Looks all wrong after reinstall

[3rdtryguy]

Before my computer crashed, my Oblivion looked just fine. After the reinstall, though, it looks terrible. Everything looks washed-out, grainy, cartoony, and fake. It's like the brightness is too high and the contrast is too low. I was able to reduce the brightness with the brightness slider, but that didn't really help at all. What I think i need to do is somehow turn up the contrast, but I can't find any options for this. I am guessing that the reason for this is that is isn't called contrast when videocards are concerned, maybe?

Mine is an nvidia GEForce4 6600 card. It used to look just fine, and my fallout3 still looks good, along with all my other programs.

What settings are the ones should try to adjust to restore the detail to my Oblivion graphics and once again make things look realistic? Everything looks like it is simply missing one last layer of something that used to provide the microdetails and depth.

 

You know what? It almost looks like it's in 256 colors instead of 16.7 million. Is there a way to check that? Again, no other programs are having this problem, so I'm assuming it's a setting of the oblivion video options. I have tried numerous things so far, though, with no results.

 

I never played the game with high detail settings before, but it still looked good to me. I don't recall adjusting anything the first time I installed it, and I didn't adjust anything this time. I just let the installation program select the settings for me both times, but got very different results.

[Qwaxalot]

Try renaming or deleting the oblivion.ini file (...\My Documents\My Games\Oblivion\Oblivion.ini)

 

Oblivion will then redetect hardware. It will also, probably, not recognize your video card and set everything to medium. Just change the settings according to what you think your card will support (You can always change them later)

[3rdtryguy]

hmmm..... okay. Worth a shot. Thanks!