is running Oblivion a stress test??

[theteamaqua]

i heard this game often crash to desktop b/c of OC. A lot of people said that after 30min/hours of game play, it just crashed to desktop. The problem was solved after they turn the cpu back to stock speed. So ..... maybe there are some sort of code written in the program that monitors temps of cpu/gpu or something (just a guess dont flame me)

[Fresh Daemon]

No, it's just that games stress CPU, GPU, RAM and system bus all at the same time and heavily, whereas most stress-testing programs tend to one or the other. I found BF2 to be very difficult, I had to back off 100MHz on my overclock to get it stable when all other games were fine.

[somwhere_there]

No, it's just that games stress CPU, GPU, RAM and system bus all at the same time and heavily, whereas most stress-testing programs tend to one or the other. I found BF2 to be very difficult, I had to back off 100MHz on my overclock to get it stable when all other games were fine.

yep - i must agree that BF2 is more stress-test than Oblivion (although the last one has better graphics). When i was trying to clock my CPU all i needed to try was BF2 demo - if it starts - than clocking succesfull, if no...then downclock.
I may be kind a strange, but another stress test game (for me) was TES3 - Morrowind - if you could play for more than 15 minutes - great!

[r3w4]

If you want to make sure your system is game stable, just loop 3DMark for 6-12 hours.

[Fresh Daemon]

If you want to make sure your system is game stable, just loop 3DMark for 6-12 hours.

That won't work. 3DMark gives the system a break every few minutes while it loads the next phase. I can get 100MHz more on the CPU and 50MHz more on the GPU if all I'm running is 3DMark. The same speeds will crash if I try BF2 or Oblivion.

[veryhumid]

If you want to make sure your system is game stable, just loop 3DMark for 6-12 hours.

that would be much better than oblivion, imo. Oblivion is tough, but it has bugs which may crash your system with no fault to the hardware.

[Fresh Daemon]

that would be much better than oblivion, imo. Oblivion is tough, but it has bugs which may crash your system with no fault to the hardware.

Oblivion has not crashed on me yet. BF2 has a lot of times. 3DMark, however, doesn't stress a system enough because of those pauses.

For instance, if I ran Prime95 for 90 seconds, stopped for 20, ran again for 90, stopped for 20, and so on for 24 hours, would you say my rig was Prime-stable?

One thing you can do is leave something like Doom3 running a timedemo loop on a high res to stress the graphics card, while running something like Prime95 in the background to keep the CPU fully loaded.

[Ominous Gamer]

Since when was one program ever enough to stress a complete system?

simultaneous iterations of IOMeter, Prime95, and 3DMark for 24 hours; just like [H]

[Praxis1452]

BF2 is kinda poorly coded if I'm not mistaken... that might be it lol Oblivion crashes when I alt-tab though heh

[cirthix]

oblivion is buggy, which means bad as a stress test

[smith_6079]

is running Oblivion a stress test??

Yes.

[billdavis]

do you have to buy 3dmark06 to loop it

and is there a benchmark for oblivion yet

any other good full system looping programs
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[Nanometer]

I think you have to buy it.

[cadaveca]

you wanna game stress? find a game that uses 512mb of vidram, run dual instances of small FFT prime, and download a 4gb file(windows vista beta works!). turn fans down low, and let'er rip with a looped timedemo.

[lucky jim]

I don't think so... my PC doesn't even seem to run full load, or otherwise doesn't put a lot of stress on my PC. I have a 3700+ @ 2.9 GHz and dual 7800 GT's and the CPU was hitting max 51 C, which is still pretty reasonable. For e.g. large COD2 multiplayer games can sometimes hit 54 on my PC.

Overclocking has nothing to do with the crashing... it's that the game is so friggen buggy.

[Celeron Gamer]

Oblivion has not crashed on me yet. BF2 has a lot of times. 3DMark, however, doesn't stress a system enough because of those pauses.

For instance, if I ran Prime95 for 90 seconds, stopped for 20, ran again for 90, stopped for 20, and so on for 24 hours, would you say my rig was Prime-stable?

One thing you can do is leave something like Doom3 running a timedemo loop on a high res to stress the graphics card, while running something like Prime95 in the background to keep the CPU fully loaded.

BF2 is horrible for stress test, I tried it the singleplayer 128-bot server, and it was the most stable game. It was NFS:MW that was overclock sensitive, had to clock back 200MHz

[NickS]

CS:S is a great test for RAM stability.

[Dumo]

How to bench with oblivion?

[MrGarrison]

that would be much better than oblivion, imo. Oblivion is tough, but it has bugs which may crash your system with no fault to the hardware.

Yeah Bethesda still need to fix some critical bugs before it should be considered a good stress test. I've had it crash a dozen of times on several completely stable machines...

[[XC] moddolicous]

A really good stress test (dont yell at me) is DF (distributed folding). We've had mikeguava, OPP and njkid all have to lower there 24/7 clocks (or what they thought they were) so that it would go through the night. As far as 3d stability, games should be good, or looping 3d05/03 (whichever is tougher).

[cadaveca]

That's part of the problem. There's nothing out there that really stresses a machine fully...chipset, ram, cpu, video...all at once. Trying to run more than one thing lessens the effects of the tests.

[Plywood99]

A really good stress test (dont yell at me) is DF (distributed folding). We've had mikeguava, OPP and njkid all have to lower there 24/7 clocks (or what they thought they were) so that it would go through the night. As far as 3d stability, games should be good, or looping 3d05/03 (whichever is tougher).

QFT. Rossetta will prove an overclock's stability for sure.