Oblivion Crashing

[johneva916]

Aup

I have just got Oblivion but it keeps crashing after a few mins of playing.

I have downloaded a patch for the game no joy.

I have set video card to all standard setting no joy and even lowered the auto setting in the game from ultra high to just high.

I play Battlefield 2 on all its highest settings with AA and AF on max settings no probs same with Need for Speed Most Wanted.

Nothing has made it better, I have had an error saying it was cos of a problem with the graphics card driver.

Just wondering has anybody had the same problem?

Thanx John

[PCgeek]

Have you tried another graphics card driver?

[johneva916]

Na I dont know wether to try an older one but that just seems wrong I am using the latest 6.7.

I have tryed uninstalling the whole of the catalyst control center and driver and reinstalling again but no joy.

[Qbical]

good luck man, thats how mine was forever and then it just started working normally one day. i reformatted, reinstalled and removed any video card overclocking i had on and it seemed to help me. have u done any reg. tweaks to your comp lately?

[johneva916]

Na no reg tweeks lateyly but the game is brnd new today so I have only just found I have a problem somewhere. :(

I have now found that Need for Speed most wanted is also crashing now too only now and then though not like Oblivion which does it within a minute of playing.

Yeah tryed it with no overclocking still have the same problem. Also with setting all down low still the same problem. :(

I am starting to understand why people moan about ATI drivers so much now.

[johneva916]

Well I found out what was causing it.

It was my system overclock once I removed it and put my settings to defaut it works fine, I managed to get it upto 4.0Ghz and it still work fine in the end.

Strange though as it kept saying it was a video driver error and I was ably to run 2 instances of prime 95 all night at the 4.4Ghz overclock so I thought it was stable enough.

Oh well at least I got the game working and it only means dropping to 4.0Ghz which I can live with. As expected it is running video card settings all on max and ingame settings all on max at a res 1280x1024 fine now.

[Qbical]

it prob had more to do with the memory somehow. i know oblivion beats your ram up pretty bad and now that i think about it, OCing my mem was my prob in the first place when i first got the game and it kept crashing. enjoy Oblivion because it is pretty sweet ass sweet and let me tell u leveling up from like 3-6 seemed like it took forever. lol