hey i have just bought oblivion on steam and it keeps crashing when i get at the start after u have created a character and begin in the cell. i have windows 7 bu i knos this game works for 7 as i used to have the physical copy and that was fine can anyone help me wih this issue please

SOLVED: For me anyway. My sound card PCM level was too high.

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.

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

CHEEEEEEERS luckily i had the asus xonar d2 although this didnt totally fix it for anyone else having the sae problem i had to do this and then dlete my oblivion folder from documents seemed hat because i had saved with a higher sound rate it messed up the save file cheers off to play i now as skyrim is just not the same lol