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Vista makes Oblivion crash


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11-May-2008, 07:47 PM #1
Vista makes Oblivion crash
Or, at least that's what it seems like.

I'm experimenting with nHancer, and have a long list of mods installed. The game won't run well in windowed (which I fully expect, what with Aero doing it's thing along with Oblivion displaying all sorts of HDR goodness), but it seems to run fine in full screen. Before it can finish loading my game, though, Vista seems to have decided that the game has crashed.

As for my compy's hardware...

Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.13GHz
6GB DDR2 RAM
512MB XFX 8800GT
Running Windows Vista 64-bit Ultimate

The game tends to load the most important things at once, or so it seems - for like 12 seconds or so it'll hang at one part of the loading process, and shoot it's way through the rest. Vista seems to force a crash right as this is happening.

Any suggestions on stopping Vista from doing this?

Thanks,

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11-May-2008, 08:04 PM #2
Did you try use the compatiblity mode, updated drivers?
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11-May-2008, 08:08 PM #3
Thanks for the fast reply.

I've got the most updated drivers that I can get. I haven't tried compatibility mode, but I'd think that would give a big performance hit (that always happened when I used compatibility mode in XP).
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