Much of the information is based on speculation. Please note, this table is not totally complete, and it most likely never will be, due to product updates and the odd way companies have named their products. 128 MB Direct3D compatible video card and DirectX 9.0 compatible driver.

2 GHz Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent processor.

Windows XP 64-bit, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7.

ATI X800 series, NVIDIA GeForce 6800 series, or higher video card.

Adding extra RAM will allow the Operating System to use the excess, providing Oblivion the maximum amount of RAM it is able to access.

Oblivion will not benefit much past 3GB of RAM, as Oblivion has no 64-bit executable nor is it large address aware, meaning it cannot address more than 2 GB of memory.

Oblivion will not benefit very much from extra cores, so having a high speed per core is important.

Multicore processors should have an advertised clock speed of 3GHz, as this is the speed each core runs at.

3 GHz Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent processor.

Due to severe bugs and design flaws that severely affect performance in Windows Vista, it's highly recommended to use either Windows XP or Windows 7 Windows 7 is almost identical to Windows Vista in terms of its interface, though many performance issues have been resolved.

This information was taken from the Official FAQ page.

It is also important to note that even if a system meets these, it may still have very low performance. They are based on technology available at the time of Oblivion's release, and they have not been updated since that time. The following represents what Bethesda's officially released Specifications for Oblivion are. Also on the website it will tell you how to find the information you are after. Just go to this website and click on 'Download Latest Version' in the top-left corner of the page. You can also download a tiny program for free which will analyze your computer. Under the tab 'Display' will be the information about your video card, in the Device box. Within this box will be your processor and memory information. Once you're in DxDiag, on the first screen (System) there will be a box called System Information. For Windows Vista and 7, the operation is the same except the 'Run' option is now simply the search box at the bottom of the start menu. To do this on Windows XP, click start on the lower left-hand side of the screen, select the 'Run' option and type in 'dxdiag' without the quote. On Windows systems, the easiest way to identify your video hardware is to run DxDiag, which is short for DirectX diagnostic. It is essential to know what your hardware is before you can use this page. 6 Downloadable Content Installer Support on Vista and 64-bit Windows.

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