Heya

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I've taken screenshots of my problem rather than just explainign it. That single white speck on the bed randomly appears, and there are usually three or four, if not more. Usually it appears on shadows. The stretching appears with terrain and character models and flesh. Please can anyone help? I can't figure out what graphical settings are causing this. My graphics card is powerful and new. This shouldn't be happenings.

I love Oblivion and this is making the game practically unplayable.

What GPU are you using and how hot is it getting when you are in the game? Are you running any mods?

My card is a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460, and lots of mods, too many to turn off 1 at a time, but as far as I know none that would cause any of this. Most are combat tweaks, idles, new models, and such. Nothing that should affect the visual affects and such. That, and it was fine one day, and then it just started. Would deleting my Oblivion.ini be a good idea like is suggested in another thread?

As far as i know I run cool enough. I don't have these problems with other more recent games.

edit: Tried deleting the .ini. Sadly it made no differance. I also tried altering lighting and shadow options and nothing really helped with the speckling. The 'riping' is hard to test because it's not predictable.

edit2: Ugh, just discovered/noticed that the graphical glitches even extend to menus. Title Screen included. Speckling and glitchy squares. This is insane. I can't even do a clean install because I don't know whats causing it. If it is a mod then putting back all the mods I use could mean the problem stays.

hmm...

I run Oblivion with, amongst other things, an nVidia GTX470. It works great except for the 400-series tendency to allow the sun to show through buildings and landscape, depending on OS and/or settings. Not sure what the story is with yours. You say this is a new graphics card? What did it replace? Did you properly uninstall the old-card drivers, and did you use a third-party utility to insure that all old data was cleared out? The 400-series does tend to run hot when stressed, but nothing adequate ventilation can't handle. To be safe, you might want to try the old trick of removing the side cover from your PC and placing a fairly powerful house-fan so that it blows directly into the case. See if that makes a difference.

Do you run any other graphically demanding games and/or GPU testing utilities? If so, do they display the same issue?

Do you have an adequate PSU?

Are any needed auxiliary power lines plugged into the graphics card? (My GTX470 needs two. Don't know about yours.)

-Decrepit-

Nah, i'm pretty much 100% certain its nothing to do with heat. Just tookt he side off and the card is running pretty cool. The powerpack is warm but thats to be expected, and it's not 'hot'.

It's a PC built for gaming. I play games many times more demanding than Obliv. Thats what I don't understand.

Nothing has really changed recently except a few newly installed game son my system, and Oblivion was running fine before. I just don't get it.

Update: Turns out that I was wrong. It is in other games too. Fallout New Vegas is acting exacly the same way.

Look slike my card might be dying. Or my drivers need reinstalling.