If you have not played Oblivion before, it means one of three possible things. 1. You are trapped on a deserted island with no contact to human civilization (but, of course, you are reading my blog because its that awesome), 2. You never thought about it/didn't want to, or 3. Your old piece of shit computer couldn't play it and you became very, very angry (in this instance you may or may not have bought an Xbox 360).
Well, if you are one of the few, the pissed off, and/or the ones who fall under category number 3, there is still hope. After purchasing an Asus Eee PC 901 XP, I decided to push the limits of what it can do for such a small computer (more on that in a later post). Anyway, after making sure it could do the basics (very well in fact) such as playing music, video, browsing the interwebs, IM, and checking my email..it was time for games. I knew this thing wouldn't be able to do much, and went in with incredibly low expectations. I was amazed that it could actually run Oblivion well enough to enjoy the game while ignoring the incredibly poor graphics. Before I explain how you too can partake in oblivion..ness on your old or graphically challenged computer, here is my disclaimer: THE GRAPHICS SUCK, I'm not sure if it works on Vista, and it is very laggy when in the "outside world" of the game. Overall, not a bad experience, and for on the go play is an excellent time waster. Now, here's how:1. Install Oblivion but do not patch or update it in any way.
2. Download and install "Oldblivion" from here.
3. Now double click to start the original copy of Oblivion. DO NOT START THE GAME. Here is a menu that lets you configure some of the graphics settings. Mine (for the Asus Eee PC 901) are set to: 1024x600 (widescreen), no antialiasing, fullscreen mode, no screen effects, and "distant landscape" is unchecked.
4. Now close both windows after applying the graphics settings. It is now time to configure Oldblivion, which can be found in Start > All Programs > Oldblivion > Config.
5. In the Oldblivion configuration, click the "Low Quality" box at the top left, check all the crash patches, change lighting mode to adaptable, uncheck all the boxes under "passes" except for texture, and everything else should remain the same. Hit OK to continue.
6. Now, your ready to enjoy Oblivion on your old hardware. You'll need to run "Oldblivion" from the start menu to play regular Oblivion, but I remedied this by replacing the "Target" and "Start In" locations on the Oblivion shortcut on the desktop with the ones for Oldblivion (then when you double click the Oblivion shortcut, Oldblivion starts and you get right to gaming.
7 (optional). If your computer does not contain a CD drive, like my Asus Eee PC, and you don't wish to lug around an external one, grab the no-CD crack .rar file here (click the blue icon and select a mirror) and extract it to your C:/Program Files/Bethesda Softworks/ folder. Windoze should ask you whether you want to replace the existing .exe, you need to responsd "yes." After this, Oblivion works without a hitch with no CD necessary and you can play. Oh, and for the curious, I've including screenshots below with indoors, outdoors, and menu experiences with lowered settings. I averaged around 25 frames per second when indoors, and around 7 FPS when outdoors. Both playable, but indoors much more so. Have fun!
the rest are linked here (I'm too lazy to show them, and besides I'd like to go play oblivion =P)
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