sigh broken oblivion

[Dreamer102]

Gregathit, Thank you soooo much man.

I copied my data folder over to another drive and uninstalled oblivion, then reinstalled in my alternate game folder.

Patched up the new install with shivering isles and the official patches and installed all of my utilities (OBMM, OBSE, BOSS, TES-CS, etc...) and went to start the game.

*CRASH*

I couldn't figure out for the life of me what I was doing wrong, but I didn't want to copy over the data folder before I figured it out. So I uninstalled the game again and checked things out. All looked fine so I did the install process again and....

*CRASH*

I was totally confused but then I remembered waaaaay back when I upgraded my video card and upgraded to win-7 the same day. Oblivion wouldn't work because the info in my Oblivion.ini didn't match up with what was needed for the new card and os.

Once again, it turns out it left a bunch of outdated crap in my "My Games" folder. I deleted that stuff and VOILA!

The game runs better than it has in years!

No stuttering, no video errors, no crashing, all mods functioning properly.

I didn't realize it until about 2 hours in that I didn't have to use the 4gb patch or turn off my antivirus or use gamecompanion and Gamebooster to play smoothly!!

Everything FINALLY works on high settings with the latest ATI drivers!!!

*happy dance*

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*happy dance*

Thank God.

I guess the problem was mostly me. I should have reinstalled instead of reimaging from an archived backup waaaaay back when I upgraded to win-7. I am guessing that the oblivion.ini and oblivion files were configured to work with my old video card and not the new one and were giving the same crappy performance of the old card.

I had thought that these things would instantly update and upgrade.

I guess I should go ahead and uninstall/reinstall my other legacy games to see what performance upgrades I get.

Now that I don't have to upgrade my computer for christmas I can work on putting a system in my car and getting that new crossbow I had my eyes on.

Thanks again man!!

[Slammer64]

Has anyone had any problems with the new Catalyst 11.12 drivers, I'm still running 11.10?

[Dreamer102]

Has anyone had any problems with the new Catalyst 11.12 drivers' date=' I'm still running 11.10?

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They now work good for me after deleting the last vestiges of the old drivers.

[Slammer64]

Thanks Dreamer102, I need to upgrade then.

[Dreamer102]

Just make sure you use an "ATI Driver Cleaner" to COMPLETELY remove the old drivers from your computer before you install the 11.11 or 11.12 drivers!

I didn't do that the first go around and it completely messed up my gaming experience. The competing drivers and modules caused any game I played to crash after 3-5 minutes.

Only after completely cleaning my computer of ALL my display drivers and cleaning it again in safe mode, then loading the ATI 11.11 drivers after rebooting was I able to see the gains that the new drivers gave.

Reinstalling the main portion of Oblivion, as noted in my posts above, fixed the rest of my issues.