NeithanDiniem Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 I've been able to play oblivion for well over two years, but after a system wipe it no longer works. I have the GOTY edition installed, removed the old files and saves, installed OBSE and tried running through it's launcher... Nothing. As soon as the Bethseda logo finishes through its animation the program errors and wont load. Skipping the legals makes the error appear as soon as the loading screen appears. I have tried it with no mods active, and have tried it with the unofficial oblivion patches applied as well. No dice. My PC specs are: - ACPI Multiprocessor PC - ATI Radeon HD 3300 Graphics - AMD Phenon 9550 Quad-Core Processor - 2 gig RAM - Windows XP Service Pack 3 All the drivers have been updated, and nothing has changed since my previous play through. What gives? Its been driving me nuts! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bben46 Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 If you reinstalled the system, then you must reinstall Oblivion - and any other program that must be installed to work. It's possible that something got left behind in the registry during your reinstalling. Other possibilities: Did you start with a bunch of mods before testing? Did you remember to reinstall OBSE? Here is a way to test with no modsBben's Oblivion Revert to Vanilla gamehttp://www.tesnexus.com/articles/article.php?id=340 And if all else fails:Here is a link to my complete uninstall/reinstall procedure located in the articles section of the Nexushttp://www.tesnexus.com/articles/article.php?id=240 It allows you to preserve any saves and mods, or remove them completely - your choice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeithanDiniem Posted January 15, 2011 Author Share Posted January 15, 2011 The entire hard drive was wiped, so no files remained. The registry shouldn't have anything in it, period. I reinstalled Oblivion, no expansions, and tried it. No dice. Added Knights and Shivering Isles, No dice. OBSE+Unofficial Patches, No dice. This was all after I had updated all of my drivers (literally, I checked every system device). What I DID do was save my OBMM Mods on flash drive and installed OBMM, then carted over the mods. I didn't activate any of them, however, other than the unofficial patches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadowfen Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 I've been able to play oblivion for well over two years, but after a system wipe it no longer works. I have the GOTY edition installed, removed the old files and saves, installed OBSE and tried running through it's launcher... Nothing. As soon as the Bethseda logo finishes through its animation the program errors and wont load. Skipping the legals makes the error appear as soon as the loading screen appears. I have tried it with no mods active, and have tried it with the unofficial oblivion patches applied as well. No dice. My PC specs are: - ACPI Multiprocessor PC - ATI Radeon HD 3300 Graphics - AMD Phenon 9550 Quad-Core Processor - 2 gig RAM - Windows XP Service Pack 3 All the drivers have been updated, and nothing has changed since my previous play through. What gives? Its been driving me nuts! Did you remember to start oblivion without the OBSE launcher first so that it could create its ini file settings (and allow you to change the video capability if it does not recognize your graphics card)? I forgot to do that when I replaced my harddrives and suffered through incredibly laggy gameplay without a clue why since it had been pretty good before the old harddrive died. Finally was led to start Oblivion by itself (without OBSE) and found that the video had be "recognized" as very poor instead of the High that it should have been, Changed that one thing, and I managed to get my pretty decent performance again... Have you tried starting with a new character or only with your more experienced characters (savegames)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeithanDiniem Posted January 16, 2011 Author Share Posted January 16, 2011 Did you remember to start oblivion without the OBSE launcher first so that it could create its ini file settings (and allow you to change the video capability if it does not recognize your graphics card)? I forgot to do that when I replaced my harddrives and suffered through incredibly laggy gameplay without a clue why since it had been pretty good before the old harddrive died. Finally was led to start Oblivion by itself (without OBSE) and found that the video had be "recognized" as very poor instead of the High that it should have been, Changed that one thing, and I managed to get my pretty decent performance again... Have you tried starting with a new character or only with your more experienced characters (savegames)? Yep, Did a clean install w/o OBSE, OBMM, or the expansions, didnt work, and it created its ini file. It says my hardware in unrecognized, but that wasn't a problem before, it still worked before the wipe out. I've set it on lowest settings, no good either. Also I cant even get into the main menu of the game, so I've had no chance to load a character up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadowfen Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 Yep, Did a clean install w/o OBSE, OBMM, or the expansions, didnt work, and it created its ini file. It says my hardware in unrecognized, but that wasn't a problem before, it still worked before the wipe out. I've set it on lowest settings, no good either. Also I cant even get into the main menu of the game, so I've had no chance to load a character up. What version of DirectX are you running? I dimly recall having to fiddle with that too after I reinstalled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeithanDiniem Posted January 16, 2011 Author Share Posted January 16, 2011 What version of DirectX are you running? I dimly recall having to fiddle with that too after I reinstalled. Im using DirectX 9 or higher I know that much. Used the version included on the Oblivion disk as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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