I know this is going to sound like copium, but I love having to fiddle with settings to get original Oblivion running on my 2019 X1 Carbon. It gives me this nostalgia feeling of where I first ran oblivion on PC on my Dell E310 with a Pentium 4 single core and GeForce 6200LE I pencil modded. I’m having to run out at 720p and 4x AF, but it feels like Xbox 360 to me and I love
I miss having the spare time necessary to enjoy fiddling with settings.
Fiddling with settings is ok, but I don’t have time to spend trying to get a game to work. Like i game on Linux and 90% of games just work for me. A few years ago they didn’t and I stuck to windows for gaming. I have no time to figure out why sound doesn’t work in Skyrim lol.
But it works now
Running on underpowered hardware somehow reminds me of the good (or bad) old days of PC gaming where individual settings could make a huge difference.
Shadows off: Smooth
Shadows on: Unplayable
Now it is almost always unplayable, but the settings on don’t really make a difference
I have the model with the i7. Yeah, it’s playable
Yeah, it’s playable
It’s Oblivion, that’s really all you can hope for no matter your setup
lol true
Very seldom is anything dialed in right out of the box. No copium in my book, getting the game perfect is the whole point of pc gaming.
TBH I’m kinda surprised the game doesn’t run maxed out without problems. I know the IGPU wasn’t the greatest back then, but it wasn’t that bad.
My current laptop has a 96 eu iris Xe IGPU and it runs a LOT of games very well.
Yeah, it’s part of the fun.
Which settings? I’m replying from a 2019 X1 Carbon and have that in my Steam library.
[Currently playing Bioshock 2: Minerva’s Den via Proton.]
I’m currently running it at 1600x900p large texture, far distance, anti aliasing at 4x., if I drop to 720p, I get a solid 60fps. I’m still tweaking it so I haven’t gotten just right yet.
But I’m surprised at this laptops performance since I got it off an eBay business auction and not for gaming. Lego Harry Potter ran well as well as life is strange and left 4 dead. ETS2 was everything at low at 1080p if I remember correctly
But I’m surprised at this laptops performance since I got it off an eBay business auction and not for gaming.
Same. This thing is amazing. Granted, I’ve always been a Thinkpad fanboy, but this is my first “new” Thinkpad since my T420.
Ughhh you have UHD620. I also have a ThinkPad T14s with Ryzen 4750U and my APU should be more powerful. Do you have any luck of running the Oblivion in a playable manner?
I have the i7 in it. Oblivion plays about as well as it did at release. lol like I’m not pushing it maxed and graphics mods are out
