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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion |OT|
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I'm having issues with loading as well, on the 360 version. I hold 'A' on every boot-up to clear the cache (did someone at Bethesda confirm that works?). Nothing huge, but it just seems like the LOD is getting worse and worse, it stops to load when I toggle tabs in the menu, the indoor/outdoor transitions are taking a long time (4-5 messages fly by).
Is this normal? My HDD is loud as hell and I'm getting worried.
Is this normal? My HDD is loud as hell and I'm getting worried.
GhaleonEB said:
Don't be worried. I get this also, clear my cache and then things slow down a bit becuase they're being re-cached (disk writes) and then everything looks OK again. Hopefully this will be addressed in the upcoming patch. Morrowwind had all kinds of problems that couldn't be fixed until the GOTY edition. Thank god for Live enabled games.
Thanks.Sysgen said:
On a different note: I'm finding it very hard to have a short play session of this game. It's seriously dangerous! I'm sitting down for a 30 minute session, and spending an hour and a half without even leaving town to do what I inteded to do originally. 0_o
At this rate I'm going to buy my next game this fall.
Kung Fu Jedi
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GhaleonEB said:
I'm with you. I don't even attempt to play unless I have at least an hours worth of free time. And that hour can easily turn into two or three before I know it. I haven't touched another game since Oblivion came out, except for the odd demo here and there.
BlueTsunami
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bishoptl said:Need some links for LOD and Texture upgrades - any ideas?
This thread is farking huge.
Theres this one
http://www.tessource.net/files/file.php?id=2182
It replaces the far off textures with 2048x2048 res textures (the normal res being 1024x1024). Its supposed to make it look much better.
I just have to say this is one of the best looking, most enthralling games I have ever played.
After I became
After I finish that, I want to start over and create an Illusionist... and maybe take over the mage guild. Or make a holy paladin focusing more on healing and blocking! What an epic game.
Or I could just sit and rake a bench.
After I became
the Listener for the Dark Brotherhood, I must admit I can't bring myself to do lowly "fetch me" whatever quests. I'm just too important now. (At least the game and certain NPC's make me feel that way! How cool is that?!)
Now it seems like a perfect time to pick up the main quest... enter Oblivion and close the gates. It's almost like they needed to hire an assassin... no, the assassin... to kill off the demon lords and save the world.
Now it seems like a perfect time to pick up the main quest... enter Oblivion and close the gates. It's almost like they needed to hire an assassin... no, the assassin... to kill off the demon lords and save the world.
After I finish that, I want to start over and create an Illusionist... and maybe take over the mage guild. Or make a holy paladin focusing more on healing and blocking! What an epic game.
Or I could just sit and rake a bench.
bishoptl said:Need some links for LOD and Texture upgrades - any ideas?
This thread is farking huge.
If you have a vid card with 256mb of vid RAM, you'll be able to run these 4 re-texture packs SWIMMINGLY, with pretty much no performance hit.
Jarrod's Texture Replacement Mod (he did amazing things in Morrowind too)
http://www.tescreens.be/oblivionmodwiki/index.php/Jarrod's_Texture_Mod
Landscape LOD Texture Replacement Mod (Central Regions)
http://www.tescreens.be/oblivionmodwiki/index.php/Landscape_LOD_Texture_Replacement
Landscape LOD Texture Replacement Mod (Border Regions)
http://www.tescreens.be/oblivionmodwiki/index.php/Landscape_LOD_Texture_Replacement_(Border_Regions)
Landscape LOD NormalMap Fix Mod
http://www.tescreens.be/oblivionmodwiki/index.php/Landscape_LOD_NormalMap_Fix
Between these 4, you'll have retextured and/or fixed a large portion of both the close-up and distant texture maps.
Also, though I haven't tried it yet, Timeslip (of Morrowind fame) got "fake" HDR running on SM2.0 vid cards. The 2.0 shader is also tweakable.
http://www.tescreens.be/oblivionmodwiki/index.php/Fake_HDR_lighting
pilonv1 said:I am still looking for the standard Soul Trap spell, I've got Greater and Superior and I've checked all the mage guilds. Sadly my Mysticism is still in the 30's so I cannot use them
I just bought it off some guy (Mages guild) in Chorrol. Remember that a lot of merchants only sell stuff at certain times.
Confidence Man
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Anyone familiar with the construction set? I've got this shop built but the NPC merchant spawns in the void instead of where I place him. I can see him with a detect life enchantment way up through the ceiling.
I think I've run into a glitch on the Thieves Guild quest line...
I'm having "a stranger" forge a letter for me and he says 'come back in 24 hours'... well i wait 24 hours he still says not ready, i sleep another 24 hours still not ready... i waited a total of a week and he's still not ready. I have 500+ gold on my character and the quest is telling me to go straight to him. WTF do I do? Am I screwed on the theives quest line?
I'm having "a stranger" forge a letter for me and he says 'come back in 24 hours'... well i wait 24 hours he still says not ready, i sleep another 24 hours still not ready... i waited a total of a week and he's still not ready. I have 500+ gold on my character and the quest is telling me to go straight to him. WTF do I do? Am I screwed on the theives quest line?
BlueTsunami
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Razoric said:I'm having "a stranger" forge a letter for me and he says 'come back in 24 hours'... well i wait 24 hours he still says not ready, i sleep another 24 hours still not ready... i waited a total of a week and he's still not ready. I have 500+ gold on my character and the quest is telling me to go straight to him. WTF do I do? Am I screwed on the theives quest line?
I also had this same problem...I ended up waiting about 4 days until it worked. In all honesty though, It just worked for no reason. He was up in the room and accepted my money. I would try waiting until around the same time you met him and then ask him. He'll give eventualy.
for some reason I have two of those DB blades that won't go away even though I finished the quest line. I have the 2 of the ones that you get for first joining, and the one you get when complete it. I can drop the "real" one, but the other two are quest items that can't be dropped. there's some glitch that happened when I tried to armor the blade that doubled it.
good thing they don't weigh anything.
good thing they don't weigh anything.
That's a known glitch. If you ask him about the letter before the 24 hour wait is up, he goes into a funk with the "stop bothering me" routine. To be safe, wait/sleep 25 hours before talking to him at all.Razoric said:I think I've run into a glitch on the Thieves Guild quest line...
I'm having "a stranger" forge a letter for me and he says 'come back in 24 hours'... well i wait 24 hours he still says not ready, i sleep another 24 hours still not ready... i waited a total of a week and he's still not ready. I have 500+ gold on my character and the quest is telling me to go straight to him. WTF do I do? Am I screwed on the theives quest line?
Damn, this game is big. It's like that scene in Roxanne (odd reference, I know, but it's what came to mind): "I knew it was going to be big...but I didn't know it was going to be...big!"
So I finally got a horse and decided to go into Imperial City for the first time, after messing around with random exploration. (Open quests: 16. Completed quests: 5.) I go from one of the cities on the side over to Imperial City, and find ~25 locations along the way. That doubles what I had found so far, in only two hours of riding around. I didn't even enter any of them, just ran by. I fear for my (scant) social life. 0_o
Imperial City is so big I literally freaked out. One section had over 20 places to go into...and I'm still exporing it. Jesus, Bethesda, you guys don't mess around.
A few questions:
Can you heal a horse? Wolves and raiders nearly killed the guy.
Is the damage done to your stats for going to jail permenant?
I ran into a guy fighting with wolves while I was. I started fighting wolves as well, and then he turned on me! So I smacked him up. Turns our he was a guard and he tried to arrest me. We're in the middle of nowhere, so I fight and take him down (and his friend). Since we're in the woods I figure it's all okay, but I'm arrested as soon as I get to Imperial City. All because a guard attacked me in the middle of the woods. And I didn't do anything wrong.
How do you get into the
So I finally got a horse and decided to go into Imperial City for the first time, after messing around with random exploration. (Open quests: 16. Completed quests: 5.) I go from one of the cities on the side over to Imperial City, and find ~25 locations along the way. That doubles what I had found so far, in only two hours of riding around. I didn't even enter any of them, just ran by. I fear for my (scant) social life. 0_o
Imperial City is so big I literally freaked out. One section had over 20 places to go into...and I'm still exporing it. Jesus, Bethesda, you guys don't mess around.
A few questions:
Can you heal a horse? Wolves and raiders nearly killed the guy.
Is the damage done to your stats for going to jail permenant?
I ran into a guy fighting with wolves while I was. I started fighting wolves as well, and then he turned on me! So I smacked him up. Turns our he was a guard and he tried to arrest me. We're in the middle of nowhere, so I fight and take him down (and his friend). Since we're in the woods I figure it's all okay, but I'm arrested as soon as I get to Imperial City. All because a guard attacked me in the middle of the woods. And I didn't do anything wrong.
How do you get into the
fort on the island on the east side of the lake?
Hehe, I kinda forgot to put my armor on after being released from prison and went into an Oblivion gate, cleared it out with just one enchanted dremora sword and upon closing it, realised that I was completely naked. Oddly, this realm was somehow too easy. Not more than a single foe in one room. It was wierd, I was going from tower to tower just to find that there was nobody there. All quiet in Oblivion. So in total I had to kill about 6-7 creatures before I got to the Sigil stone. How wierd is that?
Also, a naked Elf running around hell must be a fun sight too. Maybe that's why there was nobody there.
Oblivion kicks ass.
Also, a naked Elf running around hell must be a fun sight too. Maybe that's why there was nobody there.
Oblivion kicks ass.
Kung Fu Jedi
Member
I finally took out Umbra last night. I'm at level 23 now, and thought it was time to grab that sword of hers. I hit her was a nasty arrow on a sneak attack and then laid her out with some spells, although I admit when she got close, she was giving me plenty of damage.
Her sword is not bad, obviously, but I had already crafted another one that I like better, and also includes Soul Trap on it, but it needs to be recharged regularly. I think all my Soul Gems are full at the moment anyway, so I need to go searching for some more.
Oblivion is like a damn onion. Every time you peel away one layer, you find another just underneath.
Her sword is not bad, obviously, but I had already crafted another one that I like better, and also includes Soul Trap on it, but it needs to be recharged regularly. I think all my Soul Gems are full at the moment anyway, so I need to go searching for some more.
Oblivion is like a damn onion. Every time you peel away one layer, you find another just underneath.
Diseased Yak
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Hit level 41 last night. The game has become totally new to me. It was starting to get stagnant, since I had maxed armor, Umbra's sword, and killer jewlery and skills, so I decided to basically reinvent my character. He's now running around in nothing but a black robe and a hood and shooting arrows, which I had never done before. Marksmanship is sooo much fun! I set myself up with a Daedric bow that I put 20 dmg health on.
Nothing like being up in the mountians of western Cyrodiil and launching an ogre off the side with an arrow it never saw coming...
Nothing like being up in the mountians of western Cyrodiil and launching an ogre off the side with an arrow it never saw coming...
Speaking of Umbra, is there a quest involved with her? I killed her on accident and then reloaded as I wasn't sure she was part of a quest or something (there wasn't a crown on her talk cursor so I'm not sure). I killed her easily (I'm level 33) so I'm not concerned with having to do it again.
Kung Fu Jedi
Member
I believe there is a quest for Umbra, but I haven't come across it yet. It's funny that the only thing in her lair is a few rats and mudcrabs, yet ouside I had to take on a couple of highlevel daedras just to get in the door.:lol
Diseased Yak
Gold Member
Mashing said:
Yep,
one of the Daedra Shrines fairly near Umbra's lair has you go retrieve the sword. I guess it would be worth it if you didn't use Blades as a skill, cause the reward for handing over Umbra's sword is a +20 Personality mask. I'll probably do it someday just to see what the mask looks like
Kung Fu Jedi
Member
KarishBHR said:
Use magic and enchanted items on them. What are you doing?
Kung Fu Jedi
Member
BuG said:
What? You didn't want to read the whole thread? :lol Shame on you!
Kung Fu Jedi said:What? You didn't want to read the whole thread? :lol Shame on you!
I did. FOUR DAYS... AT WORK. I'm not sure I'll ever do that again.
Now I got to ask, anyone else having problems with the offical horse armor add-on? I bought it, downloaded it fine, entered the serial number I got from the e-mail confirmation they sent... then, nothing!
I tried re-installing, but the InstallShield freezes. Searched their forums and found out this is a known bug, but I really think it installed fine the first time... but I just don't have any indication as to where to BUY the stupid horse armor.
I'm sure somebody on GAF knows...
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