Calmmo1 Posted March 14, 2010 Share Posted March 14, 2010 Hi, I have this installation of Oblivion on a desktop XP based setup, and recently I just copied all Oblivion stuff to my laptop.Also copied the registry (under wow6432node) folders etc are all fine, mod oblivion apps all working fine (same with the 50+mods running)..The problem is, it seems that oblivion somehow (im guessing) thinks im using a 5 channel/speaker setup, and so the center channel which plays intro music and ingame environment music just doesnt work.. Ive had a look on the internet and my computer setup (oblivion inis, system sound settings etc) and i just can't seem to find an explanation (all other apps & games work with the 2 speaker setup by default) Am I missing something that can help me restore sounds to 2 channel? ..And my 2nd question has to do with run32dll.exe under win 7 x64..basically, after starting oblivion, and it doesnt matter if i start using Oblivion.exe, Launcher (which also reset oblvion system settings based on my setup automatically when i first ran it), or obse_loader, i get run32 running at ~ 50% cpu load non stop, the game doesnt start, then i simply kill oblivion.exe and obse loader from the background, without stopping run32, and then the game loads the 2nd time. Unfortunately the problem is performance which should be better on my laptop since its new running @ 2.5ghz intel cpu with a 3650witht its own 512mb of memory ati gfx card. Obviously this has to do with the game trying to use 5 channel sound and run32 eating much needed cpu load from the game which is only able to utilize the 1st core (same as run32..) i get it that the exe is running for compatibility reasons but does it have to use so much load and without any apparent reason even before oblvion exe runs??.. Sorry, for the long read but i kinda had to give as much detail as i could. Im in software development so at least as a user/gamer im pretty advanced. Any suggestion is welcome.. thanks for taking the time to read everything :thanks: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XDANX Posted March 14, 2010 Share Posted March 14, 2010 This probably isn't the case but see on the way on the right side of your taskbar a little sound wave icon? Right click it and click playback devices, right click speakers, configure speakers take it from there. Hi, I have this installation of Oblivion on a desktop XP based setup, and recently I just copied all Oblivion stuff to my laptop.Also copied the registry (under wow6432node) folders etc are all fine, mod oblivion apps all working fine (same with the 50+mods running)..The problem is, it seems that oblivion somehow (im guessing) thinks im using a 5 channel/speaker setup, and so the center channel which plays intro music and ingame environment music just doesnt work.. Ive had a look on the internet and my computer setup (oblivion inis, system sound settings etc) and i just can't seem to find an explanation (all other apps & games work with the 2 speaker setup by default) Am I missing something that can help me restore sounds to 2 channel? ..And my 2nd question has to do with run32dll.exe under win 7 x64..basically, after starting oblivion, and it doesnt matter if i start using Oblivion.exe, Launcher (which also reset oblvion system settings based on my setup automatically when i first ran it), or obse_loader, i get run32 running at ~ 50% cpu load non stop, the game doesnt start, then i simply kill oblivion.exe and obse loader from the background, without stopping run32, and then the game loads the 2nd time. Unfortunately the problem is performance which should be better on my laptop since its new running @ 2.5ghz intel cpu with a 3650witht its own 512mb of memory ati gfx card. Obviously this has to do with the game trying to use 5 channel sound and run32 eating much needed cpu load from the game which is only able to utilize the 1st core (same as run32..) i get it that the exe is running for compatibility reasons but does it have to use so much load and without any apparent reason even before oblvion exe runs??.. Sorry, for the long read but i kinda had to give as much detail as i could. Im in software development so at least as a user/gamer im pretty advanced. Any suggestion is welcome.. thanks for taking the time to read everything :thanks: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calmmo1 Posted March 14, 2010 Author Share Posted March 14, 2010 yeah, "unfortunately" that was the very first thing I checked.. but hey, at least you tried :thumbsup: thanks mate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XDANX Posted March 14, 2010 Share Posted March 14, 2010 NP... I apoligize but other then that I'm clueless... Yep cluless. But Hey you might not have stereo mix enabled, go to the same place but recording devices right click show disabled devices. so that way you can record sound using hypercam. Not that that has anything to do with it. Good luck :thumbsup: yeah, "unfortunately" that was the very first thing I checked.. but hey, at least you tried :thumbsup: thanks mate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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bben46 Posted March 14, 2010 Share Posted March 14, 2010 The registry contains info on what hardware is used. By copying a part of the registry instead of actually installing the game you probably got a wrong sound setting in the registry. Did you manage to track down all of the registry entries relating to Oblivion? They are not all in the same place. IMO, the registry has outlived it's usefulness and needs to go away. BTW, for anyone else who thinks this is a good idea. Messing with the registry when you don't know exactly what you are doing can cause your computer to become unbootable - An expensive paperweight. A better way would have been to Install the game to the laptop, then copy over things like the data folder and save games. But not the Oblivion.ini, as it has info on the hardware (the computer itself) the game is running on in it. @XDANX. - Warning -Please refrain from useless posts like that last one. If you don't have anything useful to say, don't say anything. Trying to boost your post count with posts like that is a good way to get it reset to zero, or banned.Bben46, Moderator Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calmmo1 Posted March 14, 2010 Author Share Posted March 14, 2010 yeah, i was thinking about doing that eventually.. unfortunately it'll have to wait since physically my game of the year dvd is ~400kms away.. oh well, ill figure out something.. No need to worry about the registry tho, I have made backups of all altered areas.. (*not sure, but maybe it has to do with wow6432node, maybe the parts that exist there need to be in the normal 32bit windows like part of the regisrty too for the game to work.. anyway, ill proly go rent the game and get it installed, having the game sent to me over mail will cost more anyway) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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