[Rlm Claw]

Yeah this is probably my own fault.


So a year back, i played oblivion and was modding and all that. I got bored and so i tried to uninstall it. That didn't work with the "insert disk" error showing, so i followed what this guy said to do, and used reg edit. Now, i want to play again and start modding, so i installed it again. Nothing wrong, until i push play from the launcher. A black box shows in the corner, and will flash. The screen will turn black, but soon it shows an "oblivion has stopped working" sign.

I have a great graphics card, and it played very smoothly, even on high quality, so it can't be the graphics card. Any help on how to fix this?

[bben46]

If you left anything behind that could be causing your problem. The new install would run into parts of the old install.
So, first you probably need to uninstall completely and remove the folders where the old stuff might still be.

Here is a link to my complete uninstall/reinstall procedure located in the articles section of the Nexus
http://www.tesnexus....icle.php?id=240

[Rlm Claw]

bben46, on Nov 15 2009, 12:43 AM, said:

If you left anything behind that could be causing your problem. The new install would run into parts of the old install.
So, first you probably need to uninstall completely and remove the folders where the old stuff might still be.

Here is a link to my complete uninstall/reinstall procedure located in the articles section of the Nexus
http://www.tesnexus....icle.php?id=240

I'm sorry to be rude, but your tutorial doesn't work. I did all of the things you said to do, and while the game did install
faster, the problem is still there. I don't have any mods, no helper programs, no nothing, and nothing happened.
I still receive the "Oblivion has stopped working sign yet".

[nosisab]

Rlm Claw, on Nov 15 2009, 01:48 AM, said:

bben46, on Nov 15 2009, 12:43 AM, said:

If you left anything behind that could be causing your problem. The new install would run into parts of the old install.
So, first you probably need to uninstall completely and remove the folders where the old stuff might still be.

Here is a link to my complete uninstall/reinstall procedure located in the articles section of the Nexus
http://www.tesnexus....icle.php?id=240

I'm sorry to be rude, but your tutorial doesn't work. I did all of the things you said to do, and while the game did install
faster, the problem is still there. I don't have any mods, no helper programs, no nothing, and nothing happened.
I still receive the "Oblivion has stopped working sign yet".

The tutorial do work for normal situations, what rings a bell is that your's statement about using regedit. You may need to go to it again and throughly and carefully remove all references to the game and maybe Bethesda entries.

You should know messing with the register can lead to problems, I think it was a communication fail and you meant the tutorial 'did not work' for you.

[bben46]

Hundreds of people have used the procedure, and it did work for most of them. Not all for various reasons.

Did you run the registry cleaner (I recommend Ccleaner, but most will work). And did you reboot both before and after running the cleaner? (Very Important)

Here is why: after uninstalling and deleting everything, rebooting allows Windows to mark any registry references that no longer point to a program as 'orphans' The cleaning program removes these orphans as part of it's cleaning process. Then rebooting again _ it will take slightly longer to reboot this time as it has to rebuild the parts of the registry that were cleaned, filling in all of the gaps left by the cleaning and removing the last vestiges of the game from your system. - It fixes a lot of other things as well and could actually speed up your system when not playing the game.

If you don't reboot, then some stray references will be left behind. Doing a manual registry cleaning could miss some entries. Then running the disk cleanup and defrag makes it easier on the reinstall. You will have large areas of contiguous free space to install to instead of pieces being installed all over the drive.

Also, are you installing to the default location? or a custom location? Try the default. I have seen problems when installing to a virtual disk.

The useless anti piracy 'feature' included in the game will prevent it being loaded if you have certain programs installed that Bethesda considers enabling piracy , such as the legal no cd program alcohol. Or any program that allows unlimited DVD copying (obviously the only reason you would want to copy a protected DVD is for piracy - nobody should need an archive copy of a game after all)

The downloaded versions of the game - D2D and Steam have their own strange problems - and pirated versions who knows what problems you get with your download. (you inherit whatever problems the uploader had.) Note: We do not support pirated versions or allow them to be supported on TheNexus.

[Rlm Claw]

bben46, on Nov 15 2009, 11:52 AM, said:

Hundreds of people have used the procedure, and it did work for most of them. Not all for various reasons.

Did you run the registry cleaner (I recommend Ccleaner, but most will work). And did you reboot both before and after running the cleaner? (Very Important)

Here is why: after uninstalling and deleting everything, rebooting allows Windows to mark any registry references that no longer point to a program as 'orphans' The cleaning program removes these orphans as part of it's cleaning process. Then rebooting again _ it will take slightly longer to reboot this time as it has to rebuild the parts of the registry that were cleaned, filling in all of the gaps left by the cleaning and removing the last vestiges of the game from your system. - It fixes a lot of other things as well and could actually speed up your system when not playing the game.

If you don't reboot, then some stray references will be left behind. Doing a manual registry cleaning could miss some entries. Then running the disk cleanup and defrag makes it easier on the reinstall. You will have large areas of contiguous free space to install to instead of pieces being installed all over the drive.

Also, are you installing to the default location? or a custom location? Try the default. I have seen problems when installing to a virtual disk.

The useless anti piracy 'feature' included in the game will prevent it being loaded if you have certain programs installed that Bethesda considers enabling piracy , such as the legal no cd program alcohol. Or any program that allows unlimited DVD copying (obviously the only reason you would want to copy a protected DVD is for piracy - nobody should need an archive copy of a game after all)

The downloaded versions of the game - D2D and Steam have their own strange problems - and pirated versions who knows what problems you get with your download. (you inherit whatever problems the uploader had.) Note: We do not support pirated versions or allow them to be supported on TheNexus.

Well, maybe i messed up there too. I don't know if this counts as piracy, but during the time i quit oblivion, I installed a program called acid studios. You can record game tracks and voices from other programs. If i disabled ACID music studios, do you think that might work?

[bben46]

I'm not familiar with Acid Studios. Maybe someone else her can answerer that.

[CronoStorm]

Go into My Documents/Games/Oblivion. There should be an ini file here, go ahead and back it up, then delete it and run the game. Game should run smoothly now.