I've noticed that as soon as I see objects with a shining effect (e.g. bottles, armor...) my framerate is halved. Is there any way to remove that effect? I've just started and I'm worried that if I ever face an enemy with shining armor the frames could kill me.
Settings
Found it. It was just about setting bDoSpecularPass in the .ini to 0, although I still get some lag, but I guess that's just because the way they are scripted.
Now that you mention it, I do have a problem with my in-game settings. Every time I try to change something like the texture size or rendering distance my game turns into a blue/green screen (depending on the location), and I can still see the HUD and listen to whatever I do. Once I do this I'm screwed since nothing seems to fix the problem, not even deleting the .ini or using system restore. At this point i must reinstall, so I've learned to live without the options menu.
This has only happened to me twice, and as you may guess, I don't have the balls to do it again an see what happens or find out what settings are exactly the ones that cause this. So far I only now that it's the render distance and texture size.
Settings
You get Colour Change because the Default Textures through the whole game are set to High anything else you will have multi Colours every where..
Change game Resloution with your Oblivion Launcher.exe if do not have shortcut Create 1 to OblivionLauncher.exe in your Oblivion Directory..
Turn Off HDR,Bloom these do help
Under your Option you can turn off Spec_ Display and Reflections and Shadows should help
Bottles will still Shine,Armor will still Shine They will not jump out at you any more..
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OblivionLauncher is only used to Set you graphics and Resolution
Start Launcher goto OPTIONS Under options 5 settings Video Quality only NEED HIGH..
Resolution BY Default 640x480 RESET to your Desktop Resolution you run..
Make shore Distant Landscape,Distant Buildings,Distant Trees are Ticked On..
Screen Effects set to NONE...Say OK Exit Launcher..
Start your Oblivion when Menu comes Up goto OPTIONS then VIDEO..
Resolution Should Be set to what you run on Desktop..
Brightness is Normaly around Half..
Texture Size Should Be LARGE..
Tree Fade Take right to FULL..
Actor Fade Full..
Item Fade FULL..
Object Fade FULL..
Grass Distance FULL..
Distant Land,Distant Buildings,Distant Trees are all ON
Int Shadows Take Left to OFF..
Ext Shadows OFF..
Self Shadows,Shadows on Grass,Tree Canopy Shadows,Shadow Filtering ALL OFF..
Specular Dist Left to OFF..
HDR Lighting,Bloom Lighting Should BE OFF..
Water Detail Set to Normal..
Water Reflections,Water Ripples,Window Reflections TURN to OFF..
Blood Decals TURN to OFF..
Anti-aliasing Is OFF..
Exit Panels Back to Menu Load your Game Walk about 15 Feet Save Game New save..
If you do not save and Game Crashes you will have to reset Video Options Again..
After saving game Exit.....Start Game Check Video Options then Load Save Continue on
Try these Settings to see if they help Frame Rate
Thank you yet there is one
Thank you yet there is one last thing that's been bugging me for a long time.
When I play with limited view distance, the fog around me envelops all objects but the ground, including houses,trees, rocks, grass, etc. That really kills the atmosphere, since an otherwise mysterious ambient turns into just normal hills with white dots and stains everywhere.
That shouldn't be a problem, I could turn on the distant land to kill the fog if I wanted to since my pc can take it, but the thing is that when I do, the hills that were outside my viewing distance appear full of random colors everywhere, which is even worse than the half-foggy hills. Funny thing is that as I get closer to the colored grounds, the colors disappear and it turns back to normal. The same happens in reverse when I move away from it.
I guessed it should be a shaders issue but replacing them with the originals did nothing and even with mods off it keeps happening.
Oops
Silly me here it is
http://morroblivion.com/forums/oblivion/morroblivion-problems/3655
Large
I did say set Texture Size to LARGE just forgot to put in View Distance to FULL
I'm not sure exactly what
I'm not sure exactly what turns on and off the effect though. You may just need to fiddle with your in-game graphics settings until you get it. Look for anything that says "specular" or "reflections" probably...
If you are using OBGE, you could try disabling that too.