Music in Oblivion Causes Insane Lag

[DarkRemnant]

So I installed Oblivion without any mods and opened the game. The first thing that bothered me was the main menu music did not play but the sounds were working. When I click new game and go to the Character Creation screen the games FPS gets stuck at 1. Specs are not the issue for me and I installed the latest driver for Realtek Audio.

 

I went into the ini and changed bDSoundHWAcceleration to 0 and had the same result. I then changed bMusicEnabled to 0 and the game runs fine. I searched around the internet and came across a solution that required InstalledCodec. Did as instructed, disabled all codecs that did not have Microsoft or Fraunhofer in the name and nothing has changed.

I also tried going to the AC3Filter Config and attempted to check Use Wave Out by default under the Default audio renderer tab from another solution online but it cant be selected for some reason. Another post said to use Hardware acceleration in DxDialog but I do not see it anywhere. I also Reinstalled the game multiple times and deleting the oblivion ini directory folder all together does the same thing. I also checked the integrity of the game files and the same results.

 

I really do not know what else to do and this whole process has been very frustrating. I can play the game without music but I really do not want to do that because I enjoy the soundtrack. Help would be greatly appreciated. :confused:

Here's my specs
i7-6700k 4.0GHz
Ram: 24GB
64 bit
Nvidia Geforce GTX 1070
Windows 10

[Selene310187]

Maybe your codecs got corrupted. So try to reinstall them with a codec pack (e.g. K-Lite) for your OS. If you have FFDShow installed, make sure that Oblivion is ignored by this codec.

 

Yesterday, I had a similar problem. I solved it by installing Realtek HD 2.82 over the Realtek driver which came with Windows. But I also had this problem some years ago and reinstalling the codec pack was the solution.

 

I found another hints:

The game uses mp3 sound and decodes it using the codecs you have installed, so check those. Probably LAV is set to play mp3 on your system instead of the built-in Fraunhofer codec. LAV produces the exact symptoms you describe. (Might be another codec too, whatever you're using for mp3.)

 

source: https://steamcommunity.com/app/22330/discussions/0/610575007222381301/#c611701360818432889

 

I think I have managed to fix my problem. Apparently it was Realtek's 3D soundback tool which caused all the trouble. After I disabled Oblivion profile in the app the game started working again. Thank you for all your help.

 

source: https://steamcommunity.com/app/22330/discussions/0/610575007222381301/#c611702631217073870

[iorek100]

I had major lag on various game events (including kills) which I worked out was music related. Installing k-lite codec pack sorted it for me