Oniryushizobura Posted November 12, 2009 Share Posted November 12, 2009 Alright, so I just recently purchased Oblivion Game of the Year Edition, along with Shivering Isles/Knights of the Nine and I thought I'd play it (Of course.) I downloaded quite a few mods that were recommended to me by a buddy and I made sure they were checked under "Data Files" when I started Oblivion up. So, I start Oblivion up, hit "New" and I see the short cutscene about the King and then the camera zooms into the Jail Cell where you get to create your character. I try moving my mouse, nothing happens. I try messing with my keyboard, nothing happens. I try Alt+Tabing, nothing. I had to eventually give my computer a hard shutdown and restart it. I try booting up the game without any mods at all. I skip through the opening cutscene and I get to editing my character for about 2 minutes or so, then the game freezes again. I try running it in windowed mode, same thing happens. Two hours and several Hard Shutdowns->Restarts later and I have no clue what is wrong. Any input is not registered and the entire game just freezes up. The background music plays for about 15 more seconds after everything freezes and then it dies out. I'm positive it isn't just my mouse and keyboard not working, as the character model itself just stops blinking all together and whatnot. Here are my Specs: Windows XP Media Center Edition Service Pack 2AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3400+2.19 GHz 3.25 GB of RAMNVidia Geforce 9800 GT Graphics Card I apologize if I left out any other crucial information. Any ideas as to what my problem could be? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strangeman Posted November 12, 2009 Share Posted November 12, 2009 Alright, so I just recently purchased Oblivion Game of the Year Edition, along with Shivering Isles/Knights of the Nine and I thought I\\\'d play it (Of course.) I downloaded quite a few mods that were recommended to me by a buddy and I made sure they were checked under \\\"Data Files\\\" when I started Oblivion up. So, I start Oblivion up, hit \\\"New\\\" and I see the short cutscene about the King and then the camera zooms into the Jail Cell where you get to create your character. I try moving my mouse, nothing happens. I try messing with my keyboard, nothing happens. I try Alt+Tabing, nothing. I had to eventually give my computer a hard shutdown and restart it. I try booting up the game without any mods at all. I skip through the opening cutscene and I get to editing my character for about 2 minutes or so, then the game freezes again. I try running it in windowed mode, same thing happens. Two hours and several Hard Shutdowns->Restarts later and I have no clue what is wrong. Any input is not registered and the entire game just freezes up. The background music plays for about 15 more seconds after everything freezes and then it dies out. I\\\'m positive it isn\\\'t just my mouse and keyboard not working, as the character model itself just stops blinking all together and whatnot. Here are my Specs: Windows XP Media Center Edition Service Pack 2AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3400+2.19 GHz 3.25 GB of RAMNVidia Geforce 9800 GT Graphics Card I apologize if I left out any other crucial information. Any ideas as to what my problem could be? Could be your BIOS, not too good at system preformance and whatnot, but since you got a powerfull computer and it seems good enough for playing the game, it could be the BIOS, I myself have an awesome computer, one of those really expensive ones with a great system and whatnot, but the BIOS tends to screw up games for me, best is to talk to your computer support, they can give you a better diagnosis on what it might be. Oh, and the next time it freezes up, use CTRL+Alt-Delete and open up the task manager and click the processes tab, from there you can terminate oblivion.exe, CTRL+Alt+Delete tends to bypass programs, so it might work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oniryushizobura Posted November 12, 2009 Author Share Posted November 12, 2009 Yeah, I've tried Ctrl+Alt+Delete, however it takes about 10 minutes for the task manager to load up for some reason after Oblivion freezes. Alt+Tabing seems to yield much faster results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bben46 Posted November 12, 2009 Share Posted November 12, 2009 First thought - XP does not work well in windowed mode, be sure you use full screen mode. You should have started the game and tested before adding any mods. That would eliminate many of the possibilities caused by mods on your particular crash.Just unchecking a mod does not remove any of the meshes or textures it installed. It just stops that esp from starting with the rest of the game. Non standard races are a good possibility at that location. If you started out with a non standard race from a mod, it is a good possibility that a left over mesh or texture from that mod is causing your crash. Some mods require OBSE or some other mod to be installed first to work properly, and load order can be important when you do start adding mods again. Get OBMM and use it to set the order. the Oblivion data screen does not display mods in their load order. OBSE and OBMM are not mods and do not install like mods, so read the instructions. OBSE here: http://obse.silverlock.org/ OBMM here: http://timeslip.chorrol.com/obmm_download.html Here is a link to Bben's Crash Helphttp://www.tesnexus.com/articles/article.php?id=298. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oniryushizobura Posted November 13, 2009 Author Share Posted November 13, 2009 Alright, I tried your advice out, and I tried just about everything listed on the crash guide, no dice. It still freezes up. I even uninstalled Oblivion and Installed it on my other hard drive that had absolutely no mods on it, (I even made sure to check Data Files on the menu screen, there were absolutely 0 mods there) and it still froze up and crashed. So, I'm pretty sure it has nothing to do with mods. A couple times after Oblivion crashed on me a dialog box said something along the lines of "Nvidia display driver stopped working" and then my screen went black. I waited for about 10 minutes (and double checked to see if it was on which it was. I could also adjust the brightness settings and whatnot), and the screen was still black. So, perhaps it could be a problem with my video driver I'm using? I'm downloading a couple different drivers right this minute to try them out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Illiad86 Posted November 13, 2009 Share Posted November 13, 2009 I recommend not using the beta Nvidia drivers if you are...just use the newest most stable release :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oniryushizobura Posted November 13, 2009 Author Share Posted November 13, 2009 Arg, updated drivers, restarted my computer and I'm still running into the same problem. Does anybody have any other advice on how to help me? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Garfield Posted November 13, 2009 Share Posted November 13, 2009 Try it on another computer, maybe it\'s the program rather than your device. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bben46 Posted November 13, 2009 Share Posted November 13, 2009 When you uninstalled did you use the game uninstall function on the disk? or did you just erase the folder? If you erased the folder, it left stuff in the registry. Try using the uninstall on the disk, then reboot the computer. Then run a registry cleaner - like the free CCleaner to remove all references in the registry. Then reboot again to complete the process. Note that the 2 reboots are important. For a better explanation, see my complete uninstall/reinstall Here is a link to my complete uninstall/reinstall procedure located in the articles section of the Nexushttp://www.tesnexus.com/articles/article.php?id=240 CCleaner is available Here: http://majorgeeks.com/CCleaner_Slim_No_Yah...lish_d4191.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d181sp1 Posted November 13, 2009 Share Posted November 13, 2009 Uninstall, run ccleaner as suggested, delete the Bethesda folder in the C drive. Reboot. Reinstall, defrag. Barring that, update your video and sound drivers. Do you have problems in any other games? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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