MaraJinksblade

ive been here for a long time, but i dont know if ive ever commented on anything...

Solved First, let me apologize for the double post, but this deserves a new post I think. I managed to solve the problem, or at least figure out what it was and work around it. Unfortunately the drive I had installed it to is apparently in its death throes or something, because all of the games I have installed there have the same slow down symptoms to the same degree, regardless of size or complexity. That's actually how I found out the problem, when I loaded up another game from there and it was slow, it finally clicked. I've uninstalled it and reinstalled to a different drive and problem solved. I installed all of my non-steam games there though, so I'm gonna have some work ahead of me to get them all back up and running again. Luckily it wasn't my main hard drive or I'd be in for some hurt, but good thing I found this out when I did rather than when the drive crashed so I can back up my other stuff. And don't let me forget... Thanks for the help and concern. And though it wasn't the direct solution, it was when I was googling a "page file" that I read something that sparked the memory that lead to the idea that caused me to figure this out.

no new hardware, os or antivirus stuff interesting that you mention viop, i've recently reinstalled skype and didn't seem to have any issues, but the last time i got it it destroyed my other computer until it was uninstalled. Whats a page file? Don't think I've changed it regardless, but I'll find out. Had drive space is fine, 33 GB free on C:, could probably make more, 300+ GB free on install drive. Did a virus scan like a week ago, I'll run another anyway. Running Windows 7, so it defrags itself often. I just checked and I have 0% fragmentation on all drives. I'll also try to do all the other stuff you say, but as it is now, it lags right off the bat in character creation, no mods, fresh install, so I'm not sure I'll be able to get to the marketplace. Thanks for the info, I'll try this Edit: Also, the rest of my computer seems to be running just fine. No evidence of viruses or anything. Before posting I uninstalled and reinstalled again and also uninstalled skype to see if it was doing something but its still lagging (and stuttering I think. Its slow in general and then hangs for a second or two on occasion) but I have no mods installed, not even any of the official plugins this time.

Well, I guess I'd say its lagging, but I'm assuming I know the difference and I might have it backwards. It seems like I forgot a few details before, but the game runs generally very slow, at like 3 frames per second I'd estimate, regardless of location, but I haven't actually run anything to check. It's slow during gameplay, slow in the inventory and the esc menu, and it might just be my perceptions, but it seems to slow down even more during dialogue, to the point where I can barely choose options. The main menu runs smooth as silk, though, both when first starting the game and when exiting from a game and the initial loading of the game is fast, as is the first load of a save, but any loading after gameplay has started is slow. Also, It seems to run somewhat faster for the first few seconds of the game, but quickly drops. I had been using the stutter remover back when it was working fine, and it would have still been active when the slow down started, but it isn't now so maybe I'll try it again.

I recently started having and odd slow down problem with Oblivion. The game worked fine for a good long time (a year or so) and I even managed to install a TON of mods, including wrye morph, and have it play with decent stability. It was only slow in crazy modded zones with tons of geometry, and it didn't crash noticeably more often than a clean install ever has for me. I stopped playing for awhile though, then decided to load it back up, and it was chugging hard. I assumed I must have screwed something up somewhere along the line, despite not changing anything since last time I played, so I restored the game to semi-clean by deleting the install folder and copying in a clean install folder I had copied away for just this sort of thing (something I've done successfully many times in the past, back before I learned how to properly install large numbers of mods), but it was still choppy, so I went ahead with the full uninstall and tried fresh, even cleaning the registry after uninstall, and it was still happening. A friend suggested that maybe there was some background program monopolizing my processor or something, but when I ran it windowed and checked the processor load with the task manager as I played I only ever used 29-40% of my (dual-core) processor, not even the full power of one of the cores. I set affinity for Oblivion as well with no luck. It also doesn't seem to be related to my graphics card. I uninstalled and reinstalled my graphics drivers with no change. Other, more graphics intensive games work fine, so the card isn't broken. Changing the graphics settings has no noticeable effect on the choppiness either, it seems to be constant. I've tried everything I can think of but nothing has worked, and I can't even imagine what could possibly be causing this to happen. Has anybody heard of anything like this, or is there anything else I can try, or ways I can check what I've done? I normally try to fix things on my own and rarely ask for help (as evidenced by this being my first post here) but I'm baffled by this and my google-fu has failed me (unless nobody else has ever had this problem). What irks me the most is that it worked fine before and I didn't change anything in the interim. Thanks in advance to anyone who tries to help.