Oblivion can't launch

Post » Mon Dec 05, 2011 9:30 am

Basically, I've bought a new computer and transferred all my files over to it, including Oblivion, Fallout 3 and New Vegas, and all the mods I had installed for them. While all of these games worked fine on my old computer, none of them can launch now. It tries to, but then the program stops responding. I've tried deleting all of my mods and reinstalling Oblvion, but same problem. Even switched hard drives, still nothing. I redownloaded 19GB of New Vegas from Steam but it still didn't help.

I'm sorry if this is pretty vague, but I just don't know what the problem could be. I'm running the games from a second hard drive on a Windows 7 64bit PC, and I know my PC more than meets the game's requirements. I ended up starting this thread in the Oblivion forums because I want to play it desperately before Skyrim (and I heard HeyYou hangs out here now).

So, that's it. Any suggestions for fixing the problem?
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Penny Courture
 
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Post » Mon Dec 05, 2011 3:17 pm

Sorry to bump this, but no solution has been forthcoming and I'm pretty desperate for help.

I'm running a clean install of Oblivion, straight off the disc, and it still isn't working. I've tried disabling my second monitor and reinstalling, playing in compatability mode, all sorts of things. No dice. From what I can tell, others can run Oblivion on a 64bit Windows 7 PC, and my drivers are all up to date, so that shouldn't be the problem. Crashes everytime, though.

So is there really no one who has an idea of what is wrong? I can't be the first person to experience this problem.

Edit: Well, this is awkward. Almost as soon as I posted this I finally found a solution. Turned out to be a dual problem of Oblivion hating my second monitor, and a corrupter .ini file somehow finding it's way onto my new drive without me even knowing it.
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Post » Mon Dec 05, 2011 1:01 am

Try deleting your INI in My Documents/My Games/Oblivion.
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Post » Mon Dec 05, 2011 6:16 am

Did you just copy the games over, or, did you actually install them on the new machine? What hardware ya got in the new machine? (specifically, video card....)
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