In game settings

[ericazwel]

I recently noticed that some of my in-game settings don't stay where I put them. As far as I know, it just started happening a day or two ago. Actor fade goes to 15%, item fade goes to 4%, object fade goes to 25% and the Specular distance goes to 0%. I have changed them when I begin playing and check them while playing and they all seem to go back to the default settings. Once in a while, the specular distance will stay where I set it. I haven't added any new mods since this started happening. Anyone have any ideas? I keep tripping on rocks and stuff that suddenly pop up in front of me and my knees are getting sore.

 

Many thanks

[dezdimona]

I believe that when you make those changes you have to save your game, then exit oblivion and then restart it for the changes to take affect

[ancientRED]

Check to make sure your oblivion.ini located in \Documents and Settings\[username]\My Documents\My Games\Oblivion (for WinXP) directory or Users\[username]\Documents\My Games\Oblivion (for Vista) is not set to 'Read-Only'

[LFact]

If you're using Streamline for optimizing frame rate, you'll need to edit sl.ini.

[ericazwel]

I made the changes, saved and exited. Still the same.

 

I checked the Oblivion.ini and it is set to "read only" I unticked, applied and saved it but it went back to being read only. Is there a way to keep the read only unchecked. The files inside the oblivion.ini folder are not read only.

 

I am running Streamline. What exactly needs to be edited in the sl.ini?

 

Thanks,

Bruised but still battling.

[ericazwel]

Correction.....oblivion.ini IS NOT read only.

 

thanks

[ericazwel]

The plot thickens. I set the specualr (sic) distance in the oblivion.ini to 1000.0000 as suggested in Tweaks Guide and save. I start a game and all of a sudden, everything near and far away disappears. Signs, people and the such I'm in the IC). Exit, go back to the ini and find that this: fSpecualrStartMax=350.0000.

 

So, thinking that the ini file was bustimicated, the replaced it with a clean backup. Now, the dang game won't even start. I am hoping that there is a quick fix as I don't want to uninstall the reinstall, again.

 

HELP.

 

azwel

[ancientRED]

Hmm.Try this, delete the oblivion.ini, disable any mods you are using (Streamline, OBSE, etc) and then start Oblivion through OblivionLauncher.exe

 

It should create a new .ini for you, proceed to start the game as if you were going to play it, maybe even start a new game to see if everything works. If it works exit, then re-enable your mods and start Oblivion as you normally do.

 

 

Of course this also might not work if anything you've used has changed the Oblivion_default.ini.

[ericazwel]

Well, I disabled all mods and started and saved a vanilla game. No troubles. Loaded all my mods back up and was able to start playing. That's a step in the right direction. The specular distance stays where I set it but the actor, item and object fades revert to default levels. What I don't want to do is a DNR; so, I'm figuring that this is something that I'll have to live with unless.....

 

Are there settings in the oblivion.ini, similar to the specualr (sic) setting, that changes the fade settings? I'd also like to know what changes, if any, can be made in the sl.ini file.

[BossDweebe]

First get the Ovlivion Tweak Guide from Tweak Guides.com

Then read the Tome of knowledge that comes with Streamline.

I assume you are using Streamlin V3.

When you understand how Streamline works then do this -

In the details setting - turn terrain to (0) off. This works very well

for me in keeping the distant lands setting turned on, but will on rare occasions

still turn it off. All the other settings are supposed to change - this is how streamline

works to produce a desired frame rate.

As Streamline V3 was a beta he made at least one mistake, and that was in

relation to the terrain setting.

 

If we knew your system specs. it would help as well. If you have a high end computer

and 4Gig off RAM you should get by without Streamline.

 

Also grab "Fast exit" to get rid of the dread black screen on exit. It also saves whatever settings you

currently have to a new ini with each closing of the game.