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Old 05-25-2006, 08:43 AM   #26 (permalink)
Utnayan
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Originally Posted by Vorph
I have a pretty similar system and the answer is that your video card is underpowered for the native resolution of your monitor and you only have 1GB of RAM. I don't recommend that anyone should buy a new video card (at least not an expensive one) this close to the release of DX10 hardware, but buying 2GB of RAM is a no-brainer. You can get a set of OCZ 2-3-2-5 2x1GB DIMMs for about $140 (after rebate) from newegg now.

I can't agree that Oblivion's graphics are better, at least not across-the-board better. They have a huge draw distance, but people call the terrain outside of the grids adjacent to you "pea soup" for a reason. You can mod in some larger textures to make the ugly effect mostly go away, but you'll take a large performance hit with only 1GB of RAM in that game then too.
10-4.

It seems to run everything else pretty good in that resolution at decent settings, but you are right on the far textures - I forgot about that. I didn't know that 2 gigs of ram right now would make a huge performance difference over a gig.
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