I reinstalled Oblivion because I'm waiting for my new job to start (in between booking movers, apartment hunting--yes dear, I really am looking for an apartment there--and throwing out/ebaying extraneous cr4p around the house, up to and including my extra computer parts).
It just struck me that it has taken over three years for reasonably priced consumer hardware (my proc was still used off ebay, lol) to catch up with the software rendering/processing demands.
I started playing Oblivion with a p4 3.0, 1 gb ram, and an x800xt AIW. It was pretty then. Lots of people play games happily with inferior--newer I might add--parts nowadays, anyway. I played on low/medium at 1280x1024.
Moved up to a pentium D 915 @ almost 4.0 ghz (gosh those crappy chips were were mad overclockers, weren't they?) with 2gb and an x1950xt. That got me solidly into the medium-ish range at 1600x1200.
The next upgrade was to an e6600 with an hd3870, still 2gb, and I began to break into the high settings at 1600x1200.
Now, I sit with a 4870, 4gb ram, an x38 platform, and the e6600 oc'd to 3.4 ghz. And it finally runs maxed out of the gate @ 1080p...
...until I install the mod that bumps draw distance to infinity.
Sigh...it's a tad depressing, chasing "maxed out". Shame the game was (edit) technically beatable at level 1 or 2.
Still, it impresses with what software engineers can do to scale a very enjoyable game.
Anyone have similar experiences with Crysis or other game? I wasn't really chasing video game nirvana...just picked up some new parts when I saw exceptional deals.
It just struck me that it has taken over three years for reasonably priced consumer hardware (my proc was still used off ebay, lol) to catch up with the software rendering/processing demands.
I started playing Oblivion with a p4 3.0, 1 gb ram, and an x800xt AIW. It was pretty then. Lots of people play games happily with inferior--newer I might add--parts nowadays, anyway. I played on low/medium at 1280x1024.
Moved up to a pentium D 915 @ almost 4.0 ghz (gosh those crappy chips were were mad overclockers, weren't they?) with 2gb and an x1950xt. That got me solidly into the medium-ish range at 1600x1200.
The next upgrade was to an e6600 with an hd3870, still 2gb, and I began to break into the high settings at 1600x1200.
Now, I sit with a 4870, 4gb ram, an x38 platform, and the e6600 oc'd to 3.4 ghz. And it finally runs maxed out of the gate @ 1080p...
...until I install the mod that bumps draw distance to infinity.
Sigh...it's a tad depressing, chasing "maxed out". Shame the game was (edit) technically beatable at level 1 or 2.
Still, it impresses with what software engineers can do to scale a very enjoyable game.
Anyone have similar experiences with Crysis or other game? I wasn't really chasing video game nirvana...just picked up some new parts when I saw exceptional deals.
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