Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim ( a Todd Howard joint)

[Gamevet]

Something's definitely wrong there, you should be able to max out Oblivion at 1440x900 on that hardware. I played it on a Core 2 Duo 2.4 with 2Gb DDR2 and a Radeon 4850. Update your Catalyst driver...

Skyrim is on my Christmas list. I've been replaying Oblivion off and on, and it's starting to feel a little archaic. As many times as I've played it, though, I still find new stuff to do. Makes me look forward to actually playing Skyrim more and more...

Yeah, I'm guessing it's the RAM. 3gig sounds like an odd number for DDR2 and it's most like not running in dual-channel, because he's missing a stick of RAM. I'd pull out one of those 1 gig memory sticks to see if the game runs smoother. He has to make sure he's keeping the other 2 gig paired.

I ran Oblivion with a Dual-Core Pentium E6300 (2.83 GHZ), 8 gigs of DDR2 RAM and a GTS 250 with 512MB.