Diagonose my Technical Error.

[Triratna]

Anyone ever experience this Technical error symptoms on the game?

 

First, it began with a hiccups. I'm losing frame rates when entering cells or any dungeon interior, saves NPC houses. (it was fine outside the cells).

Second, after a few moment like 15 minutes..The game control 'mouse & keyboard' cease to function. (As if Alt+tab was repeatedly hit). i didn't even touch the alt keys. The keyboard & mouse works fine alright outside the game program. I used Ctrl+alt+del to close the game and it's been like 5 times in a row.. and i'm worry.

 

i wonder what went wrong, Any advise is welcome. Many thx inadvance

[gregathit]

When you ctrl+alt+del out of the game check your processes tab in the task manager to see what all is sucking your memory\cpu down (make sure you hit the show all processes from all users button at the bottom. Could be some damn update or something. Plus it would be informative to see how much oblivion is using.

[Slammer64]

You might have an overheating video card as well Triratna, but gregathit is most likely right, you probably have a background process running, like an anti-virus.

[Uriel]

...process running, like an anti-virus.

Or the virus.

Btw, it's hard to tell the difference between them. They both suck resources, both hard to delete, both are hiding from everything and both re able to cause terrible synergy with other softwares.

 

Second, after a few moment like 15 minutes..The game control 'mouse & keyboard' cease to function.

Wait, alt-tabbing are not just disabling controls. The game completely hangs, nothing moves. You only can call the console with "~"(and that's VERY strange) but can't even write a command.

Is it the same in your case? Or is your kb&mice being disabled while things continue to move in Oblivion?

 

edit: can you provide infos on your hardware?

[Triratna]

Using everest home PC summarizer.

 

 

--------[ Summary ]-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

Computer:

Operating System

Microsoft Windows XP Professional

OS Service Pack

Service Pack 3

DirectX 4.09.00.0904 (DirectX 9.0c)

 

Motherboard:

CPU Type Intel Pentium III Xeon, 2800 MHz (8 x 350)

Motherboard Name Unknown

Motherboard Chipset Unknown

System Memory 3072 MB

BIOS Type

AMI (09/18/08)

Communication Port Communications Port (COM1)

Communication Port

ECP Printer Port (LPT1)

 

Display:

Video Adapter

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT (512 MB)

Monitor

Plug and Play Monitor [NoDB] (L460C291404A)

 

Multimedia:

Audio Adapter

Intel 82801GB ICH7 - High Definition Audio Controller [A-1]

 

Storage:

IDE Controller

Intel® 82801G (ICH7 Family) Ultra ATA Storage Controllers - 27DF

IDE Controller

Intel® 82801GB/GR/GH (ICH7 Family) Serial ATA Storage Controller - 27C0

SCSI/RAID Controller

AJS3H21B IDE Controller

Disk Drive ST3250310AS (232 GB, IDE)

Disk Drive

StoreJet Transcend USB Device (149 GB, USB)

Disk Drive

Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex USB Device (465 GB, USB)

Optical Drive

EDMLOD 6Z4123W5A705 SCSI CdRom Device

Optical Drive

PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-110D (DVD+R9:8x, DVD-R9:8x, DVD+RW:16x/8x, DVD-RW:16x/6x, DVD-RAM:5x, DVD-ROM:16x, CD:40x/32x/40x DVD+RW/DVD-RW/DVD-RAM)

SMART Hard Disks Status OK

 

Partitions:

C: (NTFS)

63773 MB (10791 MB free)

D: (NTFS)

174698 MB (8796 MB free)

F: (NTFS)

152625 MB (724 MB free)

H: (NTFS)

476937 MB (447223 MB free)

Total Size

847.7 GB (456.6 GB free)

 

Input:

Keyboard

Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard

Keyboard

Virtual Keyboard

Mouse HID-compliant mouse

Mouse

Wacom Mouse

Mouse

Wacom Mouse Monitor

 

Network:

Network Adapter

Realtek RTL8168C(P)/8111C(P) PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC (192.168.1.2)

 

Peripherals:

Printer

Microsoft Office Document Image Writer

Printer

Microsoft XPS Document Writer

USB1 Controller

Intel 82801GB ICH7 - USB Universal Host Controller [A-1]

USB1 Controller

Intel 82801GB ICH7 - USB Universal Host Controller [A-1]

USB1 Controller

Intel 82801GB ICH7 - USB Universal Host Controller [A-1]

USB1 Controller

Intel 82801GB ICH7 - USB Universal Host Controller [A-1]

USB2 Controller

Intel 82801GB ICH7 - Enhanced USB2 Controller [A-1]

USB Device

USB Human Interface Device

USB Device

USB Human Interface Device

USB Device

USB Mass Storage Device

USB Device

USB Mass Storage Device

 

Problems & Suggestions:

 

Problem

Disk free space is only 5% on drive D:.

Problem

Disk free space is only 0% on drive F:.

 

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Whoops.. looks like i'm running out of hardisk spaces, I hope that's the main reason of all the hiccup. But why only on dungeon cells? It was fine on tamriel overworld..

 

I'm deleting all my porn and cross fingers it'll fix out the troubles. BRB.

[Triratna]

LOL, It was a Low hard disk memory. After Cleaning up 30 Gigabytes o' junk. The oblivion began to load slowly but after it's done loading the game run smoothly without losing any frame/sec.

 

Well. Now we all know a low hard disk spaces could shut down game control & kill video performance.

 

Thanks guys, It's solved and i owe you all big time.

[gregathit]

Windows requires a big chunk of room to manuvere and if it doesn't have it....well know you know!

 

Another thing to do to improve speed it to regularly defrag your hard drives!

 

 

.....besides porn demands and deserves its very own hard drive! LOL

[Slammer64]

Yeah, Windows is notorious for doing flaky things once the actual free disk space gets below a certain minimum. You might try using contig on your Oblivion directory too.