Increasing your Oblivion FPS in a few steps

So, in my previous post I wrote about installing Oblivion again. But after doing so I had a terrible FPS. Going around with around 5 fps in most places the game was sometimes near unbearable. So I decided to take a look at what I could do to increase my performance.

1 To start of with I noticed I already had Steamline installed from the compilation. Even though I couldn't say that it gave me much FPS, I found the built in function that saves your game now and then very handy when my game decided to crash.

2 First thing I found that helped my FPS was actually changing the Power Settings on my computer to High Performance. Since it was set on Balanced before it actually doubled my fps and I was able to pass 10 fps. Made the game a bit more bearable.

3 Wanting to push even more of course I searched around and was able to find a very nice Tweak Guide for Oblivion by Koroush Ghazi. It's a bit long, but explains a lot of the settings you can change to increase performance. Some of the more advanced settings even increases performance without having to offer anything else, just using the resources you have better.

4 Now here is where things started to speed up. Since I am a greedy person in terms of what I get out of my computer, or perhaps just never gives up, I searched even more on how to increase my performance further.

That's when I found Oblivion Stutter Remover. With some minor configurations, or with non at all if you like, I was able to increase my fps that went between 8-12 normally up to 16-22 depending on location. I was impressed. This all of course without changing anything visibly. It's more like an extended configuration that uses your resources even better for maximal performance.

5 This 5th change however will change some visual effects, but with a great reward in FPS. I'm talking about the gras. There is actually 2 mods that does this, both in a little different way. LowPoly Grass and Oscars Nicer Grass. You should check them both out and see witch one you prefer and then take the one you like the most. I ended up with Oscars Nicer Grass, and while the grass might be a little scarce at times, I like how I am able to get past 30 fps at times now in the forest.

6 Yes, there is actually a 6th one that I'm looking into right now. This one takes a lot of time to do though. It's called PyFFI. It's a tool that rewrites the meshes in the game to take away useless data. The process can take days but should reduce stutter. Might be something to look into for the more hardcore player that want to push it over the edge no matter what.

However I did find for the people using QTP3, someone that have uploaded converted meshes. When putting them into my data folder the size actually went down buy about 40mb and that's without any visual change to the meshes.

7 A final note. Not increasing your FPS but thought I'd mention it anyways. Ever had your game crash when exiting? I found it very annoying. Searched around and found a mod called Fast Exit. A small download that took a way a lot of stress.

That's all for now.
Over and Out, Exoclyps