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    oblivion freeze?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by phisix, Sep 6, 2007.

  1. phisix

    phisix Notebook Enthusiast

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    errrr i just got oblivion and tried playing it. It was running smooth for about 5-1 minutes before the game would freeze. I dont believe the game crashes but it is more like i cant move the cursor and the clicks do nothing. The only way that i can get out of the game is to ctrl alt del. Anyone hav a solution to this?

    im running ona dell vostro 1500, 8600, 2.0 ghz, 2gb ram
     
    phisix, Sep 6, 2007
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  2. Lithus

    Lithus NBR Janitor

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    Get the latest patches for the game and drivers for your video card.
     
    Lithus, Sep 6, 2007
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    dragooon93 Notebook Consultant

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    Same happened to me, every so often, mostly when i alt-tabbed to the desktop i didn't have the latest patch, but my driver was updated.
     
    dragooon93, Sep 6, 2007
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  4. Lithus

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    Yeah, alt-tab will definately kill Oblivion. No driver's going to fix that.
     
    Lithus, Sep 6, 2007
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  5. phisix

    phisix Notebook Enthusiast

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    um... still getting this problem after patching

    my oblivion version is 1.2.0416 and my video driver is 6.14.11.6218
     
    phisix, Sep 7, 2007
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    try defragging your harddrive
     
    DurablePants, Sep 7, 2007
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    I had a similar problem when I played.
    I had the latest drivers for my GPU and the latest patch for Oblivion.

    From the research I did, I read that Oblivion uses codecs to run music and other things (or something like that - I forget). And that having certain codecs installed on your notebook would make it crash. I formatted my notebook and tried Oblivion after that. I still crashed once and awhile, it really reduced it (I used to crash every 10-15 minutes, after the format it happened after a few hours sometimes never).
    I know this isn't a good fix and that you probably don't want to format your notebook. But if you can, uninstall all your codecs and try it.

    Defragging your HDD is also a good idea. And get the latest drivers if you don't have them yet.
     
    Thibault, Sep 7, 2007
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  8. phisix

    phisix Notebook Enthusiast

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    hm...i defragged my hd and im still getting the freeze just as frequent...

    i uninstalled cccp and divx codecs that i had and the problem is still there...

    any other solutions?
     
    phisix, Sep 7, 2007
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    ronkotus, Sep 8, 2007
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