7morpheus7 Posted February 14, 2007 Share Posted February 14, 2007 Hello all, been playing oblivion for 10 months and never had this problem. I start with a saved game, play for a bit, then i start to see small flickering spots on everything, npc's, walls, ground, etc. Around this time I go near or into water, it looks great at first, then when I get away from it, the water has lines that flash on the surface, sometimes the whole surface flashes in and out. Have checked everything for an answer, even tried the real water and real fish mods, with no change. I exit the game, restart the computer and load and play with the same results. Looks good at first, then degenerates into snowy textures and flashing lines and surfaces on water. Every time I restart the computer and then start the game it looks great, plays fine, but after entering the water or a building it starts with the snowy flickering textures, and water with flashing lines/surfaces.MB-P4C800E2.8 GB Pentium 4 overclocked to 3.09nVidia Geforce 6800 GT optimal overclock250 gb HDD160 gb HDDSB Prodigy ZS 2System defragged, unnecessary resources disabled, avg and spysweep disabled, etc.Thanks in advance for any help from anyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Tessera Posted February 14, 2007 Share Posted February 14, 2007 Every time I restart the computer and then start the game it looks great, plays fine, but after entering the water or a building it starts with the snowy flickering textures, and water with flashing lines/surfaces.MB-P4C800E2.8 GB Pentium 4 overclocked to 3.09nVidia Geforce 6800 GT optimal overclock250 gb HDD160 gb HDDSB Prodigy ZS 2System defragged, unnecessary resources disabled, avg and spysweep disabled, etc.Thanks in advance for any help from anyone. Turn off all of that unnecessary overclocking, before we even try to look at any other causes. Oblivion performs poorly on overclocked systems. That has been documented, by both Bethesda and nVidia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7morpheus7 Posted February 15, 2007 Author Share Posted February 15, 2007 Every time I restart the computer and then start the game it looks great, plays fine, but after entering the water or a building it starts with the snowy flickering textures, and water with flashing lines/surfaces.MB-P4C800E2.8 GB Pentium 4 overclocked to 3.09nVidia Geforce 6800 GT optimal overclock250 gb HDD160 gb HDDSB Prodigy ZS 2System defragged, unnecessary resources disabled, avg and spysweep disabled, etc.Thanks in advance for any help from anyone. Turn off all of that unnecessary overclocking, before we even try to look at any other causes. Oblivion performs poorly on overclocked systems. That has been documented, by both Bethesda and nVidia. Tessera, thank you for the quick reply, I will try that and get back to you..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7morpheus7 Posted February 15, 2007 Author Share Posted February 15, 2007 Tessera, I disabled overclocking on the graphics card and promptly got pink water, I then re-enabled hdr and water effects to on. I had previously used a suggestion to set water effects to 0 in the oblivion.ini file, which I reset to 1, now everything works perfectly. Thank you very much for your suggestion about overclocking, it was the only thing that I hadn't done, and didn't even consider. Again, thank you for your assistance and I apologize for wasting your time for such an obvious solution. Tessera,Just to add another note, I was able to reset view grass distance to full, and it works beautifully. THanks again. "Sometimes the most obvious solution is right before our eyes, yet, we can never see it." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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