Monthly Archives: June 2006

Come on England!!

June 10, 2006 – 1:16 pm

Come on lads! England v Paraguay.. 2-0 I think.

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Close shut the bugs…. of Oblivion!

June 7, 2006 – 9:45 pm

My first impression of the recent patch for Oblivion on the 360 was that the Bethesda logo and music now didn’t jerk and the sound was not choppy. ‘That’s a start’ I thought. In my character’s house in Anvil I’ve got a cupboard that is currently holding something in the region of 200 swords, maces, [...]

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Cheydinhal’s broken record…

June 5, 2006 – 6:01 pm

So I recently posted about running Oblivion without the HDD. Yes, it did have an impact on the performance of the game. But now I seem to get a situation whereby the background music and incidental music changes so rapidly (especially around Cheydinhal) that it causes big pauses within the game.
This is just weird. Thanks [...]

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A cure for Oblivion madness

June 3, 2006 – 11:51 pm

Well I tried a few combinations of things that I’d read online to try and rectify the mega-delays I was having in Oblivion. Finally I copied my profile and last save position onto a memory card, detached the hard disk from the 360 and voila (thanks Steve!) Much improved. Actual loading between areas is a [...]

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Elder Scrolls IV - Oblivion… my friend no more

June 3, 2006 – 1:26 pm

150 hours!!! 150 hours I’ve played this game. I have enjoyed some of it. But Oblivion has tunred out to leave the most acrid, bitter and downright foul taste in my mouth. Now I heard about the ‘delays’ on loading caused by disk fragmentation but 25 seconds to load a menu is absolutely ridiculous. Yes, [...]

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