oblivion in vista

kronos · External Since: Mar 19, 2007 Posts: 12

I was just wondering if anyone else has problems with running oblivion under
vista.
Cause most of the time i fast travel or use a gate my pc freezes up.

I know i got enough ram, cause i have 4 gig, and it can't be my graphic
card. Cause it is a xfx8800gtx nvidia 768 mb.

Dustin Harper · External Since: Jan 21, 2007 Posts: 745

It may be your graphics card drivers. Have you gone to the NVIDIA site and
downloaded the latest drivers? I know they still have some issues, though.

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"kronos" <kronos.RemoveThis@home.nl> wrote in message
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>I was just wondering if anyone else has problems with running oblivion
>under vista.
> Cause most of the time i fast travel or use a gate my pc freezes up.
>
> I know i got enough ram, cause i have 4 gig, and it can't be my graphic
> card. Cause it is a xfx8800gtx nvidia 768 mb.

Andy · External Since: Mar 15, 2007 Posts: 154

New hardware + New OS = Problems...

Remember Oblivion came out before Vista, probably not tested too much on
Vista either. Try the usual troubleshooting like Running in Compatibility
Mode, Running as Administrator, Running with UAC (User Account Control)
turned off, etc.

http://www.bethsoft.com/ is your friend, what better place than the guys who
made the game to get answers to [possibly] common questions?

Quick look came back with only 1 FAQ Question regarding Vista and
Oblivion...

http://support.bethsoft.com/asp/resolution.asp?sid=1435450703210711431...30&pid=

Basically they state that Oblivion came out before Vista, ergo, no support.
They also note that Downloadable content is not compatible with Vista,
though they may just be talking about the 64-bit Vista.

Q: Is Oblivion supported on Windows Vista?
A: We do not formally support Vista as Oblivion is not a Games for Windows
title. Our internal tests -- and external tests done by outside parties --
have not found any issues with Oblivion on Vista. Should you have problems,
it's not something we support or can help you with. The secured installers
for downloadable Oblivion content are not compatible with 64-bit editions of
Microsoft Windows or any version of Windows Vista and therefore downloadable
content will not work with Oblivion.

not too helpful, I know, but you could ALWAYS run Virtual PC 2007, install
your old Windows XP copy into Vista. Your system seems beefy enough that I'm
sure Oblivion would run OK in a virtual enviornment (Oblivion runs great on
my system with all settings turned up, and i'm nowhere near at your level of
power). Good luck.

"kronos" <kronos.TakeThisOut@home.nl> wrote in message
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>I was just wondering if anyone else has problems with running oblivion
>under vista.
> Cause most of the time i fast travel or use a gate my pc freezes up.
>
> I know i got enough ram, cause i have 4 gig, and it can't be my graphic
> card. Cause it is a xfx8800gtx nvidia 768 mb.

Paul Smith · External Since: Mar 30, 2006 Posts: 828

"kronos" <kronos.RemoveThis@home.nl> wrote in message
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>I was just wondering if anyone else has problems with running oblivion
>under vista.
> Cause most of the time i fast travel or use a gate my pc freezes up.
>
> I know i got enough ram, cause i have 4 gig, and it can't be my graphic
> card. Cause it is a xfx8800gtx nvidia 768 mb.

This is probably down to the graphics drivers, or some other drivers. You
could try pulling out a stick of RAM too, maybe doing a memory test.

I'm running Oblivion here with no more issues than it had under XP.
(Alt+Tab can make the thing explode, the odd application failure when
exiting).

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kronos · External Since: Mar 19, 2007 Posts: 12

THX for the tips, i'll certainly try to use everyone of them.

Nathan Sheppard · External Since: Mar 11, 2007 Posts: 8

Hi,
just letting you know i've had no problems with oblivion (apart from not
being able to use downloadable content) with vista
My setup is...
Vista home premium 64bit
nVidia 7900GTX
AMD dualcore 4000+
2gb ram

It certinally plays a little slower then it did in XP - but fully functions
OK, have you got the latest patch 1.2 installed for oblivion?

Cheers - Nathan

"kronos" <kronos DeleteThis @home.nl> wrote in message
news:%23ZzXdPzaHHA.2300@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
I was just wondering if anyone else has problems with running oblivion under
vista.
Cause most of the time i fast travel or use a gate my pc freezes up.

I know i got enough ram, cause i have 4 gig, and it can't be my graphic
card. Cause it is a xfx8800gtx nvidia 768 mb.

Kris · External Since: Apr 10, 2007 Posts: 36

I am also having no trouble at all running Oblivion, along with dozens of
downloadable mods, but I have the 32bit Home Premium Vista, and an ATI
Radeon X1600.

Kris

"Nathan Sheppard" <nathan RemoveThis @secureaccess.com.au> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> just letting you know i've had no problems with oblivion (apart from not
> being able to use downloadable content) with vista
> My setup is...
> Vista home premium 64bit
> nVidia 7900GTX
> AMD dualcore 4000+
> 2gb ram
>
> It certinally plays a little slower then it did in XP - but fully
> functions
> OK, have you got the latest patch 1.2 installed for oblivion?
>
> Cheers - Nathan
>
>
>
> "kronos" <kronos RemoveThis @home.nl> wrote in message
> news:%23ZzXdPzaHHA.2300@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> I was just wondering if anyone else has problems with running oblivion
> under
> vista.
> Cause most of the time i fast travel or use a gate my pc freezes up.
>
> I know i got enough ram, cause i have 4 gig, and it can't be my graphic
> card. Cause it is a xfx8800gtx nvidia 768 mb.
>

Tyler Cobb · External Since: Mar 22, 2007 Posts: 20

You could download Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 and install Windows XP into it.
From there, you could install Oblivion and the downloadable content that you
paid for. Of course, the game won't play but the DLC installer should
install just fine in an emulated environment. After that, just share a
folder through VPC'07 and copy the unpacked plugin files into your
Oblivion\Data folder in your Windows Vista x64 environment.

Tyler Cobb, MCP

"Nathan Sheppard" <nathan.DeleteThis@secureaccess.com.au> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> just letting you know i've had no problems with oblivion (apart from not
> being able to use downloadable content) with vista

armadillo01 · Joined: Jun 30, 2008 Posts: 3

I had this problem and I have solved it. The trick is to NOT install Oblivion in the generic C:/Program Files because Vista's UAC will block mods (and some of the DLC add-ons, it seems) installed there. So create a new folder in C:/ (C:/Games is a good idea IMO) but ALSO load oblivion.exe using the xp sp2 compatibility by right-clicking on Properties. You might need to run as administrator as well, but I do not have to.

Einer · External Since: Jan 31, 2009 Posts: 2

My Problem is a bit different.

After I Installed Oblivion, I just started up the game, went thrrough
the Character-generation process and wanted then to use this door to
"the sewers", but everytime i try to use ist, it loads up, i can hear
the Sound of the new environment coming up, and then it just shuts down.

I`m running Oblivion on a laptop:
Vista Home Premium 32bit
Core 2 Duo CPU T5270 2*1.4Ghz
2 gig RAM

The System was able to run the whole character-generation-level without
any errors on a medium performance level, so I know it´s able to tun on
it. But I can´t get out of the Character-generation....

If anybody has a clue of what to do, i would be really happy.

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Einer

Einer · External Since: Jan 31, 2009 Posts: 2

got it running, was a problem with the shaders, but its running now, a
great game!!!! thanks again for your help!!

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Joe · External Since: Jan 21, 2009 Posts: 19

Einer <guest.RemoveThis@unknown-email.com> wrote in
news:556cf6ae8619a643ac6754ddf4dcc47d@nntp-gateway.com:

> got it running, was a problem with the shaders, but its running now, a
> great game!!!! thanks again for your help!!

I was looking at my wall of games the other day thinking. ok which game
have I spent the most time on, but not actually finished.

Oblivion, with Morrowind being a close second. I think I have close to 80+
hours in Oblivion alone, and probably only half way though the story
itself.

Upside to Oblivion, you can do side quests forever. Downside, you can do
side quests forever. Smile

Problem with not advancing the story is eventually the bandits start
wearing glass armor (NPCs level with your character) making them quite a
hinderance at times. Save often.

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Joe

SonoKurayami · Joined: Jun 23, 2009 Posts: 1

I'm having the same problem as Einer was having.
I get all the way through the character creation part up to where I choose my sign and class, then open the manhole into the sewers the loading screen comes up and I hear sounds like the next area is loading and then it just crashes.

I'm running Vista Home Premium 32-bit
Intel Core 2 Duo 1.83 GHz processor
Intel 965 Express Chipset Family Video Card.

I Einer said that it had something to do with the shaders, where exactly would I find those settings at?

Any other ideas are appreciated too Very Happy

Thanks in advance