oblivion crashes on start: one reason

[sol_hsa]

Win7 64bit here. Oblivion (and fallout 3) crash on startup.

I set the game's options in the ini to not run full screen, and it worked. Then, I reverted said change, disabled my secondary screen so windows only uses one, and tried running again, and presto: it works.

Bethesda, please fix this. It's embarrassing.

[sol_hsa]

I found a nifty little program called dismon which can be used to disable secondary displays while the program is running.

Unfortunately the game apparently checks if it's been launched by the launcher, and if not, it launches the launcher =). Thus, it doesn't work quite as neatly as I'd hoped.

So, I wrote a small batch file with just a pause, and 'dismon' that instead, and then launch the game.

This does wreck my 2-monitor window and icon positions, however, so it would be much better if the authors would just fix their broken fullscreen setup code. Can't be more than one evening's worth of work.

Actually the existence of this bug surprises me, as most developers I know use dual screen systems.