Grayl

The only thing I can think of is deleting your My Documents > My Games > Oblivion folder. If that doesn't work, try uninstalling and removing every possible trace of Oblivion from your computer before re-installing. And I can't really think of anything else.

I really suggest NOT getting into modding if you don't even know where an installation directory is. Modding is very PC intensive, and takes quite experienced PC users to work out how to effectively mod. I've used PCs for 13 years, and it's taken me almost a full week to get my Oblivion install working correctly. Granted, I do install a lot of mods, but still. When you install a game onto a PC, it goes into an install directory. These are usually found in your hard-drive. To get to your hard-drive, go into Computer and then onto Local Disk (usually named C:). From there, your games will normally install into the Program Files folder under the name of the company that publishes the game. In this case, Oblivion should be in the Bethesda Softworks folder within Program Files (I'm not 100% sure though, as I install all my games into a different, easier-to-access-directory). You need to install the mod manager into that directory. UAC is User Account Control. That's the thing that pops up whenever you want to do ANYTHING on Vista/Windows 7, asking you to confirm that it is you that's doing it. Some programs/games don't work well with UAC enabled, so you'll probably have to disable it if it isn't already disabled. I have to give a disclaimer, though, as Microsoft suggests keeping it on. Though, I've never, EVER had a single problem from turning it off. All it does is ask you to confirm everything you do, which can get very annoying very quickly. To turn UAC off, go to your Start Menu > Control Panel > User Accounts (or anything similar that has the word "User" in it). From there, click on User Accounts until you get to your User (it should have your name and a picture, or the name of the PC or something). Then click on "Change User Account Settings" and turn it off by sliding the bar to the bottom. That's if you're on Windows Vista/7. If not, don't worry about UAC. As I said earlier, you really shouldn't try to get into modding unless you know what you're doing. There are plenty of installation guides out there for modding, and you should only come to a forum as your LAST stop before giving in. If your PC guy is somewhere around, get him to explain what he's doing when he's working on your PC, and listen to him. The up-shot is that you can end up playing a fantastic game. I barely made it to 10 hours on my first Oblivion play-through, but then I came back 3 years later and installed a load of mods. I ended up with a 100 hour game going, and I'm still back for more. Anyway, I hope that helped.

Yo guys and gals, So, I recently re-installed Oblivion and FCOM on my Windows 7 (64-bit) computer. I'm not exactly an expert modder, but the fact that I have installed FCOM, merged it correctly and tested the entire installation via the 300Test room should show that I am sort of experienced with modding. I'm currently having 2 nuances with the game that I would love to get fixed. The first, and most important, are my frame-rate issues with the game. I've done this test with and without FCOM, and was just wondering if someone could run this little test for me, just to see whether it's my installation of Oblivion or if it's just the bad performance of the game in general. The test is as follows: I go into the market district of the Imperial City during the night. I then click on myself, and type into the console: "placeatme 000055BD 6" And that should spawn 6 regular bandits at my location. I also suggest typing "tgm" to put God mode on, so you don't die. You could run this with or without FCOM because, as I have already said, I've done both. The guards should start to engage the enemies with bow and sword, and my frame-rate drops to about 10 frames a second as long as I have the NPCs in view. Now, I ask someone to test this for me, because the only difference between this Oblivion installation and the last one that I did is that I'm now on Windows 7 as opposed to Windows Vista, and I am almost certain that my previous play-through ran at much higher frame-rates. My PC is more than above the required specifications for the game (without doing into details, I can run Crysis maxed out without anti-aliasing and keep a solid 25-30 frames a second), and my friend has told me that his version of Oblivion (Windows XP) runs with FCOM perfectly fine. He said that he only had issues when there was a massive fight going on. Granted, the fight I test is quite a large one, with about 6 guards and 6 bandits all trying to kill each other, and the bandits also trying to kill me. But I just want to know if my game is running slower than it should. I'm also running Streamline and OBSE, but even without on a standard installation of Oblivion, my frame-rate drops to about 15 when this particular fight occurs. I have used multiple programs to improve performance, such as the RAM increaser tool for oblivion.exe, Script Optimization and Stutter Remover. I should also note that out in the wilderness, the game runs perfectly fine, and small encounters (2 or 3 enemies) are also fine. And I use an Intel Quad-Core, and an ATI Radeon HD 4870. The other problem I have that I cannot find a solution to - custom music. It seems that Oblivion refuses to play some of my music, and I have no idea why. I've tried changing the dates, archive invalidating the files and just forcing the game to play the music files. The only thing I can think of is that Oblivion isn't working well with my codecs, as I had one or two crashes when the game tried to change music files. But I don't know if I really want to go through with removing codecs and having to re-install them whenever I want to watch something on my PC. But, the game actually will play SOME of my music files, just not all of them. I've tested this by renaming the files (battle_01, etc), and the files are all in MP3 format, naturally. When I take out the specific music files that the game WILL play, and leave in the ones it won't, the game REALLY slows down. I end up with about 3 frames a second, but complete silence on the music part. I've modified everything I can think of, and the files are pretty much exactly the same, in both size, length, bit-rate, etc. So, if anyone would know why Oblivion refuses to play certain music files, I'd love to know. I can't imagine it being an archive invalidation problem, as don't they only apply to files that are in .bsa format? And I don't think the music files are in that format; they're just in the music folders. I know it's a lot to ask, but if someone could help me out, I'd really appreciate it. I haven't posted my load order because it's literally just the essential files for FCOM, and I have an entire backup of Oblivion without mods anyway. Any advice is greatly appreciated.