*official* Oblivion Thread - Technical issues

[Powermoloch]

Originally posted by: warcrow

Originally posted by: CHfan4ever
So 2gig of ram will really help??? Gamespot test didnt show that...so im a bit lost here

All I can tell you about is my personal experience and upgrading from 1GB to 2GB helped some. The load times are twice as fast and the view distance is better.

same :thumbsup:

 

[CalvinHobbes]

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EDIT: I had to quit the game and restart it. That fixed the problem.




Benirus Velwyn (Anvil) Manor glitch.

I bought the house in Anvil which is haunted. I met Benirus back in Imperial City. He agreed to meet me back in Anvil to help me get rid of the curse. I have a green marker on my map which is supposed to be him but when I get to the marker, no one is there.

 

[imported_electron]

Originally posted by: CalvinHobbes
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EDIT: I had to quit the game and restart it. That fixed the problem.




Benirus Velwyn (Anvil) Manor glitch.

I bought the house in Anvil which is haunted. I met Benirus back in Imperial City. He agreed to meet me back in Anvil to help me get rid of the curse. I have a green marker on my map which is supposed to be him but when I get to the marker, no one is there.

I did that quest with no problems. Did he maybe die somehow? There is a console command to summon any NPC in the game that is still alive but I don't know what it is. Try googling it or something. Search for oblivion's console commands.

If the person died though, you're SOL. You'll have to backtrack to the point before they died or just forget about completing that quest. I know that sucks but that's how it is.

 

[Slew Foot]

Game Crashing In the Chorrol Gate

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Ive been playing for over 20 hours now and havent had any problems with crashes or anything. Then today I was cleaning out the gate by Chorrol (for the Aid For Bruma quest), and when I entered the Rending Halls, the game kept "fuzzing" like I was getting hit by a trap (but I wasnt losing any health), and then after a minute the screen goes black and I have to do a hard reset.

Does anyone know what could be causing this or how to work around it?

I was planning on using no-clip to just fly up to the sigil stone or if nothing else, abandon the quest since its not required.

No mods are in use either.

 

[43st]

Has anyone noticed an occasional loss of FPS after loading an area? Sometimes I'll come out of a cave and have 9 FPS?!?! It should be around 25 or so. Going back in the cave will be fine but I'll need to reload the game to go outside again.

 

[Maxspeed996]

It seems to me that the errors that I've been getting.....
After an hour or two , I'll go through a door , or be outside , where there are frequent area loads....the game will error...
It seems to be a memory leak....
If I restart my machine and start back up , 90% of the time I can load my game and continue on my way for another few hours.....no prob. But sometimes , at the load screen , I'll select my game file to load and click "yes" and the entire system will lock up , forcing me to do a hard restart.....which can't help either because this fragments your hard drive..... they should have a patch for this soon....HOPEFULLY!!

 

[Schadenfroh]

Seems to crash randomly when I try to zone or fast travel while invisible.

 

[Slew Foot]

Well I passed the Chorral gate by using the no clip cheat.

But now I get the same problem in the regular world. After a few minutes of playing the game will randomly lock up and I have to do a hard restart. It was working perfectly fine up until this point, 20 some hours into the game.

 

[spacelord]

Have you upgraded your video drivers lately? after I upgraded my drivers I was getting crashes. My vid card is overclocked and I think the new drivers didn't like my overclock. I went back to the previous drivers and its been smooth sailing. If you're overclocked try putting it back to stock and see how it goes, then tweak it back up from there.

 

[Slew Foot]

Ive been using the same ATI Catalyst drivers for a while, I updated them today and it had no effect. I went back to the old ones and it was still borked. I uninstalled the game and reinstalled it, the game still crashes. Pisses me off since it was working fine for 25 hours and then all of a sudden Im nearing the end of the main quest and I cant play for more than 5 minutes at a time.

 

[Danywachy]

Im getting a very irregular performance with this game. with almost everything maxed out at 1600 * 1200 it runs fine indoors, almost at 50 - 60 I guess. But the more I play the slower it gets and Im talking about minutes not hours. Specially outside. I know that the amount of grass issue has been discussed and there is a fix for that but I just dont seem to find the right settings to play this game properly, it has gotten me frustrated.

when I encounter enemies outside it becomes really slow and the thing is that apparently my computer doesnt recover from that, lets say I killl those enemies and then it never runs fine again, everything becomes so slow. I dont know how to describe the problem. I would just say its unconsistant. My main issue is that lowering the setting doesnt seem to help that much. I cant find a sweet spot to be able to play this game inside or outside its frustrating.

I have a:
amd 64 dual core 4200
asus 7900gt 256mbs
2 gigs of ram

You would think that with this computer I would be able to play it at least consistent but I dont. Theres obviously something wrong. Is there anyone with similar computer than me that can tell me their experience ?

 

[Maxspeed996]

What catalyst drivers are you running slewfoot? I've updated mine to the 6.4 catalyst and still got the crashes.This was before I upgraded my vid card to the 7800 gs...and I've still been noticing slowdowns after a few hours and then crashes, but I'm betting with your settings set so high , that it can start to creep after just minutes due to the amount of information that is hitting the pagefile...check your commit charge when you crash , other people and myself have been noticing consistency in the crashes around 900 m ...I've been hitting 905 m and crashing.....try to turn down some settings to see if that will prolong how long you can play before you crash , or lock up. I'm curious to see if other people are experiencing the same thing. With lower settings , the textures stored in the pagefile should be smaller in size..and will take longer to crash....that's my theory at least. We'll know for sure when they patch this.
I know that running 2 gigs of ram , we shouldn't be seeing this type of problem... I wonder what would happen if we turned off our pagefile altogether....although with this game I would think you would still probably need some to help keep info in a bit of a buffer for your memory......

 

[apoppin]

any word of *when* a patch is expcted?

most of my issues are minor . . . but the crashes are irritating [i have ~500 saves in 130 hours]

 

[morkus64]

Originally posted by: apoppin
any word of *when* a patch is expcted?

most of my issues are minor . . . but the crashes are irritating [i have ~500 saves in 130 hours]

I dunno, but the Orrery is availiable now... If they're releasing paid content, they damn well better be working hard on that patch!

Their studios are in rockville (not bethesda, those liars!), which is about 20 minutes away... i'm tempted to just go over and start knocking some skulls together.

 

[Maxspeed996]

AT'ers we've found a way to fix our problems!! Set up your paypal account and we will all donate money to you for going over there and getting things squared away for us.

 

[BDawg]

I sent an e-mail to them about my Ultimate Heist problem and received a reply with a case number and everything. The requested a save game be sent to them, so I did.

I hope they get my problem fixed. I really want to finish that game thread.

 

[43st]

Originally posted by: Slew Foot
Ive been using the same ATI Catalyst drivers for a while, I updated them today and it had no effect. I went back to the old ones and it was still borked. I uninstalled the game and reinstalled it, the game still crashes. Pisses me off since it was working fine for 25 hours and then all of a sudden Im nearing the end of the main quest and I cant play for more than 5 minutes at a time.

Try this.

- go into My Document's\My Games\Oblivion
- Delete the Oblivion.ini file (back it up first)
- Load a saved game and set your in-game settings.

This will force it to detect your hardware again. I had to do this after a CPU and memory upgrade to fix a horrible keyboard lag issue.

 

[Slew Foot]

Well, deleted the oblivion.ini file and tried the game, it lcoked up in five minutes or so.
I tried turning down the setting to near min and it ran for about 4 or 5 minutes before locking up.
How do you check the commit charge?

This is frustrating, it was working absolutely fine until this, and now I cant play it at all. Im about to take this as a sign to stop playing computer games

 

[Maxspeed996]

nah I wouldn't go that far. But hit CTR + ALT + Delete and bring up the task manager....
How often do you restart your computer? I played last night and got about two hours out of it before it crashed , then I restarted , and got two more hours.........
I noticed after that I started getting random crashes again...so I'm losing faith in my theory...I really hope this gets patched soon. I want to get to PLAY without problems , it is so addicting!! I can't stop!!!

 

[apoppin]

i have played for 4 or 5 hours with out a crash or lockup
[or a break] :Q

otoh, i have had crashes several times in a row

can't see the pattern

 

[morkus64]

ever since switching from an opty 146 to an opty 170, i have only had crashes while exiting. woohoo!

Got a question... i just got a 7900 GT CO... since it doesn't seem to detect well, what settings would you all recommend... i am using the [Grass] .ini mod

 

[Maxspeed996]

That's where I'm at , there isn't really a pattern to it....but I keep coming back to the commit charge getting to high and causing crashes.....depending on where you are playing inside/outside/caves......water areas...they all stress a system differently while playing....so the crashes are gonna be random......
We just need to get someone that lives up there.....to go crack some heads for us!!! he he he....LOL...I'm sure they will get something to remedy this soon.

 

[Maxspeed996]

double post ....oops.

 

[imported_Imp]

Been getting A LOT of CTDs since installing my first mod (saddlebags). Tack that onto my complete system freeze when loading and ideas start popping up. Something screwy going on with mod system?

Also, more of a bug, but don't think this has been mentioned yet. Watch out when fighting near your horse, I got "expelled" from the Fighter's Guild for "stealing" by hitting my horse (accidentally). Search the official forums, wide-spread problem:|. Now I have to go murder 20 bears...

 

[skooma]

Yep, I just got kicked from the fighters for the same reason. PITA and needless. Not that I'm involved much in the fighters guild anyway.

As for the mods causing CTD, I don't see it. I use the saddlebags mod, one of the original versions and many other mods and I don't think I've ever CTD.

Crash on exit yes, but never in a game that I remember.

x2 3800
7800gt
2 gigs