my computer crashes when i try to exit where uriel septim died. i try to exit and my computer crashes. my dad bought the game online because my computer does not have a disk drive. please help me out

Your computer (probably a netbook) most likely doesn't meet the minimum specs for Oblivion.

Please post a "Dxdiag" report:

Run (XP) or Start (Vista or 7), type in "dxdiag" (without the quotes), save the report to a desktop text file (default). Copy and paste the results (the whole thing) here in your thread.

I agree that it is unlikely your system meets the standards of this five year old game. It would be very, VERY unlikely for a full-power machine of any kind not to have a DVD drive in it, (and the same applies to omitting a hard drive in favor of an SSD only) and that included both netbooks and the in-between realm of mini-notebook PCs that similarly fall lower down the performance scale than a normal old PC from 2004 / 2005. Morrowind is more suitable for such minimal systems.

Release date 5-01-2002

What are the minimum and recommended system requirements for playing Morrowind?

MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:

* Windows ME/98 128 MB RAM
* Windows XP/2000 256 MB RAM
* 500 MHz Intel Pentium III, Celeron, or AMD Athlon processor
* 8x CD/DVD-ROM Drive
* 1 GB free hard disk space
* Windows swapfile
* DirectX 8.1 (included)
* 32MB Direct3D compatible video card with 32-bit color support and DirectX 8.1 compatible driver
* DirectX 8.1 compatible sound card
* Keyboard, Mouse

RECOMMENDED:

* 800 MHz or faster Intel Pentium III or AMD Athlon processor
* 256 MB RAM
* NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS, or ATI Radeon 7500 or faster video card.

~~~~~~~~~~~ End Morrowind there ~~~~~~~~~~~~~

What you've tried and failed at

Release date March, 2006 (Oblivion, Corrected for Lies and Pie in the Sky Puffery)

Recommended:

* 3.4 Ghz Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent processor (A64 3200)
* 1 GB System RAM
* ATI X800 XT, NVIDIA GeForce 7800 series, or higher, video card

Minimum System Requirements:

* Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows XP/64-bit
* 512MB System RAM
* 2.4 Ghz Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent processor (XP 2200)
* 128MB Direct3D compatible video card and DirectX 9.0 compatible driver;
( ATI Radeon X800 GTO, NVIDIA Geforce 6800 GT )
* 8x DVD-ROM drive
* 4.6 GB free hard disk space
* DirectX 9.0c (included)
* DirectX 8.1 compatible sound card
* Keyboard, Mouse

We haven't heard from you since yesterday. This is neither a "very new" game, nor is it a "really old" one, but when it was still new, there had still been a few very old and very weak computers left over from around 2001, when they had been new, and today's "Netbook" machines are about the same class as a ten year old full-power PC is today -- very slow, and very poor for games.

Five years ago, the last 10% of the game's tutorial, down the sewer manhole, was where the Intel video chips of that era all failed (a few seconds beyond the secret door that the last assassin jumped out of to kill the Emperor). We all (who were here then) became very familiar with the Intel chips' weaknesses in that particular area.

Gorath

id say the guy/girls dad allready knew something about oblivions requirmenents, and got them something like an Alienware M11X or Acer 3820TG which are more than able. If thats the case, their problems probably more with vanilla Oblivion needing some unofficial patches to take off.

Theres a good starting list of patches and mods http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1306005 but be careful with the texture and landscape upgrades, some of them arent so good for the hardware you probably have. Just start with the OBMM, BOSS and the 4 Unofficial patches, then start looking for some performance tweakers

Actually, also start off with http://obse.silverlock.org/ and http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=22410 (in the files tab) which address another problem with Oblivion crashing when your finished playing and attempting to glose the program yourself, finding it freezes (crashes) then aswell

For a start with it crashing during gameplay, try Shift/Alt/Delete to get onto Task Manager and shut down the windows popup thats telling you to close the program, both the game and the popup are labled oblivion... but the popup is still running, and you want to end that process to get back to the desktop

The average laptop purchaser has almost no idea at all that it is most likely to be well below the graphics performance requirement needed by an ordinary game. The only kinds of PCs that Joe Average ever sees on TV are laptops, and the users of those in the TV dramas always seem to get their machines to perform miracles. People like that also have no idea at all, either, that they need to actually pay any attention to anything like a warning label on the game box.

you got a point, but the OP also hasnt mentioned performance or glitching up till getting stuck on the exit. They could try to see if its not all doors leading to Cyrodil world space by installing the mod 'Alternative start revamped' mentioned in the Steam post above, which bypass the mini quest to exit the sewers and puts you in various other locations like the stock game houses (try poor in Imperial city for the easiest what to do)

Only really "bad" video devices crashed there. Particularly Intel's earlier junk, and nVIDIA's FXes. Essentially, it was the place that the shaders went to work in a big way for the first time, and the 128-bit high performance shaders that FXes had couldn't keep up with unless they had the high end speed (FX 5700 Ultras, 5900s, other than the SEs, XTs, plus the FX 5950s).

The failures of the Intel video prior to the sewer weren't quite bad enough to crash the game, just making the graphics really muddy looking.