Oblivion crashes upon reaching the loading-menu screen.

[RobotParty]

Yes, I know there's already threads about this, but none of them have really helped.

I don't think I need to explain, but here I go : I got the GOTY edition as a gift, and I installed it. I have no mods installed, completely vanilla. It crashes when I get to the 'loading' screen before the actual menu. Haven't been able to get to the menu yet.

Some help would be great. I used to have a CD version of this game, worked fine with mods.

[JtDarth]

Does it crash before the opening movies?

[RobotParty]

Originally posted by DarthNachoz:

Does it crash before the opening movies?

It crashes on the loading screen. As in, where it says 'Loading...'. It's basically the screen that shows before the actual menu screen, including the little animated intro that goes with it ( It lasts about 5 seconds, if I remember ).

[JtDarth]

Originally posted by Necronus - Interstellar Panda:

Originally posted by DarthNachoz:

Does it crash before the opening movies?

It crashes on the loading screen. As in, where it says 'Loading...'. It's basically the screen that shows before the actual menu screen, including the little animated intro that goes with it ( It lasts about 5 seconds, if I remember ).

okay, check your load order and bsa files. Crashing during that screen is usually due to a catastrophic conflict or a required file not being checked, in my expierience. Or there is always the issue of your .ini being messed up. In which case you go to your documents folder/mygames/oblivion and delete the contents. If that doesnt fix it, open up the .ini and find benablemusic = 1 and change the 1 to a zero, if that doesnt work try doing the same with benablesound.

[RobotParty]

Nothing you have suggested works. Not to mention, I'm still getting the good ole' 'Task manager can't close the program' problem.

[JtDarth]

Originally posted by Necronus - Interstellar Panda:

Nothing you have suggested works. Not to mention, I'm still getting the good ole' 'Task manager can't close the program' problem.

as in you cant get to taskman, or as in it says you dont have permission to close that process?

[RobotParty]

Originally posted by DarthNachoz:

Originally posted by Necronus - Interstellar Panda:

Nothing you have suggested works. Not to mention, I'm still getting the good ole' 'Task manager can't close the program' problem.

as in you cant get to taskman, or as in it says you dont have permission to close that process?

I get so far as actually clicking 'end process' but it doesn't do anything. As far as I know, this could be relevant because it means it's abruptly crashing/closing.

So, yeah, I'm outta' ideas. I appreciate the help, though.

[JtDarth]

Originally posted by Necronus - Interstellar Panda:

Originally posted by DarthNachoz:

as in you cant get to taskman, or as in it says you dont have permission to close that process?

I get so far as actually clicking 'end process' but it doesn't do anything. As far as I know, this could be relevant because it means it's abruptly crashing/closing.

So, yeah, I'm outta' ideas. I appreciate the help, though.

Yeah, I'm outta ideas as well, if you feel up for it you could always scour google, or check the bethesda softworks tech support sub-forum.

[Ciciro]

Delete oblivion.ina in your documents folder. It worked for me.

[ripRichard]

try opening it

[JtDarth]

Originally posted by Ciciro:

Delete oblivion.ina in your documents folder. It worked for me.

I already reccomended that

[RobotParty]

Originally posted by Dubya:

try opening it

What'dya mean?

[Neal]

Have you reinstalled the operating system since last playing oblivion with the cd version? There could be old conflicts arising, conflicts between the two versions.

You can verify this problem by installing Oblivion in a completely different location on the hard drive and seeing if it works.

Of course, if you have reformatted the drive, or this is a differnt harddrive entirely, and you didn't move windows over from an older drive, then this won't be the problem.

However, if this turns out to be the problem, you'd have to wipe clean the existence of Oblivion on the harddrive entirely, which can be done following tutorials online.

[RobotParty]

Originally posted by Soul Reaver:

Have you reinstalled the operating system since last playing oblivion with the cd version? There could be old conflicts arising, conflicts between the two versions.

You can verify this problem by installing Oblivion in a completely different location on the hard drive and seeing if it works.

Of course, if you have reformatted the drive, or this is a differnt harddrive entirely, and you didn't move windows over from an older drive, then this won't be the problem.

However, if this turns out to be the problem, you'd have to wipe clean the existence of Oblivion on the harddrive entirely, which can be done following tutorials online.

This might be the problem, but I got rid of the Bethesda Oblivion completely. Deleted the main file, and uninstalled through control panel, etc.

[RobotParty]

The game is unmodded, though. Still, I suppose I could try all of that.

[Neal]

Oh duh! Alkpaz points out a very important procedure. Even though you didn't download any extra mods, the dlc from the GOTY edition actually comes with "mods," which are separate files the game loads after original content.

Sometimes the game has it's own dlc out of order after install! You can manually put them in order if you want through the game launcher, with logical importance (the last file overrides all files above it if it touches the same content), or you can also get the most famed "BOSS" sorter to get them in check for you automatically