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I used to play Oblivion on my old HP Laptop and the console commands worked fine, but since I brought my new computer, suddenly the console doesn't open when I press the tilde key. (Next to the 1 key.) I have an MSI AE 2020 touchscreen computer with NVIDIA ION. My keyboard is a MSI StarTypeES500.

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Make sure you have set bAllowConsole to 1 in your oblivion.ini file.

It's likely you had this set on your old PC and not on the new one.

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    Additionaly: Check if disabling any infrared receiver in the Device Manager helps. Seriously - Oblivion has problems with that specific kind of HID, and Bethesda as usual never bothered to patch it ...
    – Martin Sojka
    Commented Sep 26, 2011 at 7:56
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There is a known issue with Microsoft eHome Infrared Transceiver - If the other methods don't work, then uninstall this:

  • Go to your Control Panel,
  • Click System and Security, -> System,
  • Go to Manage Devices, and find & click on Human Interface Devices
  • Once in there find a file called "Microsoft eHome Infrared Transceiver" and uninstall it (My info came from here: http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/959559-/56821937)
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    How, exactly, does a completely unrelated system affect what you can or can't do in Oblivion?
    – Frank
    Commented Aug 11, 2015 at 23:36
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    "Thank you so much. Now I can mess around all I want and try to kill every last living thing on the wasteland." –OP of the GameFAQs question. How or why it works is a SU question.
    – Mazura
    Commented Aug 12, 2015 at 1:54
  • @Frank Seems to be an unresolved issue, see uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Console. (General Info / Note at bottom)
    – helb
    Commented Jan 13, 2016 at 15:04
  • Had this issue on Windows 7 -- solved with this answer. Thank you.
    – Hatefiend
    Commented Dec 25, 2020 at 8:14

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