Hello everyone, I am a noob, straight up. A noob to games and a noob to computer troubleshooting. I'm going to start this by saying that I have read dozens and dozens of pages on various forums about this problem. I have done research on this until my eyes got achy and watery. A few people seem have this problem, but in literally HOURS of research, I have found only vague, indirect advice. Perhaps the nature of this problem can only warrant vague advice. I just finished installing Oblivion on Vista, and started to get really, really excited. I've been wanting to play this game ever since it came out, four years ago. When I click 'new game' it goes to a box saying "Start a new game?" I click "yes" and.... NOTHING HAPPENS! It just goes back to the menu as if I clicked "no." All the other menu options work except this one!! In my research I came across some vague solutions, like 'turn off Aero' or 'run in XP compatibilty mode,' all of it mystifies me! I tried running OLDblivion, thinking perhaps my graphics card wasn't up to snuff (intel chipset 4) but the same thing happens. It won't let me start a new game. I uninstalled and re-installed. Same problem. After 20 minutes of running patch 1.2, I tried again. It won't let me start a new game. Downloaded a saved game, from the end of the sewers, and the game crashes when I try to load it. Does anyone out there know of this problem? Can anyone help please??? Here are my system specs for reference: Toshiba Satellite L305 Pentium Dual core CPU T4200 @ 2.00 ghz 3 gb ram Vista 32 bit Mobile Intel 4 Series Express Chipset family Thank you for reading, but no words of mine would be able to express the gratitude and appreciation if someone helped me resolve this problem.