Oblivion has stopped working error message.

Whenever I try to leave the area in the very beginning of the game where I have to go into the sewer, the game stops and a message pops-up and says "Oblivion has stopped working and needs to close". This also happens sometimes when I pause the game to change the options. I mean the game runs fine until that certain part where I have to open the sewer door.

I can post my system specs if anyone needs them.

Thanks

I have the most recent patch and it still happens.

Specs: (I know they're not the best)

Toshiaba Satellite A205

Intel Pentium Dual CPU T2330 @ 1.60 GHz

1014 MB RAM (soon to be 2GB of ram btw)

Vista Home Premium 32-Bit

Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100

Does Oblivion support that GPU?RK-Mara

I'm not 100% sure if it does, but I did get through the "tutorial" level without any video or performance problems. No lag or anything it ran very smoothly the entire time until I hit the part with the sewer. What happens is that when I click the door to go down it loads and then it goes to a black screen then crashes to desktop with that error message.

Pretty sure your GPU is way below playable specs. Is that a laptop you're running on, BTW? It sounds like it is.

You could try Oldblivion to see if it can get the thing running, but it won't look nice.

i wondered whether it was a laptop too but i doubt it seeing as he is upgrading to 2GB ram. I know you can upgrade laptops but most people dont bother.

I probably would reccomend an upgrade in the near future before you lack behind too much for todays games coming out.

May sound like a stupid question but, Are you using a legit copy of the game? pwilletts

Yea it was a gift.

i wondered whether it was a laptop too but i doubt it seeing as he is upgrading to 2GB ram. I know you can upgrade laptops but most people dont bother.

I probably would reccomend an upgrade in the near future before you lack behind too much for todays games coming out.

Skull338

Ok, I will probably just have to upgrade. After viewing the specs, my GPU is not good enough and yes I am using a laptop.

Now since I have intergrated graphics, can I still upgrade it? I have a card slot (PCI or something like that), so can I get a graphics card to put in there?

Thanks for all your help guys, I really appreciate it.

Ok I just went to Oldblivion and I went to the FAQS:

http://www.oldblivion.com/?page=faq#q1

Number 13 says:

Ok I just went to Oldblivion and I went to the FAQS:

http://www.oldblivion.com/?page=faq#q1

Number 13 says:

13: My game crashes when entering the sewers.Some people also report success after switching bUseRefractionShader, bDoImageSpaceEffects, bUseWaterShader and bUseFaceGenLOD to 0, as well as bUseMultiThreadedFaceGen to 1 in the Oblivion.INI. Others, yet, seem to have solved this problem by downloading the latest Omega Drivers for their card. They are available here http://www.omegadrivers.net/.Should I try that? It sounds like the problem I have. deepthinker566

Try the drivers first. If that fails, change the .INI settings.

Also worth noting is that those .INI settings will improve performance at the cost of the graphical quality of the game.

I have got Oblivion GOTY and i have all the recommeded specifications on vista but when i get to the sewers the game crashes. it still does this when i put it onto the lowest settings please help!!!

I have the most recent patch and it still happens.

Specs: (I know they're not the best)

Toshiba Satellite A205

Intel Pentium Dual CPU T2330 @ 1.60 GHz

1014 MB RAM (soon to be 2GB of ram btw)

Vista Home Premium 32-Bit

Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100

deepthinker566

My specs are like this as-well.

Toshiba Satellite M200

Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2130 @ 1.86GHz 1.87GHz

502MB RAM (I know its dodgy)

Vista Home Premium 32-Bit

And yes its a laptop/notebook.

I have exactly the same problem :S

Whenever I try to leave the area in the very beginning of the game where I have to go into the sewer, the game stops and a message pops-up and says "Oblivion has stopped working and needs to close". This also happens sometimes when I pause the game to change the options. I mean the game runs fine until that certain part where I have to open the sewer door.

I can post my system specs if anyone needs them.

Thanks

deepthinker566

Are you using Xfire while playing Oblivion? If you are, try turning off Xfire when you are playing Oblivion.

Im having the same problem, when im in the sewer towards the begginning it chuggs then error stating that system need to restart.

im above the recommended specs!?

my comp:

AMD Athlon 2.8 X2 5400+ Black Edition

4GB OCZ RAM, at 1066Mhz

XFX Nvidia GeForce 8200 mobo

Can anyone help me? Im new to the computor world, but have alwayed loved them, im slowly converting from console to pc gaming

im having the same problem, im getting error blue screen telling me system needs to restart. It happens in the begginning of oblivion in the sewer. what should i do, my comp is at recommended.

My comp:

AMD Athlon 64 X2 2.8 5400+ Black Edition

4G of OCZ RAM, 1066Mhz each.

XFX Nvidia GeForce 8200 mobo

after that my comp started doing all kind of crazy stuff