The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Forum

I figure Oblivion should work to some degree because I'm running OSX 10.5.6 on a MacBook a little over a year old and Crossover 7.1.1.

However, here's my problem. The whole thing installed and boots up fine, all the menus work and the sound is perfect, but in the character creation screen and the tutorial afterward, I just get a blank white screen, albeit with all overlays present (for instance, you can see the crosshairs, the health bar, subtitles for dialogue, everything, but it's all over solid white).

I've made the changes to the registry as suggested in other threads--still no change. I was hoping somebody who got the game running could go step-by-step through what they did, for me and for other OSX users, since what I found in the other threads was a little ad hoc and haphazard.

Much appreciated.

did you make the registry entries right? the entires have to be exact, right uppercase and lowercase... "enabled" is different from "enable" ... etc...

Yep.

By way of follow-up, for all you Mac users out there, I ultimately did get it working. All the fiddling around with the registry actually turned out to be a red herring. Leave the registry as is, make sure you've got the latest patch from the official website installed, and then start the game. In launcher that come up, click on "Options," and set the graphics settings to "Very Low" or "Low." "Low" lags a lot for me, but it looks much better than "Very Low." Then, click play, and once you're out of the sewers, play with the in-game video options until everything looks reasonably good. Reducing the view distance helps a lot.

The title bar at the top in full screen mode results in a little of the bottom being cut off--unfortunately, in Oblivion, there's some important info there, so running it in windowed mode is best. The game will crash if you try to launch it in windowed mode, but pressing cmd-option-r while running the game takes you out of full screen.