Oblivion runs in extremely slow motion a few minutes after playing.

[Alithinos]

i'm glad it is solved.

but there is another thing that also slows performance sometimes.

If you set more antialiasing and/or anisotropic filtering,the game runs slower.

Again if you change the settings of your graphics card from optimal performance to optimal quality,the game will be slower.

[Qwaxalot]

Wow thanks for all the responses, guys, but I think I may have solved the issue. I defragged my PC lastnight and then shut it off for a few hours and I played Oblivion earlier for over an hour with no problems. I'll post back if I experience any more problems.

 

On a side note: My PC is making this strange, grinding noise, like one of the fans is messing up. It's coming from around my DVD drive, but I haven't opened my PC yet to see.

 

I'm glad you're making progress. I usually tell people to defrag, however that's more in response to cell change lags, and/or, weird CTD.

 

As far as the grinding noise is concerned, I'd get right after that.

 

Grinding=BAD :ermm:

[bben46]

A grinding can be a dying hard drive. I recommend backing up anything important on the hard drive as soon as possible. Or it could be a fan - again, clean it out if you haven't already.

[Luscilla]

Well now the grinding has stopped and I have not experienced any more crashes or lagging in 8 hours of playing. For some odd reason Oblivion has become unusually stable lately, lol. I haven't had a CTD in days or any glitches and defragging my HD the other night helped with the lag issues.

 

I'm sorry I wasted everybody's time, lol.