The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion/Technical Information

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion is an incredibly technical game, featuring the most current graphic engines, most advanced graphical lightinng and shading, and numerous incredible textures and other features. All of this doesn't come without a price, however. Oblivion is one of the most taxing games for your computer, and only relatively new hardware is able to run it at adequate video settings. This section will cover all of the technical, computer related aspects of Oblivion, such as system requirements, as well as Technical Support, performance tweaking, .ini settings and console commands through Oblivion. Sorry, X-box players, this isn't for you.

System Requirements
These are the minimum/Recommended hardware configurations required to run Oblivion, or at least run it half-decently:

Recommended

 * 3 Ghz (Gigahertz) Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent processor
 * 1 GB (Gigabyte) system ram
 * ATI X800 series, NVidia Geforce 6800 series, or higher video card

Minimum

 * Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows XP 64-bit
 * 512 MB (megabyte) system ram
 * 2 Ghz Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent processor
 * 128 MB Direct3D compatible video card and DirectX 9.0 compatible driver
 * 8x DVD-ROM drive
 * 4.6 GB free hard drive space
 * DirectX 9.0c (included)
 * DirectX 8.1 compatible sound card
 * Keyboard, mouse

As well, the list of supported video card chipsets is limited:

Supported Video Card Chipsets

 * ATI X1900 series
 * ATI X1800 series
 * ATI X1600 series
 * ATI X1300 series
 * ATI X850 series
 * ATI X800 series
 * ATI X700 series
 * ATI X600 series
 * ATI Radeon 9800 series
 * ATI Radeon 9700 series
 * ATI Radeon 9600 series
 * ATI Radeon 9500 series
 * Nvidia Geforce 7800 series
 * Nvidia Geforce 6800 series
 * Nvidia Geforce 6600 series
 * Nvidia Geforce 6200 series
 * Nvidia Geforce FX series

For more information, please visit The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion official FAQ