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. kzread.info/dash/bejne/oKahqpqumN2zkZc.html it is done.

@russellsanders4535

3 ай бұрын

You're gonna wish the algorithm hadn't chosen you..

@idipped2521

3 ай бұрын

You're done. Nip it in the bud. You should just start filming now, 1k is gonna happen

@PumninBake

3 ай бұрын

you fool

@amylutece8533

3 ай бұрын

Please don't do that, it doesn't sound fun to do or watch 😅

@PhantomBoy7

3 ай бұрын

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!

@WinXP_SP1

3 ай бұрын

sometimes just had to make due with the hardware you had.

@WretchedRedoran

2 ай бұрын

​@@WinXP_SP1 I wish people made mods like this for modern games.

@RaTcHeT302

Ай бұрын

Graphics: *Yes*

@James-sz9qo

10 күн бұрын

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

@mteley

3 ай бұрын

Truer words were never said.

@utfigyii5987

2 ай бұрын

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

@RetroPixelLizard

2 ай бұрын

That Ironicly still applies to today's triple-A games with no optimisations on launch.

@jackthefrog80085

2 ай бұрын

My pc looking at me downloading the Witcher 3 again

@thomasgraham5840

2 ай бұрын

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

@bertranwalker6524

3 ай бұрын

Amen, brother

@lapizza7175

2 ай бұрын

I like how the loading screen didn't even take that long

@harleyhunt6073

29 күн бұрын

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!

@AshleyPomeroy

25 күн бұрын

It's like playing Skyrim on the PlayStation 3 - which also had 256mb of memory.

This needs to be a speedrun category

@WinXP_SP1

3 ай бұрын

celeron%

@WlyChess

2 ай бұрын

fewest total frames, any%

@WinXP_SP1

26 күн бұрын

@@WlyChess I did submit the video on Speedrun.com, but the video was declined.

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.

This is how Skyrim runs on my laptop.

@WinXP_SP1

3 ай бұрын

I actually tried to see if Skyrim would work, but wouldn't launch due to low memory.

@ivewonyhk21

3 ай бұрын

@@WinXP_SP1 not a surprise there XD

@deesnutz42069

3 ай бұрын

@@WinXP_SP1 just download some more RAM

@erreesser

19 күн бұрын

This is how daggerfall runs on my calculator.

Fascinated by how there are simply no shadows whatsoever

@WinXP_SP1

3 ай бұрын

Shadows may be elusive, but they can never escape the light of day.

@hohohodrigues

2 ай бұрын

no shadows, no shaders, no lighting, all you get are polygons, pixels and textures

@RaTcHeT302

Ай бұрын

lighting is for NERDS

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.

@Axodus

Ай бұрын

This is because programmers actually did their jobs, nowadays they don't even do basic compression on textures, they leave it all raw.

@firstnamelastname-oy7es

Ай бұрын

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.

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.

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 :(

@frogman72davitto94

3 ай бұрын

I'm so sorry 😔

@darukineo

3 ай бұрын

The character?

@ARokanten

2 ай бұрын

No wonder with desktop background like that...

@TheAilmam

2 ай бұрын

M8 have some respect....

@ShadowsandCityLights

2 ай бұрын

You mean one of the default backgrounds.

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.

@nora-bee

3 ай бұрын

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 😂

@Bjarmid

2 ай бұрын

@@nora-bee Yes! That sounds right

This is like content aimed directly at me. this is exactly my type of thing

@Pinwheelsystem

2 ай бұрын

Me too!

@HappyBeezerStudios

2 ай бұрын

Look up the Doom 3 on a Voodoo 2 stuff

This is what playing Skyrim on PS3 felt like.

@derekchirinos5629

Ай бұрын

Unless you had a huge save file, it played fine most of the time

it plays flawlessly for a 2006 title, even with potatoe settings

@WinXP_SP1

3 ай бұрын

GPU is doing all the heavy lifting, but yes

This exact experience is what taught me that computers had different parts that needed to be upgraded

Eastern europe 2000 kids will probably cry for a bit. (As i do)

@HappyBeezerStudios

2 ай бұрын

Why Oblivion when you can play Gothic

@Toxin___InterHalfer

Ай бұрын

@@HappyBeezerStudiosew nobody stooped that low

@ArniesTech

Ай бұрын

​@@Toxin___InterHalferGothic series was my childhood and to this very day I play it actively 😂

@Toxin___InterHalfer

Ай бұрын

@@ArniesTech 😒

Watching at 240p for maximum authenticity

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

good god it looks perfect!

I swear to god i thouth my internet was just lagging after 10 seconds

The dancing with the mouse while waiting for the game to load is the realest shit

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。

@vulcanitu2578

2 ай бұрын

Bing chillin

@lcfe7436

2 ай бұрын

@@vulcanitu2578 😅how old are you kid?

@vulcanitu2578

2 ай бұрын

@@lcfe7436 tf is your problem

@lcfe7436

2 ай бұрын

@@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.

@vulcanitu2578

2 ай бұрын

@@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!

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.

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

@WinXP_SP1

2 ай бұрын

You're correct

This looks so crunchy, I love it.

That beautiful texture pop-in.

Honestly something about Oblivion makes more sense on the lowest possible settings

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

The ps3 port of Oblivion ran on 256mb of ram though.

@WinXP_SP1

3 ай бұрын

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.

@cattysplat

3 ай бұрын

PS3 ports almost universally ran like trash too.

@jackmackenzie8870

2 ай бұрын

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 😅🎉

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

Wow. This video is a real gate into my childhood.

This takes me back

Oblivion on gamecube

All things considered, it looks and runs better than I'd expect.

@WinXP_SP1

2 ай бұрын

The GPU is carrying.

This was my Oblivion experience back in the day. I didn't mind it as a kid.

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.

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.

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.

@Suwako__Moriya

2 ай бұрын

>mam Cumbrian?

I remember I first played using the “Oldblivion” mod because my old GPU couldn’t run HD graphics, over 15 years ago.

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

This is how I remember playing the game when it came out.

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... unlocked... a memory...

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!

Reminds me playing oblivion for the first time 15fps to 20fps on a bottom of the barrel slow hard drive on a Pentium 4.

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

@WinXP_SP1

2 ай бұрын

Interesting, I was not aware about this mod. I didn't use any mods for my test or my playthrough on this rig.

Now ot looks beautiful.

From Desktop to gameplay in less than 3 minutes and loading screens under 30 seconds? Truly the golden age of gaming

ah, just like by brother used to play. The caves were all lit and the world ground textrues were square limited, no blending transition

wow, that draw distance XD

Bumping for the algo so you end up doing this

@WinXP_SP1

3 ай бұрын

😱

You can't even open a browser tab nowadays without it using 250mb of ram

This is the way you're supposed to play the game. Todd Howard shed a single tear in heaven.

oh this is beautiful

you just know this whole rig catches fire as soon as he makes it outside

That 15 ft draw distance

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 is better than how I played it on my crappy laptop in 2007

This is an exact replica of how I played this game for like 5 years

As soon as the game starts I thought "Holy shit, it actually runs at a stable 60 framera-" Then you turned around.

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

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.

Shadows: *non-existent*

can it run crytis

@noha112

3 ай бұрын

What is crytis?

@MonstertruckBadass

3 ай бұрын

@@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

@WinXP_SP1

3 ай бұрын

I'll try to run Crysis at some point tho :)​@@MonstertruckBadass

incredible

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

Had this running on an Intel Celeron 733MHz back in the day.

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.

Good old days, man.

Runs better than Starfield on PC.

@WinXP_SP1

2 ай бұрын

Good

Ngl, this makes me miss windows xp

@WinXP_SP1

3 ай бұрын

Could always load XP on a virtual machine :)

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

Ай бұрын

Too old? Doesn't mean you can't enjoy the game. Don't need a mod to enjoy Oblivion.

@stirpsromanica

Ай бұрын

@@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.

1:04 I know this dance

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.

Damn I wish it looked this good on Xbox back in the day.

Reading the title alone all I could feel was PAAAAAAIIINN!!!

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

goodness

ah mat fullbright on and low res oblivion, brings me back thanks

Rocking this game on max settings with gt640 + i5 3570

3:07 how did you get that idle pose?

@WinXP_SP1

3 ай бұрын

I am going to assume since my fists weren't up yet.

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

@WinXP_SP1

2 ай бұрын

Very nice!

I remember when i first played oblivion i had 256 MB Ram, then upgrade to 768MB and game was a lot better.

mfs in 2006: THIS IS GROUNDBREAKING, SO LIFELIKE I CAN BARELY TELL THE DIFFERENCE

Holy shit.... Everest. Nostalgia flood 😂

The struggle is real.

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.

@WinXP_SP1

2 ай бұрын

Gotta thank that GPU, did all the heavy lifting.

I did at least one full playthrough on settings like this.

@WinXP_SP1

3 ай бұрын

Same, was it a fun experience?

lets make this happen

it works

IT WILL LOAD... EVENTUALLY

does oldschool rs still work for you on XP? i login and it goes to a black screen now

@WinXP_SP1

Ай бұрын

I don't think it works anymore. I just tried it. The client that is used on XP is dated. Newer patches might have blocked access. Right know the only MMORPGs I know that work on Windows XP are World of Warcraft (Private Server) Celestia Luna Online Eldevin RPG MO (through browser) Star Wars Galaxies (Private Server) Project 99 (EverQuest Private Server)

My old windows xp couldn't even run this so i can't complain