Crashing on startup, windows 10

[Dochobo]

Iv done everything listed on http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Technical_Support#Crashes and im still crashing on startup. Launcher starts, i click play, screen goes black for a second or less and then im staring at my desktop.

Any1 know what gives?
Nvidia geforce 750 with latest update

[ManualMakron]

You didn't install any mods by any chance?
Go to My Documents/MyGames/Oblivion/ folder, find and delete Oblivion.ini

[beesus]

Works fine for me. Try compatibility mode.

[beesus]

Is obliivon.esm clicked? Are you missing files? Have you reinstalled since you updated?

[beesus]

Try a fresh reinstall. I reinstalled Obliivon when I updated just to be safe.

[Dochobo]

Third fresh reinstall :P iv deleted and reconfigured the .ini so many times. iv tried it with just oblivion.esm, with all the DLC + .esm, just all hte dlc ticked, it still just gives me the finger

[Dochobo]

avery, what's your DX version?

[yo]

does not work for me too on windows 10

[AoEnwyr]

So I had exactly the same problem after a clean install. I run an NVidia GTX 760 so thought I might find an answer here when I came across your post thinking the graphics card or drivers may be the cause. When I upgraded to Windows 10 I backed my games up to an external hard drive. Glad I did, the upgrade screwed up lots of stuff so had to do a clean wipe and reinstall Windows 10. All my precious stuffs was gone. Anyway, I reinstalled Oblivion and Steam from my backup. Everything was dandy so I knew Oblivion worked. I chose to delete that copy and do a clean install because honestly, the game is amazing on it's own and didn't want to keep my mod infested copy.

So one shiny, fresh clean install and BAM ctd after the launcher screen! Of course I had to launch about 20 times and watch it ctd before admitting there was an actual issue. I thought it may have been the Steam copy so scrapped it and did a non Steam install from my original CD's. Same issue. Tried turning on and off different DLC. No love to be found there. Even went back to my backed up copy and imported just the config files. Still CTD. Tried replacing the game exe from the backup, but no fun game times to be had there.

Anyway I did things and I'm not sure which fixed it and to be honest I'm too lazy to investigate further but here is how I made it work.

1. Have a nice fresh install.
2. Turn off all DLC by going to "Data Files" in the launcher
3. Close the launcher
4. Right click on Oblivion in your library and click "Properties"
5. Select the "Updates" tab and uncheck the Sync to Steam Cloud thingy
6. Go to Documents>My Games>Oblivion and delete everything - there are 3 files Oblivion (config file), BlendSettings and RenderInfo. Get rid of them.
7. In the same location, open the Saves folder and sod all of these off to the recycle bin as well.
8. Launch the game and tada! Gaming goodness!
9. Close the game, relaunch and turn back on all DLC and sort out your graphics settings under Options if they require tweaking.
10. You can at this point turn back on your Cloud Sync and wait for it to download all of your saves. I chose not to as they were saves I made with mods I am no longer using.

As I said. No idea which one of these steps fixed it. More than likely it was the 3 config/render/blend files. (new ones are generated when you launch the first time after deleting them).

Hope this solves your issue.

[LeoMane]

worked great!!! im pretty sure it was the saves folder, because i noticed that my windows 8 modded oblivion saves were still there, and i had the same situation as UlanX where i needed to reinstall windows 10 and i had the option of saving all my files and i guess that meant the oblivion saves. anyways thanks UlanX for the help.

[callum]

1 thing i did after it kept crashing was go to my data files and the oblivion master file was unchecked trying clicking that to get it too work, it worked first time for me

[Dochobo]

XD Wow, good job Quan Chi, this post is OLD and you ressed that ♥♥♥♥ like an almighty necromancer.

[𝗟𝘂𝘂𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗱]

Does this game work on windows 10?

[Dochobo]

yeah, just disable multiple monitors. it dont like it. Nexus mods basic launcher fixes most issues

[warezwaldo]

If anyone ever comes back here, I solved this issue because I was (like most of you) REinstalling Oblivion after several years but my old config files and save games were still sitting under my user folder. I moved them to a backup location and deleted the three config files in MyGames\Oblivion. I started the game and it rebuilt the missing files and ran fine afterward. Just follow step 6 in the list of things that Yulanda tried.

[BarbaraRB]

Originally posted by warezwaldo:

If anyone ever comes back here, I solved this issue because I was (like most of you) REinstalling Oblivion after several years but my old config files and save games were still sitting under my user folder. I moved them to a backup location and deleted the three config files in MyGames\Oblivion. I started the game and it rebuilt the missing files and ran fine afterward. Just follow step 6 in the list of things that Yulanda tried.

Simple and effective, worked for me. Bless you.