Hard Drive access is definitely a bottleneck for Oblivion and the cause of a lot of Crash To Desktop..<\/p>\n
Oblivion will run smoother if you follow these tips with regards to Hard Drives.<\/p>\n
– Install it on the fastest hard drive you have (if you have more than one)
Use softs like HD Tack to measure speed of your drives : http:\/\/www.simplisoftware.com\/Public\/index…?request=HdTach<\/p>\n
– Defragment your Oblivion Hard Drive often (softs like Diskeeper have a feature to automatically defragment files based on usage)<\/p>\n
– Make sure you have plenty of room left on your drive. This is particularly important if the game is installed on the system drive.<\/p>\n
– Disable any background task that would compete with Oblivion for HD access (spyware scans, search engine indexer, etc)<\/p>\n
– Disable background music (it worked like a charm for me)<\/p>\n
– Use mods like Streamline to better distribute the load of new resources into the game
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Hard Drive access is definitely a bottleneck for Oblivion and the cause of a lot of Crash To Desktop.. Oblivion will run smoother if you follow these tips with regards to Hard Drives. – Install it on the fastest hard drive you have (if you have more than one)Use softs like HD Tack to measure speed of your drives :… <\/p>\n