Oblivion Wont Even Start

[Hertha]

I ave just purchased a copy of Oblivion :biggrin: , but the game refuses to run. It checks out my system, and assigns it the Medium Quality and loads the Autoplay menu, but when I click play it loads a small window (as it does with FO3 before going fulscreen) but a second later XP throws out one of their errors "This Application has encountered an error and needs to exit/shut down".

 

I need some help with this, and I didn't want to look throgh 256 pages to find someone that already had this problem. Do I need to install a patch or something? Help is badly needed.

[ptbptb]

I ave just purchased a copy of Oblivion :biggrin: , but the game refuses to run. It checks out my system, and assigns it the Medium Quality and loads the Autoplay menu, but when I click play it loads a small window (as it does with FO3 before going fulscreen) but a second later XP throws out one of their errors "This Application has encountered an error and needs to exit/shut down".

 

I need some help with this, and I didn't want to look throgh 256 pages to find someone that already had this problem. Do I need to install a patch or something? Help is badly needed.

 

You should install the official patches

http://www.elderscrolls.com/downloads/updates_patches.htm

 

You should have installed to somewhere like C:\Games\Oblivion (not to the default directory)

 

It is worth checking Windom Earle's Oblivion Crash Prevention System

http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=22282

(You will need Oblivion Script Extender installed first)

http://obse.silverlock.org/

 

Unfortunately that may still not solve your crash. Check those out first though.

[bben46]

If you are only installing the game, with no mods and using the CD in your cd drive, then it should 'Just work'.

 

Here is a link to a site that will test your system and make recommendations on whether it will play a particular game or not.

http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/referrer/srtest

 

And here are the official requirements from the Bethesda site

 

Recommended:

 

* 3 Ghz Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent processor

* 1 GB System RAM

* ATI X800 series, NVIDIA GeForce 6800 series, or higher video card

 

Minimum System Requirements:

 

* Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows XP 64-bit

* 512MB System RAM

* 2 Ghz Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent processor

* 128MB Direct3D compatible video card

* and DirectX 9.0 compatible driver;

* 8x DVD-ROM drive

* 4.6 GB free hard disk space

* DirectX 9.0c (included)

* DirectX 8.1 compatible sound card

* Keyboard, Mouse

 

Note that the recommended requirements are much higher then the minimum requirements. And that this is several years old. There have been 2 new generations of video cards since the list was made. And I would not consider playing on Win 2000. :rolleyes: