Graphics look bright and washed out, like they're from ten years ealier to the game's dev?

[LambentTyto]

Last time I booted it up on my machine it worked and looked fine. Now when I boot it, there's no shadows, it's kind of bright and washed out looking, like the game is from 1998 or something.

How can I fix this?

[angieswarsong]

you do realize how old this game is right?

[LambentTyto]

Originally posted by angieswarsong:

you do realize how old this game is right?

I've played it before and it didn't look like this. There's something wrong.

[Sam90]

This game can look awesome if you have a powerful computer and willing to mod it. I have some Oblivion screenshots in my profile and the game looks much more colorful than Skyrim will ever be. Even the vanilla unmodded game won't look like a 1998 game. There is something wrong indeed.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=332660588

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=332941018

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=340451109

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=341341465

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=328316307

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=325801896

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=316046649

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=340451151

Those are some of them.

[LambentTyto]

Originally posted by BH Sam90:

This game can look awesome if you have a powerful computer and willing to mod it. I have some Oblivion screenshots in my profile and the game looks much more colorful than Skyrim will ever be. Even the vanilla unmodded game won't look like a 1998 game. There is something wrong indeed.

Those are some nice screenshots dude. No, my game looks BAD. I've played before on this PC, and it didn't look like bad before. I've tried messing around with the graphics setting to see if I could fix the problem, but so far no use.

So, to anyone else who sees this post, look at those screenshots and take away about 75% of the color and ALL the shadows. That's what my game looks like. Really annoying. Haven't even bothered playing because of it.

I really wanted to replay the main storyline, as well as the DLC I never got around to trying out. But so far that hasn't been possible. Not with those crap graphics I'm seeing.

Sam, thanks for posting the screenshots! I really like that first one. The landscape looks beutiful. And you're right about Skyrim. For all it's cool combat mechanics, once you play the game, you get bored of it pretty fast and revert back to Oblivion when you want some good Elder Scrolls!

[Sam90]

Have you tried deleting oblivion.ini in the C:\Users\[yourusername]\Documents\My Games\Oblivion ? Just beware this will rest all your custom settings such as controls, graphics ... etc but won't change your save files.

[LambentTyto]

Originally posted by BH Sam90:

Have you tried deleting oblivion.ini in the C:\Users\[yourusername]\Documents\My Games\Oblivion ? Just beware this will rest all your custom settings such as controls, graphics ... etc but won't change your save files.

Well, I feel like an idiot. I was being stupid.

Apparently when you boot Oblivion up, before you click Play and head to the main title screen, there's an options button that brings up a dialogue box for graphics. Apparently that was set to lowest quality for some reason, and even though I tried to change the gaem's graphics settings from the in game menue, the first dialogue box from preboot was overriding the in game's menue. Weird.

So I got it fixed, game looks good now.

I'm sorry for wasting everybody's time with this.

[Sam90]

Originally posted by lambenttyto:

Originally posted by BH Sam90:

Have you tried deleting oblivion.ini in the C:\Users\[yourusername]\Documents\My Games\Oblivion ? Just beware this will rest all your custom settings such as controls, graphics ... etc but won't change your save files.

Well, I feel like an idiot. I was being stupid.

Apparently when you boot Oblivion up, before you click Play and head to the main title screen, there's an options button that brings up a dialogue box for graphics. Apparently that was set to lowest quality for some reason, and even though I tried to change the gaem's graphics settings from the in game menue, the first dialogue box from preboot was overriding the in game's menue. Weird.

So I got it fixed, game looks good now.

I'm sorry for wasting everybody's time with this.

These things can happen at anytime to anyone XD , but glad you solved the issue though :).

Good Luck