Ah, thanks.
My alchemy skill is levelling me prematurely, I think. That is… I’m creating so many potions that I level up fast and don’t fight and other stuff as much as I’d want to… hence getting low bonuses each round.
I don’t want to just get rid of my ingredients, though - has anyone tested to see if you can store stuff in crates and have it stay there indefinitely?
As for dynamic leveling, I’m positive the reason it was put in is because so many people complained (almost everyone I knew) that Morrowind got too easy, too fast. You were able to be an uber-God-like character too early, making the game a breeze. This is Bethesda’s solution. The funny part is people are trying to make mods to go back to the Morrowind system, where they were bitching it was too easy. Ah… amusing…
And yes, there is a difficulty slider, so I know a lot of people on the official forums are complaining, but they refuse to adjust the slider. It’s just strange.
Morrowind had dynamic levelling as well, at least in some parts. Or maybe that was just added in with the later expansions?
Is there any way to know a creature’s resistances and weaknesses? Or even your own damage modifers?
I have a staff of fireball that does 40 damage. When I use it on humans, it does about the same amount of damage arrows do… takes 8-12 shots to kill.
When I fight trolls… it takes me about 20-25 arrows to kill trolls… they just kick my ass… but when I pull out this staff, they die in 2 hits. Is that because they’re especially weak to fire, or what?
Yes, it’s because trolls are especially weak to fire. One of the star signs you can choose gives you a weakness to fire and calls it the ‘trollkin curse,’ IIRC.
I just want to cry. Got my game (for PC) yesterday, and in spite of driver updates and lowest settings, my gfx card is pretty much unplayable, in spite of it supposedly being supported by the game.
Such a big world, so much to do, I want in.
I have no idea if my machine has space inside for more RAM, plus new power supply, and new card. I’ve priced gaming computers at about $3K, which I hate to blow on one machine, tempting though it is. Guess I’ll wait for patches for a couple of weeks before deciding. I wonder how many other folks new to Elder Scrolls have decided to give up on Oblivion and play Morrowind instead. After all, lots of people liked Morrowind…
List your specs and I’ll try to tell you what you need.
Do people really still buy $3k computers?
I’ve nearly identical specs to brightpenny (P4 2.4, 512, 128.9800 Pro) and my friend is letting me borrow his copy to see how it runs.
Maybe I can tweak it out enough that it’ll run well. I’ll report back if I have any luck.
I read a 20-page long thread on the Arstechnica forums on Oblivion last night, with many many people listing their computer specs and describing their framerate. Based on what I read there, I can’t imagine needing to spend more than 6-700 bucks to get a machine that will run Oblivion quite reasonably. There were people running machines with lower specs than my 3-year-old computer who were getting (barely) passable framerates on lowish settings. A 3-ish GHz Intel or 3000-ish model AMD processor, 6600GT or X800 series vid card, and 1 gig of ram should be plenty to drive a 1280x1024 lcd display with quite a lot of eye candy.
Thank you **SenorBeef **for offering your help. I think I need to have someone physically look inside my case and tell me what I need and what will fit. I’ve contacted a local business called Nerds to the Rescue - have to like them for the name. I’m just an ex-COBOL programmer who doesn’t grok hardware. I’m hoping to pay for their recommendations, buy the parts at Newegg, then have them install them.
Palooka, I’ve been frantically reading threads on the Elder Scrolls forum for days now, and it’s depressing. I tried running it at 640x480, virtually all sliders off or minimized, except for one I bumped up so it would let me see a few feet ahead of me in the dungeons. My fps is about 15 max, and when I’m in character-generation, my mouse cursor is ridiculously laggy. The visuals are horrid but not buggy yet, inside the dungeon. I’ve updated to the newest beta driver for Nvidia, defragged, closed all other processes. I’m not content to play this way.
I know it’s time to replace my whole computer, but I’d feel better not spending thousands to play a game. Thanks for everyone’s kindnesses, and I promise I won’t whine anymore. :smack:
I will pop in to do a happy dance when I get it running nicely, though.
There are fixes for the mouse lag problem (you need to set render frames ahead to 0) - look over the technical pages at the elderscrolls.com forums
Thanks, I’d read about the Coolbits fix, but also read cautions about installing Coolbits as well. I thought I’d wait a bit on that. I just played for awhile, finding it still minimally playable, but I’ve had no crowds or multi-foe battles yet. At least I’m getting a taste of it for now. 
There’s nothing wrong with installing coolbits - it just unlocks hidden settings for your graphics driver. However, you should be cautioned against changing things you don’t understand.
I’m 35 hours in (yep, like 7 hours a day) and I just now started the main quest. Oblivion is pretty.
I might give Coolbits a try. I haven’t made any changes to the .ini file yet either, since most of the key elements seem to have sliders. If there’s no easy way to beef up my system, then I’ll resort to some of these things.
By the way, the weapon/armor wearout in this game is crazy. My armor is useless and my weapon is half dead after a few fights… I’m gonna have to train in armorer and spend an ass load on hammers. I’m in the middle of the kvarch siege and almost all my weapons are heavily damaged.
Not to mention that they’ve totally nerfed the ‘battlemage type’ custom character class, as wearing any type of armor fucks up a mage’s ability to cast spells.
Yeah I found this out the hard way, too. Was going through the second Oblivion gate bit, and got to the point where I couldn’t kill a thing. The lil’ scamp guys just kicked my ass unless I got in a sneak attack and used every scroll/potion I had to kill just one.
After my blade broke and I restored and fixed it (luckily I had a hammer with me) suddenly everything died much faster. Lesson learned: fix your armor and weapons.
Is this just for “Battlemage” class? Because I can cast spells while wearing armor easily.