Oblivion unplayable!

Asha'man X said:
I'm playing Oblivion a lot when I have the time, and I've never had it crash on me. Even after buying the GOTY edition and installing it.

I think the key here is the Visual Studio thing, I had a similar issue with a rather crap game called Bet on Soldier. For some bizarre reason, perhaps the Windows system files needed by Oblivion are corrupt or something. Other than that, only thing I could think of is a ram issue/overclocking. I'm clutching at straws, but maybe try checking the ram with Memtest, and reducing an overclock if there is one.

I hope you can get to the bottom of this, becaus Oblivion is a game worth playing. More so than any other game I've played.

Good luck!
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I've been turning this around in my head and was wondering the same thing about Visual Studio. I really hate that it installs itself as your default debugger! Will try Memtest also.

Cheers,
Russell.
 
Oblivion and Knights don't have copy protection, but Shivering Isles does. When I tried using an image of my disc to install, it gave me an error. I can't remember the exact error, but it had to do with copy protection.
 
Russell S said:
I've been turning this around in my head and was wondering the same thing about Visual Studio. I really hate that it installs itself as your default debugger! Will try Memtest also.

Cheers,
Russell.
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I have this weird feeling it may be ram related or something. The more I think about it, the more I just have this feeling. Oblivion was called the system killer, because it stressed components in the pc a hell of a lot. Maybe it's giving your ram a harder workout than Mass Effect or other games, and the ram can't cope.

As I said earlier, I'm just clutching at straws here. Your original set of steps pretty much covered it all.

As for the Visual Studio thing, some of the game code must have been written in Visual C++, which in turn needs some system files present in your Windows install, similar to how .Net applications need the framework. Maybe those COMCTL.OCX or whatever files have gotten corrupted or overwritten.

Best of luck and hope you do get a solution.
 
Is it just happening in that game or others aswell?

I dont think it could be ram, if ur system is showing you the correct amount then there should'nt be a problem.

What power supply u running?
 
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