So I started playing Oblivion, Steam version, and it ran awesome! Wasn't sure with my PC specs:

Windows 7 x64
4gb
Nvidia Geforce 9200
AMD Athlon II 240e (2.40ghz)

Not a great PC, but surprisingly it ran awesome at 1600x900 high graphics settings.

Shut it down for the night and went back the next evening to play. Started Oblivion as soon as my PC rebooted, so nothing changed systemwise. All of a sudden, 1fps!!!! Then after about 1 minute of in-game time it crashes to the desktop with no error report. Just Oblivion has crashed and needs to be closed.

Uninstalled, reinstalled, defragged, disk cleanup, hell I'm half tempted to wipe my whole computer to try and fix this damn thing that's how desperate I am!

Here's a video of me showing exactly what is going on:

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Please help me out! I was enjoying it so much, and I HATE rpg games, so that's saying something.

Leave me a comment/message either here or my youtube, preferably my youtube because I am on it non-stop.

Thanks so much for taking the time to assist me.

I am surprised it ever ran at that resolution on the 9200. That is a business class video card, not a gaming card. Try setting it at 1024 and if it improves, you will need a better video card.

doesnt matter what resolution i set it to. low quality, 640x480, windowed, no v-sync, no bloom or hdr...doesnt do a thing. it does the same thing as i showed in the video every time i try to play. like i said before, it ran perfectly fine when i first started it up. large areas were a little jerky, but that was expected. i ventured all over the map for quite a few hours on 1600x900, mid-high graphics, hdr, v-sync, the works with no issue. shut it down, came back and epicfailsupersvcktimelag. my pc is an all in one touchscreen acer with no pci slots, so upgrading gfx card isnt an option. i just wanna know what caused it to do this out of the blue. im not entirely sure but after i had my fun with oblivion i downloaded Magicka. im wondering if its installed directx content might have interfered with it. thats the only thing i can think of because before magicka it was fine. in fact, i found out that magicka didnt run well so i decided to take my 4.99 loss and play some oblivion. thats when i found this problem.
any insight on that?

I agree with that, in spades. You might have thought you set it higher than it really was. It may not even be a "Card" at all, being potentially merely an onboard chipset video chip that has no VRAM of its own (there are both chips & GPUs with the same ID, the way I recall). Of course, it's also possible you damaged the system by forcing it to attempt to perform so far above its designed limits.