Oblivion is coming.. upgrade time!

[n7]

'Course it can...as long as SM 3.0 isn't mandatory

 

[XJustMeX21]

It's not

 

[smut]

I havent been this excited about a game in awhile. I was an RPG freak when I was younger and this kinda rekindled my excitement for them

 

[Acanthus]

As long as the engine doesnt load every friggin 9 steps like Morrowind, ill be happy.

 

[MBrown]

What would be a better upgrade? Getting a 165 or 170, or another 7800gt, or another gb of ram?

 

[John Reynolds]

According to the developer, ATI cards are better for Oblivion. Take that howsoever you choose to and try not to kill the messenger.

SLI support, according to Pete Hines, is there OOTB. Crossfire support is supposed to arrive with the Cat 6.4s.

The game also uses just a simple disc check, nothing off-the-shelf like Starforce. Again, coming straight from Pete Hines.

 

[Nyati13]

Originally posted by: smut
I want to run at least 1440x900, thats what my widescreen 19inch LCD runs at. Does anyone know if Oblivion is native widescreen?!

I've heard it can produce any resolution setting that the video driver is capable of using. So it sounds like it has total support native.

 

[smut]

Originally posted by: Nyati13

Originally posted by: smut
I want to run at least 1440x900, thats what my widescreen 19inch LCD runs at. Does anyone know if Oblivion is native widescreen?!

I've heard it can produce any resolution setting that the video driver is capable of using. So it sounds like it has total support native.

Sweet. native looks so much better instead of a .ini hack faking widescreen.

 

[smut]

Originally posted by: MBrown
What would be a better upgrade? Getting a 165 or 170, or another 7800gt, or another gb of ram?

id say go SLI. Itll benefit alot more games then just Oblivion too. Your CPU is good enough for the time being and 1GB is good as well. Id go SLI first, then more RAM later on.

 

[Acanthus]

I agree with smut, SLI 1st, ram 2nd, cpu last. (priority wise)

 

[RelaxTheMind]

hopefully 7800gts will be in SLI pice range by then