Oblivion Freezes on Startup

[Anthon2451]

Hello everyone, after finishing Morrowind i've felt the need to play Oblivion again, however i can't seem to get it running, since it freezes on the first loading screen:

 

https://ibb.co/ThCRVHm

 

I've been looking for hours into it, disabling every mod and reinstalling time and time again, but it still doesn't run.

Here's my Mod Load Order (First i ran BOSS, then i made the Bashed patch):

 

• Oblivion.esm
• Enhanced Daedric Invasion.esm
• Better Cities Resources.esm
• Unofficial Oblivion Patch.esp
• UOP Vampire Aging & Face Fix.esp
• Oblivion Citadel Door Fix.esp (Bashed Patch)
• DLCShiveringIsles.esp
• Unofficial Shivering Isles Patch.esp
• Better Cities.esp
• Travelers of Cyrodiil.esp
• MigMiscellanea.esp
• DLCHorseArmor.esp
• DLCHorseArmor - Unofficial Patch.esp
• DLCOrrery.esp
• DLCOrrery - Unofficial Patch.esp
• DLCVileLair.esp
• DLCVileLair - Unofficial Patch.esp
• VileLairRedux.esp
• DLCMehrunesRazor.esp
• DLCMehrunesRazor - Unofficial Patch.esp
• DLCSpellTomes.esp
• DLCSpellTomes - Unofficial Patch.esp (Bashed Patch)
• Severianskatanas1_2.esp
• PSMainQuestDelayer.esp
• DLCThievesDen.esp
• DLCThievesDen - Unofficial Patch.esp
• DLCThievesDen - Unofficial Patch - SSSB.esp
• Weapon Expansion Pack for Oblivion Nthusiasts.esp
• Trade and Commerce.esp
• Kvatch Rebuilt.esp
• DLCBattlehornCastle.esp
• DLCBattlehornCastle - Unofficial Patch.esp
• DLCFrostcrag.esp
• DLCFrostcrag - Unofficial Patch.esp
• BrumaMGRestored.esp
• BrumaMGRestored-Frostcrag.esp
• Knights.esp
• Knights - Unofficial Patch.esp
• Oblivion Uncut.esp
• Oblivion DLC Delayers.esp (Bashed Patch)
• MannimarcoRevisited.esp
• MannimarcoWardrobeChest.esp
• Enhanced Daedric Invasion.esp (Bashed Patch)
• Auto Update Leveled Items And Spells.esp
• Persuasion Overhaul.esp
• Vanilla Combat Enhanced.esp
• VCEClassOverhaul.esp (Bashed Patch)
• SSEE.esp
• SSEE-MM.esp
• Oblivion XP.esp
• Oblivion_Character_Overhaul.esp
• OCO_DLCHorseArmor_Patch.esp (Bashed Patch)
• OCO_DLCOrrery_Patch.esp (Bashed Patch)
• OCO_DLCMehrunesRazor_Patch.esp (Bashed Patch)
• OCO_DLCThievesDen_Patch.esp (Bashed Patch)
• OCO_KvatchRebuilt_Patch.esp (Bashed Patch)
• OCO_KnightsOTN_Patch.esp (Bashed Patch)
• OCO_UOP_USIP_Patch.esp (Bashed Patch)
• Better Cities Full.esp
• Better Cities - IC Imperial Isle.esp
• Better Imperial City.esp
• Better Cities Chorrol - Knights of the nine.esp
• Better Cities Market District - Oblivion Uncut.esp
• Bashed Patch, 0.esp
• TWSAS.esp

 

 

I believe that the problem lies somehow with the mod Better Cities, but i have no idea how to go about it, other than reinstalling everything for the tenth time. Any help would be very appreciated :confused: .

 

Edit 1: Reinstalled without Better Cities, same issue.

Edited October 1, 2021 by Anthon2451

[Oblivionaddicted]

What do you use to set your load order?

MessageLogger?

[Anthon2451]

What do you use to set your load order?

MessageLogger?

 

I am using LOOT.

[Pellape]

Better cities caused me huge problems for sure. Run Oblivion as pure or simple as possible and to make it look better, I suggest Qarls Textures

I do suggest you install MOO, WACand also Ultimate levelingas the leveling system do suck and you need to micro/macro it from the console. Leveling is better in both Morrowind and in Skyrim really. Why? They do add some of the minor skills to the level, Oblivion does not as it only includes the major and that sux.

If you want a simple leveling system that are ready to play as it is, without editing an ini file, use Realistic Leveling and also install all fixes, ENBoost, ENB v0.259 and Enginebugfixesand all unofficial bug fixes.
These faces are very nice as well
Performance Sound might give a higher fps and also a more stable game

Each of those pages have a description that tells you how to install them. You do run your game on PC as it might work on some console's and not at some. I do not know anything about console's anyway?? I did bought a PS1 when they came out ages ago... :wink:

I use Wrye Bash, since 16 years back now for managing and installing my mods and patch them so they work nice together and for none OMODs and OBMM for Omods.
Wrye Bash will put a folder next to your Oblivion folder, where you DL your files too if you install Wrye Bash that is called Oblivion Mods\Bash Installers
I use LOOT for getting the mods in right order and it also tells you if the mods need cleaning and you clean them with TES4EditQuickAutoClean.exe that comes with TES4Edit

 

MOO can be combined with anything, like OOO, MMM or whatever ovehaul you wanna run.

Edited October 2, 2021 by Pellape

[Anthon2451]

After installing "MessageLogger" i managed to find out, thanks to the logs generated by the mod, that the problems were the Frostcrag and Battlehorn Castle revamp mods. Thanks a lot!

 

What do you use to set your load order?

MessageLogger?

[Oblivionaddicted]

 

After installing "MessageLogger" i managed to find out, thanks to the logs generated by the mod, that the problems were the Frostcrag and Battlehorn Castle revamp mods. Thanks a lot!

 

What do you use to set your load order?

MessageLogger?

 

Always glad to be helpful! :-)

[Pellape]

The Frotcrag mod worked perfect for me. A shame you wont be able to play it as it is huge and gives many hours of high quality game play.