Oblivion problem

[Insanecyclone]

I've searched google and numerous sites but I really can't find what the hell is wrong with this.

I did a fresh reinstall of this Saturday night and it didn't work correctly.

It will load the game but it will pop up "Oblivion has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience."

When I click to see the problem it says "AppName: oblivion.exe AppVer: 1.2.0.416 ModName: oblivion.exe
ModVer: 1.2.0.416 Offset: 0018927e"

I've ran the game fine with no problems before and this suddenly shows up.

I've tried most of the fixes I've read on google but it keeps crashing once it starts up with the Bethesda Softworks logo.

I'm on XP and the original CD box, no shivering isle or nine.

[GentaiShinigami]

It's probably an audio/video codec conflict. I had so many freaking headaches with Oblivion and Fallout combined. I eventually had to download a fix for Fallout that re-encodes every single audio file and that finally fixed it (still crashes when you exit the game lol... Bethesda needs to go back to school). Oblivion I had bad stutter/crash problems and ended up tracing it back myself (bethsoft support is worthless) to Vodei codec I think it was. Google can lead you to some suggestions on how to disable them all and re-enable them 1 by 1 to see which is the culprit. I really don't remember since it's been like 4 years since I fought with it.

Let me know how it turns out. If you still need help after going down the codec route shoot me a PM, and I'll do my best to help ya out when I have free time. ^^/

[Insanecyclone]

Codec thing seemed to help. I tried it without a certain mod and it works fine now after I updated the codecs.

I wasn't going to try and disable certain ones until after I made sure updating them didn't work. Before I updated them I tried it without mods and it still wouldn't work. I've never had any problems with codecs before so this is a first for me.

Yeah they really need to fix their crashes for the games they make. I played Fallout 3 at a friend's house and it kept crashing in the virtual world. I hope new vegas wont crash like crazy but I highly doubt that.

Thank you.

[GentaiShinigami]

Codec thing seemed to help. I tried it without a certain mod and it works fine now after I updated the codecs.

I wasn't going to try and disable certain ones until after I made sure updating them didn't work. Before I updated them I tried it without mods and it still wouldn't work. I've never had any problems with codecs before so this is a first for me.

Yeah they really need to fix their crashes for the games they make. I played Fallout 3 at a friend's house and it kept crashing in the virtual world. I hope new vegas wont crash like crazy but I highly doubt that.

Thank you.

Don't mention it. Glad you got it all sorted out. I too had never had a problem with a codec breaking a game lol. It's something only Bethesda can do I swear. If you end up still having problems with Fallout 3 I still have the audio re-encode file saved. It's ~15mb packed ~22mb unpacked so not very big at all. The title of the folder it came in for me was "Fallout.3.FinalFix.Skullptura". If you need it and can't find it just PM me and I'll upload it to my personal server and send you the link. ^^/

Also, for your friends Fallout sounds like he might have a bad cracked copy (if it is cracked). A lot of games do that now if cracked poorly. I remember Mass Effect would always crash at the galaxy map on the early cracks. Apparently it's something the devs purposely put into the games to piss off pirates from what I understand. Might want to get him to download a new .exe for it if his is less than legit. If that doesn't work or his is legit then probably the audio re-encode or codec disabling would probably be the solution.