Screen Randomly goes black (seems to be only indoors)

[thomasv333]

Vista (32 bit or 64 bit) has no problems running Oblivion so you heard wrong.

 

Cheers.

 

Oooohh, opps, thanks for the info, I don't like giving bad advice, thanks for setting me straight.

 

 

 

 

As for all the discussion about video problems I have a couple of tips that worked miracles for me.

 

Basic system specs, GFX Card: NVIDIA 8800 GTS 512, 3Gigs RAM (4Gig dual DDR-800 installed, 3Gig XP32 limitation), AMD Athelon 64 x2 Dual Core 6000+, RAID1 500Gig HDD 3Gig/s, Sound blaster X-Fi Fata1ty Pro.

 

Ok my game used to crash about every 5-15minutes and was VERY VERY laggy outdoors and I thought WTF my system should be able to handle this game pretty well so whats the problem. Well then I opened up the NVIDIA control panel and started changing settings. I probably went through about 20 different hardware configurations before I got a feel for what everything was doing but what I discovered is that if I started with the default settings and then changed everything that had a better performance comment to the better performance option available my game runs great. I litterally have a CTD or lockup about every 2hours of game play now, way better than every 5-15min.

 

Attached is a screen shot of my hardware settings.

[Michlo]

Vista (32 bit or 64 bit) has no problems running Oblivion so you heard wrong.

 

Cheers.

 

Oooohh, opps, thanks for the info, I don't like giving bad advise, thanks for setting me straight.

 

 

 

 

As for all the discussion about video problems I have a couple of tips that worked miracles for me.

 

Basic system specs, GFX Card: NVIDIA 8800 GTS 512, 3Gigs RAM (4Gig dual DDR-800 installed, 3Gig XP32 limitation), AMD Athelon 64 x2 Dual Core 6000+, RAID1 500Gig HDD 3Gig/s, Sound blaster X-Fi Fata1ty Pro.

 

Ok my game used to crash about every 5-15minutes and was VERY VERY laggy outdoors and I thought WTF my system should be able to handle this game pretty well so whats the problem. Well then I opened up th NVIDIA control panel and started changing settings. I probably went through about 20 different hardware configurations before I got a feel for what everything was doing but what I discovered is that if I started with the default settings and then changed everything that had a better performance comment to the better performance option available my game runs great. I litterally have a CTD or lockup about every 2hours of game play now, way better than every 5-15min.

 

Attached is a screen shot of my hardware settings.

 

A kudo to you for such a decent reply and the help you're giving. :)

 

Cheers.

 

PS - I can't resist - it is "advice". :P Microsoft's spell checker has it wrong. You have given advice, you are advising someone. :)

[Varus Torvyn]

I've got HDR on, a nVidia 7800 GTX, and the nVidia Black Screen Fix loaded in (even though the code was merged into all of Kivan's Unofficial Patches). I'm running 175.19 with XP SP3.

 

There are two things you can do that might help. First, move the nVidia Black Screen Fix mod as far down in the load-order as possible, so it will take precedence over mods that change interior cells.

 

Second thing is you can run Wrye Bash's nVidia Fog Fix on mods.

 

I helped out chakka64 on his black screen problem a while back. I provided him with links for FCOM Helper, all of Kivan's patches, OBMM, and Wrye Bash. Maybe some of what we discussed might help.

If you would like to check the topic out, click here: nVidia Black Screen plus links