Well, you could always just pick up some silver arrows, or even a little silver dagger.

Well, after just encounting some really tough ghosts, I'm wanting an enchanted silver sword. >.>

It was for the quest involving the ghost where you have to unchain his body from the hold of a wrecked ship. My glass longsword has an attack of 19 and I was forced to use a crappy-ass silver sword with an attack of 10. Took me about ten tries to get through each room (and for the first time in the game I actually had to use healing potions). =\

Around level 15 now, I probably ought to get back to the main storyline since the last thing I did for it was taking that dude up to the place in the north after sealing the first Oblivion gate. >.>

Man, the game must be so different with a character not similar to a thief. Man I don't think I could get by without sneakign around guys in caves and the like. I have a hard time killing goblin in close quarter areas, and more the one guy I get wasted. But of course I do not have that great of weapons and such yet. And I am waiting to get my Conjuration up so I can summon a fighter alongside of me because I really need it when I cant get sneak attacks (As a thief, I have decided to mainly focus on Conjuration for a spell class).

Like I said a lot of the times, I just sneak around enemies that are bunched up because my sneak is like 80 at level 14 right now.

What the fuck? Now, all of the sudden, I'm getting considerable slowdown whenever I go outside of cities. It's even worse on horses, and the game completely freezes up for 5-10 seconds. This is on the 360! Anyone experiencing anything similar to this, or know of any way to fix this?

Thought this might be of interest to ATI card owners out there that would like to improve the immersion of Oblivion. Basically by installing Catalyst 6.5 drivers, a more advanced anti-aliasing is possible called Adaptive AA. For the untechy guy, it will smooth jaggies to things like the grass and tree leaves etc. Also might help some of the armors such as chain and mithril look less jagged or pixely. You enable the option in the Catalyst Control Center, and then just use Oblivion's AA settings to control amount of AA.

Here is a quick Oblivion comparison between 2xAAA Quality and 2xAA. My card is a X800XT-PE at stock speeds running a Westy 32" LCD @ 1360x768 on a 3.0GHz P4 w/ 2GB RAM.

The first image in town fps was about 42fps for 2xAAA and 48fps for 2xAA. You can see the jaggies plainy if you zoom in the picture, and see the softness on the other side.
http://img458.imageshack.us/img458/7...son27hg.th.jpg

This image is outdoors with grass set at about 50%. Framerate was about 27fps 2xAA and 16-18fps for 2xAAA. :(
http://img114.imageshack.us/img114/2...son19ij.th.jpg

The good news is, with 2xAAA set to performance (instead of quality), the fps was about 25-26 with better than 2xAA quality :) .

I just got my Conjuration up to 75 by performing a Bound Helmet for 1 Second spell repeatedly for 20 minutes. Yeah, I was bored. Anyway, the Summon Creature spells are damn cool.

Also, I was wondering what the best kind of swords to fight ghosts with are, and where I could find them. Thanks for the help.

After reading through some of the books in the game, it looks like only silver and swords with magic spells on them will work. I think they gave most ghosts low HP so even though you're using a weakass silver sword you can still kill them without too much of a hassle (though when they group up on you it can be bad). If that fails, get some cheap dagger that has an enchantment to do damage on it.

Daedric weapons are also supposed to work on ghosts. Any weapon you summon is daedric, or if you're far enough in the main quest to enter Oblivion Gates, Dremora are a good source of them.

Nice pics Dayvon. Glad to see that I am not missing out on anything besides mods on the 360 version.

Anyways, 130 hours in. Just love exploring and just doing whatever. Reading books, stealing, etc. Most of the books are quite good. Lots of great lore.

That's great news to me. I somehow got myself a permanent Bound Sword, which is actually some claymore from Oblivion, that weighs nothing, is worth nothing, and has a 22 attack. Awesome.

Bethesda has announced a patch. I dunno when it's out, but info can be found here

I'm sad they fixed duplication. I was having tons of fun duplicating things. Filling a street with watermelons are quite fun. I don't know if the patch can be avoided. Probably not...

Eeh.. isn't that one been out for ages?

Yeah, that's the patch that made it so I was able to play the game.

can you download the game somewere

Um, yeah. You might want to check out the Other Requests forum. Just use the search function.

I actually found that on some site, too. Worked perfectly. Everything's running smooth as silk now.

Hmm, strange. I have pretty much the same specs as you and I tried the exact same thing, however it didn't say it was setting the quality to Ultra Low, but rather just Low. Anyways, I tried to play and it was still way to lurchy to even try. Got any tips for me?

Set everything as low as possible in the Launcher, then go into the game and turn everything either as low as it goes or off. The only settings I have at the non-lowest setting are View Distances (items, people, and landscape). Those are set halfway up the slider.

Gameplay only really lags for me when I've been playing for a long time or I'm near water.

What's the use of playing game in low detail, if Graphics are essential part of this game.

BTW,the recent patch improved performance but at the price of even more glitches and loading times, both on PC and 360.
The news is everywhere now and people are mad at Bethesda even more.

I was hoping to buy 360 for only this game but i will wait for Gears of war.

I've heard of this thing called fun gameplay.

Sure its very fun, but they are integral to the experience.

You people are just spoiled. :p

No, it's just that Oblivion looks uglier than barebones Morrowind on the lowest details and that's pretty fucking sad. Watching my friend play, with tweaked settings to disable lighting and all that shit, it is maddening.

HDR and Bloom I can understand. Shadows too. But when you have to literally disable EVERYTHING then I just don't see the point in playing the game. Of course, if you still enjoy it, then power to you but I know I could never play a game where everything was at it's lowest and it STILL lagged. That's just a kick in the balls right there.

I guess the thing is I've never spent the money to build a really powerful computer to play any of the latest games, so I've always been satisfied to play games at mid-low settings. Heck, I remember back when I used to be happy when my computer could pull 15fps during a normal game of CounterStrike.

I've always felt the most important part of a game is the gameplay, and if that's done very well, then everything else doesn't really matter. Oblivion's gameplay is so much better than Morrowind's (I can swing my sword and actually hit stuff!) and there isn't an ungodly amount of text (that I have to read) like most other PC RPGs, so this game is just something that's completely different from what I'm used to playing and even though it might look like complete ass, the fun of running across massive fields, finding some new armor, and beating that really tought boss, are all still the same.