Is a NVIDIA(R) GeForce(R) Go 6150 graphics card enough to play Oblivion?

[purplearcanist]

Is a NVIDIA(R) GeForce(R) Go 6150 graphics card good enough to play Oblivion on WIndows (or hopefully Ubuntu:))?

[Lystrodom]

I don't think you could run regular Oblivion, but maybe Oldblivion, which I believe is necessary for playing on Ubuntu anyway.

[Outrunner]

Although the Go GeForce 6150 is one of the better integrated chips, it's still not enough for Oblivion. Maybe with Oldblivion though...

[purplearcanist]

What about a 256MB NVIDIA® GeForce® Go 7400 graphics card? Is that enough?

[Mblackwell]

Probably.

[Lystrodom]

Well, the problem with that card is that it has TurboCache. I can't remember exactly what that meant, but I know it boils down to the 256MB listing is incorrect. You may be able to play Oblivion, but it would be on the mid-low end. Oldblivion would still definitely be useful in spiking your FPS. Oblivion's a real system hog, and Laptops are already in really confined spaces, so it's hard to get a gppd GPU in there due to heating issues. Heck, people will overheat their GPUs on desktops playing Oblivion, the game demands so much.

I've heard the Go 7900GT (or some other letter combination at the end) would do the job for you, but it's bulky and tends to make laptops less portable.

Anyway, you should be able to run it with the Go 7400, but it wont be very pretty, and you might want Oldblivion to boost the FPS.

(This knowledge all comes from a couple of Google searches, just so you know.)

Edit: I did a little more research, and people seem to get around 25 FPS with low-med settings on Oblivion, so it should work for you.

[purplearcanist]

Well, the problem with that card is that it has TurboCache. I can't remember exactly what that meant, but I know it boils down to the 256MB listing is incorrect. You may be able to play Oblivion, but it would be on the mid-low end. Oldblivion would still definitely be useful in spiking your FPS. Oblivion's a real system hog, and Laptops are already in really confined spaces, so it's hard to get a gppd GPU in there due to heating issues. Heck, people will overheat their GPUs on desktops playing Oblivion, the game demands so much.

I've heard the Go 7900GT (or some other letter combination at the end) would do the job for you, but it's bulky and tends to make laptops less portable.

Anyway, you should be able to run it with the Go 7400, but it wont be very pretty, and you might want Oldblivion to boost the FPS.

(This knowledge all comes from a couple of Google searches, just so you know.)

Edit: I did a little more research, and people seem to get around 25 FPS with low-med settings on Oblivion, so it should work for you.

Thanks for telling me:) . Anything else I should know?

[The Noble]

Yes, If you decide to go with a card that is turbocached, get LOTS of RAM, as the card itself does not have any dedicated memory; it borrows sysem memory to play the games. I suggest 2 gigs if you want any good performance (256 for the card, 1 Gig for the game). Good luck with getting it set up!

[Mongoose]

Anyone telling you to use that hack don't know what they're talking about. Read the guide in these forums to setup Oblivion correctly. To get it working on a lower end card ( less than 6800 ) you may need to disable shaders and light passes in the ini. "Oldblivion" has never worked aside for Cedega users -- and it's just worthless since editing the ini gives you the same effect. You can disable all light passes save texture pass if you wish in the ini for example.

Read the guide here in the fourms and this wiki:

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Linux

Lystrodom: If you don't know the answer, or attempted to look up the answer -- then don't pass along misinformation. The last time someone suggested using "Oldblivion" in this fourm was in 2005. A simple seach for Oblivion in the fourm or reading the sticky topic on this board would have lead you do the guide. ATi users are still out of luck last I checked, which goes without saying almost. The only person the guide didn't work for with an Nvidia GPU so far was trying to install from a bad ISO image. ;)

Please don't spread misinformation on these boards.