anonuser Posted July 31, 2010 Share Posted July 31, 2010 Hi I am hoping that I can get some help with two problems I am having with Oblivion. Firstly the Oblivion Gates have a strange graphic error where I have large red shares of varying size and opacity surrounding the gates moving in and out from them. Here is a Picture of this effect. My Second issue is with my Spell Icons, which are disappearing, yes I am getting less and less of them or so it seems, it could just be that I I loosing more the more I try and fix the issue... Things I have tried; Disabling all my mods, For the Gates issue I have tried turning all my graphics settings down, manually turning down all my graphics options on my video card itself, putting back my unedited oblivion.ini file, and for the Icons I have disabled any Icon related mod, manually removed any mods, installed MidasSpells to try and over write them (spelliconreplace was my first mod and I am not sure if I had trouble before it). My system is 64bit Windows 7 pro, and I have tried compatibility modes for the game. I have an NVIDIA 470gtx, an i5 750 quad CPU, 4 gigabytes of RAM and onboard realtech sound. I am using a DVI cable with native monitor res of 1920 by 1200. I will try a full install I guess if I have to but I really don't want to... I am fairly computer savvy so if there is a way of manually fixing the icons I may try it, as for the graphics issue I am stumped! I have searched far and wide and do not seem to be able to find a similar issue to the gate graphics one and have not found much help on the icons either. It make me suspect that I am just going to be told to reinstall and hope for the best, but I'll stay positive for now. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomlong54210 Posted July 31, 2010 Share Posted July 31, 2010 Reinstall Oblivion to a custom folder (i.e., C:\Games) and make sure it is patched to the latest version. Installing & Uninstalling Oblivion - http://tesivpositive.animolious.com/?page=installing_oblivion <-- make sure you do a clean reinstallation Once you have patched the game, you will be unable to set the various graphics settings from the launcher. Just turn on high everything in the Video menu if you want. Oblivion.ini Tweaks - http://tesivpositive.animolious.com/?page=oblivion_ini_tweaks <-- apply some of these after regenerating the INI, should help performance Also, for higher rez textures, you want the texture size set to Large. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anonuser Posted August 1, 2010 Author Share Posted August 1, 2010 I have done a full reinstall and not problems yet. That said I have not installed "Natural Weather" yet... Also I had not realised it but the Natural Weather pack I have seems to include some from of HUD management, so perhaps it was interfering with another mod? I just found this in the readme for Natural Weather! I am not entirely sure what it means but I'll work it out. Q: I'm getting very weird looking oblivion gates with pink things flying around them. What's the source of the problem?A: Pink textures around Oblivion Gates are caused by extra lines in your Archiveinvalidation.txt. I'm guessing it's \Textures\Sky\s or Textures\Sky\Rainsheet.dds. Again, NE2 doesn't need any invalidation lines, since it uses personal folders for its components. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomlong54210 Posted August 2, 2010 Share Posted August 2, 2010 I have done a full reinstall and not problems yet. That said I have not installed "Natural Weather" yet... Also I had not realised it but the Natural Weather pack I have seems to include some from of HUD management, so perhaps it was interfering with another mod? I just found this in the readme for Natural Weather! I am not entirely sure what it means but I'll work it out. Q: I'm getting very weird looking oblivion gates with pink things flying around them. What's the source of the problem?A: Pink textures around Oblivion Gates are caused by extra lines in your Archiveinvalidation.txt. I'm guessing it's \Textures\Sky\s or Textures\Sky\Rainsheet.dds. Again, NE2 doesn't need any invalidation lines, since it uses personal folders for its components.It sounds like your archive invalidation is screwy. Could I have that image please? I want to put it up on my site, adding yet another entry into the CPS library related to Natural Weather. 1) Open ArchiveInvalidation.txt and delete all of the contents.2) Set BSA Redirection in OBMM > Utilities > Archive invalidation BSAs and Archive Invalidation - http://tesivpositive.animolious.com/?page=bsas_and_archive_invalidation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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