White screen ingame, I'm desperate!

Ljusdahl · Post by **Ljusdahl** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 12:01 pm

Help a poor guy out will ya?

When I start a new game, the world is almost completely white!
I did some research though, and among other things found this:

[QUOTE=http://ideveloper.pandora-studios.com/files/OblivionSettingsGuide.txt]
i. Screen and/or all objects are white
This occurs when your graphics card does not meet the minimum requirements to play the game. I
believe it is due to the inability of the card to process certain shaders that do not have specific
fallbacks for lower-end hardware. There is no fix other than upgrading your graphics card.[/QUOTE]
However I do have a compitable card.

This is the minimum requirements, and what I have is in bold:

* Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows XP 64-bit
Windows XP Pro (64 being color depth? I have 16/32)
* 512MB System RAM
512 MB
* 2 Ghz Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent processor
2.4 Ghz Intel Pentium 4
* 128MB Direct3D compatible video card
128 DDR ATI Radeon 9700 (listed as Oblivion compatible)
* and DirectX 9.0 compatible driver;
I assume my Radeon is, since it's said to be compatible.
* 8x DVD-ROM drive
Check.
* 4.6 GB free hard disk space
Plenty.
* DirectX 9.0c (included)
Installed it.
* DirectX 8.1 compatible sound card
Don't know, but it's not a sound issue, the sound is working.
* Keyboard, Mouse
Duh.

Any thoughts? Thanks in advance.

/Ljusdahl

Luis Antonio · Post by **Luis Antonio** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 12:04 pm

I guess you should be updating your graphics card, mister, cause maybe that's why it isnt recognizing it.

Ljusdahl · Post by **Ljusdahl** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 12:15 pm

Alas, I already have the newest driver.

Denethorn · Post by **Denethorn** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 12:34 pm

Your card is supported so I'm at a loss

. A couple of things you could try come to mind though:

Delete your Oblivion.ini - located in My Documents>My Games>Oblivion. The game will then create a new default one which will force it to re-detect your graphics setup; after starting Oblivion and the message appears saying it has set Oblivion to graphics appropriate to your card, play without touching any settings and see if that solves the issue. Failing that ask a member who has the same graphics card as you (I think fable has a 9700) to send you their Oblivion.ini, which you should try using.

Also, try installing the ATi Oblivion driver 'hotfix' - its a standalone driver rather than a fix, but it is geared to improving the compatibility of ATi cards with Oblivion. While it isn't specifically tailored to your problem, its worth a shot. Find it [url="http://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894&task=knowledge&questionID=21960"]here.[/url]

Could you possibly take a screen shot of the problem? Is it white textures your seeing, or a completely white screen? The causes can be completely different.

Ashen · Post by **Ashen** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 1:43 pm

The best solution I have been able to find so far for things like these is located here:

http://www.oldblivion.com/

What you do is download the latest build of oldblivion (the dowloads section), find the .ini file in the posts that mostly resembles yours (here), and download that too, run Oldblivion and voila. It worked for quite a few people so I recommend you check it out, it's all written there.

Alien_Newborn · Post by **Alien_Newborn** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 1:54 pm

You could always do what I did: just go on Ebay

I mean, I found a 512MB ATI Radeon x1600 Pro for 139.99 plus shipping

Like, where else are people going to throw away expensive technology so liberally?

Denethorn · Post by **Denethorn** » Thu Apr 13, 2006 3:06 am

Ashen its worth posting that link in the yellow pages

and while I would recommend he do that, it'd be nice to have the game run as designed if he's got a card capable of doing so. Oldoblivion should be the last resort.

Ashen · Post by **Ashen** » Thu Apr 13, 2006 3:55 am

Good idea

I agree, if nothing else works it should be there as a last option. The thing is I've seen people having issues exactly like this one with cards that should be able to run it with relative ease and then nothing worked to make them performe. To be honest, I am actually curious as to what could be the cause, the game seems to depend on a lot of things to run normally, too many things perhaps.

Ljusdahl · Post by **Ljusdahl** » Thu Apr 13, 2006 10:12 am

Thanks for everyones' answers!
Denethorn, the fix worked! I LOVE YOU!

Oblivion is very fishy...the damn thing should have worked anyway.. but whatever, it's all good now.