Sudden problem with Resolution

[antiquatedlace]

So somehow, between now and twelve hours ago, Oblivion has decided that my graphics card just isn't what it wants. I haven't done any updates or anything, and 12 hours ago I could play just fine, so hopefully someone can help me figure this out.

I'm attatching an image of my options screen, which now helpfully does not list any resolutions to play at, and the error code, which one result on google tells me is due to a bad install of graphics drivers-- but I haven't updated any drivers in the last like, month.

 

 

 

 

Any ideas?

 

EDIT: Things, as they so often do, fixed themselves. For future reference to the next person who googles this problem, the error message was "Failed to initialize renderer. Desired render mode not found on Adaptor."

Edited December 12, 2017 by antiquatedlace

[PkSanTi]

Try upadting/checking your drivers anyway; Windows is not a perfect OS, and sometimes s*** happens.

 

Another thing you can try to do first, is to set a resolution in the Oblivion.ini file, on youruser/mydocuments/mygames/oblivion (I think that's the right location). Open the .ini file and look for the 'iSize W=' and 'iSize H=' lines; there apply your resolution. iSizeW is the width; iSizeH, the height. For example, if you use 1920x1080, it should look like this:

 

iSize W=1920

iSize H=1080

 

Make sure you write it properly (no spaces between the equal sign and the words/number; only a space between iSize and W or H, according to the case. In other words, it should look exactly as my example (copy and paste it if you want).

 

Once you've edited those lines on the Oblivion.ini, you are telling Oblivion to run the game on that resolution. So then open the game through the Oblivion.exe (not the launcher) and hope that is just that the launcher is confused for some reason and can't apply a resolution, but your game can through the .ini file.

Edited December 11, 2017 by PkSanTi

[antiquatedlace]

Thanks for the reply! So, god only knows what the hell happened, but I blame Windows. I went into my driver update dialogue to do as you recommended and it said, "oh no worries, it's up to date, but be sure to restart your computer to finish the update". Again, I did not turn my computer off last night, so it's not like Windows did its whole auto-update and startup gig. I did not manually update anything. So, as far as I can understand, the spirit of Bill Gates reached into my computer to cause me mild to severe emotional distress as I found yet another fire to put out re: a bethesda game.

After doing a restart, things seem to be good again. So, let that be a lesson to the next schmuck that googles this problem, try restarting first you dingus.

Thanks again!

[PkSanTi]

Haha, technicians always ask, when someone approaches them with a problem, 'did you try restarting your PC?', and I always hated it. Now we get the point, haha.

 

I'm glad it's all fine, friend. Good luck!

[jukebox1899]

I had the exact same problem as the original poster. Just out of the blue got the same error message. Followed PkSanTi's advice and sure enough the ini file had a resolution setting of 2880 x 1620. Of course this did not match the resolution choices at the startup window, the largest was 1920 x 1080. When I adjusted the ini to match, all is well, it loaded again. Have no idea why it worked perfectly at the other resolution for the last 6 months, but hey, it works now, so I'm not complaining. So thank you PkSanTi!

[PkSanTi]

Glad this was helpful for you, friend.