Oblivion CTD when exiting inn after being initiated into the Dark Brotherhood

[Bluestorm7776]

What the topic says, I'm at the part of the Dark Brotherhood quest after you kill Rufio (I think that's his name) and you have to sleep in a safe place to make Lucian come to you and initiate you into the Dark Brotherhood.

In any inn I sleep in, no matter what, after I sleep, wake up, talk to Lucian, accept the quest and leave the inn I get a CTD. After some investigation, I believe the crash is due to having the quest while being in the overworld.

What I mean is, that being in the overworld after I've accepted the quest (leaving an inn after accepting the quest) will cause a CTD no matter what. I've tested using console commands to give me the quest, I typed "setstage Dark10Knife 30" to activate the quest without sleeping in an inn and talking to Lucian. Using this command while in the overworld immediately crashes my game, using the command inside any building will no crash my game, however, my game will crash after entering the overworld after leaving the building after I've used the console command.

This has not happened due to any of my other quests.

Here's my load order:

0 0 Oblivion.esm

1 1 bookplacing.esm

2 2 HorseCombatMaster.esm

3 3 Better Cities Resources.esm

4 4 Unofficial Oblivion Patch.esp

UOP Vampire Aging & Face Fix.esp

5 5 Oblivion Citadel Door Fix.esp

6 6 DLCShiveringIsles.esp

7 7 Unofficial Shivering Isles Patch.esp

8 8 Knights.esp

9 9 Sounds of Cyrodiil.esp

10 a Better Dungeons.esp

11 b Book Jackets Oblivion - BP.esp

12 c Book Jackets Oblivion.esp

13 d AliveWaters.esp

14 e Oblivion_Character_Overhaul.esp

Grass Overhaul.esp

15 f Enhanced Water v2.0 ND.esp

16 10 Enhanced Water v2.0 HD.esp

LessFogUnderwater.esp

17 11 AliveWaters - Koi Addon.esp

18 12 AliveWaters - Slaughterfish Addon.esp

19 13 Custom Autosave.esp

20 14 DropLitTorchOBSE.esp

21 15 CapesandCloaks.esp

22 16 Immersive Weapons.esp

23 17 Alluring Potion Bottles v3.esp

Real Lava 1.3.esp

Book Placement v2.esp

Grass Overhaul_xUL_Imperial_Isle_patch.esp

24 18 SleepRestAnyTime.esp

25 19 MidasSpells.esp

26 1a RenGuardOverhaul.esp

27 1b Deadly Reflex 6 - Timed Block with no damage or durability changes.esp

28 1c Deadly Reflex 6 - Timed block and 150% damage.esp

29 1d Deadly Reflex 6 - Timed Block and 250% damage.esp

30 1e Mounted_Spellcasting_Deadly_Reflex_Compatible.esp

31 1f Natural_Weather_HDR_by_Max_Tae_CO_RD.esp

32 20 Natural_Weather_HDR_2.1.3_coloroverride.esp.esp

33 21 ImprovedSigns.esp

34 22 DeadlyReflex 6 - Combat Moves.esp

Deadly Reflex 6 - HeX NifSE Patch.esp

35 23 BetterSaves.esp

36 24 Enemy Weapons dont drop.esp

37 25 Denock Arrows.esp

38 26 OblivionReloaded.esp

39 27 ClocksOfCyrodiil.esp

40 28 Natural_Habitat_by_Max_Tael.esp

41 29 Natural_Vegetation_by_Max_Tael.esp

42 2a Natural_Water_by_Max_Tael.esp

43 2b Natural_Weather_by_Max_Tael.esp

44 2c Natural_Weather_HDR_by_Max_Tael.esp

45 2d Bashed Patch, 0.esp

46 2e Better Cities - IC Imperial Isle.esp

47 2f Better Cities - Open Better Cities.esp

48 30 Better Cities Full.esp

49 31 Better Imperial City.esp

50 32 Better Cities .esp

51 33 Better Cities Anvil Open - Knights of the Nine.esp

52 34 Better Cities Chorrol - Knights of the Nine.esp

All of my mods have been installed with Nexus Mod Manager, I use moreheap, gamecompanion, all of my mods have been cleaned and sorted with LOOT (the only things manually sorted have been the better cities .esps), I've used Wrye Bash, I have the New Vegas Anti Crash and An ENB with ENBoost.

I've tried many things and none of them work, any help is appreciated.

Edited July 19, 2018 by Bluestorm7776

[Oblivionaddicted]

NMM wasn't made for Oblivion.

 

You should better reinstall your mods manually.

[criegler]

Did you manage to solve this? Having literally the exact same issue now

[insaneinthebrain8]

I had the exact same issue, managed to solve it by disabling Better Cities mod.

[Pellape]

Better Cities made my game to crash with a new char, after leaving IC for the first time. It does looks so damn good, but try to run the game without it and see if the quest works as I had no problems with the DB questline for sure.

[fcth]

I'm three years late here, but I had this same issue (I installed with Vortex), and was able to fix it so I wanted to leave a note in case anyone else wanders in. Apologies for the thread necromancy.

 

Here's what I did to avoid the crash (these may be more steps than necessary).

 

1. Reinstall Better Cities without the Open Better Cities option (which seemed to be causing the issue). I tried both with and without the merged options, didn't seem to make a difference, so you should be able to do what you want there. My game loaded fine at this point, but Open Better Cities is cooler, so:
2. Go to the Sanctuary and talk with Ocheeva to advance the quest (I also went through all her initial dialog options)
3. Leave the Sancturary and Cheydinhal. I fast traveled to Pell's Gate to make sure I was well away from any city that Better Cities would change.
4. Save and exit
5. Reinstall Better Cities again, turning on Open Better Cities this time
6. Load the game, confirm no crash, save and exit
7. Updated the Better Cities ini file to Open the cities and add wall archers
8. Loaded my save, and Open Better Cities seems to be working with no crashes

Given the above I'd imagine that simply advancing the quest to where you've talked with Ocheeva would work, but haven't actually tried it.

 

[Oblivionaddicted]

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