i got oblivion to work with my crap intel gma. i have dual core . i have 2gb ram. i have windows vista it crashs on startup. it crashes the SAME way that oblivion did before i patched it. all i had to do with oblivion was change the water color in the ini file,. now i have purple water but the game runs at a playable framerate . and bethsoft tech support told me in a roundabout way that third party optimization/ unoffical patches would enable this to work on my laptop. and yes i could upgrade but my cdkey is registered to this laptop. and i like the challenge. "Hello, Because you do not meet requirements. Its possible to get the game to run, however, we cannot help with that due to the fact, that you don't meet requirements. Unfortunately, your system does not meet the minimum system requirements for the program to function properly. see bethsoft said its possible. they just wont tell me how. :( theres a shader model fix for oblivion and bioshock and doom 3 works on a vodoo 2 and all that jazz. so theres some way to tweak the ini file to fix the shader model conflict. somebody tell me how