If this gets 1k views ill attempt to beat the main story with this rig. Edit: Thank you for the views and likes! As promised I will attempt to beat this game on this rig, I will play at lower difficulty, I will try to beat it in one sitting. I did explore some of the open world and yea.....its going to be something. ua-cam.com/video/nrmH8uhzMa4/v-deo.html it is done.
Actually no, it wasn't worse. Before that there was Morrowind. Which worked perfectly on a similar configuration and produced a beautiful picture (which really was a merit not so much of the graphics, but of the game design as a whole) which was even better than that of the Gothic game that was released a little later. The fact is that Bethesda took a careless approach to the creation of Oblivion. At that time, the computer components market needed excitement to sell more hardware. Bethesda deliberately left many technical errors and errors in Oblivion so that people would upgrade their hardware. For example, the water in the game is everywhere underground and all of it processes surface reflections, which leads to additional load on the system. And there are a lot of such intentional mistakes. They did the same thing later when developing Fallout 4. Although the game engine is such that the game could easily run on the configuration of the Skyrim LE version. But the thing is that in F4 there are practically no blunt or sharp edges on objects. Most objects, even the smallest ones, have intentionally rounded corners; this increases the number of polygons in the 3D model in the most imperceptible way, but this has a catastrophic effect on performance. Or, for example, the fact that in F4 it is impossible to disable shadows in the game, not even through a configuration file. Such technical errors are made on purpose to spur demand for new hardware, because in modern industry everyone is connected. Developers and hardware manufacturers.
Some random fool told me once nobody should play games on notebooks, he doesn't know how true gamers are: if the machine runs, it is supposed to be played.
I fast forwarded 2 minutes to get into gameplay and was staring at a frozen frame thinking "damn, that's really slow". Then I decided to skip some more to see at least another frame I realized the video was paused.
It's because this game was designed for ps3 and 360, and the ps3 and 360 had only around 512 mb of ram, so this PC with 256 mb of ram and 512 mb of vram has more than enough memory for the game at console like settings. The lag is coming from the week cpu and outdated gpu.
Oh my goodness this brought me back! I had an old 2004 hand-me-down windows XP machine when Oblivion came out, and I remember having to install a program to force the graphics lower to optimize fps. It looked exactly like this with that completely flat lighting! I had forgotten about that, thanks for uploading this.
People laugh now but back in 2006/2007 this was THE Oblivion experience for a ton of people who were using a 2001-2003 windows XP PC myself included, good times
This is pretty close to my first experience with Oblivion. My laptop was so bad in 2007 that I had to install Oldblivion to make it work. That was when Oblivion’s graphics were state of the art
@@vulcanitu2578 You replied "bingchilin" to me after reading the Chinese language, which makes you look like a robot. It is very disrespectful for a concrete rather than abstract and unfamiliar person to make such a joke.
Many, many years ago, I was so determined to play Oblivion on my home PC that I downloaded something called "Oldblivion" that forced the game to look just like this. It was the only way the game would run at all. Those were the days!
Ah the potato is potatoing. I love it so much, the way the rooms load and unload right in front of you. it's gorgeous. It doesn't even look like the shaders are even attempting to load lmao
True, but the Ram in this machine is from 2000. The ram in the ps3 is six years newer. PS3 ram would be faster and just overall better. www.qvc.com/hp-pavilion-6830-w-celeron-700mhz%2C-20gb%2C-monitor-%26-printer.product.E101960.html That is the PC I am using.
That stuttering during the opening Bethesda splash screen reminded me of something I had forgotten for years and years -- when I was little I got one of the first rounds of the Xbox 360 for Christmas, which had awful Red Ring of Death crashes. I only had Oblivion (and I really only wanted to play Oblivion because I loved Morrowind so much). I would restart the console every time it crashed and just hope it got through the opening screens so I could get into the game and play for a little bit before it crashed again. Just hearing the stuttering during the Bethesda sound brought those memories rushing back. Thanks for uploading this lol
I have never in my life seen Oblivion run like this, but It resonates with me on a spiritual level. Reminds me of trying to get Skyrim running on an old eMachine I had as a preteen, all the janky workarounds - but you worked with what you had. Good times.
Reminds me of when me and my mam tried modding Oblivion back in 2008 and my Laptop could hardly even run this or World of Warcraft, but I never even cared because... well, it was Oblivion.
OMG I used to play this game like this on my first laptop, good old days. I didn't care about graphics, I was there for the story and the fun. Now, ten years later, I finally have a decent pc and I can play Oblivion at full but I miss those days haha
I remember playing this on my dad's old laptop back in the day. Most of the textures wouldn't even load but I somehow soldiered through a fair bit of the game with everything looking like it was covered in grey paint.
I remember trying to run Oblivion on my PC without a powerful enough graphics card, and I had to disable almost all shaders. Dark areas of the game were bright as day. But I played it anyway because it was so much fun.
This reminds me of the days when I used to run crysis on our old low end laptop with an intel core duo and a geforce g105m graphics card. The game would struggle to run at the very low settings with a 800x600 resolution screen with a 30 fps max and a loud fan. :)
My Xbox 360 had that exact same audio stuttering with the Bethesda logo. I always wondered what was behind it because it ran the rest of the game very well.
bro i just witnessed my childhood the first sight of windows xp and the lagginess its juts oooweee...i miss it but at the same time I'm happy where I am lmaooo
I remember using this no-shadows mod on my Pentium E5200 PC without gpu! I would love to go back to Oblivion but its too old though. Can't wait for Skyblivion
@@WinXP_SP1 I actually love old games, but Oblivion AI is too dumb, and the animations are extremely robotic. I could play Gothic, Deus Ex, and another stuff. But Oblivion, for those reasons, is just broken to me.
Nice, I used the 8400GS inside an eMachine I owned (first PC) because the integrated wasn't much at all - I threw in an extra 1gb stick of ram. Celeron D / 1.5gb ram / 8400GS All I could play was CS:S, GTA:SA, and Left 4 Dead in its last days before I finally got a newer PC made for gaming. My version of L4D looked a lot like the graphics quality in this video! DX6 or some crap lol
Currently replaying Oblivion on my Series X. As a guy that played the hell out of the broken ass ps3 version back in the day(which barely ran better than this) Im really loving the 4k 60 and almost instant load times.
That's how I first played it. Pentium 4 3 ghz, barely working GPU for me .. The results were the same. Also had the "downgrade" mod that reduced details even more
I would play the F out of morrowind, daggerfall, quake and thief on that rig. And since I'm an artist too I'd load up open canvas 6. I had a laptop for the longest time when I was a teen and those were p much the only games/art program I could play xD
It played pretty good considering the hardware. First time i tried playing i had to use a mod to nerf the graphics further than the lowest base settings just to get it to run.
Way different specs, but this reminds me of when my friends managed to get crysis to run on a computer on something that had no business doing so, and it basically looked not much better than this
I will try Crysis at some point, I do have a Pentium III 1ghz ready, but I want to try to do more with the weaker Celeron PC. There are videos of it running a on weaker Pentium III, but it is neat seeing PCs pushed to their limits running stuff that shouldn't run on it.
@@WinXP_SP1I don't remember all the specs, but if you're curious, I remember specifically that it was some kind of HP machine with a Pentium 3, 1gb of ram I think, and an ATI 1550 card that fit in the PCI (not express) slot. It managed to get like 15 fps at best on the first level with everything to low, without using an optimizer program on the game
Crysis is more about the physics and destruction engine than the actual graphics, which never looked particularly good outside of the beaches. It's what made the gameplay unique from other FPS.
I've ran Morrowind on a Pentium 3, and that isn't too smoothly. And while the 8400 GS isn't an amazing card, pairing it with a tiny Celeron is cruel even for that card. And we need to see the outside. I want to know how low the draw distance can be set and how far the framerate can dive
If this gets 1k views ill attempt to beat the main story with this rig.
Edit: Thank you for the views and likes! As promised I will attempt to beat this game on this rig, I will play at lower difficulty, I will try to beat it in one sitting. I did explore some of the open world and yea.....its going to be something.
ua-cam.com/video/nrmH8uhzMa4/v-deo.html it is done.
You're gonna wish the algorithm hadn't chosen you..
You're done. Nip it in the bud. You should just start filming now, 1k is gonna happen
you fool
Please don't do that, it doesn't sound fun to do or watch 😅
2 days and already 700 views. I'd be thinking of a build if i were you ^^
People forget, this is how it used to be back in the day. We loved every moment of it. Because it was even worse before that!
sometimes just had to make due with the hardware you had.
@@WinXP_SP1 I wish people made mods like this for modern games.
Graphics: *Yes*
Actually no, it wasn't worse. Before that there was Morrowind. Which worked perfectly on a similar configuration and produced a beautiful picture (which really was a merit not so much of the graphics, but of the game design as a whole) which was even better than that of the Gothic game that was released a little later. The fact is that Bethesda took a careless approach to the creation of Oblivion. At that time, the computer components market needed excitement to sell more hardware. Bethesda deliberately left many technical errors and errors in Oblivion so that people would upgrade their hardware. For example, the water in the game is everywhere underground and all of it processes surface reflections, which leads to additional load on the system. And there are a lot of such intentional mistakes. They did the same thing later when developing Fallout 4. Although the game engine is such that the game could easily run on the configuration of the Skyrim LE version. But the thing is that in F4 there are practically no blunt or sharp edges on objects. Most objects, even the smallest ones, have intentionally rounded corners; this increases the number of polygons in the 3D model in the most imperceptible way, but this has a catastrophic effect on performance. Or, for example, the fact that in F4 it is impossible to disable shadows in the game, not even through a configuration file. Such technical errors are made on purpose to spur demand for new hardware, because in modern industry everyone is connected. Developers and hardware manufacturers.
This is how pc games are meant to be played. Not max settings on the newest hsrdware, but barely getting by on an outdated rig
Truer words were never said.
That's the beauty of it, you play with what you have, and compromise everything in the name of getting what you call a playable experience
That Ironicly still applies to today's triple-A games with no optimisations on launch.
My pc looking at me downloading the Witcher 3 again
From an emulation perspective, unironically this. If you want to replicate an experience as most people had it back in the day, this is the way to go.
I can feel my life force slipping away for every loading screen
Amen, brother
I like how the loading screen didn't even take that long
Can even happen in the modern day. Assassins Creed Valhalla on PS4 slim, lol loading screens could take 2 minutes, compared to PS5 it's horrific!
It's like playing Skyrim on the PlayStation 3 - which also had 256mb of memory.
it took me 30 minutes to load into a match that i got to play the last to minutes of on halo infinite
This needs to be a speedrun category
celeron%
fewest total frames, any%
@@WlyChess I did submit the video on Speedrun.com, but the video was declined.
This is how Skyrim runs on my laptop.
I actually tried to see if Skyrim would work, but wouldn't launch due to low memory.
@@WinXP_SP1 not a surprise there XD
@@WinXP_SP1 just download some more RAM
This is how daggerfall runs on my calculator.
Some random fool told me once nobody should play games on notebooks, he doesn't know how true gamers are: if the machine runs, it is supposed to be played.
I fast forwarded 2 minutes to get into gameplay and was staring at a frozen frame thinking "damn, that's really slow". Then I decided to skip some more to see at least another frame I realized the video was paused.
Fascinated by how there are simply no shadows whatsoever
Shadows may be elusive, but they can never escape the light of day.
no shadows, no shaders, no lighting, all you get are polygons, pixels and textures
lighting is for NERDS
It made the dungeons and under water caves a lot less scary since no enemy could hide in the dark.
my mom used that desktop background on our home pc when I was a child in the early 2000's. she died almost 2 years and this reminded me of her :(
I'm so sorry 😔
No wonder with desktop background like that...
M8 have some respect....
You mean one of the default backgrounds.
Hang on there.
the fact that this game even runs and doesnt just die immediately due to a memory exception or something like that is astonishing in itself.
This is because programmers actually did their jobs, nowadays they don't even do basic compression on textures, they leave it all raw.
It's because this game was designed for ps3 and 360, and the ps3 and 360 had only around 512 mb of ram, so this PC with 256 mb of ram and 512 mb of vram has more than enough memory for the game at console like settings.
The lag is coming from the week cpu and outdated gpu.
Oh my goodness this brought me back! I had an old 2004 hand-me-down windows XP machine when Oblivion came out, and I remember having to install a program to force the graphics lower to optimize fps. It looked exactly like this with that completely flat lighting! I had forgotten about that, thanks for uploading this.
Was it Oldblivion? I remember researching a way to get my dinosaur late 90s budget PC and coming across that. I bought a 360 instead 😂
@@nora-bee Yes! That sounds right
yeah i had a 2008-9 rig that handled the game pretty well. My papaw had the windows xp machine, actually. flatout demo and all😅
This is like content aimed directly at me. this is exactly my type of thing
Me too!
Look up the Doom 3 on a Voodoo 2 stuff
This is what playing Skyrim on PS3 felt like.
Unless you had a huge save file, it played fine most of the time
The dancing with the mouse while waiting for the game to load is the realest shit
People laugh now but back in 2006/2007 this was THE Oblivion experience for a ton of people who were using a 2001-2003 windows XP PC myself included, good times
it plays flawlessly for a 2006 title, even with potatoe settings
GPU is doing all the heavy lifting, but yes
Eastern europe 2000 kids will probably cry for a bit. (As i do)
Why Oblivion when you can play Gothic
@@HappyBeezerStudiosew nobody stooped that low
@@Toxin___InterHalferGothic series was my childhood and to this very day I play it actively 😂
@@ArniesTech 😒
This is pretty close to my first experience with Oblivion. My laptop was so bad in 2007 that I had to install Oldblivion to make it work. That was when Oblivion’s graphics were state of the art
This exact experience is what taught me that computers had different parts that needed to be upgraded
I swear to god i thouth my internet was just lagging after 10 seconds
good god it looks perfect!
这让我想起了我的童年，尽管它不完美，但浪漫的回忆往往比现在更让人向往。
Bing chillin
@@vulcanitu2578 😅how old are you kid?
@@lcfe7436 tf is your problem
@@vulcanitu2578 You replied "bingchilin" to me after reading the Chinese language, which makes you look like a robot. It is very disrespectful for a concrete rather than abstract and unfamiliar person to make such a joke.
@@lcfe7436 robot? wtf. Can't you be more of a crybaby?
Many, many years ago, I was so determined to play Oblivion on my home PC that I downloaded something called "Oldblivion" that forced the game to look just like this. It was the only way the game would run at all. Those were the days!
Watching at 240p for maximum authenticity
i played with a huge intergraded graphics laptop back in the day. MEMORIES!
No joke, I have that wallpaper on my desktop right now.
God, I wish I was on a beach now… playing Oblivion, obviously.
Ah the potato is potatoing. I love it so much, the way the rooms load and unload right in front of you. it's gorgeous. It doesn't even look like the shaders are even attempting to load lmao
omg i had that exact background on my pc back in the mid 2000s. i believe it was from a set of wallpapers that came with windows xp
You're correct
Honestly something about Oblivion makes more sense on the lowest possible settings
This looks so crunchy, I love it.
That beautiful texture pop-in.
The ps3 port of Oblivion ran on 256mb of ram though.
True, but the Ram in this machine is from 2000. The ram in the ps3 is six years newer. PS3 ram would be faster and just overall better.
www.qvc.com/hp-pavilion-6830-w-celeron-700mhz%2C-20gb%2C-monitor-%26-printer.product.E101960.html That is the PC I am using.
PS3 ports almost universally ran like trash too.
PS3 oblivion is also just about the most infuriating game I've ever played
Reminds me of Half Life 2 with full bright turned on.
You always knew you were in for a bad time when the opening credits lagged 😅🎉
That stuttering during the opening Bethesda splash screen reminded me of something I had forgotten for years and years -- when I was little I got one of the first rounds of the Xbox 360 for Christmas, which had awful Red Ring of Death crashes. I only had Oblivion (and I really only wanted to play Oblivion because I loved Morrowind so much). I would restart the console every time it crashed and just hope it got through the opening screens so I could get into the game and play for a little bit before it crashed again. Just hearing the stuttering during the Bethesda sound brought those memories rushing back. Thanks for uploading this lol
I have never in my life seen Oblivion run like this, but It resonates with me on a spiritual level.
Reminds me of trying to get Skyrim running on an old eMachine I had as a preteen, all the janky workarounds - but you worked with what you had.
Good times.
This takes me back
I remember I first played using the “Oldblivion” mod because my old GPU couldn’t run HD graphics, over 15 years ago.
Wow. This video is a real gate into my childhood.
Oblivion on gamecube
This was my Oblivion experience back in the day. I didn't mind it as a kid.
Reminds me of when me and my mam tried modding Oblivion back in 2008 and my Laptop could hardly even run this or World of Warcraft, but I never even cared because... well, it was Oblivion.
>mam
Cumbrian?
Reminds me playing oblivion for the first time 15fps to 20fps on a bottom of the barrel slow hard drive on a Pentium 4.
OMG I used to play this game like this on my first laptop, good old days. I didn't care about graphics, I was there for the story and the fun. Now, ten years later, I finally have a decent pc and I can play Oblivion at full but I miss those days haha
I remember playing this on my dad's old laptop back in the day. Most of the textures wouldn't even load but I somehow soldiered through a fair bit of the game with everything looking like it was covered in grey paint.
That 15 ft draw distance
Wow gaming is evolving at a rapid level. Cannot believe this is ingame!
This is exactly the experience I remember having the first time I played this game on my PC at the time.
The menus look great!
Bumping for the algo so you end up doing this
😱
ah, just like by brother used to play. The caves were all lit and the world ground textrues were square limited, no blending transition
I remember trying to run Oblivion on my PC without a powerful enough graphics card, and I had to disable almost all shaders. Dark areas of the game were bright as day. But I played it anyway because it was so much fun.
As soon as the game starts I thought "Holy shit, it actually runs at a stable 60 framera-"
Then you turned around.
I remember there was a modded version called "Oldblivion" for lower specs, I had a bad computer so that was how I first played the game
Interesting, I was not aware about this mod. I didn't use any mods for my test or my playthrough on this rig.
that desktop wallpaper though 🖥️ 🔥 🏝️
From Desktop to gameplay in less than 3 minutes and loading screens under 30 seconds? Truly the golden age of gaming
You can't even open a browser tab nowadays without it using 250mb of ram
This is how I remember playing the game when it came out.
oh this is beautiful
Now ot looks beautiful.
This reminds me of the days when I used to run crysis on our old low end laptop with an intel core duo and a geforce g105m graphics card. The game would struggle to run at the very low settings with a 800x600 resolution screen with a 30 fps max and a loud fan. :)
this... unlocked... a memory...
you just know this whole rig catches fire as soon as he makes it outside
My Xbox 360 had that exact same audio stuttering with the Bethesda logo. I always wondered what was behind it because it ran the rest of the game very well.
I was about to say "oh hey this isn't so bad." Then I noticed the draw distance
This is better than how I played it on my crappy laptop in 2007
wow, that draw distance XD
All things considered, it looks and runs better than I'd expect.
The GPU is carrying.
Shadows: *non-existent*
This is the way you're supposed to play the game. Todd Howard shed a single tear in heaven.
Had this running on an Intel Celeron 733MHz back in the day.
bro i just witnessed my childhood
the first sight of windows xp and the lagginess its juts oooweee...i miss it but at the same time I'm happy where I am lmaooo
I remember using this no-shadows mod on my Pentium E5200 PC without gpu! I would love to go back to Oblivion but its too old though. Can't wait for Skyblivion
Too old? Doesn't mean you can't enjoy the game. Don't need a mod to enjoy Oblivion.
@@WinXP_SP1 I actually love old games, but Oblivion AI is too dumb, and the animations are extremely robotic. I could play Gothic, Deus Ex, and another stuff. But Oblivion, for those reasons, is just broken to me.
This is an exact replica of how I played this game for like 5 years
incredible
goodness
Good old days, man.
Ngl, this makes me miss windows xp
Could always load XP on a virtual machine :)
Yes! My poor ass childhood trying to run AoE III on a discount Compaq. Truly the “uphill both ways in the snow” of our age.
Nice, I used the 8400GS inside an eMachine I owned (first PC) because the integrated wasn't much at all - I threw in an extra 1gb stick of ram.
Celeron D / 1.5gb ram / 8400GS
All I could play was CS:S, GTA:SA, and Left 4 Dead in its last days before I finally got a newer PC made for gaming. My version of L4D looked a lot like the graphics quality in this video! DX6 or some crap lol
Damn I wish it looked this good on Xbox back in the day.
Reading the title alone all I could feel was PAAAAAAIIINN!!!
Currently replaying Oblivion on my Series X. As a guy that played the hell out of the broken ass ps3 version back in the day(which barely ran better than this) Im really loving the 4k 60 and almost instant load times.
Runs better than Starfield on PC.
Good
That's how I first played it. Pentium 4 3 ghz, barely working GPU for me .. The results were the same. Also had the "downgrade" mod that reduced details even more
I would play the F out of morrowind, daggerfall, quake and thief on that rig.
And since I'm an artist too I'd load up open canvas 6.
I had a laptop for the longest time when I was a teen and those were p much the only games/art program I could play xD
Its just missing the sound of the computer struggling to boot it up lol
ah mat fullbright on and low res oblivion, brings me back thanks
I remember when i first played oblivion i had 256 MB Ram, then upgrade to 768MB and game was a lot better.
Rocking this game on max settings with gt640 + i5 3570
it works
can it run crytis
What is crytis?
@@noha112 it's a joke about if it can run crysis, a game that had damn amazing graphics for the time, and it it still most likely holds up today
I'll try to run Crysis at some point tho :)@@MonstertruckBadass
i recently made a cool build for windows 2000, Pentium 4 2gz with geforce 6200 GT 256mb with 512mb of ram. runs game pretty solid
Very nice!
1:04 I know this dance
It played pretty good considering the hardware. First time i tried playing i had to use a mod to nerf the graphics further than the lowest base settings just to get it to run.
Gotta thank that GPU, did all the heavy lifting.
lets make this happen
The struggle is real.
Way different specs, but this reminds me of when my friends managed to get crysis to run on a computer on something that had no business doing so, and it basically looked not much better than this
I will try Crysis at some point, I do have a Pentium III 1ghz ready, but I want to try to do more with the weaker Celeron PC. There are videos of it running a on weaker Pentium III, but it is neat seeing PCs pushed to their limits running stuff that shouldn't run on it.
@@WinXP_SP1I don't remember all the specs, but if you're curious, I remember specifically that it was some kind of HP machine with a Pentium 3, 1gb of ram I think, and an ATI 1550 card that fit in the PCI (not express) slot. It managed to get like 15 fps at best on the first level with everything to low, without using an optimizer program on the game
Crysis is more about the physics and destruction engine than the actual graphics, which never looked particularly good outside of the beaches. It's what made the gameplay unique from other FPS.
I've ran Morrowind on a Pentium 3, and that isn't too smoothly.
And while the 8400 GS isn't an amazing card, pairing it with a tiny Celeron is cruel even for that card.
And we need to see the outside. I want to know how low the draw distance can be set and how far the framerate can dive
I did the whole main quest on this rig. ua-cam.com/video/nrmH8uhzMa4/v-deo.html here is the full 7 hours.