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I know this is going to sound like copium, but I love having to fiddle with settings to get original Oblivion running on my 2019 X1 Carbon. It gives me this nostalgia feeling of where I first ran oblivion on PC on my Dell E310 with a Pentium 4 single core and GeForce 6200LE I pencil modded. I’m having to run out at 720p and 4x AF, but it feels like Xbox 360 to me and I love

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[–] glitchdx@lemmy.world 7 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I miss having the spare time necessary to enjoy fiddling with settings.

[–] shiroininja@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

Fiddling with settings is ok, but I don’t have time to spend trying to get a game to work. Like i game on Linux and 90% of games just work for me. A few years ago they didn’t and I stuck to windows for gaming. I have no time to figure out why sound doesn’t work in Skyrim lol.

But it works now

[–] farcaster@lemmy.world 22 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

Running on underpowered hardware somehow reminds me of the good (or bad) old days of PC gaming where individual settings could make a huge difference.

Shadows off: Smooth

Shadows on: Unplayable

[–] biofaust@lemmy.world 5 points 9 hours ago

Now it is almost always unplayable, but the settings on don't really make a difference

[–] shiroininja@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I have the model with the i7. Yeah, it’s playable

[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 9 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Yeah, it’s playable

It's Oblivion, that's really all you can hope for no matter your setup

[–] shiroininja@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago
[–] ptz@dubvee.org 3 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

Which settings? I'm replying from a 2019 X1 Carbon and have that in my Steam library.

[Currently playing Bioshock 2: Minerva's Den via Proton.]

[–] shiroininja@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I’m currently running it at 1600x900p large texture, far distance, anti aliasing at 4x., if I drop to 720p, I get a solid 60fps. I’m still tweaking it so I haven’t gotten just right yet.

But I’m surprised at this laptops performance since I got it off an eBay business auction and not for gaming. Lego Harry Potter ran well as well as life is strange and left 4 dead. ETS2 was everything at low at 1080p if I remember correctly

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 3 points 11 hours ago

But I’m surprised at this laptops performance since I got it off an eBay business auction and not for gaming.

Same. This thing is amazing. Granted, I've always been a Thinkpad fanboy, but this is my first "new" Thinkpad since my T420.

[–] filister@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Ughhh you have UHD620. I also have a ThinkPad T14s with Ryzen 4750U and my APU should be more powerful. Do you have any luck of running the Oblivion in a playable manner?

[–] shiroininja@lemmy.world 1 points 13 minutes ago

I have the i7 in it. Oblivion plays about as well as it did at release. lol like I’m not pushing it maxed and graphics mods are out