Oblivion: Patch Notes 1. UESPWiki. These notes originally appeared on www. Skyrim promotional material. Please Note: You will need to uninstall and reinstall Oblivion if you installed any of the Shivering Isles beta patches. Known Issues and Troubleshooting. To play Oblivion after uninstalling Shivering Isles, you must first uninstall and reinstall Oblivion to properly replace the needed files. Installation Issue. If you repeatedly uninstall and re- install Oblivion, certain systems will display an error message if you try to uninstall Oblivion again. To fix this, put your Oblivion disk in and run setup. This will clear up the error and you can uninstall and reinstall the game. Saved Games. Your saved games are located in your \My Documents\My Games\Oblivion directory. Prior to Installing the Game. Before attempting to install Oblivion, please verify that your computer meets system requirements. We also recommend that you prepare your hard drive for installation by running Scan. Disk and Disk Defragmenter prior to installation. These utilities are part of Windows. To launch these programs and optimize your hard disk drive. Open . Note that defragmenting your disk drive can take a long time. It's a good idea to start disk defragmenter and let it run overnight. ATI Crossfire. Performance on systems using ATI Crossfire will be reduced until ATI releases an updated driver with Oblivion listed as a Crossfire Compatible game. Error messages when launching Oblivion. This will appear as a missing dll error similar to . On the disk there is a folder named DXREDIST. Open the folder and run the DXSETUP. This will install the version of Direct. X required to run Oblivion. Unable to make new saves. If the Tab key is pressed while entering a name during character creation, a problem may occur when the game goes to write a save to the save location. This is because the name of the character is included in the name of the save file used in Windows.
This is most commonly a result of attempting to Alt- Tab out of the application during name entry. If this occurs, autosaves and quicksaves will continue to function correctly, but saves made through the menu will not. The issue will be fixed if the Tab is deleted when renaming the character before exiting the sewer at the end of the character generation. The following may also be of assistance if the character has progressed beyond character generation. The player name can be changed through the console by pressing the ` (tilde) key, and entering the following: player. Set. Actor. Full. Name . Press RETURN, and then exit the console by pressing the tilde again. Also, saves can be made through the console by pressing the ` (tilde) key, and entering the following: save filename (where filename = the name of the save that you would like to make). Bethesda has released a beta patch for the PC version of Shivering. The patches update to 1. How am I supposed to update Oblivion for my PC? Am I supposed to update in increments (like in World of Warcraft) or do I just download one big patch? Press RETURN, and then exit the console by pressing the tilde again. Input Problems. Keyboard input problems could be the result of a control peripheral. Editting the Oblivion. The Oblivion. ini file is located in the My Documents\My Games\Oblivion directory. Make sure the settings are saved. Note, changes to the Oblivion. Oblivion in running when the changes are made. Frequent Crashing possibly due to old system file. Some users may experience frequent crashing due to an older system file. These crashes may be attributed to the 'mpeg. Simply renaming the file to . Before running Oblivion: Press Ctr- Alt- Del to bring up the task manager. Go to the Processes Tab. Right click on any process starting with the letters HP and select End. Running Oblivion at this point may have this issue corrected. Note: The PC will need to be restarted to reinitialize printing or imaging. These icons are from a seperate video/audio decoder you may have installed in the past called . Simply moving the mouse over those icons will get rid of them after you stop playing Oblivion. Uninstalling FFDShow can fix this, but it is NOT necessary. You can follow the steps below to tell FFDShow not to handle sound for Oblivion. Instructions for disabling the FFDShow for Oblivion without fully removing it. Click Start. Click . If there is already something in that box, put a semi- colon ( ; ) after what's already there, and oblivion. Do NOT use spaces, since ffdshow will think that's part of the filename. A valid entry would be . Due to the variance in these game pads, it may be necessary to make a few changes to the Oblivion. My Documents\My Games\Oblivion. Below is a list of the settings that can be changed to make a Xbox 3. PC, function better with Oblivion. It should be noted however, that because the PC version of the game was optimized to play with a keyboard and mouse, the experience will NOT be the same, as using a 3. Xbox 3. 60 version of the game. Additionally, these settings can be applied to other game pads, but the values represented may need to be tweaked further. Finally, the mapping of the buttons will need to be determined when entering the game, and can be changed in Options - Controls, from the Main Menu - Do NOT map the directional controls (Forward, Backward, Left, Right), as this will overwrite certain changes made in the Oblivion. These are the default settings in the Oblivion. X = 1, Y = 2, Z = 3, XRot = 4, YRot = 5, ZRot = 6. Joystick. Move. Front. Back=2. i. Joystick. Move. Left. Right=1. Joystick. Move. FBMult=1. Joystick. Move. LRMult=1. Joystick. Look. Up. Down=6. i. Joystick. Look. Left. Right=3. Joystick. Look. UDMult=0. Joystick. Look. LRMult=0. Change to these values to get better functionality from a 3. PC. Note, changes to the Oblivion. Oblivion is running when the changes are made. Updated Oblivion Launcher. The updated launcher now includes options for changing your auto detect settings for Video Quality. The presets are Very Low, Low, Medium, High and Ultra High. If you select Reset to Defaults, it will restart the auto detect and offer the best settings for your system. Manual Errata and Addendum. Press F1 - F4 to access your Journal and Stats menu. F1 - Stats. F2 - Inventory Menu. F3 - Magic Menu. F4 - Maps and Quests. Page 2. 0 states the Governing Attribute for Block is Agility. It should be Endurance. Performance Tuning. The game runs faster at 6. Go to your Options menu and select Video. Try the following options to improve performance: - Set View Distance as low as possible. Your framerate and load times will improve but you will not be able to view as far. Set Tree, Actor, Item and Object Fade as low as possible. This will cause certain objects in the world to fade away sooner. This will increase your framerate but degrade visual quality. Set Texture Size to Medium or Small. Textures on objects will not appear as sharp when this setting is reduced. This will increase your framerate but degrade visual quality. Set Grass slider as low as possible. This will cause less grass to be displayed around your character. This will increase your framerate but you will see less grass displayed. Set Distant LOD to OFF. This will reduce your view distance, but your framerate and load times will improve. Set Distant Buildings to OFF. You will not see cities or the Imperial City in the distant landscape but your framerate and load times will improve. Set Distant Trees to OFF. You will not see trees in the distant landscape but your framerate and load times will improve. Set Interior Shadows as low as possible. This will decrease the number of characters that cast shadows while you are in interiors, improving your framerate. Set Exterior Shadows as low as possible. This will decrease the number of characters that cast shadows while you are in exteriors, improving your framerate. Set Self Shadows to OFF. The Player and other characters will no longer cast shadows on themselves, but will still cast shadows on the environment. This will improve your framerate. Set Grass Shadows to OFF. Shadows will no longer display on grass. This will improve your framerate. Set Tree Canopy Shadows to OFF. The forests will no longer cast shadows on the landscape, improving your framerate. Set Shadow Filtering as low as possible or off. This will reduce the amount of softening the shadows receive, but increase framerate. Set Specular Light as low as possible. This will cause objects to lose their shininess at lower distances, improving your framerate. Set HDR Lighting to OFF. This will increase your framerate but degrade visual quality. Use Bloom lighting instead of HDR, or turn Bloom off. Bloom is a less intensive version of HDR. Turning it off will improve framerate but degrade visual quality. Make sure Water Detail is set to Normal. High detail water will decrease your framerate. Set Water Reflections and Ripples to OFF. This will increase your framerate while you are near water, but the water will not show reflections or react to objects interacting with it. Set Window Reflections to Off. This will remove the subtle reflections from windows but improve framerate. Set Blood Decals to Medium or Low. At Medium, decals do not get applied to characters, only landscape. At Low, no decals get applied at all. These will increase your framerate in combat situations. Turn anti- aliasing down or off. This will degrade overall visual quality but improve your framerate. Turn off music The music is mp. System Requirements. To use this setting, go to the Launcher, select Options and click Reset to Defaults to allow the auto detect to check your system. Implemented SLI- mode optimizations on Nvidia cards, and Crossfire optimizations for ATI cards. Fixed a crash issue where loading a save would crash if the player had extra data on them. Fixed an issue for LOD art for city was not unloading quickly enough when exiting an interior. Fixed an issue where Aylied doors would not open when activated in Miscarcand. Quest Fixes. If you are permanently expelled from Mages Guild, you can now go back into the Mages Guild buildings. In The Siren's Deception, the door to Gweden farmhouse is prevented from locking too soon if player exits too quickly.
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