Looking through the *.ini file reveals quite a few graphical items that can be turned on/off to assist performance. This means the performance at a fundamental level is good, drawing raw polygons and textures to screen aren't hogging resources, other things in game are doing that. Oblivion performance ^Īn interesting thing here, although the shots below are from the very start of the game and there's apparently not much on screen, the image quality doesn't have much effect on the games FPS - some initial quick tests found the game run the same when setting textures to 'low' or 'high'. The game does feel a bit more intuitive than Morrowind which is a plus and you can still float between first and third person views ('vanity mode' is still there as well). Oblivion more or less uses the same setup as Morrowind with a couple of exceptions the 'inventory' is all in one place, so accessing your character stats, the journal, quest info and the items you pick up are all in the one menu - there are various quick keys to access it but the information itself is all in the same place - a bit like a clipboard in fact - it, thankfully, saves screen space having all those open in Morrowind required it's own management skill! A lot of scope within each race for individualism. Facing facts ^Īlthough the bodies of characters are based on a generic male and female template (for a reason), what you can do with a characters face and cosmetic toning is pretty comprehensive there are sliders to control visual features like the distance between eyes, how far forward a chin juts and so on. I knew I wasn't going to be able to run the game on 'high' settings, so even though it's currently on 640x480 (due to my hardware being on the low side - more on that below) the game world still feels 'solid' and 'grounded', you do feel part of it rather than apart from it, Morrowind didn't have that quite so readily because the artwork had a sort of cartoony feel to it, they've gone for a more realistic - but stylised - look for Oblivion. It's actually good, better than I expected.
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