CTD on start-up

[les8ean13]

exactly what it says on the cover. Trying to play this game again after not touching it for a few years, but when I try to run it it CTDs almost immediately. I get the lil launcher menu, and click play. The screen turns black for a second, and then I'm back at the desktop.
I have some mods, but not a ton of them, and I'm p sure I installed them all right.

After using xEdit to clean some stuff, I managed to get it to kinda work? But before it even got to the main menu, i got an error saying

 

"The instruction at 0x000000000058DC7C referenced memory at 0x0000000000000004. The memory could not be read.

press OK to terminate the program"

Does uh. Does anyone know what that means?? or how to fix it???

[les8ean13]

I've followed a bunch of different guides, and done everything I can think of, but the game is still CTDing at startup. I have no mods, I've deleted all traces of OBSE and any other modding software, and done *several* fresh re-installs of the game
nothing is working
the *base game* is CTDing, and I can't find a single way to fix it
please help me

[RomanR]

The message is only generic OS memory access violation text, so the problem could be anything. What distribution of Oblivion and on what OS are you trying to run it ?

 

I can only try to help with some generic advices:

 

If you are using some DVDs, the problem could be DRM (SecuROM won't work on Windows 10 for example).

If you are using Steam, your client could be outdated - is it possible to update it ?

Did you tried start directly Oblivion.exe with admin privileges ? Crashed it too ?

Try to set most lowest graphics resolution possible and try to run it in window.

In Oblivion.ini try to disable any sound HW acceleration (under [Audio]) section. Location of Oblivion.ini depends with distribution.

Some Codec packages can also arise issues with this game.

On later Windows is not advisable to install Oblivion to default Program Files directory.

[Striker879]

Try renaming Oblivion.ini to OldOblivion.ini or similar and then start the game. When the game can't find Oblivion.ini it will build a new one using default settings after looking for your hardware (which is likely far newer than the game). If you can get it to start then adjust settings to your preference ... otherwise just delete the newly created Oblivion.ini and rename OldOblivion.ini back to Oblivion.ini as before.