Got new hardware Oblivion won't load my saves etc.

[emlnxrh]

Can someone please help me please, I got a new video card and hard drive and reinstalled oblivion now the game starts up but when I go to load or start a new game it crashes immediately. I went from a nvidia geforce 7300gt to a ati radeon hd4670, and from a 5400 rpm ide hard drive to a 7200 rpm sata hard drive. I have goty oblivion with all the unofficial patches installed, and it still does this I never ran into any of these problems when I had my old hardware.

 

I already tried deleting the oblivion.ini in the my games folder.

 

I even tried deleting the my games folder.

 

I reinstalled\uninstalled the game.

 

I tried installing it to a secondary hard drive.

 

I installed other games they all work.

 

I loaded the game from my old hard drive and it worked, it doesnt want to work on my new hard drive!

Edited April 24, 2010 by emlnxrh

[Fonger]

near your game saves is a file named oblivion.ini

 

delete it

 

the game will make a new one related to your current hardware.

[emlnxrh]

I just tried that it still crashed.

 

near your game saves is a file named oblivion.ini

 

delete it

 

the game will make a new one related to your current hardware.

[Fonger]

just for safety sake

 

where was the file that you deleted

[emlnxrh]

in my documents\my games\oblivion

 

just for safety sake

 

where was the file that you deleted

[Fonger]

well you got me stumped

 

changing the video card alone usually causes this and deleting the ini file usually cures it.

 

You currently seem to be saying that you can still play the game from the old HD but not from the new one - showing its not video related.

 

did you formally uninstall from the old hard drive so the computer's registry doesn't demand it to be over there?

 

deleting the game's program folder will leave these registry entries on your computer making it very difficult to uninstall and/or re-install.

 

But nothing about (playing) oblivion has hardware sensing involved in it - so the new HD should not have any reason not to play.

 

That points back to the registry and possibly UAC if on Vista or Windows7 -

 

leading us back to uninstall and reinstall "someplace else"

[bben46]

When Oblivion is uninstalled using the game included uninstaller, it does not remove the entries in the Windows Registry that were placed on installing. The registry is found on the same hard drive as your Operating System - No matter what drive or partition you install the game.

 

As long as those registry entries are there, it will not play from any other location as the registry says it is still in the original location ( a Bethesda Bug that has never been addressed) My complete Uninstall/reinstall does address that problem and will allow placing the game in a new location - and I recommend doing this for both Vista and Win7 due to problems with UAC security in the default install location. The procedure allows keeping save games and mods intact (and the Oblivion.ini if you wanted it - which since you have changed hardware you don't)

 

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

 

Note: This bug does seem to have been fixed in Fallout 3 where you can move the game to a new location without uninstalling.

[emlnxrh]

When Oblivion is uninstalled using the game included uninstaller, it does not remove the entries in the Windows Registry that were placed on installing. The registry is found on the same hard drive as your Operating System - No matter what drive or partition you install the game.

 

As long as those registry entries are there, it will not play from any other location as the registry says it is still in the original location ( a Bethesda Bug that has never been addressed) My complete Uninstall/reinstall does address that problem and will allow placing the game in a new location - and I recommend doing this for both Vista and Win7 due to problems with UAC security in the default install location. The procedure allows keeping save games and mods intact (and the Oblivion.ini if you wanted it - which since you have changed hardware you don't)

 

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

 

Note: This bug does seem to have been fixed in Fallout 3 where you can move the game to a new location without uninstalling.

 

I got it working..but that could change when I reinstall my mods.