RozenDoll Posted January 7, 2011 Share Posted January 7, 2011 (edited) ok, i bet this happend to somebody before, but the search didn't show anything useful up. Here's my problem: When i load/start a game, it's smooth, fast and stable at 50-60fps mostly. But after an estimated minute i notice a constant drop in frames. After another minute the game reaches unplayable 10 fps, the more i move, the faster it drops. If i still keep on going the eventually game suddenly appears to not respond to any controls at all. Neither the mouse cursor moves nor does it even react to pressing Alt+F4 which leaves me to shutting down the game via task manager. Happens both in fullscreen and windowed mode. i assume it's some sort of cache overflow, but i played this game before rather flawless. my specs are:AMD Athlon II X4 635 @2.9GHz2x2GB DDR3 RAMATI Sapphire HD 5450Windows 7 Ultimate x64 EDIT: forgot to mention: as a recommendation of a friend i'm using the "Inofficial Oblivion Patch" as well as the DemonRace.esp and HGEC body Edited January 7, 2011 by RozenDoll Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadowfen Posted January 7, 2011 Share Posted January 7, 2011 ok, i bet this happend to somebody before, but the search didn't show anything useful up. Here's my problem: When i load/start a game, it's smooth, fast and stable at 50-60fps mostly. But after an estimated minute i notice a constant drop in frames. After another minute the game reaches unplayable 10 fps, the more i move, the faster it drops. If i still keep on going the eventually game suddenly appears to not respond to any controls at all. Neither the mouse cursor moves nor does it even react to pressing Alt+F4 which leaves me to shutting down the game via task manager. Happens both in fullscreen and windowed mode. i assume it's some sort of cache overflow, but i played this game before rather flawless. my specs are:AMD Athlon II X4 635 @2.9GHz2x2GB DDR3 RAMATI Sapphire HD 5450Windows 7 Ultimate x64 EDIT: forgot to mention: as a recommendation of a friend i'm using the "Inofficial Oblivion Patch" as well as the DemonRace.esp and HGEC body What changed between the time when you played the game rather flawless and now when it chokes up? Any hardware changes, operating system changes, game reinstalls,...? It sounds like the game is running out of memory. 2GB isn't a lot when we are talking Oblivion, but it works for a lightly modded game. So, what is consuming your memory? When you start Oblivion, take a look at the Options->Video. What is the video set for: Low, Medium, High, or Very High? What's the resolution set to and what is the max it can be set to? Your video card is not considered a gaming card so it is not likely to be able to handle High or VHigh, but I'd think it should manage Medium if it is the 1GB rather than the 512MB. If the video is set for Low (when it can handle better), Oblivion is going to spend time and memory doing some of the graphics tasks that a capable video card should be doing - and this steals resources from the game itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qwaxalot Posted January 7, 2011 Share Posted January 7, 2011 Exit Oblivion, then try renaming or deleting the oblivion.ini file (...\My Documents\My Games\Oblivion\Oblivion.ini) Oblivion will then redetect hardware. It will also, probably, not recognize your video card and set everything to medium. Just change the settings according to what you think your card will support (You can always change them later) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RozenDoll Posted January 7, 2011 Author Share Posted January 7, 2011 (edited) for the hardware, nothing changed except my HDD. i used a backup to restore my windows.If you look more accurately at my specs you see i have "2x2GB" which sums 4GB (two sticks).resetting the .ini didn't changed anything.Though my videocard is low-budget, it CAN produce stable 60 FPS as already mentioned. EDIT: okay, hold on. my cousin came over today with his disc. i don't know what he did but he figured out the oblivion.esm seems to be corrupted or something. trying out his disc then. EDIT2: nope. installed with his disc, still the same problem as in OP.I may add though, that, when (trying) to play for long enough, as mentioned the controls fail. But the FPS seem to rise in the very moment to about 40-45 to my surprise. It appears to me as some sort of directX/input related plugin or something seems to overload and collapse. And no, my DirectX11 is up-to-date, naturally. Edited January 8, 2011 by RozenDoll Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RozenDoll Posted January 18, 2011 Author Share Posted January 18, 2011 (edited) bumping with some updates: Because i've read it numerous times that installing a codec pack (god help me grasp why that should work) sometimes fixes issues. well, CCCP didn't help much. neither with Oblivion nor morrowind (which i may add, classic "can't play mp3" error). Currently restoring my system to before the installation. nobody found a similar problem yet? Edited January 18, 2011 by RozenDoll Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RozenDoll Posted January 21, 2011 Author Share Posted January 21, 2011 hurray! i finally fixed this! And i can only confirm the mysterious codec issue story.what i did is:1. from a recommendation i downloaded this (very compatible) codec installer: http://www.inmatrix.com/zplayer/formats/mp3.shtml2. install it to something like c:/codecpack for easy finding and open it's directory.3. open registration.ini with editor and edit all values except mp3 to zero.4. execute register.bat and wait for confirmation. DONE! Morrowind starts, Oblivion runs fine for hours on stable 60 fps (except the occasional CTD's that are common) and even my homebrew game that didn't play sound before does now =D It is still a mystery to me why a incompatible mp3 codec can such abstract issues, but i guess that's the magic wonderland of computers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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