RatTech2099 Posted June 22, 2019 Share Posted June 22, 2019 I now have my Steam version of Oblivion running about as well as can be expected, but when I quit the game all eight processor cores in my dual Xeon gaming computer are running at 100% and the only way to stop them is to reboot my computer. After that everything runs nicely as it should until next time I play Oblivion on Steam.Checking in Resource Manager it showed Rundll32 was running 520 threads and I had five instances of the Steam Web Helper running. One Oblivion32 thread was still running. Both quad core processors were were starting to get hotter than I like them to be as well. This is a crazy situation and plainly something very wrong is going on with Steam. Fortunately I should have some replacements for my unfortunately lost Oblivion discs delivered next week and I'll be flagging away this whole digital download lark. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AugustaCalidia Posted June 22, 2019 Share Posted June 22, 2019 (edited) There are a number of settings that can be turned off in Steam. What happens if you turn off screen overlay? (I know that OBSE requires the overlay to be turned on, but it might not hurt to see what happens.) What about administrative privileges. Do those need to be looked at? As for me, my gaming computer (Intel third generation i5) runs Steam Oblivion without any of the problems you're having and without need of adjustments to Steam settings. I know this information doesn't help you, but at least you know that Steam Oblivion can be run without these problems. EDIT. Out of curiosity, I disabled the Steam overlay and launched Oblivion. Everything worked, including OBSE. Disregard my earlier claim about OBSE and the Steam overlay. Edited June 22, 2019 by Augusta Calidia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RatTech2099 Posted June 23, 2019 Author Share Posted June 23, 2019 I'll give those things a try Augusta and see if there's any improvement. It's such a stupid situation since I can run much more modern resource intensive games on my computer and see no more than 40% load across all eight processor cores at the very most. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olnorton Posted June 23, 2019 Share Posted June 23, 2019 I'll give those things a try Augusta and see if there's any improvement. It's such a stupid situation since I can run much more modern resource intensive games on my computer and see no more than 40% load across all eight processor cores at the very most.If you are still on Windows 7, you should read this post on GOG. https://www.gog.com/forum/general/old_games_not_launching_and_eating_100_of_the_cpu_on_windows_7/post1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RatTech2099 Posted June 23, 2019 Author Share Posted June 23, 2019 Brilliant, - thankyou. In resource manager I had noticed that reference to the dead Microsoft server, but hadn't clicked as to what was going on because I didn't know the server was dead. That link or those instructions needs to go into a sticky post since I'm sure I'm not the only old school gamer who is running Win 7 and having problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AugustaCalidia Posted June 23, 2019 Share Posted June 23, 2019 Since you're on Windows 7, it looks like olnorton has found the solution for you. Please let us know if this solution works for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RatTech2099 Posted June 23, 2019 Author Share Posted June 23, 2019 Well I carefully followed the instructions for editing the registry and it did nothing. So I then edited the Group Local Policy and that did nothing either. I can turn off the process causing the CPU thrashing in Resource Manager, but as soon as I try starting Oblivion again it all starts up again.GameUXLegacyGDFs.dll and gameux.dll in the Windows system32 folder seem to be the culprits. There's quite a bit of information on the internet about this and it seems that Microsoft is gathering information about the games people play. From what I've read disabling and turning things off doesn't work since Microsoft's sneaky software takes no notice of such things.Apparently deleting the .dlls does work, but gameux.dll will eventually reappear again due to yet more Microsoft trickery. Windows 7 has a Games folder which can be found if you press Start->All Programs and sure enough all my Oblivion installs are referenced in there. This is what the Group Local Policy editor can disable to stop access to Microsoft's servers, but when I tried it it did no good and I was doing it with my administrator hat on too. I shall now try casting the rogue .dlls into the hideous Pit of Deletion and hopefully that will fix my problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RatTech2099 Posted June 23, 2019 Author Share Posted June 23, 2019 As it happens I couldn't delete those .dlls because the computer refinisher I purchased my old monster of a dual processor Xeon workstation from had locked down the operating system so I couldn't do anything to it even with administrator permissions. So I decided that having come this far I'd delete the GameUX entries in the registry; - and it seems to be working amazingly enough. This whole mess seems to have happened after a recent Windows update because even old backup folders for past Oblivion installs from other computers I've owned that can't actually be run as a game anymore had been included in the GameUX registry folder. Stupid Microsoft and their secret plots. Just so long as everything keeps working I'll be happy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AugustaCalidia Posted June 23, 2019 Share Posted June 23, 2019 What an amazing effort! I would have just gone off somewhere and cried, but you stuck it out. :thumbsup: I'm so glad things have worked out OK for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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