Oblivion not working on my new computer

[Odd notions of insanitea]

I ran into a somewhat baffling problem: Oblivion works perfectly on my old Windows 7 computer, while it won't even get past the title sequence on my new Windows 8.1 computer. Do you have any idea why this is the case?

Here's my old computer's specifications:
Acer Aspire 5741G
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU M 350 @ 2.27GHZ 2.27
RAM: 4 GB
System type: 64-bit

My new computer's specifications:
HP Pavilion
Processor: AMD A10-5745M APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics 2.10 GHz
RAM: 8 GB
System type: 64-bit

[Zes Aelik]

Its not windows 8. I have windows 8 as my OS and i can play the game.

[Odd notions of insanitea]

Okay, do you then have any other suggestion?

[Odd notions of insanitea]

Yep. I have tried reducing the graphics settings to the minimum, but still the problem persists. I have tried deleting the default ini and tried installing the various unofficial patches, but to no avail.

[Ƨ]

Have you tried looking on Google?

[Odd notions of insanitea]

For several hours trying out different methods.

[Odd notions of insanitea]

You mean on the HP? Could it be possible that Oblivion requires greater CPU than Skyrim, which my HP runs perfectly?

[DavidRubes]

That's just weird. Earlier this year I installed Oblivion on the "family pc", which is, from a gamers
point of view all but total garbage: Intel Pentium G3220 (dual-core 3.0 GHz), nVidia gt 520 1gb
and 4 gigs of ram and 1TB WD hdd, 64-bit system Windows 7.
Guess what, the game runs at stable 60 fps in FullHD with grass OFF and with most things maxed(trees and shadows on medium - I think) and with HDR ON(for sure).
I was pleasantly surprised to see that.
So to make my point - I don't think Oblivion is THAT CPU heavy,
though I must say that it does make use of all 4 cores on my i5 when I play.
I might install the game on a Toshiba laptop with some crappy dual-core Celeron which runs about 2 GHz - I may do it (and report here later), if you want.
My only advice now is try installing non-steam edition of the game.

[Licalia]

Oblivion should work for both: Windows 8.0 and 8.1.
CPU should be fine. Anyway you should AT LEAST get to the title menu. Even if the CPU weren't good enough to run it smoothly.

Do you only have integrated Graphics? If not - have you disabled that for Oblivion.
I often had problems with my notebook while playing because many older games aren't really recognized and thus use integrated graphics by default.

[JrB908]

What exactly happens (black screen/freeze, CTD etc..) and how far do you get into the load up (at what point does it crash) ?

[Odd notions of insanitea]

Okay I have tried out your suggestions. I changed my graphics settings to "High power" instead of "Power-saving". Still I get the error message when the Bethesda logo is shown: "Oblivion has stopped working. A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available". I didn't find the switch for integrated graphics however.

[JrB908]

Go to User > My Documents > My Games > Oblivion, and either move to another location or just delete the ini file (Oblivion Configuration Settings), if it's not detected on startup, a fresh one will be generated.

See if that gets you any further in ...

[Licalia]

I have an Nvidia Mobile Card so I don't knwo exactly where you need to change settings since I'd think you will have an AMD one (since you have an AMD CPU) (If there is an additional one that is, you haven't really specified that)

If there is though, I found that
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqvK3B69UwQ

(It says Intel integrated but that doesn't matter in that case, settings are to be made via Catalyst anyway)

[Odd notions of insanitea]

That's awesome, I didn't know that. It seems like Oblivion is already set on high power, but at least I know that the problem doesn't lie there.

[Sade]

I've had a number of issues running Oblivion in Windows 7 - I'm not sure if these will help with Windows 8, but I would at least suggest giving them a try, as Win 7 and Win 8 are very similar in some parts.

First problem: Oblivion crashed before/after logo. Solution was to switch to Windowed mode.

Second problem: Oblivion would crash soon after starting a new game, or more specifically, whenever I tried to save a game (even autosave). Solution was to go to Properties behind both Oblivionlauncher.exe and Oblivion.exe, and set them to run in Windows XP SP 3 compatibility mode, I also checked the bottom two boxes in "Settings" section in Compatibility tab. After this, Oblivion started to display UAC screen whenver starting the game ("Do you want to let this program make changes to the computer", or along those lines). I'm suspecting that when not run in compatibility mode, Oblivion doesn't have the permissions to create and modify all the files it needs to in order to work properly.

Third problem: Steam was throwing an application load error #5 at me, made a symbolic link between Steam proper installation path "steamapps" folder and the actual folder where the game resides.