Oblivion will not reinstall

[K00L]

I have installed Oblivion soo many times before with alot of different problems, sometimes none (before it would not install any of the textures, before that it would not launch the launcher, before that... I don't remember but that's enough examples :D). Now, after my computer was "recovered" (by that I mean the reinstallation CD was inserted and ran, deleting everything, literally everything this time there is no folder in Documents and Settings containing our old profile -_-) by a brother because he had to stop disccheck from deleting everything and ended up stopping the computer from running Windows, after I inserted the disc it came up with an error, from Norton I beleive, saying Symantec has failed or something like that with a more intelligent explanation, and the spinning disc cursor appeared shortly after closing it but nothing happened. The disc cursor changed back, I tried to launch the game from My Computer, from the launcher on the CD, even just running the Setup on CD... Still nothing. :wallbash:

I was hoping after installing Oblivion so many times I would stop managing to find new ways to keep myself from playing it (such as a graphics card fan clogging up with dust and demolishing it, just kidding it did die though. Not my fault O.O). I could almost swear someone doesn't want me to play this game, to just get so angry that I will remove it from its case and eat the CD alive and never ever play it again. But I can't do that not with a game like Oblivion. I already lost Morrowind to a chair, it was in a laptop case and was crushed by a chair, cracking it when it was taken away on vacation on accident (luckily I had made a copy before that happened and can still play it, but Bloodmoon does not install properly, or Tribunal).

So if anyone knows whats wrong with Oblivion any help would be much appreciated! :biggrin:

Thank yas.

[K00L]

And I know there is a topic pinned already about the game not reinstalling, same issue-different cause. That is because remenants of Oblivion are left, this is completely different.

[yeldarb]

Have you fully re-updated Windows by installing all of the updates from Microsoft? Did you reinstall all of the drivers for your video card,CD/DVD drive,DirectX and all of the other things you forget to reinstall and update when you do a reinstall after wiping your hard drive yet?

[bben46]

You post does not say if you reformatted the hard drive, so I will assume you did not. Deleting the Oblivion folders does not remove certain entries in the Windows registry. These indicate to windows that Oblivion is still installed and will not allow another install without uninstalling - and you cannot uninstall if it is not installed - Catch 22.

 

You must completely remove the entire game to reinstall properly. Including those registry entries.

 

This scenario is covered in my complete uninstall/reinstall article.

 

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

 

It allows you to preserve any saves and mods, or remove them completely - your choice.

[K00L]

Ahh... I found it! There was a folder in My Documents that had another folder titled Oblivion in it. I deleted that and it is installing now. Thanks for replying :)

[bben46]

The Oblivion folder in the My Documents folder is only for holding the save games - and - The Oblivion.ini that tells the game what your hardware settings are for video, audio, CPU and other stuff. By deleting that you lose any saved games - probably not a problem if you already lost all of your mods. The Oblivion.ini will be regenerated automatically with all new settings when you reinstall. so deleting that is a good idea anyway. Neither of these should cause it to not install.

[K00L]

Hmm... Maybe it was just that crash that Norton had the other day. Today when I was installing it Norton kept asking about the setup, so maybe yesterday it was blocking it without even giving an option because of the crash.

[K00L]

Oh and even after I installed it, the game doesn't start. It probably because my computer is lacking a graphics card. :confused:

[Tomlong54210]

Oh and even after I installed it, the game doesn't start. It probably because my computer is lacking a graphics card. :confused:

That'll kill any hope of running the game, yup...

[K00L]

Yeah, after I got three of my favorite mods I remembered that. I've gone back to Morrowind, which doesn't mind the computer missing a graphics card :)