Obliv crashing after a monitor upgrade

[Seeker17281]

Had a long weekend ending just yesterday of where I played the heck out of Oblivion. Spent two weeks setting up my mods, learning how to use Wyre Bash, OBMM, OBSE, and fine tuning the game so that it'd run smooth. Threw away a lot of different level 1 characters as I figured out what I wanted to keep as far as mod selection goes and whatnot.

 

I logged 14 hour play sessions on each day, with different characters, had only the rare CTD thanks to Streamline (prior to that, CTDs were very frustrating). My game, with its assortment of mods was basically, very stable. Then this morning, I come to find my LG 24" monitor had crapped out on me. I was suspecting it of slowly giving up the ghost from a few other symtoms, but I guess the weekend's marathon pushed it over the edge. I had been debating upgrading my display anyway, what with the new LED TVs and their affordability being what they were, so I went out and bought a Samsung 32" LED, brought it home, had a few minor resolution annoyances I ironed out mostly to do with going from the default resolution back to the 1900x1200 1080p that I had grown accustomed to.

 

So everything is looking pretty good, and Im curious how good Oblivion will look on this huge screen. I try to launch Oblivion and it CTS almost instantly after the little black box opens up, won't even get to the load screen. Stumped, I run OBMM, then Wyre, rebuild my patch, thinking maybe it was something in the resolution change that needs rebuilding, but none of that did any good. So then I try to google up some solutions, somewhat landing here but what I found I'm not sure if I interpet correctly (I'll get to that shortly, just want to make sure I offer up as much info as possible prior to that).

 

I hope the details that follow won't bore whomever is trying to help me over much, I'm not sure basically what is and isn't salient to the issue so trying to put up everything I believe might be a factor.

 

I have a nvidia 260GTX with 1gig of video ram, running Win7 64 with 8 gig of ram and a dual core Intel E6750 running at 2.67 mhz. I used to run a 8800 gtx vid card on this computer but once the 260 got cheaper, decided to pick one up and replace the 8800 with it. I ran into a snag however, due to the Nvidia drivers not being fully synched with the LG 246WP, in brief I had to go into the registry and edit the EDID flags.

 

(just in case its of any interest, the post that mentions it can be found here http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=159725 ).

 

So figuring that probably what I need to do is driver related, I downloaded the newest Nvidia drive for my gfx card, installed them using the clean install option, fine tuned the display a litlte more, and tried to launch Oblivion again. Nope, still no good. THen I spend the next couple of hours trying to google up various solutions, unfortunately, none of them are close enough to my problem for me to try anything as a fix, then along the way I run across a post that I can't seem to find now that's hosted here on TESNexus that says if you want you can reinstall Oblivion without losing any of your mods or saves and in that post the author likewise said that with reinstallation of the game, critical information is gathered by Oblivion to load the game with as it configures with your system.

 

So now I'm at a loss, is my new monitor the reason why I can't load the game and I have to do a reinstallation of the game? The article was likwise a bit involved as simply uninstalling it via its uninstall feature is apparently not sufficient, some software acrobatics are necessary on my part and unfortunately, I can't seem to find it now to post the link so that I can be clearer on what I'm referring to :P But basically, my question boils down to, is it necessary for me to do a reinstallation of the game or is something else afoot here and if so, could someone point me in the direction of some culprits I could look at?

 

Yes I have a number of mods running, mostly just FCOM and some racial stuff, but like I mentioned earlier, the game was pretty stable over my weekend, this ctd happened only after I set up this new monitor. And my apologies for being less than concise right now, time crunch hitting as I post this and have to get to work or I'd clean up the post to make more sense. I hope it isn't too much babble to decode.

[Shadowfen]

Had a long weekend ending just yesterday of where I played the heck out of Oblivion. Spent two weeks setting up my mods, learning how to use Wyre Bash, OBMM, OBSE, and fine tuning the game so that it'd run smooth. Threw away a lot of different level 1 characters as I figured out what I wanted to keep as far as mod selection goes and whatnot.

 

I logged 14 hour play sessions on each day, with different characters, had only the rare CTD thanks to Streamline (prior to that, CTDs were very frustrating). My game, with its assortment of mods was basically, very stable. Then this morning, I come to find my LG 24" monitor had crapped out on me. I was suspecting it of slowly giving up the ghost from a few other symtoms, but I guess the weekend's marathon pushed it over the edge. I had been debating upgrading my display anyway, what with the new LED TVs and their affordability being what they were, so I went out and bought a Samsung 32" LED, brought it home, had a few minor resolution annoyances I ironed out mostly to do with going from the default resolution back to the 1900x1200 1080p that I had grown accustomed to.

 

So everything is looking pretty good, and Im curious how good Oblivion will look on this huge screen. I try to launch Oblivion and it CTS almost instantly after the little black box opens up, won't even get to the load screen....

 

Find your oblivion.ini file (somewhere under My Documents near your save game files - exact location depends on which operating system you have) and delete it. Start Oblivion (it will create a new ini file which should work with your new monitor).

[Seeker17281]

 

Find your oblivion.ini file (somewhere under My Documents near your save game files - exact location depends on which operating system you have) and delete it. Start Oblivion (it will create a new ini file which should work with your new monitor).

 

Shadowfen Sir;

 

I thank you with much fanfare and trumpeting. I would never have thought to do that and shudder to think how many forum posts and techy solutions I would've waded through to try and fix this short of a total reinstall. I will likely be suffering from sleep deprivation for it, but that's what coffee and sugar is for right? :laugh:

 

Again, my most heartfelt thanks. Did as you said, Oblivion is back to its former self in full 32" 1080p glory!