SiajEnab Posted June 28, 2011 Share Posted June 28, 2011 It's been a while since the last time I played oblivion. So long that I have a new computer, new car, new house even. But, I got that itch and so I decided to reinstall it and catch up on the latest mods. When I tried to boot up the game after a fresh install I got to the launcher screen an it told me "Oblivion will now detect your video hardware and set video options accordingly. Video settings have been set for Very Low Quality." I found that strange, went into the options tab and tried to adjust my settings to my liking. First I set the resolution to 1920x1080 to match my monitor (well, my monitor is actually 1920x1200, but close enough), then when I tried to turn off vsync I noticed that the resolution had reverted back to 640x480. I fiddled around some more and every change I made would immediately revert back to the defaults. At that point I decided to ignore the launcher config, boot up the game and see if I could fix things from in there. So I went into the video options, selected 1920x1080, and restarted oblivion as prompted. This brought me back to the launcher screen which once more gave me the "Oblivion will now detect your video hardware and set video options accordingly. Video settings have been set for Very Low Quality." message. After testing once more to see if I could make any changes to the default settings (I couldn't) I booted up the game and enjoyed the beautiful 640x480 resolution. After that I tried numerous other fixes. I updated my drivers, I fiddled with the graphics settings in oblivion_default.ini, I reinstalled oblivion, and then I went searching through the steam and bethesda faqs and forums. After much effort and no luck I decided to make a post about my struggles here in the hope that someone would be able to help. If not, well, I guess I'm forced into playing oblivion at all the default graphical settings for all eternity. A cruel fate indeed. Below I've detailed my computer's setup. Windows 7 x64Intel Core i7 920ATI HD57006GB DDR3 1066MSI X-58 Jai Bradley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkInMKUK Posted June 28, 2011 Share Posted June 28, 2011 (edited) And I bet you installed into the default location, in C:\Program Files (x86)\ ? You're probably the latest victim of Windows 7's User account Control or UAC. It blocks Oblivion from making changes to your ini file, so it promptly loses the resolution change. Also causes massive problems when adding mods. Move your Oblivion installation to c:\Games\Oblivion, using THIS guide, and things should hopefully improve. Edited June 28, 2011 by MarkInMKUK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiajEnab Posted June 28, 2011 Author Share Posted June 28, 2011 Actually, I had steam installed on my E: drive and I disabled UAC as soon as I first installed win7. Nevertheless, I tried moving my steam and oblivion install as you suggested and the problem still persists. I also tried setting oblivion.exe and oblivionlauncher.exe to run as administrators and still no dice. Thanks for the suggestion, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlfredTetzlaff Posted June 28, 2011 Share Posted June 28, 2011 Hi, Right click on your oblivion.ini (the one in "Dokuments\My Games\Oblivion") and select Properties. Make sure the "Read Only" Attribute is unchecked. Hope this helps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Striker879 Posted June 28, 2011 Share Posted June 28, 2011 If you can edit your oblivion.ini (located in the Oblivion subfolder of your Documents and Settings folder, NOT the oblivion_default.ini located in your game install folder) search for iSize W and iSize H. I would suggest the setting be iSize W=1920 and iSize H=1200 as your monitor will work best at native resolution. I think you're seeing the 640 x 480 default resolution because your video card isn't recognized by the game (it is after all, an old game). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiajEnab Posted June 28, 2011 Author Share Posted June 28, 2011 I had already tried both of your suggestions and I had even went and made the ini files read-only after adjusting them and the problem still persisted. So I uninstalled it from steam (again) deleted all the game content I could find (including the save folder in my games) and scrubbed the registry clean while rebooting after every step. I then defragged my hdd (not because I thought it would help with the problem, my drive just really needed it) rebooted once more and installed. Safe to say the game works flawlessly now. Thanks for your help everyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kviftrup Posted February 14, 2019 Share Posted February 14, 2019 Late to the party, by eight years - a possible fix for this is to check the "fDefaultFOV=" setting in the Oblivion.ini and make sure it is set to "fDefaultFOV=75.0000". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squiggums Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 Late to the party, by eight years - a possible fix for this is to check the "fDefaultFOV=" setting in the Oblivion.ini and make sure it is set to "fDefaultFOV=75.0000".Thank you!!! For some reason setting fDefaultFOV to 75 fixed my screen resolution issues :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moksha8088 Posted October 19, 2022 Share Posted October 19, 2022 (it is after all, an old game).To be more age sensitive to seniors such as myself, perhaps we should call it an antique game from the young Todd Howard Era. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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