Playing Oblivion Video Card Issues

[DasFox]

While playing Oblivion I'm getting these long lines strecthing across the maps, overhead, to the sides and just about anywhere you can imagine, sometimes worse then other times. I tried to take a screenshot, but it won't display them.

Some look thick, some thin, but they shimmer and vibrate, slightly.

If you need to see my rig specs PLEASE click on Das' GameRig below.

I have tried many different video settings with no success and I have tired to take one of the cpu cores off when the game is running but it always just locks up when I go back to the game so I don't have much success with this.

All I can think of at the moment is the support for Dual Core CPU and SLI running 7900s for this game might not be working to hot.

THANKS

 

[Jeff7181]

I've noticed Oblivion seems to bring out instabilities in overclocks. For example, I had been running my 7800GT at 473/1120 and was having problems similar to what you, and others, have been describing. I've now set it to 460/1100 and the problems have gone away. 15+ hours of game time with no problems at 460/1100 vs. black screen about every hour or two at 473/1120.

 

[DasFox]

Yes this seems to be a OC issue, but I'm running the Evga 7900GT SuperClock cards, so maybe the game can't handle these. But I first tried the Nvidia drivers 84.21 and these didn't seem to hot, so then I installed the XTreme-G 84.25.v2 drivers and it's been playing nice so far and I haven't seen this happen.

Looks like the XG drivers rule for this thing!

I'll keep everyone posted on this if need to know, but if you're running a high end system like mine then I think the XG drivers are the only way to go, especially for 7900 cards.

ALOHA