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The Elder Scrolls IV

SHIVERING ISLES

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Index:
1. Shivering Isles
2. General Issues
3. Performance Tuning
4. System Requirements
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1. Shivering Isles
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-To install Shivering Isles:
1. Insert your Shivering Isles DVD into your DVD drive. The disk contains three
directories - go to the directory of the language you wish to install. Run setup
.exe and Shivering Isles will begin installation.
2. To play Shivering Isles, remove the Shivering Isles DVD and insert your Obliv
ion disk.
-To uninstall Shivering Isles:
1. Uninstall Oblivion.
2. Delete the directory where Oblivion was installed after uninstalling Oblivion
to remove Shivering Isles specific files.

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2. General Issues
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-Installation Issue
If you repeatedly uninstall and re-install Oblivion, certain systems wil
l display an error message if you try to uninstall Oblivion again. To fix this,
put your Oblivion disk in and run setup.exe. This will clear up the error and yo
u can uninstall and reinstall the game.
-Saved Games
Your saved games are located in your \My Documents\My Games\Oblivion dir
ectory.
-Prior to Installing the Game
Before attempting to install Oblivion, please verify that your computer
meets the system requirements listed above.
We also recommend that you prepare your hard drive for installation by r
unning ScanDisk and Disk Defragmenter prior to installation. These utilities are
 part of Windows® and can identify and resolve problems with your disk drive which
could hinder installation and/or playing of the game.
To launch these programs and optimize your hard disk drive:
1. Open "My Computer".
2. Right-click the disk drive you wish to install the game onto (usua
lly C:).
3. Click on "Properties".
4. Select the "Tools" tab.
5. Click "Check Now" to launch Scandisk.
6. When Scandisk has completed, follow steps 1-3 and click "Defragmen
t Now" to launch Disk Defragmenter.
Note that defragmenting your disk drive can take a long time. It's a goo
d idea to start disk defragmenter and let it run overnight.
-ATI Crossfire
Performance on systems using ATI Crossfire will be reduced until ATI rel
eases an updated driver with Oblivion listed as a Crossfire Compatible game.

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3. Performance Tuning
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There are several things you can do to increase game performance.
-Make sure you have no other programs running in the background.
-Lower the game resolution. The game runs faster at 640x480 and 800x600.
-Go to your Options menu and select Video. Try the following options to improve
performance:
-Set View Distance as low as possible. Your framerate and load times wil
l improve but you will not be able to view as far.
-Set Tree, Actor, Item and Object Fade as low as possible. This will cau
se certain objects in the world to fade away sooner. This will increase your fr
amerate but degrade visual quality.
-Set Texture Size to Medium or Small. Textures on objects will not appea
r as sharp when this setting is reduced. This will increase your framerate but
degrade visual quality.
-Set Grass slider as low as possible. This will cause less grass to be d
isplayed around your character. This will increase your framerate but you will
see less grass displayed.
-Set Distant LOD to OFF. This will reduce your view distance, but your f
ramerate and load times will improve.
-Set Distant Buildings to OFF. You will not see cities or the Imperial C
ity in the distant landscape but your framerate and load times will improve.
-Set Distant Trees to OFF. You will not see trees in the distant landsca
pe but your framerate and load times will improve.
 -Set Interior Shadows as low as possible. This will decrease the number
of characters that cast shadows while you are in interiors, improving your frame
rate.
-Set Exterior Shadows as low as possible. This will decrease the number
of characters that cast shadows while you are in exteriors, improving your frame
rate.
-Set Self Shadows to OFF. The Player and other characters will no longer
cast shadows on themselves, but will still cast shadows on the environment. Th
is will improve your framerate.
-Set Grass Shadows to OFF. Shadows will no longer display on grass. This
will improve your framerate.
-Set Tree Canopy Shadows to OFF. The forests will no longer cast shadows
on the landscape, improving your framerate.
-Set Shadow Filtering as low as possible or off. This will reduce the a
mount of softening the shadows receive, but increase framerate.
-Set Specular Light as low as possible. This will cause objects to lose
their shininess at lower distances, improving your framerate.
-Set HDR Lighting to OFF. This will increase your framerate but degrade
visual quality.
-Use Bloom lighting instead of HDR, or turn Bloom off. Bloom is a less
intensive version of HDR. Turning it off will improve framerate but degrade vis
ual quality.
-Make sure Water Detail is set to Normal. High detail water will decreas
e your framerate.
-Set Water Reflections and Ripples to OFF. This will increase your frame
rate while you are near water, but the water will not show reflections or react
to objects interacting with it.
-Set Window Reflections to Off. This will remove the subtle reflections
from windows but improve framerate.
-Set Blood Decals to Medium or Low. At Medium, decals do not get applied
to characters, only landscape. At Low, no decals get applied at all. These wi
ll increase your framerate in combat situations.
-Turn anti-aliasing down or off. This will degrade overall visual quali
ty but improve your framerate.
-Turn off music
The music is mp3 format and can slow the game down.

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4. System Requirements
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-Minimum System Requirements:
* Windows XP
* 512MB System RAM
* 2 Ghz Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent processor
* 8x DVD-ROM Drive
* 4.6 GB free hard disk space
* DirectX 9.0c (included)
* 128MB Direct3D Compatible Video card and DirectX 9.0 compatible driver
* DirectX 8.1 Compatible Sound Card
* Keyboard, Mouse
-Recommended System Requirements:
* 3.0 Ghz Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent processor
* 1 GB System RAM
* ATI X800 series, Nvidia GeForce 6800 series, or higher video card
-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

VIDEO
-Regardless of your video card, make sure to download the latest drivers from yo
ur manufacturer.
INPUT
-ALT+TAB may cause some game instability with some hardware configurations and i
s not advised.