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I thought I'd try it, but I'm not sure about the system requirements. Here are my specs..really hot back in 05' :

Athlonx2 4200+ 2.2Ghz
1 GB DDR1 PC3200 Ram
256 MB Geforce 7800 GTX

I could score another gig of ram very cheaply, though, assuming it would help.

I read the "official" system requirements in the overhaul installation guide:
...and I was like yay... or, well, ok, might work decently enough. But then I hear people on forums and Youtube complaining about 15 fps and so forth. People with i7's, 6GB and 1GB gpu's. And so I start to worry, a lot.

Anyone have any experience running MGE with a low-end computer? I don't really care about AA or Distant Lands or some icing on the cake, but would I have to sacrifice a lot more than that for it to run well (assuming it does at all)? Thanks!

Edit: I'd be running it in 1440x900 widescreen. Think it's about as taxing as 1280x980.

Cheers Scozzar.

I figured that the worst thing that could happen was that it wouldn't run at all. I'm having MGSO in mind actually. Since MGE is included in the package I figured I had to use it (and that it had all the shiny textures and meshes... silly me).


I hear that they're coming out with v.2 soon though, which will include all patches, even an auto patch feature in addition to being way easier to isntall. Don't think I have the patience though

Thanks, OD. Oblivion runs very well on high settings, so that's a bit reassuring.

Unfortunately, I only own vanilla atm, which won't accept the latest 1.6 patch even though the MGSO guide said it would.

I mean that I don't have goty edition, so 1.6 (or whatever, the Bloodmoon patch) won't work on my game. Therefore, I haven't even bothered trying to install MGSO, yet anyway.

You can download the patches here