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When you say "recent patch" I'm taking it you mean patching Oblivion to version 1.20416? Just out of curiosity, what copy of the game have you got? The GOTY edition for example doesn't need the patch.

 

Probable causes of this are defunct downloads, the wrong file d/led, a dodgy CD/DVD drive, or disk corruption. Is your disk clean & relatively scratch free? Sometimes, windows doesn't seem to notice, or maybe it deliberately overlooks, smaller problems because it doesn't think theres an issue, but especially in cases where theres more than a couple of little problems you usually end up with one great big smacking one.

 

Try rebuilding your .ini first. Because its easy and fixes all sorts of things that it really shouldn't fix. At all.

Go to My Documents->My Games and find the Oblivion configuration file. Rename it. That should force Oblivion to rebuild it. If that doesn't change anything, you can switch back to the old one if it was customised, or stick with the new one if it wasn't. Either way, delete the one you're not using to be on the safe side.

 

If you have saved your downloaded patch, bin that file and re-download it. Make sure you're downloading the right version of the patch (SI if you've got it. Trust me. It won't work otherwise) and the right language version for your disk - for example the English, EU disk needs the English, EU patch. The English, US Patch, even though they are exactly the same, won't work. Test Oblivion before you install the patch (it should in the very least start up) and DON'T USE A DOWNLOAD MANAGER TO PAUSE THE DOWNLOAD. Ever ever ever ever ever unless somewhere on the source page it says in big, fat, bold letters, that their site supports download managers. Problems with using download managers are rare and usually originate from ancient software or servers being the source of the file, rather than the download manager itself, but you can bet your bottom dollar that they do happen.

 

If it works without the patch, your CD is good to go and the problem lies elsewhere. If it doesn't your CD or the drive itself is borked. Do you have another drive/computer you can check the disk in? Do other DVD based games work fine on that drive?

 

And I missed one - Make sure you uninstalled fully (used the disk) and cleaned the registry afterwards. And either deleted or moved your data folder. You can always add the mods back later. Reinstalling over a problem uusually just makes more problems.

 

Sorry if I'm just blabbering. I'm depressed after the footie last night. :D

Though even I have to admit Messi's a genius. A diving git.

But still, a genius when he stays on his feet.

Good Luck.

Jenrai

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When you say "recent patch" I'm taking it you mean patching Oblivion to version 1.20416? Just out of curiosity, what copy of the game have you got? The GOTY edition for example doesn't need the patch.

 

Probable causes of this are defunct downloads, the wrong file d/led, a dodgy CD/DVD drive, or disk corruption. Is your disk clean & relatively scratch free? Sometimes, windows doesn't seem to notice, or maybe it deliberately overlooks, smaller problems because it doesn't think theres an issue, but especially in cases where theres more than a couple of little problems you usually end up with one great big smacking one.

 

Try rebuilding your .ini first. Because its easy and fixes all sorts of things that it really shouldn't fix. At all.

Go to My Documents->My Games and find the Oblivion configuration file. Rename it. That should force Oblivion to rebuild it. If that doesn't change anything, you can switch back to the old one if it was customised, or stick with the new one if it wasn't. Either way, delete the one you're not using to be on the safe side.

 

If you have saved your downloaded patch, bin that file and re-download it. Make sure you're downloading the right version of the patch (SI if you've got it. Trust me. It won't work otherwise) and the right language version for your disk - for example the English, EU disk needs the English, EU patch. The English, US Patch, even though they are exactly the same, won't work. Test Oblivion before you install the patch (it should in the very least start up) and DON'T USE A DOWNLOAD MANAGER TO PAUSE THE DOWNLOAD. Ever ever ever ever ever unless somewhere on the source page it says in big, fat, bold letters, that their site supports download managers. Problems with using download managers are rare and usually originate from ancient software or servers being the source of the file, rather than the download manager itself, but you can bet your bottom dollar that they do happen.

 

If it works without the patch, your CD is good to go and the problem lies elsewhere. If it doesn't your CD or the drive itself is borked. Do you have another drive/computer you can check the disk in? Do other DVD based games work fine on that drive?

 

And I missed one - Make sure you uninstalled fully (used the disk) and cleaned the registry afterwards. And either deleted or moved your data folder. You can always add the mods back later. Reinstalling over a problem uusually just makes more problems.

 

Sorry if I'm just blabbering. I'm depressed after the footie last night. :D

Though even I have to admit Messi's a genius. A diving git.

But still, a genius when he stays on his feet.

Good Luck.

Jenrai

 

 

 

I got the BioShock/Oblivion Award winning bundle.

 

I tried renaming the config file but it still crashes.

 

Same thing happened when I reinstalled the patch.

 

 

I guess my drive is screwed.

How do you clean the registry

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If Oblivion runs PURE Vanilla - as in without the patch, without OBSE, without OBMM, your drive is fine and dandy and the problem lies elsewhere.

 

To clean your registry, free up some space and fix problems you don't even know you've got yet, get CCleaner. Used to be called Crap Cleaner, but thats not politically correct. heh heh.

 

Homepage is here methinks.

 

Really handy little utility and its free too. Ideally, you should probably run it every couple of weeks to keep your system running nice and smooth, but definately run it if you're troubleshooting something, and doubly so if you have to uninstall/reinstall said something, no matter what it is.

 

Jenrai

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CCleaner is also included as part of my complete uninstall/reinstall procedure.

 

Here is a link to my complete uninstall/reinstall procedure located in the articles section of the Nexus

http://www.tesnexus.com/articles/article.php?id=240

 

 

Well I tried your full reinstall but it still crashes on start up.

 

Could it be that the disk is corrupted?

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Has it ever worked? With nothing loaded at all - No OBSE, No OBMM, no nothing. Just install straight from the cd and run?

 

It it has, then I doubt if your disk is corrupted. I'm not familiar with the Bioshock/Oblivion bundle. Is Oblivion on a separate CD?

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Bah. Bloomin websense. I was trying to find more info on the bundle but unfortunately its getting cut down by websense... I really do need to find more info on sidestepping this. I did notice from one of the tag lines that its not the game of the year editions (and therefore the point in even bothering releasing it AFTER both GotY editions came out was what exactly? Answers on a postcard please. Usual address.)

I still can't find out if it ships as 1.20416 or not. Here's what looked like the most promising info link to me.

 

http://kotaku.com/5294094/bioshock-and-oblivion-get-bundle

 

Is from a decent site if I remember correctly and most of their info seems to be accurate, most of the time.

 

Jenrai

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