Everything is fine in-game, but my screenshots look like http://img834.imageshack.us/img834/1474/screenshot16p.png.

I mean it looks cool, but I was hoping to upload them to the Nexus.

That install has no mods besides the DLC that came packed with Knights of the Nine, Knights of the Nine itself, and a couple very primitive house mods that I was testing. No OBGE or OBSE, or weird shader mods. It was set to HDR. I'm pretty sure I patched Oblivion fully. My video card drivers are recent. I am on 64-bit Windows 7.

Will try with FRAPS later, but I'd much prefer to use Oblivion itself. Plus it's weird and I want to understand it.

I have seen this particular issue before...... but am unable to come up with the thread....... might try updating your shader package? (if your machine will support it, use the 3.0 shaders, there is an article somewhere for doing this.....)

Hi, thanks for answering. I followed the instructions for doing that on http://www.tweakguides.com/Oblivion_8.html. I'm just assuming it worked, because I don't know how to check. But my screenshots remain the same. Any more ideas?

In the meantime, I will poke around and try to find that other thread.

edit: nope. Searched for screenshots, interlacing, my video card, my laptop brand, "weird screenshots", etc.. Don't see it.

I did some more experimenting, and none of the following things helped: making sure Oblivion is running as administrator, running in XP compatibility mode, checking boxes under compatibility mode, turning off deinterlacing in my video card settings (which yes I know isn't for games, but that's what those screenshots remind me of), launching Oblivion directly instead of through the launcher, rebooting, turning off vsync, or switching from HDR to Bloom.

Must be a magnifying glass over your lens! :hubbahubba:

Official Oblivion Shaders: http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=20348

I also remember seeing this before but can not recall the fix -- I think it might have been something to do with using Monitor scaling (since the screenshot is taken before the info is sent to the monitor but not sure -- IIRC using FRAPS did work properly to take screens so you might try that.

I checked and FRAPS does work. Still want to fix this because it's interesting and weird. I'll look at that shaders link now.

edit: Nope. Tried replacing my shaders with those ones, didn't help, and then redid the rename thing to force 3.0 using those ones, also didn't help. Like I said, I haven't installed any shader mods -- this install is almost vanilla -- so it's unlikely that there's any difference between those official ones and the ones I replaced with them.

Tried Googling monitor scaling and don't really get what to do. I mean it sounds like it makes sense.... I'm running Oblivion at my monitor's native resolution already, if it matters.