oblivion problems... major

[agnes]

ok, im back on xp pro 32, oblivion had this problem before i left this drive in the draw and used vista.

basically, oblivion runs at 60+ fps for the first few seconds, but over the space of 15-30 seconds of walking around (anywhere) it degrades to less than 15fps!!! ive reinstalled drivers, reinstalled oblivion, removed oblivion saves completley, everyting to do with oblivion has been removed (as far as i know) ive tried all patches, from basic to 1.2, still the problem persists.

if i lower everything, i get over 60fps, but as soon as i crank things up, it has a problem, but whats worrying me is, it worked... once, i had well over 80fps, out in the thickest of forest with everything max and 8xaa.... in broad daylight (strongest time for HDR) so i cant understand where the issue is comeing from.

on vista, the game runs fine (for vista that is).

if anyone is aware, or ha any issues of the same, please let me know of what the issue was and how resolved. even if it isnt that related as it might help me

ags <cry> miss oblivion, need to play

EDIT: forgot to mention, im on 162.18 official drivers.

 

[Salsa]

Perhaps your running into the memory problems the 8800's suffer from? Where it doesnt flush the texture memory properly so it ends up running out of memory? Thought that was only the GTS cards though.

Does Alt Tab out and back in fix the prob for another 15mins ?

 

[agnes]

ill try that

ags

 

[agnes]

nope, still is really choppy.

i might just reformat, i can back up all my games, wont take me long

ags

 

[agnes]

oh wow.... go to uninstall it and get this

could be the cause..

ags