Hi

I've been playing oblivion for a week or so, and this problem just started happening. It seems to happen when I am struck by a melee attack. The first two areas where it happened (one random rat attack, and then fighting two dreamworld minotaurs) I was able to restart the game a couple times and eventually and eventually kill the creatures with out a crash.

This third time I can't get through with out encountering a crash. I'm fighting 3 or 4 conjurers and inevitably I will be struck enough times, usually while blocking, and the screen will freeze. The sound and the gui continue to move, and I can tell I am still being attacked. Eventually I will die, and the load game menu will pop up. At any time during this freeze I can access the menu. Loading a save however doesn't fix the frozen screen. The game loads but the same image is stuck on my screen. I have to restart oblivion and try again.

Any ideas? I've looked around and it seemed like people were saying this is an audio codec problem which would make sense. I tried installing the K Like pack, disabling music and/or sound in the ini file, disabling all codecs with InstalledCodec and using DirectShowFilterReset to no avail
Not sure what else to try. Help appreciated!


Thankss

First, we start by ignoring whether the game was running well, poorly, or average, and just collect the usual standard diagnostic information, same as if it never ran at all. Let's have the full set of data.

What kind of data would you like? System specs or is there a crash log somewhere?