well, Oblivion is crashing and performing like crap for me{EDIT-FIX'D}

Fig455 on 21/3/2006 at 16:59

Yes, my AMD 64 3400+, Gig pc2700 RAM, and overclocked 9800 PRO (flashed and OC'ed to an 9800 XT!!!) is running Oblivion like a turd. It has crashed 4 times in 20 minutes also (1 System freeze prob. not Oblivion specific and 3 crash to desktops). :mad: :mad: :mad: :nono: :nono: :nono:

Rogue Keeper on 21/3/2006 at 17:03

*a brief Daggerfall flashback*

Bethseda, Bethseda when you will learn?

Fig455 on 21/3/2006 at 17:04

Quote Posted by BR796164

*a brief Daggerfall AND MORROWIND flashback*

fix'd ;) :p

ignatios on 21/3/2006 at 17:08

Do you have enough cooling on that OC'd card? If you're getting random system freezes anyway, I wouldn't be too quick to blame the game. Especially since it's "running it like a turd" which means the card is being pushed pretty hard.

Scale down your settings and see if it's the same way.

Fig455 on 21/3/2006 at 17:09

Quote Posted by ignatios

Do you have enough cooling on that OC'd card? If you're getting random system freezes anyway, I wouldn't be too quick to blame the game.

Arctic Silver and a Zalman cooler. Yes, I play games on this all the TIME w/no lockups/crashes. I bumped the case when it froze, so that might be that one, but that was the last prob. The crashes were before that. Trust me, I am not getting heat issues.

Quote:

Scale down your settings and see if it's the same way.

Already did. I even downclocked tha card.

Fingernail on 21/3/2006 at 17:09

tru, and I expect you'll be trying to push it a little to see what your system can take; I know I would (and will), particularly if I thought I had a decent OC'd graphics card.

But if I want reliability, I know I'm going to have to turn some of the detail down.

Rogue Keeper on 21/3/2006 at 17:10

They're probably working on patch already.

Fig455 on 21/3/2006 at 20:46

Hmmm. Uninstalled and reinstalled. Seems to be doing jjust fine. Settings up pretty high @ 1024x768 and gettingg 30 fps. No more crashes. Might have had a borked install. Sorry to have alarmed anyone unneccesarily.:erg:

scumble on 21/3/2006 at 22:35

Perhaps it's not too hopeless then!

Zaphod on 22/3/2006 at 02:55

For me, too.
I can see the main screen fine.

Sound works great.

I can see the cinematics fine, as well as Picard's intro.

And when it gets to the first screen, I can see the Race Options window, but the rest of the cell is just white, highlighted by an occasional outline of an object. And my eyes in the character selection screen are all rainbowy. As is the person that starts talking to me. It's like a blindingly white gay pride dungeon.

It's not a bloom effect. I have a rather oldish vid card, but it still should be fine, I thought. 128meg GeForce4 Ti4600. I'm running it at 800 x 600, even though it recommended.

I just slogged through pages and pages on the official Elder Scrolls Forums and finally (http://www.elderscrolls.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=275641]found a thread that addressed my issue). My graphics card is not SM 2.0 compliant, ~~which I'm embarrassed to admit I have no idea what that means~~ (wate wate I just remembered). According the Minimun Specs on the box, my system should be fine. But my card isn't listed in the Supported Cards list. Pisser. Well, off to research a new graphcis card, I guess.

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