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Old 05-20-2007
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Oblivion on Vista

Yo. I just installed Oblivion on my new Vista home premium and now its not working. It shows the Bethesda logo and crashes .It did before on XP. My friend who also have vista runs Oblivion perfect. I also have knights of the nine and shivering isle.

anyone know what the problem could be? i tried doing the compatible with XP thing and still nothing
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Old 05-20-2007
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post your pc specs please.
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Old 05-20-2007
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i dont know what they are exactly...

heres what i know

Intel pentium 4 CPU 3,40Hz
1022 MB
8800 GTS graphic card
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Old 05-20-2007
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That should be good enuf as specs, could be the disc didnt install the game correctly or Vista is a pile of crap
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Old 05-20-2007
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you should be ablel to run the game. You might want to try a reinstall, make sure nothing is running while you're doing it
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Old 05-21-2007
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i already tried reinstalling and it still not working... But if Vista is crap how come it be working on my friends comp?
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Old 05-21-2007
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reinstall vga driver and directx, chek also for other updates
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Old 05-22-2007
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look to see if there's an updated patch on the game's website.. ask your friend if they did anything special to how they installed it..
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