Oblivion Crashing

galadial · 27 May 2006 at 19:38

OK, not sure if this is the best forum - but I *think* it's a hardware setting. Oblivion, being the piece of **ite it is, crashed my computer, and now will not load a game. After a totally fresh install of the game, the problem persists. The video screen gets to the load game, the game tries to load then hangs. Any ideas? I've been playing the game for a good while now, so i think the game changed something when it crashed,

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Energize · 27 May 2006 at 20:04

Tried the patch?

Ender · 27 May 2006 at 20:23

oblivion doesn't like over-clocked cpus , try going to stock and see if it works

galadial · 27 May 2006 at 21:31

Unfortunately, the patch makes no difference nor changing CPU to default

Thanks for the replies though.

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rxmac · 27 May 2006 at 21:38

Ender said:
oblivion doesn't like over-clocked cpus , try going to stock and see if it works

Never heard that before but yes could be a bit picky if cpu is on the ragged edge, same goes for anygame though, FEAR didn't like my 148 when i was at 3.0ghz everything else was fine even prime??

I found xfire (the instant messanger) causes oblivion to crash with annoying regularity.

Energize · 27 May 2006 at 21:47

Nearly everyone seems to have this belief that there is something special about oblivion which makes it crash when anything is overclocked, I have no idea why.

galadial · 27 May 2006 at 22:40

If there is a God, please help...

This is now not an Oblivion issue as the same crash occurs with 3dmark05 ie as soon as the 3d screen loads for the first test it crashes to a black screen. Does this shed anymore light on the problem.

Baron Biscuit · 28 May 2006 at 12:09

Oblivion was crashing for me, so I closed down pretty much everything I had running in the background (Xfire, msn, FRAPs etc) and it became much more stable. Occasionally it still crashes and goes back to windows. My cpu is overclocked, but for I didn't get these problems at first, they started after I'd been playing for about a month. My friend said he thought the PSU might not be up to the job.

Cyber-Mav · 28 May 2006 at 12:12

rxmac said:
Never heard that before but yes could be a bit picky if cpu is on the ragged edge, same goes for anygame though, FEAR didn't like my 148 when i was at 3.0ghz everything else was fine even prime??

I found xfire (the instant messanger) causes oblivion to crash with annoying regularity.

iv said this many times before, prime is not a good cpu tester. only a fool or a n00b uses it as a cpu testing utility.

rxmac · 28 May 2006 at 16:20

Cyber-Mav said:
iv said this many times before, prime is not a good cpu tester. only a fool or a n00b uses it as a cpu testing utility.

I know but some people think its necessary to prove its stable so i ran it to prove a point. :rolleyes:

MrWhippy · 28 May 2006 at 18:17

what are you're ingame GPU temps like?
as it seems to be 3d apps now, not just oblivion killing it.

galadial · 28 May 2006 at 19:29

Problem has fixed itself. I must have done something last night - it's fine today. Please delete and thanx for the replies.