"oblivion cannot recognize your video card" resolution bug

[GNAW]

i have a nvidia rtx 2060 and i have a 2K resolution monitor and i try to change the games resolution but will not change. o have tried multiple times to try to fix this but not even the internet can help lol.
if you have any ideas, it would be much appreciated.<3

[slayor3000]

Since your gpu was released long after Oblivion came out it will not recognise your card. But it should be using it. If you have switchable graphics just ensure Oblivion has been added and set correctly.
If still unable to change resolutions then try changing the ini.
Find the folder where the game is installed. Find the Oblivion_default.ini
Open it and find the values for iSize W= , iSize H= . Change the values to what you want your resolution to be. i.e iSize W=1920 , iSize H=1080
Remember to save it.
Also right click the ini, open properties and change to read only so it cannot be set back.

Hope this works for you.

[GNAW]

i think the issue is is that it still cant find my card but it is obviously using it. i went to the config folder you said and changed the settings, and yes i did save. still couldnt get the resolution to change sadly.

thank you though, if you have any other ideas it would be much appropriated:)

[SeriousCCIE]

I had a similar issue; are you able to load the game and change the resolution in game?

I run the game via a shortcut I made to the oblivion.exe file--maybe directly loading the game that way and then changing the settings for resolution within the game will work for you.

Also, if you are up to it -- you can try to change the settings in the Oblivion.ini file.

It is not in the game folder, but in my documents probably under my documents\my games\oblivion

search for Oblivion.ini

Then search in that for [Display] and in there somewhere should be the following; this example shows a full screen with 1920x1080 resolution:

bFull Screen=1
iSize W=1920
iSize H=1080

Just change the W and H to match your 2k, so that may be 2560x1440 or 2560x1600 depending on what you're referring to.

For the record, I am playing at "2K" myself on a card Oblivion couldn't identify; here is what my entry in that file looks like:

bFull Screen=1
iSize W=2560
iSize H=1600

While I am not the person and this is not the post to discuss various changes in, that file contains a lot of stuff that can be altered to make the game run better or look better, even both.

You can also determine if your game is even recognizing the card properly even if the auto detector in the launch does not -- the same folder should have a "rendererinfo.txt" file. In that should be the name of your card as it identified it. It may be that the game engine recognizes the card--but that the launcher does not.

If that's the case, the game itself will likely work fine once you get past the resolution issue.

[GNAW]

When I get home I’ll try that stuff out but I already went into the .ini folder and changed the res but it still didn’t change it. I tried to change the res in game and it says I have to restart the game to make it change but when I boot the game back up it hasn’t changed.

[arcmos]

Are you using mods or mods manager? Some mods and mods manager comes with their own .ini that will overwritte the ones in the game folder.

[GNAW]

no im not using any mods i am just trying to run the game vanilla.

[cheshirm]

the other possibility the game launcher cannot read/write the .ini file.

check antivirus log. might be blocking the game launcher or game.
check windows security/controlled folder access. if on add exceptions for game/game launcher.

rename the Oblivion folder in Documents\My Games.

start game launcher. change settings. exit.
see if the Oblivion.ini was created and contains the settings you just made

[GNAW]

Originally posted by cheshirm:

the other possibility the game launcher cannot read/write the .ini file.

check antivirus log. might be blocking the game launcher or game.
check windows security/controlled folder access. if on add exceptions for game/game launcher.

rename the Oblivion folder in Documents\My Games.

start game launcher. change settings. exit.
see if the Oblivion.ini was created and contains the settings you just made

this woked for me... thank you very much!