Sideways Walking Issue

[gokon]

I'm having a very odd glitch in Oblivion. When I open it up, whether it be through the obse loader or the standard one, i have up to 15 minutes of normal play time available to me.

 

The amount of play is so small because at a random point before that 15-minute mark, the game decides to destroy my ability to go anywhere. What happens is this: the character will start to move slowly to the left, so slowly in fact that with cheated 200 speed and agility, the character moves at about the speed you would expect from a level 1 character who is sneaking and not running. The movement speed, once this has started, is not affected by the run button. I can move slowly forward and backward through the W and S keys, but the D key has no effect and the forward/backward movement is accompanied by and at the same speed as the leftward movement.

 

I have tried to fix this issue many ways. I have used clean, modded, and unmodded(differentiated from clean by the fact that it has had mods, which are then deactivated) installs on two different machines, the first ran Windows XP and the current one runs Windows 7. The only time I managed to get it to stop was with a clean install on the Windows XP machine, but that one died(literally, the motherboard was irreparably corrupting every harddrive we put in it and it was only AGP 4/8x, so i couldn't keep any of the hardware for a new computer).

 

 

 

I think that it's probably a problem with my disc, but I haven't got much money to call my own, meaning that I can't go out and buy a new copy, so I'm really hoping that someone can solve this for me.

 

If it helps, the copy of Oblivion that I have is the Collector's Edition from before they fixed that typo where they were printing all the boxes and discs say with a T rating rather than the M it was supposed to have.

[Fonger]

usually caused by a joystick

 

unplug any alternate input device you have on your machine

[gokon]

Thanks. I'll try that and get back to you with the results.

 

EDIT: That seems to have worked. I feel slightly stupid for not thinking of that on my own, but thanks very much.