hey i just downloaded oblivion on my steam account and it will let you create a character but as soon as u get into the cell at the sart it crashes even when you loadf it there nd my speakers go mad ill i reatsrt my pc i am running i on windows 7 and i know it works as i have had the physical copy and that worked fine can anyone help me with this problem please cheers

SOLVED: For me anyway. My sound card PCM level was too high and the Asus sound card setting called GX was the problem.

It was on 48KHZ. I lowered it to 44.1KHZ and sound channels from 6 channel to 2 channel and the game starts, runs fine. I have been playing it for over an hour now with no Problems.

My sound card is a Asus Xonar D1 that can be set to 196khz, 96khz, 48khz, 44.1khz and the channels from 8 to 2 channel.
I run at 5.1 surround. For this game which is a bit old set the sound to 44.1, 2 channel & 5.1 ..worked for me.


On the Xonar cards best to turn off the GX mode for this game, otherwise a freeze up for sure sooner or later.

So turn off the GX mode first if you own an Asus sound card. If not lower your sound cards sampling rate. or try both.

It solved the problem for me. hope that helps