Oblivion crashes :(
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Dutch Guy said:
Same here - almost every time I close it it does this but it's not a problem for me.
Sometimes if I leave it for a long time, it'll be minimized then when i restore it, it wont work properly. but lots of games cause problems when you Alt-tab out.
I'm annoyingly suffering from this bug... After a period of time, can be 5 minutes, maybe 15 the game just crashes. I get major graphical corruption, i.e. just random squares of colour on the screen and the last sound played loops in the background... Tho it did crash while a npc was talking and the conversation continued even tho the graphical corruption was on the screen. Anybody else getting this?
It seems the general consensus <sp> is that oblivion is a buggy as buggery game if you have a lower end system. My crashes are getting fewer and far between now and are more or less confined to when passing through doors 
Lets hope bethsheda release a patch pretty soon and thank **** for the autosave function
(although i still had to do a quest 3 times earlier 
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Lets hope bethsheda release a patch pretty soon and thank **** for the autosave function
(although i still had to do a quest 3 times earlier )Why would it be buggy on a low end system thoughjegz said:It seems the general consensus <sp> is that oblivion is a buggy as buggery game if you have a lower end system. My crashes are getting fewer and far between now and are more or less confined to when passing through doors
Perhaps it is optimised to run on newer videocards or the older hardware is stressed to the max and therefore more prone to crashing?
Or the game is so large that there are bound to be bugs in the game due to the complexity
Dutch Guy said:
I think that that is pretty much the case, however how they missed some of them is beyond me! The crashing on closing the game that 90% of people seem to have?
My system groans and grinds for about a minute after I have exited Oblivion, the game does really need some serious help
Maybe that is because of 1Gb or RAM, I have 1Gb or RAM and when running Oblivion all of that RAM is used, can anyone with 2Gb of system RAM tell if they also have shutdown problems?Sweetloaf said:I think that that is pretty much the case, however how they missed some of them is beyond me! The crashing on closing the game that 90% of people seem to have?
My system groans and grinds for about a minute after I have exited Oblivion, the game does really need some serious help
i got 2gb, sometimes it crashes when shutting down but not all the time. crashing during gameplay, i've had 2-3 CTD's in 250hours, 186 quests..
some people are overly harsh on Oblivion, it's a huge game and it's easy to see the dev's put their hearts into it.. you can't play 200 hours with x3 unpatched, you will be very lucky to play 20 hours without a game stopping bug.
i'm harsh with games.. i'm quick to uninstall and say "never again" and i've not got that with Oblivion. it's been one of the best games i've played in years.
some people are overly harsh on Oblivion, it's a huge game and it's easy to see the dev's put their hearts into it.. you can't play 200 hours with x3 unpatched, you will be very lucky to play 20 hours without a game stopping bug.
i'm harsh with games.. i'm quick to uninstall and say "never again" and i've not got that with Oblivion. it's been one of the best games i've played in years.
Hector said:
I agree, but some bugs are so obvious
All in all it's fantastic
VeNT said:
That should be a fine system for running games on, I sometimes wonder if only obssesive PC upgraders really get to play PC games, Imagine your average family PC trying to run some of the more recent games around. It's all to easy to forget that people on these forums are not your average PC owners. As an analogy, driving my Honda Accord into a Porsche owners meeting would make it seem inferior and it's a damn good car
Hi all,
I built a PC for a housemate with bits from overclockers. The spec is this:
AMD Athlon 64 3500+
Abit AT8 ATI RD480 PCI-E board
ATI 1800XT 256MB pci-e graphics card
1GB RAM (Corsair DDR 400)
Maxtor 80GB SATA hard drive
No overclocking
It manages most things really well but Oblivion crashes quite a lot (unexpected error, VPU recover stuff, occasional complete reset). It does seem to be helped by lowering the graphics options but that's not really ideal - it looks beautiful on full graphics and my housemate is quite keen to be able to stick with that.
Things I've tried - disable VPU recover, lowering soundcard acceleration to standard and basic, updated all drivers.. And that was where I ran out of ideas.
I don't think there's anything basically wrong with the hardware as it runs F.E.A.R on full graphics without any problems at all. I'm thinking there's maybe just a particular graphical feature that is buggy in Oblivion and causes these crashes.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
I built a PC for a housemate with bits from overclockers. The spec is this:
AMD Athlon 64 3500+
Abit AT8 ATI RD480 PCI-E board
ATI 1800XT 256MB pci-e graphics card
1GB RAM (Corsair DDR 400)
Maxtor 80GB SATA hard drive
No overclocking
It manages most things really well but Oblivion crashes quite a lot (unexpected error, VPU recover stuff, occasional complete reset). It does seem to be helped by lowering the graphics options but that's not really ideal - it looks beautiful on full graphics and my housemate is quite keen to be able to stick with that.
Things I've tried - disable VPU recover, lowering soundcard acceleration to standard and basic, updated all drivers.. And that was where I ran out of ideas.
I don't think there's anything basically wrong with the hardware as it runs F.E.A.R on full graphics without any problems at all. I'm thinking there's maybe just a particular graphical feature that is buggy in Oblivion and causes these crashes.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
VeNT said:
Oblivion works fine on lower end systems provided you adjust the settings (and I'm talking in game, not ini file tweaks) to a sensible level. The ones it picks for itself don't always qualify as sensible.
My spec is a fair bit worse than yours ([email protected], 512meg ram, 6800) and I have no real problems running the game, occasional crash on exit and that's about it.
Milo said:
You did get a good enough PSU for running that lot at full load? Have you tried logging temp/voltage information while you are playing the game?
Have you also made sure you've updated windows and the like via windows update?
Thanks for the reply. It's a 450W PSU so I'm guessing that should be fine? Not sure about the quality of it, though.
Windows is fully updated. As for temps and voltages.. how would I go about logging that? I think temp is fine as I have manually set the graphics and CPU fans on maximum and I get low forties for both of them even when stressed.
Windows is fully updated. As for temps and voltages.. how would I go about logging that? I think temp is fine as I have manually set the graphics and CPU fans on maximum and I get low forties for both of them even when stressed.
Milo said:
If it's a good quality one, then yes, if not, then it may not be.
You should have some software that came with the motherboard that can read and record statistics from your machine, install that and get it to save the information.
It sounds like a case of the GPU overheating to me, this can be an unusual one. I once had a card that caused crashes during Guild Wars and yet would run HL2 and Q4 until the cows came home! I realised it was a heat problem when I installed ATI tray tools and increased the speed of the fan to 100% when temps were over 50 degrees and this solved the problem. If this is the case and works for you I would RMA the card. Your symptoms sound exactly the same as mine were!
edit-Sorry, just realised that you have adjusted the fan speed
edit-Sorry, just realised that you have adjusted the fan speed
From what I read in your post, you're trying to run Oblivion with all the settings right up on full on that system? Should that even be possible to get a decent framerate on that system?
I've got Double the Ram, double the video Ram and "200" up on the CPU and I don't run Oblivion with everything full.
I've got Double the Ram, double the video Ram and "200" up on the CPU and I don't run Oblivion with everything full.