Yet another "grey screen" problem

[measplun]

Hi,

I'm encountering a weird version of the infamous "gray screen" bug and I'm hoping someone here could help me out.

After playing for a couple of hours on maxed out graphics settings my game suddenly turns gray. Since I'm new to the game I don't pay that much attention to it thinking maybe this is how evenings or nights are supposed to look inside the game. After playing for a while more though I notice that everything is gray even inside houses and caves. The compass, lifebars and menus are all unaffected, but everthing else in the game is now gray.

This bug seems to be specific to the save file. If I start a new game or load a save file from before everything turned gray, it all looks fine again. Also, in the save file where the game is gray, if I go to jail I have colors again. Sleeping or skipping to another location with the map doesn't help though.

I'm playing on a Windows 7 Home Edition with an AMD Radeon HD 5000 graphics card.

So far I've tried turning my graphics settings to as low as possible (including turning HDR and Bloom off, AA off and running on as low resolution as the game allows) without any success. I've also tried deleting the Oblivion.ini-file from the Users-folder.

Any ideas?

[Ravi]

Hey, I remember having a somewhat similar problem. It could just be your memory. Oblivion is a very demanding game in that regard. Whenever it starts to turn grey and such, just restart your computer. Playing for several hours at a time causes all sorts of interesting bugs.

[BigRowdy]

Originally posted by Raven:

Hey, I remember having a somewhat similar problem. It could just be your memory. Oblivion is a very demanding game in that regard. Whenever it starts to turn grey and such, just restart your computer. Playing for several hours at a time causes all sorts of interesting bugs.

Yes game has a memory leak but this couldalso be the NVIDIA screen bug. google for help if you have NVIDIA card.

[Azrael]

That's really strange, I've been playing the game for over 100 hours on Win7 64-bit Home Premium with my AMD Radeon HD 7750 with 1 GB DDR5, and never found a glitch like that. If it helps, I'm using these plugins and patches:

4GB Patch (not a plugin, but modifies the main EXE to use over 4 GB of RAM)
http://www.ntcore.com/4gb_patch.php

Oblivion Script Extender
http://obse.silverlock.org/

Oblivion Stutter Remover
http://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/23208/

Unofficial Oblivion Patch
http://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/5296/

Unofficial Shivering Isles Patch
http://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/10739/

Unofficial Official Mods Patch
http://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/9969/

plus, a ton of mods for visual improvement, armors, weapons, skins... with Oblivion Mod Manager: http://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/2097/

[measplun]

I loaded an earlier save file and after 30+ hours of playing the bug hasn't occured again. I guess whatever is the reason behind the corrupted save file doesn't happen that often.

Thank you all for your advice and if it occurs again I'll try that 4 GB Patch :)

[SkoomaSquid]

I know this is super late but this was just happening to me and I figured out what it was. It's an item giving you night vision. You were seeing everything in color after getting arrested because you were undressed. Drove me nuts for a solid 30 minutes!

[measplun]

Originally posted by SkoomaSquid:

I know this is super late but this was just happening to me and I figured out what it was. It's an item giving you night vision. You were seeing everything in color after getting arrested because you were undressed. Drove me nuts for a solid 30 minutes!

Haha, I'm glad you figured it out!
Hope you like the game if it's your first playthrough. I know i did!