TJADER Posted December 9, 2010 Share Posted December 9, 2010 (edited) Hm, I just noticed something intresting that happens when I reinstall the game. When I first start up Oblivion it says "Oblivion will now check your computer to set the quality" or something like that and when I press ok it sets the graphics to the lowest possible with lowest resolution, and unchecks lot of modes like water reflection, self shadow, shadow on grass, water ripples and so on. Maybe it forces the shaders in this way and then makes it impossible to change it. I don't know really, I hope someone understands what I mean. Also found something that might be related on the : http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Tweaking "Texture Shimmering Nvidia Graphics Cards On Nvidia cards shimmering is most noticeable when anisotropic filtering is enabled and Image Quality is set to Performance, High Performance, or Quality mode. Textures appear to shimmer and "crawl" as you move about the game world. This is fixed by clamping Negative LOD Bias while playing Oblivion, "High Quality" mode enables negative LOD clamping by default. " Although when I start up oblivion, there is no "HighQuality" setting I can select! Not in the options or in the game itselfs video configurations. Edited December 9, 2010 by TJADER Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenlethar Posted December 9, 2010 Author Share Posted December 9, 2010 I did not do that, Smooth613 - i did not know i would have to! Its quite a good point. I shall try that tonight! Hickory: you're right! I however always revert back to default when running a new set of tests. Otherwise i'll never know :) TJADER: I read that too, on many forums and sites. It is not related to Oblivion directly - what it means is that you should check HIGH QUALITY texture filtering in NVidia Control Panel. I did that but it does not help me with shimmering textures in Oblivion. However, shimmering is not my problem, flickering is.. so i didnt dive into this. Today i bought a new Motherboard from a store - a high quality Gigabyte board. I will install it later and run tests with it. (after trying the shader thing properly, as Smooth613 suggested) If i treat the motherboard well (which i will), the store is okay with taking it back if it does not work for me. Let's pray :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smooth613 Posted December 9, 2010 Share Posted December 9, 2010 TJADER: That's exactly what I mentioned in my previous post. You have to set the quality in the OblivionLauncher.exe to VeryHigh or you will not get the proper shaderpackage, no matter what you do. This is when Oblivion assigns what shaders will be used in game. In game settings cannot alter this. Only forcefully changing settings in the Launcher and shaderpackages can. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenlethar Posted December 9, 2010 Author Share Posted December 9, 2010 TJADER: That's exactly what I mentioned in my previous post. You have to set the quality in the OblivionLauncher.exe to VeryHigh or you will not get the proper shaderpackage, no matter what you do. This is when Oblivion assigns what shaders will be used in game. In game settings cannot alter this. Only forcefully changing settings in the Launcher and shaderpackages can. Oh wait! So i misunderstood and the HIGH QUALITY setting is actually meant to be for the Oblivion Launcher setting, not for NV Control Panel? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smooth613 Posted December 9, 2010 Share Posted December 9, 2010 Correct. OblivionLauncher.exe > Select VeryHigh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TJADER Posted December 9, 2010 Share Posted December 9, 2010 Correct. OblivionLauncher.exe > Select VeryHigh Yeah that is the problem for me, when I open up the OblivionLauncher there is nothing to select like that. I looked around at google and there are 2 different. I have the first, with no options to set to VeryHigh... http://pieceoflunacy.com/html-d6/sites/all/files/storyfiles/img3.png The second one shows what you described. How can I get this? Or is it only for Nvidia? http://i36.tinypic.com/1zbvrpy.png Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenlethar Posted December 9, 2010 Author Share Posted December 9, 2010 TJADER: I wondered about the same thing lately. It seems to be the older version of Oblivion - its launcher does not have the settings. Install the latest patch for your version (you can find that on www.theelderscrolls.com) then try again. By the way: i sent you a PM. Would be cool if you reply to that - so we can get to a solution a little faster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TJADER Posted December 9, 2010 Share Posted December 9, 2010 TJADER: I wondered about the same thing lately. It seems to be the older version of Oblivion - its launcher does not have the settings. Install the latest patch for your version (you can find that on www.theelderscrolls.com) then try again. By the way: i sent you a PM. Would be cool if you reply to that - so we can get to a solution a little faster. Hm I do have the latest patch. Oh sorry about the PM, was going to reply to it but I have been so busy in the university lately, will reply as soon as possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenlethar Posted December 10, 2010 Author Share Posted December 10, 2010 (edited) Well, now i feel like a kid who didnt get a christmas present. Its 5:00 am where i live. I removed my ASUS P6T Deluxe V2 tonight and replaced it with a Gigabyte X58A-UD3R rev. 2.0 updated to the latest BIOS version. After a long ride of setting everything up, i ran Oblivion. Hope. Fear. Console: coc HeroHill Then the moment of truth - flickering. Everywhere. Just as before. How sad :( I noticed also that grass would disappear in the outer areas of my view. New grass will sometimes appear. Everything seems bugged. I also ran the shader test, by removing the settings folder after every change of the shader package. Went through all of them. Same results. Oh my goodness.. what shall it be next? A new PSU? A new CPU maybe? Some new RAM? Maybe Bethesda or NVidia has an answer. For any more tips and hints i would be thankful! Edited December 10, 2010 by Tenlethar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hickory Posted December 10, 2010 Share Posted December 10, 2010 By the way: i sent you a PM. Would be cool if you reply to that - so we can get to a solution a little faster. And hide the solution from anybody else that may be having the same problem? PM has it's place, but I'm not sure that this is it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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