Error: Failled to initialize renderer

[Dwörf]

Hello Steam Communitiy.

I bought the Oblivion Game of the Year Edition, which is only available in english. I wanted to start the game but there is this error: Failled to initialize renderer. I searched in the Internet and found some opportunities to solve this problem but it hasn't worked yet. Can somebody help me please? Am I just to stupid?

[Dwörf]

By the way ... I have the same problem with Skyrim..It has worked 100% fine but now...Failed to initialize renderer..

[Dwörf]

Can noone help me? Come on guys...please

[Soy]

It helps when you give more information. Like, are you running mods, are you using windows etc.

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Technical_Support#Crashes did you try the things listed here on the crash page?

And try this, if you are using win 7, go to the place you installed it, right mouse button on the .exe files, properties, compatiblity, check the "disable desktop composition" checkbox.

[Dwörf]

I am not running mods. I am using windows 8.1 . I have an Intel Core i7 and a Nvidia Geforce GTX 860 and 8GB RAM.

Yesterday I started to search in the Internet and found out, that I have to run it with the intigrated graphics and NOT with the NVIDIA.

Last month I could play Skyrim on very high graphics...and now just with very low?
There have to be another problem but I've really no idea...

Concerning Oblivion...
I cant change the graphic settings which is realy annoying and it crashes always..

[Dwörf]

Okay i solved the Problem. Now I can run both but there is another Problem with Oblivion now...

I updatetd my NVIDIA GEFORCE EXPERINCE and reinstalled the programm nut now I cant change the graphic settings...

With Skyrim everything is fine

[fake]

how did u solve problem?

[Dwörf]

I have reinstalled the game and set all the graphic options on low. After that I have started NVIDIA Gefofce Experience and applied the recommended graphic options. But concerning Oblivion nothing has changed yet..

[ManualMakron]

Did you try running Steam or Oblivion as administrator?

[Dwörf]

Oblivion

[ManualMakron]

Maybe you could give it a try by running Steam as administrator..

[SnOop]

Hi, I'm a bit late to the party but I encountered the same issue today. What fixed it was simply:
-Open the Oblivion Launcher
-Select Options
-In the resolution section, select the fitting resolution for your screen. For me it is the 1920x1080 (widescreen) but THE LOWEST IN THE LIST! (selecting the one on top of the list is what caused the problem)
-Click on "ok" and launch the game, it should be fine now.

*In the options, you also want to select the right graphic card in the section "adapter" if you have several ones. "Antialliasing" should be set on "none". If you experience black screen in character creation but can see the menus and hear the game, switching from "hdr" to "bloom" might fix it (but be aware that it will mess up with the mod TESLodGen that requires hdr)
**On the side note: you should run the game as administrator. Go to your game directory, right click on the oblivion.exe>properties>compatibilities>check "run as administrator>apply. If you use mods and have installed OBSE, do the same with obse_loader.exe (should be in the same directory) and launch the game using that application instead of the regular launcher. Also, the option "run with compatibility mode" set to "Windows 8" might help if you have compatibility issues with newer Windows versions.

Hope that can help someone