*official* Oblivion Thread, opinions?

[rise]

Originally posted by: Mem
Anybody else having some bug problems with Nvidia graphics card and HDR enabled?....ie with NPC dialogue with the screen going black,especially in the arena section.

It got so annoying I had to disable HDR.

no, haven't seen that at all.

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: AdamSnow
So I got converted to a vampire... and so far I can only tell that it sucks... Having to feed and everything...

Is there any reason to be a vampire, or should I just go get the cure?

i finished the vampire cure quest last night. fvcking horrible and insane quest. being a vampire sucks!

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: Czar

Originally posted by: AmigaMan

Originally posted by: Czar

Originally posted by: Mem

So I got converted to a vampire... and so far I can only tell that it sucks... Having to feed and everything...

Is there any reason to be a vampire, or should I just go get the cure?

It is down to you if you want to stay a vampire or not,if you want the cure, spoiler guide below,yes I got the cure after a long 12 hours of playing .


Spoiler Vampire cure guide.

whats the good part about being a vampire?

Ok, hand in your geek/nerd card....you never seen Buffy the Vampire Slayer? Angel? What's NOT to like about being a vampire (besides the blood drinking and daylight phobia)? It's like being a super-geek AND you get chicks!

hehe, whats not to like? the lack of sunlight, the constant crawings

uh, taking massive damage while in daylight is a massive game ruiner to me. you can only move around at night, so half the time you're waiting for darkness.

 

[bucwylde23]

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: Czar

Originally posted by: AmigaMan

Originally posted by: Czar

Originally posted by: Mem

So I got converted to a vampire... and so far I can only tell that it sucks... Having to feed and everything...

Is there any reason to be a vampire, or should I just go get the cure?

It is down to you if you want to stay a vampire or not,if you want the cure, spoiler guide below,yes I got the cure after a long 12 hours of playing .


Spoiler Vampire cure guide.

whats the good part about being a vampire?

Ok, hand in your geek/nerd card....you never seen Buffy the Vampire Slayer? Angel? What's NOT to like about being a vampire (besides the blood drinking and daylight phobia)? It's like being a super-geek AND you get chicks!

hehe, whats not to like? the lack of sunlight, the constant crawings

uh, taking massive damage while in daylight is a massive game ruiner to me. you can only move around at night, so half the time you're waiting for darkness.

hopefully i will not become a vampire, at least until i finish everything else. I guess it wouldn't be so bad once I have finished most of the other quests

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: chrisg22

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: Czar

Originally posted by: AmigaMan

Originally posted by: Czar

Originally posted by: Mem

So I got converted to a vampire... and so far I can only tell that it sucks... Having to feed and everything...

Is there any reason to be a vampire, or should I just go get the cure?

It is down to you if you want to stay a vampire or not,if you want the cure, spoiler guide below,yes I got the cure after a long 12 hours of playing .


Spoiler Vampire cure guide.

whats the good part about being a vampire?

Ok, hand in your geek/nerd card....you never seen Buffy the Vampire Slayer? Angel? What's NOT to like about being a vampire (besides the blood drinking and daylight phobia)? It's like being a super-geek AND you get chicks!

hehe, whats not to like? the lack of sunlight, the constant crawings

uh, taking massive damage while in daylight is a massive game ruiner to me. you can only move around at night, so half the time you're waiting for darkness.

hopefully i will not become a vampire, at least until i finish everything else. I guess it wouldn't be so bad once I have finished most of the other quests

yeah, thats true. if i didn't have any other quests to do it might not be so bad but trying to do quests sucks. also, no one wants to talk to you because they are afraid you're going to kill them.

 

[pm]

I see a lot of people complaining about becoming a vampire - and given it's drawbacks, I can see why - but why are people turning into vampires in the first place? Can't you just use a potion of cure disease, cast a spell of cure disease, or make your way to a church within a day or so?

I've killed a fair number of vampires (is it me, or do they seem a bit too easy to kill?) and contracted "poryphia hemophilia" a couple of times. And I just drank a potion of cure disease and it seemed to go away.

 

[spacelord]

Does anyone recall seeing a post about how to show more line items in your inventory? It was a hack in an INI file or something. I think it involved somehow changing the font or the scaling. I've searched here on AT forums and couldn't dig it up, and couldn't find it elsewhere.
Thanks to whoever can point me back there.

 

[bucwylde23]

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: chrisg22


uh, taking massive damage while in daylight is a massive game ruiner to me. you can only move around at night, so half the time you're waiting for darkness.

hopefully i will not become a vampire, at least until i finish everything else. I guess it wouldn't be so bad once I have finished most of the other quests

yeah, thats true. if i didn't have any other quests to do it might not be so bad but trying to do quests sucks. also, no one wants to talk to you because they are afraid you're going to kill them.[/quote]

I really don't want to do that quest simply because searching for ingredients, etc sounds like a lot of running around basically wasting time. Luckily I have a few cure disease potions ready and waiting if the time comes.
Plus, I have TONS of quests lined up right now. Every time I'm in the middle of completing a quest I talk to a few people and end up adding 1 or 2 more. I'm not even bothered about the main story at this point.

Originally posted by: spacelord
Does anyone recall seeing a post about how to show more line items in your inventory? It was a hack in an INI file or something. I think it involved somehow changing the font or the scaling. I've searched here on AT forums and couldn't dig it up, and couldn't find it elsewhere.
Thanks to whoever can point me back there.

I saw the same thread that you are referring to, but can't remember where it was. I think the search feature here is horrible... it never returns the results I want.


After buying around 100 picks from Ongar I finally got the hang of lock picking and find it to be really easy now and I have an extra 75 picks I can pick the "hard" locks pretty quickly. Have yet to find a very hard lock.

 

[Mem]

uh, taking massive damage while in daylight is a massive game ruiner to me. you can only move around at night, so half the time you're waiting for darkness.

You can move in daylight if you feed every 24 hours or so,but yes being a vamp was annoying.

 

[CPA]

Okay, something different than the vampire talk:

What impact, if any, does not sleeping have on a character?

So far, with the exception that you need it to level up and quickly get through the night, I have not seen an impact of not sleeping. Are characters inherently insomniacs?

 

[pm]

A couple of interesting links that I found (somewhere, maybe in this thread - if so apologies for the dupe post):

Optimizing Oblivion: details on tweaking the graphics options, and some interesting stuff about threading:
http://www.atomicmpc.com.au/article.asp?SCID=27&CIID=36222&p=1


An improved PC-centric GUI for the game - allowing more inventory items per screen, smaller text, etc.:
http://www.elderscrolls.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=300177
(screenshots of the mod are in the link too)


Better Water mod: changes the opacity and fog of the water in the game resulting in my higher reflectivity of the sky and surroundings:
http://www.tessource.net/files/file.php?id=1830

 

[Alienwho]

Originally posted by: pm
A couple of interesting links that I found (somewhere, maybe in this thread - if so apologies for the dupe post):

Optimizing Oblivion: details on tweaking the graphics options, and some interesting stuff about threading:
http://www.atomicmpc.com.au/article.asp?SCID=27&CIID=36222&p=1


An improved PC-centric GUI for the game - allowing more inventory items per screen, smaller text, etc.:
http://www.elderscrolls.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=300177
(screenshots of the mod are in the link too)


Better Water mod: changes the opacity and fog of the water in the game resulting in my higher reflectivity of the sky and surroundings:
http://www.tessource.net/files/file.php?id=1830

Will the improved GUI take away the quest markers? I read something about that and would like to install the mod, but I don't want my quest markers taken away.

<edit>
Nevermind I see that you can choose which markers you'd like to remove or display in the data files.

 

[Hersh]

SOB, the Aid for Bruma quest has got to be the most mundane and drawn out quest yet. That I just finished an oblivion gate for the quest but it crashed a minute later. It should have autosaved and I swear it did but the autosave file is 0 bytes. DOH!

 

[Hersh]

Originally posted by: spacelord
Does anyone recall seeing a post about how to show more line items in your inventory? It was a hack in an INI file or something. I think it involved somehow changing the font or the scaling. I've searched here on AT forums and couldn't dig it up, and couldn't find it elsewhere.
Thanks to whoever can point me back there.

Check a post by me in page 15 of this thread.

 

[AdamSnow]

Originally posted by: pm
I see a lot of people complaining about becoming a vampire - and given it's drawbacks, I can see why - but why are people turning into vampires in the first place? Can't you just use a potion of cure disease, cast a spell of cure disease, or make your way to a church within a day or so?

I've killed a fair number of vampires (is it me, or do they seem a bit too easy to kill?) and contracted "poryphia hemophilia" a couple of times. And I just drank a potion of cure disease and it seemed to go away.

Well, After finishing a quest, the guy asked me if I wanted to become a vampire... I thought hey, sounds cool... so I did it... and I intentially slept the few days to become a Vampire...

Now it turns out that it sucks... haha oh well... I might keep playing, apparently there are some good things that come out of it, but I'm not sure what they are yet...

 

[Looney]

Originally posted by: pm
A couple of interesting links that I found (somewhere, maybe in this thread - if so apologies for the dupe post):

Optimizing Oblivion: details on tweaking the graphics options, and some interesting stuff about threading:
http://www.atomicmpc.com.au/article.asp?SCID=27&CIID=36222&p=1


An improved PC-centric GUI for the game - allowing more inventory items per screen, smaller text, etc.:
http://www.elderscrolls.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=300177
(screenshots of the mod are in the link too)


Better Water mod: changes the opacity and fog of the water in the game resulting in my higher reflectivity of the sky and surroundings:
http://www.tessource.net/files/file.php?id=1830

Thanks for those links pm! All 3 were helpful!

 

[rise]

yeah, thanks PM. i'm going to do the new gui later.

if i start a new character, is there a way to skip alot of the intro/tutorial? i don't really want to play through that part again.

 

[Looney]

Originally posted by: rise4310
yeah, thanks PM. i'm going to do the new gui later.

if i start a new character, is there a way to skip alot of the intro/tutorial? i don't really want to play through that part again.

I don't think so... what i did though, is made a save game at the sewer exit, so if i ever need to reroll, i can just load up that save game instead of going through all the intro again.

 

[bucwylde23]

Originally posted by: Looney

Originally posted by: rise4310
yeah, thanks PM. i'm going to do the new gui later.

if i start a new character, is there a way to skip alot of the intro/tutorial? i don't really want to play through that part again.

I don't think so... what i did though, is made a save game at the sewer exit, so if i ever need to reroll, i can just load up that save game instead of going through all the intro again.

smart move, wish i would have done that..

 

[rise]

lol, yeah, me too

 

[Doom Machine]

all you have to do is use the console and enter in the proper command lines to change race/birthsign..etc, you can do it at any point in game...the command list is on any cheat site.

my thoughts about this game is that it has more detail foot per foot than any game ever made, to see such a large landmass where all objects in game have high polygons and detailed textures is very refreshing, most free roam games have both detailed objects and very ugly objects, they definitly spent alot of time on each thing and where its placed.

if anyone has high pc specs, i got the textures to look unbelievable even up close or at angles using the following nvidia driver tweaks:

84.25 beta (optimized driver specifically for oblivion)
forced AA/AF to 16x
image - high quality
trilinear opimization- off
anisotripic mip filter- off
anisotropic sample optimization- off
gamma correct aliasing - on
transparancey aliasing - super sampling
negative lod bias - allow, only if using high AA
render frames ahead - 0 ...experiment with 2 or 1 first..this tells how many frames it will hold in advance of being displayed, for this game in particular, using 2,1,0 can help free mouse lag or prevent freezing.

 

[Fallengod]

ANyone get any weird freezeups or the screen randomly going black every so often? I was just wondering because I do. I think the game needs a patch.

 

[rise]

all you have to do is use the console and enter in the proper command lines to change race/birthsign..etc, you can do it at any point in game...the command list is on any cheat site.

thats even better :beer:

ANyone get any weird freezeups or the screen randomly going black every so often? I was just wondering because I do. I think the game needs a patch.

yeah, it definitely needs a patch but i'm not having any crashing issues. just the "needs to close" on exit sometimes.

some are saying not to use hdr with nvidia but i don't think thats it as i use hdr. might be worth a shot if thats what you're using though.

 

[Painman]

Originally posted by: chrisg22

Originally posted by: Looney

Originally posted by: rise4310
yeah, thanks PM. i'm going to do the new gui later.

if i start a new character, is there a way to skip alot of the intro/tutorial? i don't really want to play through that part again.

I don't think so... what i did though, is made a save game at the sewer exit, so if i ever need to reroll, i can just load up that save game instead of going through all the intro again.

smart move, wish i would have done that..

I did this, I got the guide and it was mentioned in there someplace - very handy since I did reroll my char into a thief/assassin type. Only drawback is that you have to keep the same name on the char.

 

[iamwiz82]

Originally posted by: alphaz
SOB, the Aid for Bruma quest has got to be the most mundane and drawn out quest yet. That I just finished an oblivion gate for the quest but it crashed a minute later. It should have autosaved and I swear it did but the autosave file is 0 bytes. DOH!

Mine crashed once shortly after an autosave, as well. It was also 0 bytes :|