Email from EBGames says it’s shipped! AAH!!!!!
Goodness… I don’t think I’ve ever been so hyped about a game. o.O
Oh, and weird question… how to do read “ZOMG”? Like… I see “zoh my gosh”. …and I guess Urban Dictionary says that, too, so I was right, yey. Just some random thought I’ve been thinking. Yeah… I’m not entirely myself right now… as you can see from the 12,000 posts today.
Oblivion is hitting store shelves today after all! If I could justify to my parents that going into town for just a single computer game (but when they hear “computer game” their minds instant translate it to “expensive waste of time”) I’d be going in this very moment and driving all over to find it.
As it is… I’ll just have to sit here and wait for EBGames to send me a shipping notice.
I’m going to go insane… literally… I’ve been bouncing off the walls, and refreshing the official forums and watching the threads scroll down and off the page. Sooo much new activity and screenshots coming in.
Maybe I’ll play Half Life 2.
…or install Morrowind! :D
Yeah, I think I’ll play Morrowind. Finish the second expansion pack.
Aww… isn’t that sweet. Juno sent me a birthday present!
Seems I get 2 whole free months of dialup!
Wow. Best birthday week ever.
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I cut out the disclaimers… same ol’ phone charges may apply, customer support charges may apply, yadda-yadda. …and for those of you who are wondering, yes, I use Juno. SOMETIMES. Mostly when my DSL is offline and I absolutely HAVE to check on something. But my DSL is like… never down. So I haven’t used Juno in months. (I only use Juno! Never NetZero… ever again. Never.)
Here’s a little chart on how other processors compare with a standard Hyperthreaded Pentium 4. I found it on (can you guess?) the Elder Scrolls forums in a thread that describes how to make absolutely sure your computer can run this thing.
…you may be a little confused if your processor is not a Pentium 4; they only list “Pentium 4 2.0/3.0 GHz or equivalent.” To attempt to alleviate confusion, here is a little guide. Just take out your calculator, and multiply either your AMD processor’s “plus” rating, or the speed of your Intel processor in MHz, by the following numbers. The result would be what you should compare to the official system specs.
- Celeron – 0.50
- Celeron D – 0.80
- Sempron – 0.85
- Pentium 4 (no hyper-threading) – 0.90
- AthlonXP – 0.95
- Pentium 4 (with hyper-threading) – 1.00
- Pentium 4 Extreme Edition – 1.10
- Athlon64 – 1.15
- Celerom M – 1.75
- Pentium M – 1.85
- Intel Core Solo – 1.85
- Opteron – 1.85
- Athlon64 FX – 1.85 (clock speed, see below for exact numbers)
FX-51: ~4.0GHz (equal to an AMD 3700+, actually runs at 2.2GHz like the 3700+ San Diego)
FX-53: ~4.4GHz (equal to an AMD 4000+, actually runs at 2.4GHz like the San Diego 4000+)
FX-55: ~4.8GHz (equal to an AMD 4200+, actually runs at 2.6GHz)
FX-57: ~5.2GHz (equal to an AMD 4500+, actually runs at 2.8GHz)
FX-60: Varies (equal to a pair of FX-55s together)- Pentium D – Special, as much as ~1.80
- AthlonX2 – Special, as much as ~1.80
- Intel Core Duo – Special, as much as ~3.35
Really interesting, actually. Look at that Core Duo. Edrick’s gonna have a super system, dang. Freakin’ computer progression. A year after I get my laptop, they triple the speed a laptop can handle with minimal heat increase. Pssh. Not jealous, nope……………………..
Oblivion is being shipped to stores today!!! Yey! Hopefully EBGames is also shipping my copy out today… so if it’s anything like last time, UPS will deliver it overnight. Bwahaha. Though I ordered 3-day shipping, so I can’t get mad if it’s not, hah.
So I’ve been reading the webboards and I found a website that tests your computer against recent, popular games. (Myst 5 is, shockingly, included in the list.) Using IE or Firefox (wow) it’ll either download ActiveX or Java Applet (respectively) and make a quick scan of your computer components.
This is what I scored with my laptop on Oblivion:
Not as well as I’d hoped. But the killer was that my Pentium M is only 2ghz. (Hey. That was fastest at the time!) …and due to personal testing, which compliments what I’ve heard, but really isn’t official, Pentium Ms are faster and more efficient for their announced clockspeed compared to Pentium 4s. I rendered a hi-res scene. Same settings, same resolution… on both laptop and desktop.
Desktop is Pentium 4 3.0ghz with Hyperthreading, and laptop is Pentium M 2.0ghz. They both rendered at the exact same speed… laptop just a hair faster. But, like I said, it was one render and I’m sure the different system environments had something to do with it. Like a severe lack of RAM on the desktop. (It only has 512 compared to laptop’s 2048, bwahaha.)
But I ran this same Oblivion performance test on the desktop just now, too, and it registers the same rating. Which is mostly in reference to my RAM, of course… But it sees my processor as two, and rates 2 Pentium 4s as LOWER than 1 Pentium M. Video card on laptop passed with flying colors, desktop video card isn’t so hot.
Both OSes are XP, one is Pro, one is Home… they both don’t register passing as 100%. All “Windows is never 100%” jokes aside, that’s odd… because there’s nothing more qualified to run Oblivion than XP. It did raise a matter to my attention that I haven’t thought about since Uru Live was actually being officially updated so long ago… videocard and soundcard drivers. It’s yelling at me to update them. So update them I shall while I toil through this day and feverishly watch for when EBGames ships.
