Really annoying graphical issue.

[SpacePigeonTV]

I installed Oblivion on my new computer a few weeks ago (maybe a month). I modded the game heavily and played the game. Now after 14 hours of playtime suddenly I start to see black square box shadows in the distant and they fly away when I get close. Also, I do also see some black lines in distant and over the bridge from Imperial City to the farm thing (doesn't remember its name).

Most likely, this seemed to be a AA problem (because of the black lines). I tried to disable all AA I could find to disable. I use HDR and CCC's AA (Wide Tent 8x) to get AA ingame. I turned this to application settings (with is no AA). This didn't change anything. So then I disabled all the shadow settings in Oblivion and all the annoying shadows disappeared but still there was something weird about the places they used to be (like a black fake shadow or something).

 

I got some screenshots:

 

At this picture, take a look at the ground in the town.

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f267/naithsaber/ScreenShot0.jpg

 

Here you'll see the "escaping shadows up the hill almost where the cursor is.

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f267/naithsaber/ScreenShot1.jpg

 

The "escaping" shadows on the little island.

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f267/naithsaber/ScreenShot2.jpg

 

The shadows escaped when I went close to them. They also kinda jump when I jump to. (Might be because of HDR?)

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f267/naithsaber/ScreenShot3.jpg

 

My rig:

ATi 5970 (default clock, 55% fan speed dunno why actaully)

i7 930 (default clock)

6 GB DDR3 1333mhz RAM

HDD Western Digital BLACK 1TB

Win7

Noctua DH14

asus p6t deluxe v2

 

MY mods:

 

Oblivion.esm

Francesco's Leveled Creatures-Items Mod.esm

Francesco's Optional New Items Add-On.esm

Francesco's Optional New Creatures Add-On.esm

Mart's Monster Mod.esm

TamrielTravellers.esm

Better Cities Resources.esm

Unofficial Oblivion Patch.esp

UOP Vampire Aging & Face Fix.esp

Oblivion Citadel Door Fix.esp

DLCShiveringIsles.esp

Oblivion Vwalk UOS.esp

DLCShiveringIsles Vwalk UOS.esp

DLCShiveringIsles Vwalk DG_DS UOS.esp

Better Cities .esp

Natural_Weather_HDR_by_Max_Tael.esp

Natural_Habitat_by_Max_Tael.esp

Natural_Water_by_Max_Tael.esp

WindowLightingSystem.esp

Inebriation.esp

DLCHorseArmor.esp

DLCOrrery.esp

DLCOrrery Vwalk.esp

DLCVileLair.esp

DLCMehrunesRazor.esp

DLCMehrunesRazor Vwalk.esp

DLCSpellTomes.esp

DLCThievesDen.esp

DLCThievesDen Vwalk.esp

Francesco's More Wilderness Life.esp

Francesco's Optional Chance of Stronger Bosses.esp

Francesco's Optional Dungeon Chest Loot.esp

Francesco's Optional Dungeon Chest Locks.esp

Francesco's Optional Leveled Guards.esp

Francesco's Optional House Chest Loot.esp

Francesco's Optional New Adventurers.esp

Francesco's Optional Vendor Tweaks.esp

Francesco's Optional Chance of More Enemies.esp

Francesco's Optional Leveled Quests.esp

Francesco's Optional Leveled Arena.esp

Mart's Monster Mod for Fran.esp

Mart's Monster Mod - Additional Enemy NPC Vars.esp

Mart's Monster Mod - Diverse Creature Skins.esp

Mart's Monster Mod - Looting NPCs & Creatures.esp

Mart's Monster Mod - Durability & Damage.esp

Mart's Monster Mod - Fran's leveled quests.esp

Mart's Monster Mod - Less Bone Loot.esp

Mart's Monster Mod - Less Rats.esp

Mart's Monster Mod - Safer Roads.esp

Mart's Monster Mod - No Blood.esp

Mart's Monster Mod - Vindasel.esp

Mart's Monster Mod - Foxes.esp

Mart's Monster Mod - More Wilderness Life No Gates.esp

Mart's Monster Mod - City Defences.esp

Mart's Monster Mod - Extra Wounding.esp

Mart's Monster Mod - Friendlier Factions MMM+Fran.esp

TamrielTravellerAdvscript.esp

TamrielTravellers4MMM.esp

Travellers4MMMHostileFactions.esp

TamrielTravellersItemsUnscaled.esp

ShiveringIsleTravellersFriendlyFactions4MMM.esp

DLCFrostcrag.esp

DLCFrostcrag Vwalk.esp

Knights.esp

Knights Vwalk.esp

xuldarkforest.esp

xulStendarrValley.esp

xulTheHeath.esp

XulEntiusGorge.esp

xulFallenleafEverglade.esp

xulColovianHighlands_EV.esp

xulChorrolHinterland.esp

xulBeachesOfCyrodiilLostCoast.esp

xulBravilBarrowfields.esp

xulLushWoodlands.esp

xulAncientYews.esp

xulAncientRedwoods.esp

xulCloudtopMountains.esp

xulArriusCreek.esp

xulPatch_AY_AC.esp

xulRollingHills_EV.esp

xulPantherRiver.esp

xulRiverEthe.esp

xulBrenaRiverRavine.esp

xulImperialIsle.esp

xulBlackwoodForest.esp

xulCheydinhalFalls.esp

xulAspenWood.esp

xulSkingradOutskirts.esp

xulSnowdale.esp

xulCliffsOfAnvil.esp

Natural_Vegetation_by_Max_Tael.esp

Improved Fires and Flames - Increased Sound.esp

ScriptIcon_Replacer.esp

Alternative Start by Robert Evrae.esp

RealisticForceHigh.esp

MidasSpells.esp

EnchantmentRestore.esp

EnchantmentRestore_Wells.esp

RenGuardOverhaul.esp

Archery Rebalance.esp

Duke Patricks - Actors Can Miss Now.esp

_Ren_BeautyPack_onlyhairs.esp

Beautiful People.esp

eyja.esp

eyja Vwalk.esp

Better Cities Full.esp

Better Imperial City.esp

Better Cities Full FPS Patch.esp

Better Imperial City FPS Patch.esp

Francesco's 10 days respawn time - 1-20 day lenght rescale.esp

Better Conjuration.esp

Note to Self.esp

 

I also do have some texture mod called Really Textured Normals.

 

 

Could someone please help me solve this? I can't find anything on google!

Edited May 5, 2011 by Naith

[SpacePigeonTV]

Turns out this problem solved when I disabled HDR. Anybody knows why? Why did this suddenly happen? I'm gonna try to disable Natural Weather and test again. But I can't really play with HDR disabled, it looked horrible. I might try to disable different stuff.

 

EDIT: Might be because of a windows update. Anyways, I'm reinstalling the game now. I believe (and hope) there is some corrupted files that made this happen.

Edited May 6, 2011 by Naith

[Jodi79]

I have ati 4870, and i had a problem with vwd too(worse then your really, i saw the distant thing (castle, rock etc.) completely black concerning my visual angle..). I solve this disabling AA.

 

In variuos forum(but it's dated) i read that there was a bug in the series that prevent AA and HDR to work together.. they said that there were no patch about it because it concern the hardware indeed and how it work.

I tried some way disabling AA on Oblivion setting and enabling it in the Video Card setting and some other trick i found around, but nothing work.

 

May be your card have the same problem. I don't know if someone find a way to solve it... i don't miss AA, graphic quality is good even so..if you find a patch make me know here

[SpacePigeonTV]

I managed to fix this by reinstalling the game. I don't really know why but it worked :D