Black Screen
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The black screen bug occurs in Oblivion with Nvidia cards and HDR (High Dynamic Range Rendering). It seems like certain data in shape normals causes the whole world to turn completely black, but the HUD and the inventory Menu are rendered normally.
Though stated on some web sources, the generation of binormal and tangent space as a NiBinaryExtradata-Block will not automatically clear this problem.
[edit] fast solution for gamers
Use Quarn's nVidia Black Screen Fix
http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=11167
http://planetelderscrolls.gamespy.com/View.php?view=oblivionmods.detail&id=2859
or
Use Bloom instead of HDR-Rendering. To do this, call the options in the oblivion launcher and choose Bloom.
[edit] lengthy solution for gamers
as posted on the Elder scrolls Forum by Luchaire
The Steps:
- Open the Oblivion launcher and enable HDR
- Launch the game, load up a save - any save
- Exit the game (yes, this was for a reason)
- Go to "My Documents/My Games/Oblivion" and open the Oblivion.ini file
- Search for this line: bAllow30Shaders=0
- Change the 0 to 1 (if you haven't already done this in the past)
- Save the file and exit
- While still in the same folder, open the RendererInfo.txt file
- Go to the last line of that file, where it says "Shader Package" and make note of the number there (I'm betting it's a 13, but it might differ)
- Close that file
- Go to "Program Files/Bethesda Softworks/Oblivion/Data/Shaders"
- Find the file shaderpackage0xx.sdp, where "xx" is the number from above... for example, if your shader package in rendererinfo.txt was 13, you'd find the file shaderpackage013.sdp
- Rename that file to something else - I recommend just adding the extension .ORG to it
- Now find the file shaderpackage019.sdp, right click on it and select "Copy"
- "Paste" that file back into this same folder... it should paste as "Copy of shaderpackage019.sdp"
- Rename the new copy to match the name of the file you changed the name of a few steps back, such as "shaderpackage013.sdp"
- Close everything
- Launch Oblivion
- Pray it works
[edit] Solution for Modders
Try using Wrye Bash's "Nvidia Fog Fix" to patch your .esps. This works basically the same way as Quarn's "nVidia Black Screen Fix.esp" by setting the near fog to 0.0001. Just right click on the esp in wrye bash and select "Nvidia Fog Fix."
You can also set the near fog value to 0.0001 in the CS yourself for any cells that have the problem. Select World->Cells...->Lighting Tab->Select the cell->Set "Near" to 0.0001.
