Hi, everytime I start up Oblivion, I get this error:
AppName: oblivion.exe AppVer: 1.2.0.416 ModName: oblivion.exe
ModVer: 1.2.0.416 Offset: 00098749

I do not know why I get this error and I have tried searching for a fix, but failed. H

Here are my DXDIAG specs:

Operating System: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 3

System Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
System Model: OptiPlex 330
Processor: Intel® Pentium® Dual CPU E2160 @ 1.80GHz (2 CPUs)
Memory: 2036MB RAM
DirectX Version: DirectX 10.0 (4.10.0000.5515)


Card name: Intel® G33/G31 Express Chipset Family
Display Memory: 384.0 MB
Chip type: Intel® GMA 3100

Thank you for helping.

This is why the game is crashing, the game doesnt like to run on any of the Intel video chipsets. They are too weak to play. You would need to upgrade the GPU in order to play. (Also taking in account for PSU and CPU bottlenecks)

In addition to having no viable video solution, the Optiplex 330 was usually equipped with a Celeron CPU, which isn't game-capable.

"System Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
System Model: OptiPlex 330
Processor: Intel? Pentium? Dual CPU E2160 @ 1.80GHz (2 CPUs)"

In your case, you have the same thing as a Celeron, practically, with another name. The "Pentium Dual" started out being a Core Duo, but to make it cheap to produce and cheap to sell, nearly all of the massive onboard cache has been stripped out of it. As slow as that particular Pentium Dual is, it is below the minimum Pentium 4 requirement, and Dell BIOSes offer no overclocking options (the Pentium Duals overclock very well).

Errrr....

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_lookup.php?cpu=Intel+Pentium+Dual+E2160+%40+1.80GHz
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/pentium-e2160_13.html#sect1


Looks to me like it well passes Oblivion's min requirement for a CPU, which is a Pentium 4 @ 2.0GHz. It even pass the recommended P4 @ 3.0GHz.


The processor is not the problem here if it already beats a lot of the Pentium D's.

So the problem is the graphics card right? When I click default settings on the graphics when oblivion starts up, it says "unrecognized hardware, set to medium"

That message just means Oblivion didn't recognize your card, and it is extremely common nowadays, as almost everyone here has a vidcard that was made after Oblivion was released.

But yes, if you have an Intel chipset, you have a problem. Try and invest in a decent GPU.

Yeah my graphics card burned out when I was playing a game so I got this one and I guess it dosen't work for Oblivion, thanks for the help people.

I wouldn't really believe that cpubenchmark. It surpasses a Core2Duo with higher clock? If that's not strange... well... IDK.

Also, in case of Oblivion, it's not two 1.8 GHz working in unison, it's a single 1.8 GHz trying its hardest to match the minimum 2.0 GHz, the other one is laying back like nothing happened.

I'm going to take a stab and assume you're looking at the Intel Core2 Duo T5550 @ 1.83GHz....that is a mobile CPU. Mobile counterparts do tend to be slower than desktop ones...I don' find that to be far off. Slightly different architectures here as well....clockspeed doesn't tell everything. And that benchmark is based on one application...of course, other apps may paint a different picture. The point of the chart was just to show where the Pentium Dual-Core sits in comparison with a Pentium 4 or Pentium D...it's not slower than a Pentium 4 @ 2.0GHz.

And again, the min requirement here is for a Pentium 4 @ 2.0GHz.....not a Core 2 Duo or a Pentium Dual-Core, which are entirely different architectures. A Core 2 Duo @ 2.0GHz is something like the equivalent of a Pentium 4 @ 3.6GHz or more. Clockspeeds should be used as a basis for comparison amongst the same line/architecture of CPUs.