Graphical Issues

[banjo2E]

A short while ago, I was having problems with getting anywhere past the tutorial. I tried all sorts of things; disabling recent mods, reducing my graphical quality (including disabling Distant Buildings), and even reinstalling. It turned out that I was having codec problems (seriously, someone needs to figure out how to force Oblivion to only use default Windows codecs somehow) and I was soon back at my old strength, with one exception: When I reenabled Distant Buildings, everything was black. I have no idea why this would happen, unless it is tied to my Oblivion reinstallation. I've tried reinstalling RAEVWD and rebuilding DistantLOD files with TES4LODGEN. I'm led to believe that it's a texture problem, but I have no idea what would fix it. I am, however, in the process of downloading Qarl's Texture Pack 3, which, since it replaces a good deal of Oblivion textures, may replace my faraway buildings' textures as well.

 

Furthermore, at some point during my troubleshooting process, I began having rarely and seemingly at random sudden problems when turning; on one occasion the entire screen became covered by the background "fog" color when I looked at a treasure chest in the tutorial dungeon at a certain angle; on another, all the objects in one of the ruined Castle Kvatch's rooms (but not the room itself) turned jet black when I looked in a certain direction.

 

Will installing QTP3, and, thus, replacing almost all the Tamriel textures in the game, fix my distant buildings problem? If not, what will? And is there anything I can do about my viewing angle issue? Thank you for your help.

[Megatarius]

What video card do you use? Is it up to date with drivers? Did you change the card or drivers after installing the game? Have you regenerated your .ini file?

 

These are the common solutions. I don't know if I can help beyond this, but I thought I'd mention it.