Megatarius Posted March 10, 2011 Share Posted March 10, 2011 After about a minute, I start to notice frame skips. After about 3 minutes, it's noticably choppy. After about 5 minutes, it's unplayable. This is in the area outside the testinghall where there is nothing to process visually. If I deactivate sound in the .ini, everything is smooth as butter. This has a number of problems, the most notable being character dialogue flashes by. I have to press escape to read it. This is really lame after a while. I miss just being able to read the dialogue like normal. Why would this be happening? It's been getting worse. Last night I played it fine with no problems. Sound was great and so was the frame rate. Now, today, for no reason at all, it's just taking a dive again. I've deactivated my onboard sound device in the Device Manager. Does anybody know what's going on? This is really starting to piss me off. I have no idea what to do anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qwaxalot Posted March 10, 2011 Share Posted March 10, 2011 On Vista or Windows 7? The problem is that they removed DirectMusic and DirectSound from DirectX, effectively disabling any form of hardware acceleration making your soundcard useless. Assuming your sound card has hardware acceleration, use it's utility program to translate DirectX calls to OpenAL calls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hickory Posted March 10, 2011 Share Posted March 10, 2011 I have a brand new sound card that is more than adequate Delete your oblivion.ini and restart the game from oblivionlauncher.exe so that your new hardware is initialised. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Megatarius Posted March 11, 2011 Author Share Posted March 11, 2011 (edited) Thanks, but the .ini thing didn't help. It worked once, and then when I went to play it seriously, it was screwed up again. Qwaxalot, how do I do what you suggested? I couldn't find anything like that. It's a Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio if that helps. I don't know much about sound cards. And I'm using Windows 7. Edited March 11, 2011 by Megatarius Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nosisab Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 try installing k-lite codecs for ffdshow, newer versions automatically excludes it interfering with games where it caused issues in the past. The main responsible for chopper and glitched sounds is the fraunhoffen plugin which comes with windows and should be replaced by the MAD codec if the above is not enough. Search the net for more information about these codecs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Megatarius Posted March 11, 2011 Author Share Posted March 11, 2011 Well, it seems okay now. For some reason my .ini file reverted back again. I don't know what happened. I think it was simply the wrong information in the .ini file, but it might be related to hardware or faulty plugins. Thanks everyone for your help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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