jihadoftomorrow Posted September 17, 2011 Share Posted September 17, 2011 Haven't played Oblivion for weeks now and decided to play again recently. I loaded my save and my character was where I left him. The thing is after a few seconds the game crashes now. This has never happened to me before and only started just now. Anyone know why? Also, when I loaded up the oblivion startup it set my video settings as if it was my first time starting the game. Is this in any way related? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iv000 Posted September 17, 2011 Share Posted September 17, 2011 (edited) I think I know what it is.Go to My Documents > My Games > Oblvion and delete everything inside except the "Saves" folder.Start up the launcher again, it should search for your hardware specs again. And that should fix the crashing.If not, try reinstalling the game. Edited September 17, 2011 by Iv000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jihadoftomorrow Posted September 17, 2011 Author Share Posted September 17, 2011 I think I know what it is.Go to My Documents > My Games > Oblvion and delete everything inside except the "Saves" folder.Start up the launcher again, it should search for your hardware specs again. And that should fix the crashing.If not, try reinstalling the game.Thanks for the reply but nope didn't work. I was hoping to avoid re installation but if there's no solution for this I guess I'd have no choice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hickory Posted September 17, 2011 Share Posted September 17, 2011 Haven't played Oblivion for weeks now and decided to play again recently. I loaded my save and my character was where I left him. The thing is after a few seconds the game crashes now. This has never happened to me before and only started just now. Anyone know why? Also, when I loaded up the oblivion startup it set my video settings as if it was my first time starting the game. Is this in any way related? Delete your \Documents\My Games\Oblivion\oblivion.ini file then re-start the game from the OblivionLauncher.exe (so that your hardware is re-detected), restore any settings like resolution and try again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bben46 Posted September 17, 2011 Share Posted September 17, 2011 If you have changed ANY hardware since the last time you played - this includes things like a monitor as well as video, sound or motherboard then - as Hickory said, your Oblivion.ini in no longer valid and must be regenerated. Just deleting (or renaming) the Oblivion.ini will allow the game to create a new Oblivion.ini based on the changed hardware. However, you will need to start the game from the original Oblivion launcher or the disk. Starting from the OBSE launcher or just about any other launcher put in by a utility such as OBMM or Wrye Bash will bypass this step as it is only needed once. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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