The Energon Pub

So, I've been working on Morrowind GOTY edition for some time and it's one of the best games I've ever played. I noticed back when i was doing some Christmas shopping that the Oblivion GOTY is out. Questions for those of you who've played them on the PC side:

1) Is Oblivion's play (& replay) actually better?
2) How realistic are the minimum graphic requirements? That is to say, I've got a 1.8 GHz Pentium (circa 2004) w/ XP(sp2), 1 GB RAM and a GeForce FX 5200 (PCI, not AGP - 256 MB). It's marginally higher than the minimums, but quite a bit below the recommended config. I get excellent fps in Morrowind with nearly all the atmospherics turned on. Is Oblivion that much more of a hog?

I haven't played it, but my friend Tweezy has it, and it does look a lot better than Morrowind. (I wasn't very impressed with Morrowind)

The problem is that the minimum requires a 2.0GHz Processor. 1.8GHz isn't going to cut it.

I HATE Oblivion's interface. Morrowind's worked so much better on PC. You can really tell they were working on a console version at the same time with Oblivion. And as far as graphics cards and speeds and so on. Definitely over 2 gi processor. My wife's laptop is a 2.4 gig and runs it fine but she's got a great ATI Radeon in there and it's running win XP with a gig of ram and 256 MC vid memory. Her Vista PC rig is running with 3 gigs of RAM, is a dual Core and we had to up her to an Nvidia 8550 GT (I think) with 512 megs of RAM to get it to not choke in game.

Oblvion runs much better when you're above and beyond the minimums. It's almost impossible to play with the mins. The game itself though is amazing.

Upgrade the CPU and that horrible horrible GPU and you'll be good.

Right on. Thanks for those words. I was afraid of that. Guess I should go file that 1040 now.

Ah, sweet, sweet refund...