White screen while playing Oblivion

[nioin3k]

~problems with oblivion
screen is white while trying to pick character settings
screen is white while trying to play game

i see some different colored things on both, i'm guessing they're some kind of texture- and i also see a little map and bars for health and stuff when i'm in game

~System
OS: Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition(5.1, build 2600)
Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.06GHz
Memory: 1534MB RAM

~Display
NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200 with AGP8X
Approx. Total Memory: 128.0 MB
Current Display Mode: 1280 x 1024(32 bit) (60Hz)

[liam858]

Hi and Welcome to Virtual Dr.

Unfortunately you don't meet the system requirements based on video card spec:

Recommended:

3 Ghz Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent processor
1 GB System RAM
ATI X800 series, Nvidia GeForce 6800 series, or higher video card
Minimum System Requirements:

Windows XP
512MB System RAM
2 Ghz Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent processor
128MB Direct3D compatible video card
and DirectX 9.0 compatible driver;
8x DVD-ROM drive
4.6 GB free hard disk space
DirectX 9.0c (included)
DirectX 8.1 compatible sound card
Keyboard, Mouse
Supported Video Card Chipsets:

ATI X1900 series
ATI X1800 series
ATI X1600 series
ATI X1300 series
ATI X850 series
ATI x800 series
ATI x700 series
ATI x600 series
ATI Radeon 9800 series
ATI Radeon 9700 series
ATI Radeon 9600 series
ATI Radeon 9500 series
NVIDIA GeForce 7800 series
NVIDIA GeForce 6800 series
NVIDIA GeForce 6600 series
NVIDIA GeForce 6200 series
NVIDIA GeForce FX series

That could be the problem, as the card can't handle the settings correctly.


Liam

[nioin3k]

there's no way i can get it to work with my video card?

[liam858]

I doubt it, unfortunately, you'll need to splash out on a new card, it should improve things as that card looks to be a bottleneck in that system, considering your other components.


Liam

[Nix]

This is about the 4th or 5th person on VDr who can't run this game.

Either people don't read and check the specs, or the games shops selling it are telling people that they don't really need such a high spec.

Just seems strange that this game seems to stand out as one that's catching poeple out ?

[photolady]

This is not the only forum where people buy the game only to find out their specs aren't enough to play the game. Evidently the box that the game comes in, doesn't specify anything other than minimum requirements, or that's all people read.

[Deven]

yeah, i got the same problem with the "whiteout" my specs are:
p4 3g
ATI Radeon 9250 256mb
2g ram
... im thinking the video cards the problem... any ideas?

[liam858]

Hi Deven and Welcome to Virtual Dr.

I'm afraid your graphics card doesn't meet the requirements, what settings are you running in-game?


Liam

[Deven]

Thanks for the welcome, Im running the game on medium settings, but i have tried to play it on low setting and i even played it using oldoblivion and still i lag and crash.

[liam858]

Do you have any background processes running when you run the game? When was the last time you did a clean install of Windows? I'm not recommending it as a fix, but it sure feels nice playing games on a clean OS. Also you may wanna check out the temps when you're playing, or shortly after, if you can check the basics in the BIOS, and then use Everest Home, or something similar to pick up GPU temps, then i'd suspect the 9250 is giving you problems.


Liam

[Xytose]

Hey Deven,

You have to note that the minimum requirement is only an estimate. My hardware well exceed the requirement for recommended specs, and I still have to adjust the settings. This is because Oblivion is an extremely beautiful game; and as a result, it requires a demanding graphix card. The developers probably didn't adequately test the lowest settings before they released it. Some reasons why it crashes or lags when you play may include: the game's utilization of instructions from the graphix card that has been changed over time, unexpected utilization of technologies from a graphix card, the graphix card's engine is not adequate enough to carryout the instructions of the game, and more yukky issues.

Your best bet is to buy a new graphics card. One with x1000 based if you're using ATI or [7-8]000 based if you're using Nvidia. These cards will certainly give a boost to your performance.

I have a 7900GS and I still have to really adjust it to get it running nice and smooth. I still get crashes for unapparent reasons getting errors about memory access errors.

P.S.: I wouldn't worry about background threads since you have a combination of tremendous ram capacity and using a P4. Although if you are run a SUPER CPU-intensive program it certainly effect the game. Oh yes, and I don't see 9200 series cards, the lowest it goes is 9700.

Thanks for the welcome, Im running the game on medium settings, but i have tried to play it on low setting and i even played it using oldoblivion and still i lag and crash.

[Deven]

Thanks for all the help, i guess ill have to go shopping for a new card since that seems to be my problem. Hopefully oblivion will finaly run once i get a supported card. Such a pain lol

[Llyere]

I also have the white screen problem, and I have a brand-new ati radeon 9500, which is supported...What is the problem?

[photolady]

Unfortunately, though the 9500 is listed on the minimum requirements to play this game, it's not listed on the maximum and maximum requirements is what will play the game. Go to the website in the link below and check to see if your system will run Oblivion. I bet you find after checking under the Maximum tab your computer/graphics card won't run this game:

http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/referrer/srtest