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

  • farcaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
    24·
    2 months ago

    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

    • biofaust@lemmy.worldEnglish
      81·
      2 months ago

      Now it is almost always unplayable, but the settings on don’t really make a difference

    • shiroininja@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      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

  • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
    4·
    2 months ago

    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.]

    • shiroininja@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      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

      • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        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.

  • orenj@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    A lot of the appeal of Bethesda Games is the almost meditative process of getting your 200 GB of mods running without crashing immediately, so I don’t even bat an eye at the claim that you like futzing with its settings.

  • filister@lemmy.world
    English
    1·
    2 months ago

    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?

    • shiroininja@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      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