JAKKZ1 Posted January 6, 2007 Share Posted January 6, 2007 Right, im at a total loss now so im gonna start posting. Ive had oblivion installed on my computer before and it worked quite nicely but uninstalled it ages ago (have formatted since), but when i went to reinstall it decided it wont work anymore. Wenever i try and run the game with or without the launcher I consistently get the black box in the top left corner and then the windows error box, asking me to report to windows. Ive tried updating my graphics driver, patching the game, running without the patch. No joy anyway i try. Any suggestions. According to the forum posts ive spent hours finding, this tends to happen with intel intergrated graphics, or especially sub par graphics cards (if this helps). However i doubt this is the case with me as i have run the game before before. My specs are (Laptop)2GHZ intel m proccesor256mb ATI Mobility Radeon X800 XT1gb Ramrunning on XP Home Edition SP2 Im at a loss. I really hope someone can help. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abramul Posted January 6, 2007 Share Posted January 6, 2007 Have you tried installing Oblivion again?It may be worth seeing if there are any Windows updates you don't have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAKKZ1 Posted January 6, 2007 Author Share Posted January 6, 2007 Have you tried installing Oblivion again?It may be worth seeing if there are any Windows updates you don't have. Yeah , i tried installing a few times, and moving my old files from the my documents save folder. windows update hasnt helped :( . Thanks for your help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Tessera Posted January 7, 2007 Share Posted January 7, 2007 Heh... there must be 500 threads out there about this problem. Oblivion doesn't uninstall itself cleanly from your system registry.Later, when you try to re-install it, the stupid installer thinks the game is already installed and it fails to rebuild its own registry entries properly. The fix..? I'm not sure if there is one, to be honest... aside from manually cleaning out every last trace of Bethesda and Oblivion from the registry and THEN re-installing it. Unfortunately, I can not recommend attempting such action unless you are VERY familiar withthe ways that the syetem registry operates. Most people aren't, so I'd leave it alone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Povuholo Posted January 7, 2007 Share Posted January 7, 2007 The fix..? I'm not sure if there is one, to be honest... aside from manually cleaning out every last trace of Bethesda and Oblivion from the registry and THEN re-installing it. Unfortunately, I can not recommend attempting such action unless you are VERY familiar withthe ways that the syetem registry operates. Most people aren't, so I'd leave it alone.Aren't there programs which can do it for you? I'm using Ccleaner and by using the fix problems function in it I can easily remove leftover registry entries and other things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cryocry Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 Did you uninstall Oblivion from the Add/Remove Programs menu? That's always worked for me. Uninstall the game and delete the Bethesda Softworks folder... and then reinstall, of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiberiu911 Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 You can also make back-ups of your system registry files :). But I suppose it's too late for that. You aren't the first with this issue, as Tessera reported. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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