprised if my murders were near the tripple digits. I only got caught for 3 of them, none of which were really my fault. Twice it was a bug were I got in trouble for killing people that attacked me and then once it was from killing the guy with the magic arrow. I shot him in the dark, in bushes from 200 yards away while the guard wasn't looking and I still got in trouble. Just a bug in the game >_<.


Actually, my renown is over 100. My infamy is only at 55-ish. Its funny though, because I have most of my skills so high that everyone comments on something different. One guy will say 'go away scum' and then next will check out my legs and then another will say I look really smart. I like the "you've got pretty nimble fingers... what have you been getting into?" line. :lol:

[ZombieHendrix]

I wish some enchanted swords didn't have finite uses to them....sure you can get them recharged, but its just a hassle if you're not a mage.

Am I missing something?

[Admiral Ackbar]

I don't use many of the Mods. I like the little additions but I generally want to keep the game in its original state while I'm playing. But I must say, the Saddle Bag Mod ROCKS.

It's realistic, not to overpowering, really useful, and helps the game.

[CorporalJackson]

anyone seen the llama mod lol its crazy

[raskol]

Looked through gamefaqs. Pretty useless at this point.
Here's the thing:
Character is level 7, and I have attempted to do the "close the oblivion door" dealio in Kvatch several times. Every time I get to the blood tower/phallus of fear/whatever, I get my a** handed to me by two dark knight-types in a hallway. Now, I know the enemies are supposed to scale to your level, but apparently they don't scale all the way down to "retard."
So, is there a certain level one's character should actually be at before attempting this quest? Or should I just spend my time gathering clover berries and stinkwort instead?

[Genocidal]

Try scaling the difficulty down a few notches. I know I got my ass handed to me a few times when I went into my first Oblivion gate. If you don't want to do that though, go ahead and level up to a point where your main skills make most other encounters a breeze -- may be different depending on your skill set. Also, if you just raise the skills without actually raising your level, I'm farily sure that the enemies stay scaled to your current level and not your actual level.

[CorporalJackson]

use the 'kill command' hehehe

[Liquid 2]

is there anyway to recharge an enchanted item without using soul gems?

[Genocidal]

Pay a shitton of money to one of the people who can recharge your items in a Mages Guild branch.

[CorporalJackson]

how do I fill a soul gem?

[Genocidal]

Cast a Soul Trap spell on an enemy and kill it while the spell is still active.

In other news, the Orrery quest is now available for $1.89.

[Liquid 2]

so I got my 6800xt on Friday (newegg took their damn time), but...I of course neglected to get a new power supply for it...I'm heading out to Fry's tomorrow to grab on.

[Photomotoz]

In other news, the Orrery quest is now available for $1.89.

Oh snap! I just beat the story and I have beaten what I think to be about 60 percent of the quests. Now I got more! Weee!

[Gauss]

Morrowind had all kinds of mods.. some added more extensive crafting to the game, others added random npc generation(and traveling npcs) to make the world seem less static.

Still other mods allowed for fillable bottles and containers, some gave the npcs daily schedules (something that they lacked originally.. they just kinda milled around regardless of the time of day), one mod called "better bodies" replaced the character models in the game with better looking ones, and several people made better bodies compatible clothing mods.

Still other mods re-textured the entire game with higher resolution textures and a whole bunch of other tweaks and improvements. Some mods even fixed spelling errors and typos left in conversation dialogues and in some of the world's books.

Here's a list of just some of the mods made for Morrowind..

http://www.mwmythicmods.com/telesphoros.htm
Woah, didn't know that Thanks for that info. Sweet I should reinstall it.

[evophile]

hey guys, just got a new 6800gs so I can finally play this game.

I read most of the begining of the thread..but didn't keep up as I haven't really played it yet.

Do you guys recommend any must have mods or add ons that are out there now?
Especially ones that improve playability, user interface and such.

Thanks!

[Photomotoz]

Hey guys, a patch came out. One major thing it fixes is the crash on exit bug.

http://www.bethsoft.com/downloads_01.html

Full list of fixes :

Fixed an issue with falling through collision in Fort Wooden Hand.

Fixed issue with remapping controls in French, German, Italian and Spanish versions.

Fixed issue with crashes on exit.

Fixed issue with some shadows not lining up.

Going to jail while equipped with bound armor or weapons no longer crashes the game.

Fixed issue with bound weapons not dispelling properly after dismounting a horse.

Fixed issue with player shadow being delayed after fast travel.

Fixed infinite gold issue on some dead NPCs.

Fixed issue with disease resistences that made it impossible to contract vampirism under certain circumstances.

Fixed an issue where occasionally skills would not increase properly after you received an increase in a way other than skill uses like as a quest reward.

Fixed issue where spells, powers and lesser powers were being improperly resisted when the player cast them on themselves.

Fixed an issue where creatures and NPCs would not go into combat properly after being hit by a projectile.

Fixed an issue with duplicating items and unequiping the bow.

Fixed an exploit that allowed you to sell equipped items to a vendor more than once while on a horse.

Fixed an issue with items reappearing in dead bodies after saving and reloading.

Fixed crash when NPC with active light spell on them unloaded from memory.

New Ultra Low Quality graphic setting available under Launcher options with improved support for low end FX cards (5700 and lower). To use this setting, go to the Launcher, select Options and click Reset to Defaults to allow the auto detect to check your system.

Implemented SLI-mode optimizations on Nvidia cards, and Crossfire optimizations for ATI cards.

Quest Fixes

If you are permanently expelled from Mages Guild, you can now go back into the Mages Guild buildings.

In The Siren's Deception, the player can no longer get locked outside Gweden farmhouse if they exit too quickly.

In the Light the Dragonfires quest, fixed an issue where player controls get locked if player accidentally hits Ocato during the final battle in the Imperial Palace.

In the Confront the King quest, fixed an issue where Mannimarco would occasionally stop fighting the player while the player's controls are locked.

In Corruption and Conscience, fixed an issue if player got to Llevana's house earlier than expected and she would initiate trespass behavior rather than move the quest forward.

In Theranis' Mistake, it is no longer possible to get multiple copies of Ahdarji's ring. Also, fixed an issue with player receiving Blood Price topic too early in the quest.

In the Leyawiin Recommendation quest, it is no longer possible to bypass Kalthar in Fort Blueblood.

In Revenge Served Cold, Corrick will now recognize when player had the jade amulet in their inventory if No Stone Unturned quest had been previously completed.

In Infiltration, player can no longer kill Blackwood Company members and stop progress in Fighter's Guild.

In Dark Brotherhood, if you kill fellow members and get kicked out of the guild, you can no longer continue to progress in the questline until you redeem yourself and get back in.

In The Master's Son, the player now properly receives their reward when completing the quest.

In Caught in the Hunt, fixed an issue where NPCs would not go into combat properly.

In the Cheydinhal Recommendation quest, fixed an issue where Vidkun's body would disappear if you left the well.

Getting disqualified from the first Arena match no longer blocks you from further matches.

In Till Death Do They Part, the Count no longer rewards player with gold more than once. Fixed an issue with not receiving the Vampire Ashes topic if the player picked up vampire ashes before getting the quest. Fixed issue where Bloodgrass topic was not added if player finished the Main Quest before starting quest. Hal-Liurz will now follow player properly when asked about the cure.

In Mystery and Harlun's Watch, the dead body you are supposed to find will no longer disappear from Swampy Cave if you cleared out the dungeon before starting the quest.

In Blood of the Daedra, Martin will now recognize Spellbreaker as a Daedric artifact.

In When the Vow Breaks, fixed an issue where a second instance of Rockshatter would reappear back on Bjalfi's dead corpse after saving and reloading.

In Paranoia, game no longer crashes when Bernadette Peneles exits the city while you are following her.

Plugin Fixes

Fixed issue with saving your game while an actor is in a new interior cell created in a plugin, and re-loading the save game without the plugin.

Fixed issue with loading previous saves with plugin that contains new base objects that are containers, NPCs and creatures.

Fixed issue with linked pathpoints scripted to switch on/off that are modified by a plugin.

NPC's companions no longer disappear when they fast travel with player to an exterior cell that is modified by a plugin.

New scripted spell effects created in a plugin now work properly.

[Admiral Ackbar]

Gamespot has a new guide to tweaking Oblivion and it's pretty sweet. Better than any other article I've read.

http://www.gamespot.com/features/6148788/index.html

[cheapfrag]

Well. I installed Oblivion last night thinking I would spend the long Memorial Day weekend playing it and I just can't seem to get into it. I haven't played any of the other Elder scroll games, so I'm not entirely sure what I'm doing. I got out of the prison and delivered the amulet.

How do people usually play - first person or third person. I want to play from the third person perspective but I need the crosshairs of the FP perspective.

I'm a Wood Elf with Archer profession under the sign of Warrior. I don't know if I should be wearing metal armor or leather armor. I keep collecting stuff but can't find anywhere to sell it. I made some poision to add to my arrows but don't really have a clue what I'm doing.

Please help me to get into this game - based upon eveyone's comments, it's a great game and I want to enjoy it. Any comments on how to better enjoy the game?

[evophile]

Well. I installed Oblivion last night thinking I would spend the long Memorial Day weekend playing it and I just can't seem to get into it. I haven't played any of the other Elder scroll games, so I'm not entirely sure what I'm doing. I got out of the prison and delivered the amulet.

How do people usually play - first person or third person. I want to play from the third person perspective but I need the crosshairs of the FP perspective.

I'm a Wood Elf with Archer profession under the sign of Warrior. I don't know if I should be wearing metal armor or leather armor. I keep collecting stuff but can't find anywhere to sell it. I made some poision to add to my arrows but don't really have a clue what I'm doing.

Please help me to get into this game - based upon eveyone's comments, it's a great game and I want to enjoy it. Any comments on how to better enjoy the game?

Hey there, in my opinion a lot of the questions you asked are part of the freedom of the game that this game offers. Honestly with all those questions you are gonna do whatever it is that you want to do. That is probably what people enjoy the most about it, you can really shape you character the way to want. But here's some of my opinions.

I think in playing it first person is more effective in the long run for the reasons you stated. Third person just seems to be useful if you need to see your surroundings better.

When you get out of sewer you should have been near the Imperial City where you can sell you goods to merchants there. You can not sell stolen goods (from NPCs not enemies) until you join the Theive's Guild and get a fence. This can be done in Imperial City too.

The armor question is really up to you, as a theif I chose to use light armor as it allowed me to carry more when I stole. Also in the end when you reach expert level with light or heavy they balance out to be even with the bonuses as light armor gets 50% damage improvemnt and heavy gets 50% less encumberance. So its up to you in what you think you need in the beginning.

Also beware that the enemies level up when you do and that was something I did not know until it was too late. This is specifically regarding the Kvatch quest which occurs once you deliver the amulet which you face a horde on enemies. I waited until I was level 20 to do this and had to face some of the hardest enemies in the game and all the support NPCs died. If you do this early you face pretty simple enemies. I didn't know this and it was really hard for me, especially as I was an archer who had only 'okay' blade skills.

In the end though, just do whatever you want to do. Go to any town and talk to people and you will get involved in different stuff. I never did the main quest for a long time and had fun exploring, and honestly I'm not even close to beating the game and I feel like I got my money's worth.

[cheapfrag]

Thanks evophile for your response.

I "found" Imperial City - when I got out of the sewers I just headed out on the quest and never stopped in the city.

I am going with Light Armor since that's a major skill for me and helps me level up.

I wanted to use a bow but found it doesn't seem to do much damage - an imp takes like 5 arrows to kill. But then I found out about sneaking and now I can get a 3x multiplier when attacking while sneaking.

But what about all the crap that I find - spoons, cups, fabric, and non-armor clothing - is that stuff useful in any way?

Do you have to dismount a horse in order to attack?

I apparently stole some items (inadverently) and was being chased by guards on a road and in the city. Couldn't figure out what I did wrong or what item was stolen - ended up having to do jail time... sucks because my skills when down after it.

Do all stores offer the same $ for items - is there any point to shopping around to sell stuff within a particular city?

Thanks

[evophile]

Hey glad to help. Yeah bows can be tough if you fight up front, but eventually you do get strong enough, but like you said stealth is the key. Adding posion to your arrow helps a lot too with the 3x multipier.

Cups and crap are totally worthless. The non armor is just there for fun I think, but I've never done anything with it.

Stealing. When your cursor is has a "red" hand over an item instead of the "tan" color one, that means if you take that item you stole it. Also if you look in your inventory, the stolen item will have a red hand on it. If someone is around to see you do that most will call the guards on you. If you take something without anyone seeing you, you are generally safe. Also if someone sees you breaking into a house you can get in trouble too.

Selling and stores is determined by your Mercantile level. When in shops you'll probably notice the "haggle" button. From there you can try to get a better price to buy and sell from that merchant. You can generally do this a little with everyone, but it depends a lot of level. And each merchant only has a certain amount of gold they will use, so don't sell a 1000 item to a merchant who only offers 600 max. I honestly still havent figured out who has the most capital.

For example if you are a Journeyman of Mercantile you can most likely out haggle a merchant who is only an Apprentice or Novice. But it will be a lot harder to get a better deal from Experts or Masters.


Also, for everyone it looks like the next download will be ready soon.
http://obliviondownloads.com/StoreCatalog_ProductList.aspx?SubCategoryId=1
Mehrunes' Razor is supposed to be the biggest dungeon in the game and you can get an item that kills enemies instantly (probably severly limited I bet). Although this one cost $2.99.

[cheapfrag]

OK, I was bitten by a rat and got a disease called "Shakes" which Drains Agility (drains 5 agility points). I can't seem to get rid of it... I went to a temple and prayed and it said I've been cured of all my ailments but this still shows up.

Any advice on how to get rid of this disease? I have been looking for some Cure Disease potion or scroll but can't seem to find it. HELP!

[jagwire1141]

Well. I installed Oblivion last night thinking I would spend the long Memorial Day weekend playing it and I just can't seem to get into it. I haven't played any of the other Elder scroll games, so I'm not entirely sure what I'm doing. I got out of the prison and delivered the amulet.

How do people usually play - first person or third person. I want to play from the third person perspective but I need the crosshairs of the FP perspective.

I'm a Wood Elf with Archer profession under the sign of Warrior. I don't know if I should be wearing metal armor or leather armor. I keep collecting stuff but can't find anywhere to sell it. I made some poision to add to my arrows but don't really have a clue what I'm doing.

Please help me to get into this game - based upon eveyone's comments, it's a great game and I want to enjoy it. Any comments on how to better enjoy the game?

Lol, that's how I felt when I first got morrowind. Just do whatever the hell you feel like. You can't do everything like a JRPG so don't try. Just play through the game and take random quests and go exploring. You can always play the game over again.