so this is how it begins, ive just installed oblivion on my pc again after a long time. the thing is every time i exit the game it crashes. meaning that all the setting i just changed in the option menu go back to default. particulaly the fact that to have resolution change to take place u have to restart the game. this mean im stuck with pooy setting every time cause it dosent save while im exiting game!!!! so can ne body tell me a way to change my setting out side the game like through a skript modification or just a plain simple damn solution!!!!!!!??? ne feed back will be helpfull. ( my suspicion are the vista is the roots of all probelems)

After installing some mods(even official DLCs), 'Crash on Exit' becomes pretty normal. If you change some settings, before exit the game, open console by pressing '~'(which is left of '1'), type 'saveini'. It will force to save changed configurations to your Oblivion.ini.

hey! that's what I was going to say!

Aye, this is the small price we must pay for the wonderful mods, unfortunately but at least now you know the work-around.

Cheers.

I don't think they're mod problem, I think there from tweaking oblivion.ini file

backgroundloadingloading=1 can cause this

buseharddrivecache=1 can also be a suspect

I know what u do just put in the Oblivion CD or dvd and it will allow u to change the options with out being in game.
Note: Dose not work all options...

what i do when i make a fresh oblivion install is that i first install Oblivion (of course...) but before installing anything else (KOTN or SI or any patch or mod), i go into the game, set the settings as i want and exit. It never crashes and after that you can install anything you want, you don't care anymore about those crashes because they won't modify your settings.