All is gray in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

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I have a problem with The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. I think that this screenshot explain it well:

Oblivion bug

Practically I see only the HUD and all the rest is gray. Both in character creation and when I try to load an old save-game.

I have an ATI 6850 HD video card with the latest AMD drivers and Windows 7 64-bit. I also tried to revalidate the Steam cache for that game but it didn't change the result.

Do you have any idea how can I solve the problem? There are no mods installed except the default DLC things.

Best Answer

This is mostly caused by some bugs with newer graphic cards and HDR + AA (Anti Aliasing). Either turning HDR or AA off, or setting HDR to Bloom should fix the issue.

I do not know about any patch that fixes this issue. However, there is a few workarounds to get both of them working together:

  • Enabling HDR, and disabling AA in the game options, while forcing AA to be enabled via CCC (Catalyst Control Center)
  • Editing the "Oblivion.ini" file manually. Find and change the iMultiSample=0 in [Display] to 4 to get 4xAA.
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