I have been having problems getting Oblivion to start. On startup a black box appears in the upper left corner of the desktop, then there is an error message which states oblivion had to close...
I installed the newest patch, downgraded to windows XP from vista as it wasnt running on vista
I have a toshiba satelite with intel core 2 duo 1.8 ghz, 2 gigs of Ram, ATI radeon
X1600 integrated graphics

Have you tried this on other computer?

This tends to crashes on the downgrade of OS.

Have you reinstalled the game...

yes I reinstalled the game

Reinstall the OS ?

Download latest patches from Bethesda?

Make a minced meat pie? Sorry :(