READ: Oblivion Issues!!! Please Help!!!

[Scotty_the_Pom]

Yeh Hey,
I'm having some troubles with Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion. I have all the requirements that are needed and i know this because it was working perfectly before my issue had started.
I got an ATI Radeon 9600 pro from a friend and i attached it to my board and it worked. I was playing oblivion fine and my friend told me install the driver for the video card. i did as he told me but after i did that Oblivion stopped working. I know it is the right driver because i downloaded from AMD and clicked on the right links and stuff. I installed and uninstalled it a number of times but still the same problem.
The problem is that whenever i leave the tutorial and leave the sewers, the trees and some boulders in the distance starting flashing and then my comp reboots. Ive tried uninstalling the game various times without success. It goes onto re installing the game. so i installed the game onto a different hard drive and then i uninstalled that it and i'm am convinced that it deleted both oblivions because there is no trace of either of them. i installed it again and the same thing happened, as soon as i leave the sewers, it flickers then reboots. i can take 4-5 steps at the most before it reboots. I tryed turning down the graphics but its just not the same. I'm guessing it has something to do with viewing distance because it was fine in the tutorial but wen i leave the sewers it is a bigger world and it reboots.
I've started a new game thinking it may have been a glitch like 3 times but the same problem happens.
I've checked the heat of the video card but its normal and yeah. I'm just confused why the game doesnt work like it used to. I got half way through the game before i installed the driver and now i cant even tip off with the game which is gay lol

And i've read other threads on this site and none are really the same problem as mine. so yeah any help will be very very helpful

Dave.

[Scotty_the_Pom]

Btw, ive tryed playing other games aswell for example age of empires 3 and it worked fine with no lag. so it has got to be somethin to do with oblivion

[twiggy021]

i got the same thing as you i never fixed it though i ended up giving it to my friend he didnt have any problems so it wasnt the disk but take my advice if you want a game that doesnt s*rew up dont get oblivion ive had soo many problems with it(sigh)

[Laurie52]

Did you ever try patching the game? Here is where you can get the Official Patch that may fix this problem:

From the "Bethesda Game Studios Forums > Oblivion > Hardware and Software Issues: UnOfficial Technical FAQ" Sticky.

4.1 Crash to desktop when entering sewers.

This is most often connected with using one of FX cards combined with too old drivers (or too new?). Mostly FX5200 and FX5500. To fix this, either run the official patch (found at the main site) or Oldblivion to downgrade graphical settings. Also, download 81.98 nvidia drivers for FX cards. Make sure you uninstall the old ones. If this doesn't fix it, use one of the fixes listed below for random crashes.

4.2 Very low framerate (FPS) after exiting sewers.

Outdoors graphics is alot more stressful for your graphics card than dungeons and other interiors. This may cause bad framerate if you have a slow card. Most oftenly, this is again connected with FX cards, which, after entering a dense Shader 2.0 area, begin to literally crawl. Solution is the same as above, download official patch, lower graphical settings, download the latest drivers (this goes also for low level ATI GPUs, such as Radeon 9500, 9550, 9600 vanilla, X200, X300, X500, X600 plain, X1300, X1400, and nvidia GPUs, such as Geforce FX series, 6200TC and TD, 6600 plain, 7300 (not GT), 7400) For those, lower graphical settings, download latest drivers from nvidia.com and ati.com, and follow the tweaks listed below.

Have you tried searching their forums for an answer and any help?

I expect when I do get Oblivion that patching it would save me loads of headaches....or might not have any problems with it at all. My card is strictly generic "Nvidia 8300GS" but it runs anything I want to play....including Oblivion (according to the "Can You Run It?" website)

But I will not know for sure until I buy it.

[Laurie52]

According to the same sticky:

ATI Radeon 9600 series <-- only the 9600 XT is fast enough

[Scotty_the_Pom]

Thats an idea
ill check out their patches and stuff
thanks

btw,
thats the thing, i looked on the video card and it ses ATI Radeon 9600 Pro
but wen i look at it through a specs program it says its the XT... i dont get that
ive tryed downloading the xt driver, but its the same problem...

Dave

[Splitty]

Yeah Oblivion is a great game, probably the best single player game out right now. Too bad for the PC it has so many errors, I had a problem it would just crash randomly, all I did was update all my drives and it began to work perfectly, too bad it doesn't seem to work so well for you. =(

[Scotty_the_Pom]

i was thinking of updating my BIOS
Its an Albatron KX18DS Pro
yes or no?