Elder Scrolls: Oblivion freezes on startup, task manager can't end it

[Schmaaa]

I bought Oblivion a week and a half ago, and I've been playing since then. Today I went to start it up, and the little window shows up in the top left corner that comes up before the game window does, but instead of bringing up the game, it just stops working. I've set the video settings the way I had them before, I've made sure that Oblivion.esm is checked (it is), and I've verified the game cache. I know that my system can run it, but here are my specs anyway:

1GB RAM
ATI Radeon x1300 pro
Intel Pentium D processor 2.80 Ghz (2 CPUs) < not entirely sure what all the processor stuff means, I just pulled that from dxdiag.
If there's anything else you need, just let me know.

EDIT: Crap, forgot to mention: when I try to end it with the task manager, it just gives me that "this program has stopped responding" window, I click end program, and it doesn't do anything. I have to restart to end it.

BTW: I have been playing Oblivion for about a week or so on Medium-high settings with about 30-40 FPS.

[Joey Skylynx]

Uh... Amigo...? I don't mean to sound offensive, but your computer would be lucky to run the latest version of Garry's Mod let alone run Oblivion.

[Schmaaa]

It can definitely run it. For some reason, everyone tells me this is a shit pc (which it is) but ALMOST every game I've played with a good FPS everyone says I can't run. I can run Farcry 2 on low with 20-30 FPS, I can play crysis on low with a similar FPS, I CAN play the latest version of Gmod with more than 40 FPS, I can also play Fallout 3, L4D2, TF2, Bioshock.... all with a pretty good FPS. Not legendary, but definitely playable. So either dxdiag is lying to me about my specs, or a lot of people are mistaken. I've been playing Oblivion for a week on medium/high settings with a good 30-40 FPS.

[Ericsson]

[QUOTE=JoeSkylynx;24163063]Uh... Amigo...? I don't mean to sound offensive, but your computer would be lucky to run the latest version of Garry's Mod let alone run Oblivion.[/QUOTE]
I can run Oblivion decently at low with pentium m 1.6, 512mb, radeon 9600 laptop

[DrKinkyKinkles]

I don't really have your answer but as a tip you should use the processes tab in task manager to end unresponsive tasks. You can usually never end task if the program is completely unresponsive but ending a process is instant.

[Ayra]

[QUOTE=DrKinkyKinkles;24175480]I don't really have your answer but as a tip you should use the processes tab in task manager to end unresponsive tasks. You can usually never end task if the program is completely unresponsive but ending a process is instant.[/QUOTE]

Unless the process has decided to be locked, in which case you're fucked.
This is most likely NOT the case though, and just killing the process should do the trick, as you posted.

[sonicrjk]

[QUOTE=Ayra;24178078]Unless the process has decided to be locked, in which case you're fucked.
This is most likely NOT the case though, and just killing the process should do the trick, as you posted.[/QUOTE]
That would never be the case.
[B]Ever.[/B]

[Schmaaa]

Well, I go into the processes tab and end Oblivion.exe, and it just sits there and does nothing except give me that "this program has stopped responding" message. Oddly enough, it starts up now, for no reason at all. I have no idea what was causing it, but if anyone knows what was wrong, that could help prevent it.

[Zeloutional]

This is happening to me, but it's not froze in my Task Manager, it just won't go past the loading screen in the start up...

[Phrozen99]

[QUOTE=Schmaaa;24162968]
1GB RAM
ATI Radeon x1300 pro
Intel Pentium D processor 2.80 Ghz (2 CPUs)

BTW: I have been playing Oblivion for about a week or so on Medium-high settings with about [b]30-40 FPS.[/b][/QUOTE]

With what? A resolution of 800x600?

[CraigDeVonne]

What version of Windows are you running? if it is Windows 7 try running it as an administrator (right click run as administrator)

[Schmaaa]

[QUOTE=QuikKill;24215190]With what? A resolution of 800x600?[/QUOTE]

Yes. It doesn't look that bad on a 1024/768 monitor, so I just run that in most games.

and to the other guy: I'm in Windows XP. When I tried to end other tasks with the task manager it would work fine.

[Ayra]

Make sure it's patched to the latest version of Oblivion, and try installing the Unofficial Oblivion Patch (not required, but it improves the game when you manage to get in-game)

Have you tried ending the PROCESS, under the process tab? Should kill it instantly.

[QUOTE=Zeloutional;24215072]This is happening to me, but it's not froze in my Task Manager, it just won't go past the loading screen in the start up...[/QUOTE]

Conflicting addons?