Oblivion

September 7th, 2008

Thought I’d throw in a couple of screenshots I’ve taken of TES4 Oblivion. I absolutely enjoyed playing it the first time around, and it had a similar wow factor to the extent of when I first tried out Half Life 2. Once I’d got as much out of the fighting and looting aspect I turned to simply exploring the absolutely vast landscape and admiring the scenery.

(Vilverin is one of the first sights a player gets emerging from the prison/sewer tunnel at the start of the game.)

But then I decided to try out Vista on my now pretty old computer which has to be said didn’t do much for its general performance. Then I bought the Shivering Isles expansion, which adds so much more to this game and eager to try it again. So I reinstalled it to discover that where it was playable before, with Vista it was a nightmare, even after setting every possible value to its minimum.

Right up to the point where I tripled the existing 512MB of RAM to 1.5GB. Since then it’s been back to taking in the frankly stunning visuals.

(I destroyed as many of these as possible simply because I enjoyed leaving behind a permanent reminder of the Oblivion Gates.)