Oblivion Reproducible Crash

tbz_ck · 4 Apr 2006 at 08:43

On the main quest in the shrine of dagon in the mountains. I cannot complete it because my machine blackscreens and restarts.

Late last night I confirmed that the crash happens only on that one main quest in the Dagon shrine. It appears to be related to when the mystic dawn plebs change from robed warriors to mace wielding maniacs. Every time I slay them with my dai katana it crashes.

To confirm this I went back to an older save and went championing in the arena for ages, then went on another mini-quest to root out an unfriendly shopkeeper.....

Not one problem at all......

It must be game related coz I updated all drivers, BIOS, defragged, underclocked etc etc and it still did it only in that mission.

I guess I side quest until a patch is released......

So....time to get in a guild and rise to the top....

What a shame......

Anyone else get a reproducible crash like this?

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tbz_ck · 4 Apr 2006 at 15:08

Rincewind said:
have you tried reinstalling the game? it could just be a file that's corrupted in install.

I have re-installed it of a manor. Installed over the last installation. The damn installer crashes as it tries to run the inbuilt DXSetup and never exits cleanly. Therefore if I try to uninstall it fails and I have to run the setup.exe again. But then that crashes at DXsetup.exe.....rinse/repeat!

tbz_ck · 4 Apr 2006 at 15:09

JudgeC said:
Oblivion should be the new CPU stability test. My PC was running all other games fine and ran Prime 95 with no problems.
On installing Oblivion, the thing would reboot occasionally and in the end I had to up the vcore on my CPU.
Now it runs fine, if not a little warmer.

I'm currently running at stock everything....boo.

I wouldn't have thought I'd need more volts at stock would I?

tbz_ck · 4 Apr 2006 at 16:10

Lanz said:
Have you been on the official elderscrolls forum, they have fixes for countless problems people are having, and if its a game fault, it should be there. If its not there, then its certainly something iffy about your pc

Its only ever happened in this game. BF2, HL2, PES5 COD 2 etc etc all work fine!