Everything is black. Or blackish.

[kailebw]

When playings the game all I see is the HUD. I can still move around but I can't see anything. I would post a picture but I guess print screen doesn't work on it. I downloaded three mods before starting it though. Alive waters, Modular Oblivion Enhanced PostFinal and Oblivion Mod Manager. I might be because of the mods so I am also putting this in modifications. Even with the mods unused it still goes black. I even uninstalled Oblivion and Mod Manager. Any Ideas?

 

Got it thank you!I can finally try the thing from livin in oblivion.

[albonaut]

It may be something to do with your computer's hardware. What kind of system are you running? What's your graphics card? I don't know for sure if that's where the problem lies, but it could be. Let me know your system specs and we'll have a look if that's something to do with it.

[albonaut]

Ok, I just searched google, and I came up with a bunch of different things that could be causing this, and how to fix them. Here's what I found:

 

1. go into your graphics settings in oblivion and disable HDR lighting. This should work, but the game looks worse without it, so here's some other fixes.

 

2. update your graphics card driver. this blackscreen tends to happen with nvidia 7 and 8 series graphics cards. I have 2 8800 in SLi, and in certain spots, I have the same thing happen to me as you are talking about, I've just never bothered with it 'cause it doesn't happen that often on my pc

 

3. look for a mod called "nvidia blackscreen fix" or something of that nature. I've seen it before. I don't know if it really works or not, but it's worth a shot. I'm probably going to try it.

 

4. in your graphics settings for oblivion, try putting all the sliders toward the middle. I guess some people only have the black screen happen when the sliders are all the way up or all the way down.

 

5. if you're overclocking at all, disable that and try it. Might help

 

6. One site said clean the dust off of your graphics card. This is a good idea whether or not it fixes the problem :)

 

7. the last option I found said to flash your BIOS. I'm and NOT recommending this. Try all the other options FIRST. If nothing else works and you feel that you absolutely have to flash your BIOS, then please, please get someone like a friend or relative who is really good with computers to do it for you and help you (I'm sorry if you yourself are good with computers, I just wanted to stress that point for anyone else who might read this and need the help).

 

I hope one of these options does it for you. Like I said, I get the black screen problem too. It's pretty rare, but when it happens I get oh so cranky. I'll probably try the mod and see if it works, I'll let you know how it goes.

[albonaut]

Here's a link to the mod btw

 

 

http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=11167