Hadesuk23 Posted April 9, 2010 Share Posted April 9, 2010 Ok... This is a heartfelt appeal to all Oblivion obsessed techies... After taking a few months off from Oblivion, I felt that familliar urge to play again and thought it would be a good idea to start with a clean slate. My old game disk had seen better days and so I replaced it with the game of the year addition, performed a complete system restore on my computer and made ready to re install, re mod and resume what remains in my opinion, one of the best games ever created.. but then disaster.. I put in the disk and the drive just kept speeding up and slowing down, not recognising the disk at all.. at first i thought it was a problem with the disk itself, so i borrowed another copy from a friend, but the same thing happened. So its not the disk.. The game ran perfectly on this computer before, so I cannot see any reason why its not doing so now. Please, Any advise would be greatly appreciated.. the withdrawal symptoms have begun... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TodaY Posted April 9, 2010 Share Posted April 9, 2010 ;P do you know system recover? that could help - just recover to the last date your drive worked Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hadesuk23 Posted April 9, 2010 Author Share Posted April 9, 2010 Yeah, I did a complete restore, back to when i first got the machine.. And I know it worked back then.. Oblivion was about the first thing i installed when i got the computer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nosisab Posted April 9, 2010 Share Posted April 9, 2010 Ok... This is a heartfelt appeal to all Oblivion obsessed techies... After taking a few months off from Oblivion, I felt that familliar urge to play again and thought it would be a good idea to start with a clean slate. My old game disk had seen better days and so I replaced it with the game of the year addition, performed a complete system restore on my computer and made ready to re install, re mod and resume what remains in my opinion, one of the best games ever created.. but then disaster.. I put in the disk and the drive just kept speeding up and slowing down, not recognising the disk at all.. at first i thought it was a problem with the disk itself, so i borrowed another copy from a friend, but the same thing happened. So its not the disk.. The game ran perfectly on this computer before, so I cannot see any reason why its not doing so now. Please, Any advise would be greatly appreciated.. the withdrawal symptoms have begun...Or that is an extreme bad luck two defective Oblivion discs or your's DVD device optical system has seen better days... or both. try others discs to be sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bben46 Posted April 9, 2010 Share Posted April 9, 2010 I doubt that there is a problem with 2 disks. So that leaves your dvd drive. when you restored it did you load and install the latest driver for the DVD drive? As Nosiab said - try some other dvd in the drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hadesuk23 Posted April 9, 2010 Author Share Posted April 9, 2010 Yeah, the system says that the drivers are up to date, and thats the irritating thing, every other disk ive tried works fine, dvds included. The only other one ive noticed that isnt working, is Morrowind, which is surely not a coincidence. that used to run ok too. but its doing the same thing as oblivion, revving up over and over, louder than is normal. I actually got the oblivion disk to the autorun part once (after an hour of waiting for it) but when i confirmed it, it just told me that the wrong disk was in.. my language got colourfull at that point i can tell you.. yes im sure i had the correct disk inserted.. even tried the expansion disk at that stage, just to be sure. And no, i wondered if i was just -that- unlucky, but my friend tried my disk on her laptop, and it loaded fine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bben46 Posted April 10, 2010 Share Posted April 10, 2010 There are several programs that the Oblivion antipiracy has problems with. DVD copy programs such as alcohol and Daemon tools will prevent it from loading. If you have any DVD copy programs, uninstall them. Then there is a utility - Process Monitor that some people have reported a problem with. just turn it off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hadesuk23 Posted April 11, 2010 Author Share Posted April 11, 2010 Ok, I scoured the depths of my computer and got shot of anything that looked like a dvd making program.. well i found two, one NTI thingy that i got shot of, and one Windows DVD Maker thing.. deleted it as i couldnt find it in the uninstall list. Tried the Oblivion disk afterward.. but same thing happens. No joy there. The Process Monitor thing you mentioned... if i even knew where to begin looking for it, id happily try turning it off.. can you give me a clue? (im about -> <- this close to defenestrating my laptop) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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