PC Low Settings Screenshot Thread

I got similar results of my freshly installed from Steam, unmodded, so I´m afraid that´s the game at its very lowest.

Honestly, the only way to actually play Oblivion on a low-end PC is by using Oldblivion, which runs better and looks far nicer:
lqvsoldb.jpg
 
You must be using mods to make it look that bad.

lol, I remember playing at those settings and only getting 5 frames per second... When the game would load, that is... Now, my skyrim looks like crysis and Oblivion uses all 4k textures and I get 60 frames per second. This thread is so humbling. (I'm using that term correctly, aren't I?)
 
lol, I remember playing at those settings and only getting 5 frames per second... When the game would load, that is... Now, my skyrim looks like crysis and Oblivion uses all 4k textures and I get 60 frames per second. This thread is so humbling. (I'm using that term correctly, aren't I?)

Humbling would be you stumbling on some of the pics in the High-Res thread thinking what you were playing looked good. This is almost the opposite of humbling, though not quite.
 
Crysis



I changed it to the lowest res on 4:3 but it didn't stay for some odd reason, just notice the screens are bigger...sorry...

Funny thing is that everyone remembers the game looking like this, because thats the only way anyone could run it when it came out.

I beat the game like that^
 
It is kinda impressive how that game scales. I know Q3A blah blah, but it has some pretty good lighting and texture work maxed all out. And you also have the Wii version which has most of the game/MP, etc.

I wouldn't be surprised if lots of people intentionally play it on the lowest settings. I knew somebody who got like 300 fps on the CS:S benchmark and still played the game with everything set to lowest possible to get that advantage.
 
Was messing around with GTA IV and because I have a 4GB GPU(s) I got the usual bug where you can't change settings until you add a command line. Well, got a screenshot at least ( Which I know doesn't adhere to the resolution rule but I couldn't go higher so this is lowest of the lowest low. )

iYKvQXbULgQfu.png


Sexy.
 
Was messing around with GTA IV and because I have a 4GB GPU(s) I got the usual bug where you can't change settings until you add a command line. Well, got a screenshot at least ( Which I know doesn't adhere to the resolution rule but I couldn't go higher so this is lowest of the lowest low. )

iYKvQXbULgQfu.png


Sexy.
Dem shadows
 
Was messing around with GTA IV and because I have a 4GB GPU(s) I got the usual bug where you can't change settings until you add a command line. Well, got a screenshot at least ( Which I know doesn't adhere to the resolution rule but I couldn't go higher so this is lowest of the lowest low. )

iYKvQXbULgQfu.png


Sexy.

Oh man those shadows !
 
I don't think people are looking at these examples properly. Looking "amazing" on low isn't necessarily the goal. It's all about how much frames you're getting with a bad computer. Games like HL2 look pretty bad, but it scales just about everything down to be playable. Bad developers can still make a game look great on low by having a difficult to scale engine.

So I'm more curious about FPS gain vs Visual detail left over.
 
I always wonder what generally is better... I used to have a horrendous PC and play on the lowest of the lowest settings in 800x600. Should we be glad games can be this ugly, or if the low settings look the same as the regular versions?
 
Top Bottom