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Indeed, you need to BUY this game. It's a good game so go shopping like......now.
About the framerates on a X1900XT.
I have a permanent 50fps with everything maxed out.

There's an aritcle on Gamespot that details a comparison between the 7900GTX in SLi and the X1900XTX in Crossfire. Generally, the 7900 card won out, except in 2 tests. In one 3dmark06 text, the 7900GTX cards wouldn't run HDR & AA, but the X1900XTX cards would.

Maybe you need 2 of these cards to enable both...?

nope, its down to the game engine, with the Crytek engine far cry uses a patch is gonna be released to allow both HDR and AA at the same time. I have no doubts that Oblivion will be patched too in the fullness of time. Its a game engine, not hardware limitation

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please help i downloaded oblivion , and i like it a lot so far the only thing is i have a 2405 so , im playing it at 1680 , but i only have a medium rig and the framerate at this res is very low on my sys , (x850pe, amd 3500, 2 gig of ram) right now i can only afford one upgrade which should it be ? an x1900xtx card or a new processor for oblivion ? what frame rate are you guys getting on a x1900xtx at 1680x1050 all help aprecciated. thanx guys .

ill let you know tommorow :)

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Indeed, you need to BUY this game. It's a good game so go shopping like......now.
About the framerates on a X1900XT.
I have a permanent 50fps with everything maxed out.

Even in the heavy forest areas? Have you turned any settings like grass off?

Yes, with everything on (including grass) it runs like a dream.
The minimum fps i had was 32 or something.
I believe that was in a forrest.
But if i'm in a city or on plains i get constant 50.

Hey ctrlsteef ... I think you are using HDR not AA ...
Have you tried AA ? ... does it give you better or worse performance ?

I dumped the HDR ... IHMO it looks way better for having the AA ... and I don't think I would/could play it if I couldn't have the AA ...
I so hate jaggies :twisted: ... :lol:

Yep, that is true. I have HDR on instead of AA. I guess when i use 6x AA instead of HDR the framerate does drop.
I'll try that tonight to see what happens.

At 1920x1200 ... you should only need 2xAA to get rid of the jaggies ... :D

Also at 1680 x 1050? I never used AA before, it wouldn't run at all on the gpu's i previously owned. :lol:

Is that your native res ?
If so ... 2xAA should be fine ... but give 4xAA a try too.

I think you wiil prefer it with AA ... 8)
Compare my screenshot in the "Insiders" WSGF SotD thread with yours.