baudette

Thanks so much for your help, I'll try that right away and report back. :)

The only hardware conflict I can think of would be my processor, I'm running on AMD Phenom II quad core. I remember reading while I was trying to solve this issue that multiple cores could cause problems. However there is still the fact that it ran perfectly on this same exact setup a month ago before I uninstalled. I never had to do any tweaking to get it to run the first time, it just did. Other than that though, I was previously running it on max settings so I doubt its a display hardware issue. And yes, I installed it to the default location.

Hey all, having a similar problem but wasn't able to find a fix in this thread. I uninstalled Oblivion about a month ago to save some space. Got the urge to play last night so I reinstalled it as well as all the expansions and some mods. It would crash on startup. It doesn't even get to the Bethesda logo, the screen just goes black and I get the "Oblivion has encountered a problem and needs to close" error. So I figured it was one of my mods. I disabled them all, and same problem. I uninstalled them all, same problem. So then I reinstalled Oblivion clean, got rid of the My Games folder in My Documents as well as the Bethesda folder in Programs. I also uninstalled OMM as I heard this could be causing problems too. Ran a registry cleaner .. everything. Even after a completely clean install with no mods it still crashes on startup. The weird thing is, it was working perfectly fine a month ago with mods and had no problems. I haven't changed any hardware or anything else about my computer. What the heck is going on here? :( I'm running on Windows 7 64 bit.