Light Surrounding Me

[Cremdogz]

Ok, I figured out all my previous problems by rolling back my drivers [lol, yeah, that was my previous problem].

 

However, what I initially thought was the problem is still there (even in Vanilla, so mods are irrevelent). My character has a massive amount of light emitting from her. Everything is super shiny when near my character, and it's both ugly and lowers FPS slighty. Specular lighting in-game lowers it, but even when off, it's still massively there. Is there a solution, possibly in the .ini file? (But not the one that makes everything ugly).

[BossDweebe]

Is this a new installation or reinstallation ?

When you say vanilla is that after deactivating mods ?

Have you tinkered with the ini already ?

 

Are you playing with HDR ? If so try Bloom and see if that fixes it - then....

HDR in the vanilla game can cause way too much glare even washing out

the white stone work, and also making bodies, and armour too shiny in bright sunlight.

Natural environments tones the light down a lot, and if you find it too yellow

there is a "patch" to fix that (natural environments colour override).

[Cremdogz]

No, when I say Vanilla, I'm talking about my 11th reinstallation (cause I found it hard to work out my previous problem). No mods were installed, Oblivion wasn't updated at all, and the same problem is there. Also, I got the same problem on Oblivion on pretty much the lowest settings, there's one hell of a light emitting from my character.

 

I'm quite happy with Natural Environments, but I will give that a go, and I'll let you know how that mod turns out. I don't have access to Oblivion just now but I will within the next 24 hours.

[Qwaxalot]

No, when I say Vanilla, I'm talking about my 11th reinstallation (cause I found it hard to work out my previous problem). No mods were installed, Oblivion wasn't updated at all, and the same problem is there. Also, I got the same problem on Oblivion on pretty much the lowest settings, there's one hell of a light emitting from my character.

 

I'm quite happy with Natural Environments, but I will give that a go, and I'll let you know how that mod turns out. I don't have access to Oblivion just now but I will within the next 24 hours.

 

Are you saying you haven't patched Oblivion? (Current patch is V1.2.0416)

 

If true you really should patch, and install the Unofficial Oblivion Patch too.

 

As it's almost certain that any mods you install will have been developed on a patched game!

[Cremdogz]

I think you're misunderstanding me. I'm using a hell of a lot of mods, but to fix the problem, I reinstalled Oblivion so many times, brought it back to complete Vanilla (mods were there, but only in .rar, .zip, etc... so then I wouldn't have to redownload again) and there's still a massive light emitting from my character.

[Qwaxalot]

I think you're misunderstanding me. I'm using a hell of a lot of mods, but to fix the problem, I reinstalled Oblivion so many times, brought it back to complete Vanilla (mods were there, but only in .rar, .zip, etc... so then I wouldn't have to redownload again) and there's still a massive light emitting from my character.

 

Experimentally, try renaming or deleting the oblivion.ini file (...\My Documents\My Games\Oblivion\Oblivion.ini)

 

Oblivion will then redetect hardware. It will also, probably, not recognize your video card and set everything to medium. Just change the settings according to what you think your card will support (You can always change them later)

[Cremdogz]

Sorry, I forgot all about this topic, I stopped playing Oblivion for a while for Final Fantasy VI (love it).

 

It doesn't work. And yes, it doesn't detect my video card, and I always change my settings. Currently, I'm playing Oblivion on high quality, so HDR, and my mods have been all installed, I'm sort of living with it, though it is incredibly annoying. It's got to do with specular lighting, I know that for certain, since when I messed around with it in the ini file, I turned it off, and I didn't get that stupid lighting problem, however, caves are a pain to navigate. Does anyone know what I should change specular lighting to?

[BossDweebe]

OK - You reinstalled, but left your mod zips in the game folder ?

You should really have another folder separate from the game folder.

This is not what is causing your problem, but it is better management,

and better management leads to fewer problems.

 

So I have to ask - how clean can all these reinstalls be if there were files

left in you installation folder, and your My Docs/My Games/Oblivion - folder.

 

Have you tried playing with Bloom lighting yet to see if the problem persists ?

If you do put back the vanilla ini first.

I have to stress this point because Bloom is a LOT less glary than HDR, which was still young when Oblivion came out.

 

If you have tried Bloom and there is no change then -

Did you play the game when it was Vanilla - real vanilla - no disabled esp's, and

no trace of mod files in your Oblivion game folder, and a vanilla ini ?

 

When you revert to vanilla how many mods do you add at one time without play testing ?

More than two or five ? That would be too many.

 

One more thing - some of the pale body textures are very white and glary in HDR, even with the

Natural Environments Natural Weather. I don't reckon you can get rid of this all together.

I hate the glare as well, but I still prefer HDR overall.

[Cremdogz]

I don't understand how anyone is misunderstanding me, everything I'm saying is making perfect sense and everyone else is taking it as something else. While I do appreciate the help, I don't understand how I'm hard to understand, I speak perfect english.

 

Ok, all my mods that I download, I keep in their original files, so .rar, .zip, you get the point. I keep a copy of them in a separate folder, far away from my Oblivion directory. I have easy access through my desktop, I click on the folder on my desktop, and I have them ordered in a few folders, so the actual rar files are completely away from my Oblivion directory.

 

In a previous topic, no one helped me out, so I took the problem into my own hands, and followed these instructions online, as to how to delete everything about oblivion. I can't remember the website (though I swear I favourited it, it's gotta be somewhere), but it was very indepth on how to delete everything about Oblivion from my computer. It was as if the game never even existed (removed data folders, document folders, and a few specific directory things, but don't say the problem was directory, the problem came before that). I followed it many, many times, since I tried reinstalling Oblivion so many times, and then, even with a clean install, no mods installed or even expanded, no KOTN, no Shivering Isles, no patches, I play, and I got a massive problem with both lighting and FPS. I put the game to its lowest quality settings (not even Bloom is active), and it still will not work properly, and the lighting is still a mess. The FPS my friend fixed by rolling back the drivers (funny how that works).

 

However, I still hold the lighting problem. When my friend rolled back the drivers, we installed it once again, and the game worked perfectly (I use tdt, I always used it whenever I tested the game). Once again, nothing was installed, absolutely nothing. But the massive lighting surrounding my character is still there, and when I go near objects (or look at the ground) there's massive light coming from it. It's like I bleach treasure chests.

 

To answer your post BossDweebe, mods are in different folder, when I install, Vanilla means Vanilla, lowest quality means no bloom, Vanilla Oblivion means no mods even extracted from their .rar files and my lighting problem does not come from a mod when my problem comes from complete Vanilla Oblivion. I'm sorry if I seem like I'm flaming, but I said these things very clearly earlier, and people still don't understand what I've even done with my computer. Then again it makes sense why no one does, why should there be a problem with Vanilla Oblivion?

 

One last note, I own a real copy of Oblivion, so it's not a piracy problem.

[BossDweebe]

Sorry mate - The last post is very good, and very precise, and completely informative,

In previous posts when you say something like -

 

"I'm using a hell of a lot of mods, but to fix the problem, I reinstalled Oblivion so many times, brought it back to complete Vanilla (mods were there, but only in .rar, .zip, etc... so then I wouldn't have to redownload"....

 

It is a bit hard to determine if you really have left the mods out, and where you put the zips. (where is "there"?) That is why I had to confirm that you actually were in a true vanilla state.

 

EDIT: "so HDR, and my mods have been all installed"

Again - confusing. HDR installed ? On or off ? HDR on and all other settings to min ?

 

I am not claiming to be Mr. comunicator, but many post are written as if we are in the same room and already have an idea of what is happening.

So we have to flesh out the details. I just had an example of this in the last week,

after several posts we were finally informed by the person asking the question that he had fiddled

with the ini, and all was good now that he replaced it.

So in future post if we ask about the ini we will likely be told in no uncertain terms

"No I didn't say I altered the ini."

I will add that sometimes, me included, respondents do skim over some details on the first read through, and there are so many options that some get missed in one reply that get offered as a soloution in the next.

A good reason to do a search on the topic at hand as a soloution may have been offered last month that

has been overlooked today.

 

So, sadly -I have no idea why you would be having light emitting from your character. :wacko: .

other than I don't think the soloution is in the ini.

I would be interested in hearing what the soloution is when you find it.