Hard Lockup On Load Of A Savegame File

[agafon]

Approx. 4 times out of 10 starts I get a hard lockup after pressing Continue or Loading a file immediately after the game's start . It seems there is a higher likelyhood of that after I change video settings (especially resolution, texture size).

 

This happens even in res 640x480 with small texture size.

 

Ctrl-Alt-Del does not help - the cold reboot is the only remedy, often results in corrupted Oblivion's ini file.

Abouth the only program I have that can hard lock Win XP Pro.

 

System:

Win XP Pro

AMD64 3500+

1G quality ram

128M 6600GT

plenty of free space on HD (over 10G).

 

Nothing running in background.

 

Please help

[dc4bs]

Just a though, have you checked the bios rev and driver versions for your motherboard? Might be just that save/load in this game are realy I/O intensive.

 

I've been having a problem with hard lockups when the game autosaved just after going through a doorway (usualy from inside to outside)

 

I turned off "autosave on travel" and then had had only 1 lockup after 4-5 hours of smooth gameplay...

 

I believe it might be somehow related to an I/O bus contention or driver issue for the IDE drives on my system.

 

I have moved the game installation to one of my SATA drives to see if it locks up there. I've started teh game but only played for a few minutes since the move (wish me luck).

 

Wow. This almost reads like an exploreres journal entry doesn't it? ;)

 

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EDIT: Mar 30 2006

 

Or perhaps not...

 

I updated my BIOS + IDE, SATA, AGP, sound card and video card drivers to current revisions last night. Started the game and got the same lockup behavior after a while. Maybe the 4 hour+ run the other night was just luck.

 

-dc4bs

[agafon]

After disabling music in ini file the problem disappeared. The rest of the sounds are just fine.