Rabish Bini Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 Hey, I recently got Oblivion Game of the Year Edition. And I'm having a bit of trouble. I installed the game, and the expansions, and that went fine, the problem is when I load the game, it comes up with the launch screen, I click play, and a black box appears in the top right, and after a couple of seconds an error message comes up saying "Oblivion has stopped working". Yes, I am using Vista, here are my system specs: OS Name Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Home Basic Version 6.0.6001 Service Pack 1 Build 6001 Other OS Description Not Available OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation System Name TOM-PC System Manufacturer Hewlett-Packard System Model HP Compaq dc7800 Small Form Factor System Type X86-based PC Processor Intel® Core2 Duo CPU E6550 @ 2.33GHz, 2333 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 2 Logical Processor(s) BIOS Version/Date Hewlett-Packard 786F1 v01.04, 18/07/2007 SMBIOS Version 2.5 Windows Directory C:\Windows System Directory C:\Windows\system32 Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1 Locale Australia Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.0.6001.18000" User Name Tom-PC\Mate Time Zone AUS Eastern Daylight Time Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 4.00 GB Total Physical Memory 3.48 GB Available Physical Memory 2.24 GB Total Virtual Memory 7.16 GB Available Virtual Memory 5.91 GB Page File Space 3.78 GB Page File C:\pagefile.sys Any help appreciated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoffe Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 Yes, I am using Vista, here are my system specs: OS Name Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Home Basic Version 6.0.6001 Service Pack 1 Build 6001 Other OS Description Not Available OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation System Name TOM-PC System Manufacturer Hewlett-Packard System Model HP Compaq dc7800 Small Form Factor System Type X86-based PC Processor Intel® Core2 Duo CPU E6550 @ 2.33GHz, 2333 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 2 Logical Processor(s) BIOS Version/Date Hewlett-Packard 786F1 v01.04, 18/07/2007 SMBIOS Version 2.5 Windows Directory C:\Windows System Directory C:\Windows\system32 Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1 Locale Australia Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.0.6001.18000" User Name Tom-PC\Mate Time Zone AUS Eastern Daylight Time Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 4.00 GB Total Physical Memory 3.48 GB Available Physical Memory 2.24 GB Total Virtual Memory 7.16 GB Available Virtual Memory 5.91 GB Page File Space 3.78 GB Page File C:\pagefile.sys No graphics card? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ascendant_Justice Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 Yea can you post your graphics card? Probably a stupid question but is the "Home Basic" Vista 32 bit or 64 bit? (I'm very new to Vista, but just had a problem with Half Life 2 not running on 64-bit Vista that I was able to fix.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rabish Bini Posted December 28, 2008 Author Share Posted December 28, 2008 Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's the video cards fault. It's an Intel® Q35 Express Chipset Family @Ascendent: It's 64 bit, I'm pretty sure, but Bethesda says they've had no troubles on Vista with their tests, so it shouldn't matter. EDIT: If it is because I have an Intel card (which I'm fairly sure it is) would downloading a free driver from the Nvidia site fix the problem. http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us That's a link to the site If it would fix it, could someone tell me the best one to download. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoffe Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's the video cards fault. It's an Intel® Q35 Express Chipset Family I'd guess that is the cause of your problem. Most video games with 3d graphics require either an ATI Radeon or nVidia GeForce based graphics card to work properly. The integrated Intel video chip work fine for regular computer use but is inadequate or unsupported by most games nowadays. If it isn't a laptop I'd recommend that you get either a Radeon or GeForce card for your computer. (The nVidia graphics drivers you linked to are for use with GeForce graphics cards. They won't do anything for you without one.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth333 Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 I'd guess that is the cause of your problem. Most video games with 3d graphics require either an ATI Radeon or nVidia GeForce based graphics card to work properly. The integrated Intel video chip work fine for regular computer use but is inadequate or unsupported by most games nowadays. If it isn't a laptop I'd recommend that you get either a Radeon or GeForce card for your computer. (The nVidia graphics drivers you linked to are for use with GeForce graphics cards. They won't do anything for you without one.) QFE. I'm pretty sure that's the cause. You might want to try oldblivion (http://www.oldblivion.com/) but no promises... (dunno if it runs on Vista). If you still have any doubts you can still post a dxdiag report (start>run> then type dxdiag, save, copy & paste here) but a "real" video" card is needed (unless you can find a workaround with Oldblivion). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rabish Bini Posted December 29, 2008 Author Share Posted December 29, 2008 Ok, I'll try Oldblivion first, otherwise I'll probably just get it for the 360 (It's my brother's computer) Thanks anyway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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