Oblivion crash at startup

LightReaver · Mar 21, 2009

Well that's pretty much it. I've tried everything, patching, compatibility modes, reinstalling, installing the expansion, whatsoever. It just won't work.
And well, right before you say it, my PC CAN run Oblivion smoothly, as I've done that before on Vista and XP.

Can anyone come up with anything?

Fizban · Mar 27, 2009

LightReaver said:
Well that's pretty much it. I've tried everything, patching, compatibility modes, reinstalling, installing the expansion, whatsoever. It just won't work.
And well, right before you say it, my PC CAN run Oblivion smoothly, as I've done that before on Vista and XP.

Can anyone come up with anything?

With just that info it's not really possible to figure why it's crashing. I can say that my laptop runs Oblivion on x64 Build 7057 and did run it as well with x86 Build 7000 so it's likely driver related.

PhoneyVirus · Mar 30, 2009

I know you said Patching but are you trying to run the game with a NoDVD Patch ? and if so don't do that try the disk first, if you did and it still crash's try the NoDVD Patch this game got SecRom I think.

STormdce · Apr 2, 2009

I fixed mine by setting my video settings correctly using the autorun setup off the disk.
Seems it would hang because the video was set too low.

zom813 · Apr 4, 2009

@ LightReaver:
Are you trying to play the normal Oblivion and if so, which patch have you installed?

I recently bought a copy of Oblivion - Game of the Year Edition, which comes with the Nights of the Nine and Shivering Isles expansions. I managed to install them all perfectly and it automatically patches it to version 1.2.0416 (latest) and it starts up and runs perfectly.

And I see you have not specified which build of the Windows 7 Beta you have installed. I use Build 7000 and Oblivion works perfectly on it for me. Maybe a reinstall is all it would take to fix it?

Erg0n · Apr 5, 2009

Ok, you really havent given sufficient evidence for me to provide you with better advice but here are a few suggestions that im going to presume, because they arent listed as done, you havent tried:

Update your GPU drivers, if there is none listed on your GPU companies website, try google for a 3rd party driver suited to your card.

If that doesnt work, please post more of your computer and OS specs as it will make it much easier to give you help/advice.

Thanks,
Will

ShadowWolfFIN · May 25, 2009

do you have two screens. I finally got oblivion working by unplug another screen

johnmarsella · Oct 30, 2009

Dual Monitor Fix

I have a 16:9 monitor (setup as secondary in my normal environment) that I like to run games on. I was having Crash-on-Startup issues when trying to run Oblivion in this fashion.

The previous poster was on the right track, but there is a software fix (actually 2):

1) disable the non-Oblivion monitor with windows display settings and then run the Oblivion Launcher to create the settings.ini. Play the game, and re-enable the monitor after you're done.

or

2) do fix #1 to obtain the initial settings, then use a program like UltraMon to force the Oblivion.exe to run on the proper screen (as primary) and disable the non-Oblivion monitor during game-play.

I created a direct shortcut on the desktop to Oblivion.exe (circumventing the launcher) for this option. It works just fine this way.

williamf · Jan 22, 2010

Its the dual monitors

Thanks heaps John.

I've spent 6+ hours trying to resolve this and I soon as I saw your solution it all rang true. I'd replace display drivers, tried various Windows7 UAC settings but its all down to Oblivion in full screen mode not handling multiple displays well (nb I had one login where multi displays did work, but others that did not).

By simply instructing my daughters to disable the second display when playing Oblivion its all good now.

theotherguy · Feb 19, 2010

Thought I'd bump this instead of starting a new thread....

I have a Windows 7 64bit Install that is only a few days old, had to reinstall

, so all the latest drivers and everything. The game work fine on this exact system previously with XP64bit.

I have freshly installed Oblivion off the disc and have also tried with all of the DLC. (SI, KotN, Horse armor, mehrunes razor, orrey, spell tomes, thieves den, vile lair, and wizards tower) the patch installed is ShiveringIsles_v1.2.0416English. was going to install the full FCOM mod but had to make sure the original game worked first.

I have tried disabling and unplugging my second screen and disabling multicore gpu in the drivers but still crashes in exactly the same place.

Probably doesn't help any but Fallout3 does work fine (being in a newer version of the same engine) so has any other game i have tried playing so far.

Any help would be great

cheers

Andrew

DarkRhystar · Feb 19, 2010

theotherguy said:
Any help would be great

Try using the Oblivion Launcher (not the oblivion.exe) and make sure your Data files all enabled. Oblivion runs just fine on my Win7-64 computer.

theotherguy · Feb 19, 2010

yeah already tried and made sure of that. even tried loading as a previous version of windows, as administrator and turned off UAC...

Frostmourne · Feb 19, 2010

theotherguy said:
yeah already tried and made sure of that. even tried loading as a previous version of windows, as administrator and turned off UAC...

Go through the troubleshooting guide in my sig - and even with that 295 Oblivion will hitch - sloppy coding.

valtonray · Feb 19, 2010

well looking at your system specs you've got enough muscle here to power the game no problem. are you using any 3rd party unofficial mods? also on a side note, for oblivion issues The Elder Scrolls Nexus - Oblivion mods and community may be a bit more helpful as they are only focused on one thing so you may want to try there as well. but we will see what we can help with.

when your game is loading the mods do any pop ups warn you about incompatibilities or do you have mods or updates that fail to load?

theotherguy · Feb 19, 2010

Frostmourne:

your troubleshooting guide hasn't helped any. i had already tried most of that myself or it wasn't relevant and when i Google my problem this is the only page that come up with issues running oblivion, that's how i found this page in the first place. No one else seems to have the problem.

My last resort will be to contact Bethesda themselves by the end of the day but i doubt they'll help much seeing as oblivion is old as.

theotherguy · Feb 19, 2010

valtonray:

I was going to install mods, but not even the "straight of the disc" install works. good idea with the link. was posting here because i figured it was a windows 7 issue, as it worked fine for me on this exact system with vista 64 sp3, but I'll post there as well.

valtonray · Feb 19, 2010

so your not even getting oblivion installed? how does your disc look? you may want to find an iso image that you can make a back up from and try it. sometimes a tiny scratch in just the wrong space can cause hell when trying to install from a disc.

Frostmourne · Feb 19, 2010

theotherguy said:
Frostmourne:

your troubleshooting guide hasn't helped any. i had already tried most of that myself or it wasn't relevant and when i Google my problem this is the only page that come up with issues running oblivion, that's how i found this page in the first place. No one else seems to have the problem.

My last resort will be to contact Bethesda themselves by the end of the day but i doubt they'll help much seeing as oblivion is old as.

Have you looked through every section and point?

theotherguy · Feb 20, 2010

valtonray:

The game installed fine with no errors. its when i load the game after install it crashes after the developer video.

Frostmourne:

I dont know what PSI is...

the reboot into safe mode give me the error:
"Failed to initialize render.

NiXAdapterDesc::GetDeviceCaps() failed."
This has something to do with drivers, but i believe its because i'm in safe mode. Plus the game just dumps straight to desktop no error windows when not in safe mode.

and lastly yes all my hardware is fully W7 compatible and has all the latest drivers to date 3 days ago.

including, bios, chipset, ide, nvidia, xfi, direct x, net, c++, keyboard, mouse. and the application itself is the latest update as well.

i went back at tried the "clean boot" tutorial which i skipped last time because i felt it was unnessesary because i had only just reinstalled windows but that has not helped either.

theotherguy · Feb 20, 2010

I've noticed that the developer logo doesnt even finish playing before i get dumped back to desktop. i thoguht this might be a codec issue. I've installed the K-Lite 32 and 64 bit wich i always used to use untill recently switching to VLC. i also had removed Windows Media Player because i dont use it so i've reinstalled that and neither of these ideas have made a difference either.

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