The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

[Chukchi Husky]

Um. Save your games?

I can't save my games. I don't have a hard drive for my Xbox 360. I said it I forgot how many times in this thread.

 

[Kozmos]

Microsofts Suks.

 

[Ultima Dragoon]

I got Oblivion today (WOOO!) But The game can't even get off the desktop before it crashes (BOOO!) In the error thing, it dosn't state what's the problem, sO we don't know what's wrong.... Is there any help anyone can give me?

 

[FriendlyFire]

I can't save my games. I don't have a hard drive for my Xbox 360. I said it I forgot how many times in this thread.

Cant you slap in ANY HDD ?? Since Xbox uses standard PC aritecture ?
(Or did they change this for the 360?)

 

[Chukchi Husky]

Cant you slap in ANY HDD ?? Since Xbox uses standard PC aritecture ?
(Or did they change this for the 360?)

You have to get a special Xbox 360 hard drive. There's a panel to remove to add it on the top (if the console is standing vertically) and the connector is like that of a cartridge or memory card port.

 

[deo]

Is this game worth buying? I mean, is it more fun that Kotor?

 

[Chukchi Husky]

I never played Kotor.

 

[Colonel]

CH you can save your games if you just get a memory card. True you can save games with the hardrive but generally that is for better graphics.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

The memory card costs around £30, and the hard drive £70. The hard drive is 320 times larger than a memory card, and I have some original Xbox games that can only work with a hard drive.

I don't think graphics are affected by the hard drive, but it would make games run faster as they can use the hard drive as a cache.

 

[Ultima Dragoon]

*DRools*

Must play... Oblivion... Oblivion ...Gate? pahh..... Mythical Dawn book 3?.... pah... Mythical dawn book 4.... DIE!

 

[Ciceronian]

Got the game two days ago and as expected, it's fantastic. Graphics are awesome and they've kept but improved many things from Morrowind. These are my system stats:

AMD Athlon64 3500+
1024 MB RAM
Radeon X800 XL

Game runs smoothly on 1280 x 1024 and high graphics detail (although not all things were on max), and it runs fine, but when I was in the bits where the emperor and his guards got attacked by the assasins the framerate dropped to nothing... something like one frame very 3 or 4 seconds. It must've been because there were so many AIs around that the thing had problems, but given my system I thought that wouldn't be a problem. Strange.

 

[kcwong]

Ciceronian, the frame rate will drop through the floor when certain effects are being rendered with anti-alias on... the first example would be those assassins, and also anything with invisibility or chameleon.

Just turn AA off and you'll be fine. I don't know if there's a card (or even SLI) that can render those smoothly with AA on.

I've done a cheap upgrade (no motherboard change, so it's a AGP8x card - ATI Radeon 9550 Infinite), and the best I can do is 800x600 with no AA, high water and max view distance and objects.

I tried 640x480 with 2xAA, and it could handle a mage casting spells in the Arcane University practice room. Then two more entered and I was pulling my hair off.

I will upgrade to PCI-E pretty soon...

 

[Chukchi Husky]

At least with the Xbox 360 version it doesn't have as much slowdown. The only slowdown I got is when I played it for a long amount of time and loading times took longer and an occasional freeze (but it might be improved with hard drive caching).

 

[Kozmos]

I will never understand why people push resolutions above 1024x768 I cant even see the diffrence above that ... maybe I'm just color blind in some way,but every game looks just damn fine on 1024x768.

The only thing I notice is that some objects get smaller as the resolution rises.

 

[RameNoodle]

At least with the Xbox 360 version it doesn't have as much slowdown. The only slowdown I got is when I played it for a long amount of time and loading times took longer and an occasional freeze (but it might be improved with hard drive caching).

Yes, well, with a hard drive, rather than slowing down, the loading speeds up because it already has some areas basic outline cache'd in memory. So, the hard drive is definitely worth it because it does upgrade performance, at least compared to without a hard drive.

 

[EolTheDarkElf]

I will never understand why people push resolutions above 1024x768 I cant even see the diffrence above that ... maybe I'm just color blind in some way,but every game looks just damn fine on 1024x768.

I would agree when it comes to gaming alone.

But my problem is I use an LCD panel that has native resolution of 1280x1024. I find this very usefull when I work with text (and as a programmer I do that a lot).

The downside is that running any game at a resolution different from display's native makes it look bleak and pale. I'd like to play at 1280x1024 just to equal what my display gives me, but my 6600GT doesn't like that idea so I have to resort to 1024x768. Actually I should play at 800x600, but then it just looks so ugly I can't bear to look at it.

 

[Kozmos]

No my desktop resolution is also max,but for games 1024x768 does just fine.

I also have a LCD Samsung monitor and games still look normal....perhaps I am colorblind.Ahhh the terror.

 

[EolTheDarkElf]

Perhaps I'm oversensitive .


Anyway, I have a Q: have any of you ever succesfully dispelled an enchantment? Either I'm doing something wrong or...

Let's say in my "current effects" list I see "Enchantment: Burden (75)" (that some lame Lich cast on me). I used a Dispel 75 scroll and.... nothing.

The same goes for drinking potions, I've simply never seen it work...

Any ideas?

 

[777]

I've noticed the same too. I don't know if I'm too doing something wrong but dispel doesn't seem to work.

Quite contrary it works dispelling your own magic Which is funny that you lose your good own spells but you can't dispell harmfull spells. But vice versa you can dispel enemy's enchantments with dispel spell

 

[Ciceronian]

Ciceronian, the frame rate will drop through the floor when certain effects are being rendered with anti-alias on... the first example would be those assassins, and also anything with invisibility or chameleon.

Just turn AA off and you'll be fine. I don't know if there's a card (or even SLI) that can render those smoothly with AA on.

I've done a cheap upgrade (no motherboard change, so it's a AGP8x card - ATI Radeon 9550 Infinite), and the best I can do is 800x600 with no AA, high water and max view distance and objects.

I tried 640x480 with 2xAA, and it could handle a mage casting spells in the Arcane University practice room. Then two more entered and I was pulling my hair off.

I will upgrade to PCI-E pretty soon...

I think you're right, kcwong, turning off the anti-alias sorted me out, thanks.

I too would recommend upgrading to PCI-Express, much better value for money now, but only buy one when you would be upgrading anyway.