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I am running Oblivion on a year-old Compaq computer. I had to install an extra gig of memory just to run the game, but it works pretty well now, although the play action does slow down in graphics-intensive scenes, like when there are several characters fighting.
I have never installed any Oblivion mods or patches whatsoever, I am just running the basic game as I bought it. Do I need to do anything other than simply load SI up? Do those of you who play on marginal systems notice any slowdown in gameplay with SI installed? Do I need any patches after I install it or before? I really don't want to mess up the saved games my wife and I have on the system now.
Hope this isn't a redundant thread. I look forward to hobnobbing with Sheogorath! He has the coolest voice of any Daedra lord.
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Nope, not really any slowdown with oblivion in itself. Also, the additional content of shivering isles has absolutely no effect on Oblivion other than a Tiny remote island in one of the lakes, and once you start shivering isles the way it is meant to be started, the world that loads is completely brand new, a new map and new content and new everything, shutting all the old oblivion down for the time being.
So other than the fact that the content inside shivering isles might take a bit more than normal to load, both oblivion and shivering isles are almost two completely separate games.
Listen up maggots, Mr. Popo's 'bout to teach you the pecking order.
It goes you, the dirt, the worms inside of the dirt, Popo's stool, Kami, then Popo.
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Indianasmith wrote:I look forward to hobnobbing with Sheogorath! He has the coolest voice of any Daedra lord.
I agree, so I hope this doesn't give you second thoughts about buying the expansion (because I'm really digging it), but there is a bit of bad news in that department: Sheogorath is played by a different voice actor in SI. The good news: the new guy is pretty cool too. I guess a daedra lord can sound like whatever he wants to sound like in his own realm
once you take your character thru the Portal to the Shivering Isles, can he cross back over to Tamriel at will? Or is he stuck in SI until he completes whatever the quest is? My Khajit hasn't finished the main quest yet and I don't want to take him thru the portal until he has . . . I was thinking it would be more like Tribunal or Bloodmoon in Morrowind; an extra country and extra set of quests you could engage in at will.
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You can go back to Cyrodiil at any time (which is a good thing, because there are so many new items & ingredients to collect that I had to make several trips back to my house in Skingrad to stash them when I got close to being over-encumbered).
