[Crashing on Startup]

Running Oblivion using Vortex takes some knowledge of modding the game and more than a little preparation.

 

Have a peek at HadToRegister's post on the subject:

Vortex and Oblivion, an Experiment

I did notice that Vortex does put the mods installed into folders into the the Data folder with the esp's and esm's in them just like the author of the forum you sent me said. I tried removing those folders, but Vortex adds them back in every time Vortex is ran again. I don't know if this is the thing I should have done, but I don't entirely understand the method the author of Vortex and Oblivion, an experiment to make Vortex work with Oblivion.

[Crashing on Startup]

Steam version of the game or GOG/disk?

 

OBSE is required by your load order ... do you have it installed?

 

I see VVAdvanced.esm but not the rest of that mod ... from the Vim and Vigor mod description (and don't forget to read down a bit farther ... you've missed some Shivering Isles info too):

"Copy VVAdvanced.esm, VVAdvanced.esp, and VVAdvanced.bsa from the archive to your Oblivion\Data folder."

 

What are you sorting your load order with?

 

And I'll do a little preemptive troubleshooting before you finally get the game to start and then appear in the OCO v2 mod comments ...

 

Read the OCOv2 mod comments sticky post and you will see COBL mentioned. The specific part of COBL that is cause for concern is COBL Races.esp (the rest of COBL is fine). If you search through the comments you may run across some further advice concerning COBL Races plus OCO v2 (I'm not a big "races" guy myself, but I know I've seen info regarding it). MaleBodyReplacerV5.esp is not required at all. Delete or move it out of the Data folder ... Oblivion_Character_Overhaul.esp does everything required for Roberts Male to work properly alongside OCO v2.

Hey, thanks for responding. My game is through Steam. Yes, I do have OBSE, and it was working as far as I know before the crashes started happening. I have used LOOT to sort my mods, and I get a few messages concering TES4Edit, but I don't know what they mean. I also had no idea that I had Vim and Vigor. I don't think I want it, so what is the best way to uninstall it? Also, I might want to add that I first started experiencing this problem after I downloaded Vortex and ran Oblivion through it as one of the managed games. Before then, every mod I had in the load order was working without the COBL plugins.

 

What happens if you start a new game without any mod?

Did you download MessageLogger?

I have not tried that yet, and would that require uninstalling and reinstalling the game. I also did download and install MessageLogger, but it is not working and nothing is appearing in MessageLog.txt.

[Crashing on Startup]

Hello. I have had this problem for months and tried to fix it several times, but I either gave up or couldn't find the solution. The problem I am having is a crash on startup that manifests itself as a small black window in the upper-left hand corner of the screen and then disappears after clicking "Play" in the launcher. I have disabled mods to check and see which one might have been the culprit but that never worked. I even had the crash after disabling all mods and only leaving the Oblivion master files and official DLC files checked. At one point, I was told on another forum to install COBL since most of my mods seems to require it, but doing so also did nothing. I can't say I know where to go next, and I hope that if someone is willing, they might help me.

 

Here is my load order:

 

00 Oblivion.esm

01 EnhancedWeather.esm [Version 1.4.4]

02 Oscuro's_Oblivion_Overhaul.esm [Version 1.5.11]

03 Cobl Main.esm [Version 1.72]

04 VVAdvanced.esm [Version 1.00]

05 Cobl Glue.esp [Version 1.72]

06 Cobl Tweaks.esp [Version 1.44]

07 Unofficial Oblivion Patch.esp [Version 3.5.0]

08 Oblivion Citadel Door Fix.esp

09 UOP Vampire Aging & Face Fix.esp [Version 1.0.0]

0A DLCShiveringIsles.esp

0B Cobl Si.esp [Version 1.63]

0C Unofficial Shivering Isles Patch.esp [Version 1.5.2]

0D DLCHorseArmor.esp

0E DLCOrrery.esp

0F DLCVileLair.esp

10 DLCMehrunesRazor.esp

11 DLCSpellTomes.esp

12 DLCThievesDen.esp

13 DLCBattlehornCastle.esp

14 DLCFrostcrag.esp

15 Knights.esp

16 USIPS Additional Changes.esp

17 Oscuro's_Oblivion_Overhaul.esp [Version 1.5.10]

18 UOPS Additional Changes.esp

19 Book Jackets Oblivion.esp

1A The Lost Spires.esp

1B Adventurers Guild.esp

1C BAKAdventurerTorch.esp

1D BetterExplosions.esp

1E Disable Quest Marker.esp

1F Enhanced Vegetation [150%].esp

20 EnhancedWeather - Darker Nights, 80.esp [Version Final]

21 EnhancedWeather.esp [Version 1.4.4]

22 Gold Change II.esp

23 Harvest [Flora].esp [Version 3.0.0]

24 Oblivion Gate Map Marker Remover.esp [Version 1.1.0]

25 HAZeatanimations.esp

26 KnightShield.esp

27 Let There Be Darkness - Cyrodiil.esp

28 Kvatch Battle.esp

29 LightSpellWhiteDimmer.esp

2A OOO-DLT_Remover.esp [Version 1.33]

2B OOO-Water_Weeds.esp [Version 1.33]

2C P1DseeYouSleep.esp

2D P1DseeYouSleep - DLCVileLair.esp

2E P1DseeYouSleep - VVAdvanced.esp

2F Quest Award Leveller.esp [Version 2.0.1]

30 actors_in_charge.esp

31 RealisticForceHigh.esp

32 RealisticForceLow.esp

33 RealisticForceMedium.esp

34 RenGuardOverhaul.esp

35 SkeletonShaders.esp

36 Skyrimized Water HD BLUE eng.esp [Version 1.8.]

37 VA_BetterGold.esp

38 XSPipeMod.esp [Version 1.2]

39 Cobl Races.esp [Version 1.52]

3A MaleBodyReplacerV5.esp

3B Oblivion_Character_Overhaul.esp [Version 2.0]

3C RealSwords - Breton LO.esp

3D Harvest [Flora] - DLCFrostcrag.esp [Version 3.0.0]

3E ImprovedSigns.esp

3F TT-EquipableBeards.esp

40 Bashed Patch, 0.esp

[Oblivion Crashing on Start Up]

 

It has been a while since I posted last, but I decided to come back if you are all still willing to help.

 

 

You don't even have COBL installed so anything that depends on COBL will give you a missing master crash.

 

You are also using multiple versions of mods that require you to use only one of the optional ESPs (e.g. use one RealisticForce ESP ... not all three).

Striker879, I actually have installed COBL recently, but I still get the same error that I started out with. I have all of the data files like Cobl Main.esm, Cobl Glue.esp, Cobl Races.esp, Cobl Si.esp, ad Cobl Tweaks.esp. Do I need every one of these, or are some unnecessary by looking at my load order?

 

What about the other missing master you mentioned ... VVAdvanced.esm ?

 

Edit - I use See You Sleep DLL myself (the masterless version). Haven't ever tried the one you are using so I can't say whether there are any differences but the DLL version does say it's an update to the one you're using.

 

I added VVAdvanced.esm to my data files but I still get the crash as before. Everything has been up since I ran Oblivion through Vortex.

[Oblivion Crashing on Start Up]

It has been a while since I posted last, but I decided to come back if you are all still willing to help.

 

 

You don't even have COBL installed so anything that depends on COBL will give you a missing master crash.

You are also using multiple versions of mods that require you to use only one of the optional ESPs (e.g. use one RealisticForce ESP ... not all three).

Striker879, I actually have installed COBL recently, but I still get the same error that I started out with. I have all of the data files like Cobl Main.esm, Cobl Glue.esp, Cobl Races.esp, Cobl Si.esp, ad Cobl Tweaks.esp. Do I need every one of these, or are some unnecessary by looking at my load order?

[Oblivion Crashing on Start Up]

 

Hello, I've been having this problem fairly recently. Ever since I ran Oblivion through Vortex (choosing it from Games and then managing it), it has started crashing every time I press play from the launcher or run Oblivion.exe. Once I launch it, a small black window appears in the upper left part of the screen and then disappears after a few seconds. I am not sure if this is a Vortex problem or my game problem. Any help would be appreciated.

If you've not been successful launching Oblivion using the Oblivion executables directly, then the problem clearly is something other than your mod manager. Load order (as has already been mentioned)? Missing masters? Texture file problems?

 

Since you're using Vortex with Oblivion, you may find the following post helpful:

 

Vortex and Oblivion, an Experiment

 

 

 

Load order?

 

Tried MessageLogger?

Here is my load order for my game.

 

Oblivion.esm

EnhancedWeather.esm

Oscuro's_Oblivion_Overhaul.esm

Unofficial Oblivion Patch.esp

Oblivion Citadel Door Fix.esp

UOP Vampire Aging & Face Fix.esp

UOPS Additional Changes.esp

USIPS Additional Changes.esp

DLCShiveringIsles.esp

Unofficial Shivering Isles Patch.esp

DLCHorseArmor.esp

DLCOrrery.esp

DLCVileLair.esp

DLCMehrunesRazor.esp

DLCSpellTomes.esp

DLCThievesDen.esp

DLCBattlehornCastle.esp

DLCFrostcrag.esp

Knights.esp

Oscuro's_Oblivion_Overhaul.esp

Book Jackets Oblivion.esp

The Lost Spires.esp

Adventurers Guild.esp

BAKAdventurerTorch.esp

BetterExplosions.esp

Disable Quest Marker.esp

Enhanced Vegetation [150%].esp

EnhancedWeather - Darker Nights, 80.esp

EnhancedWeather.esp

Gold Change II.esp

Harvest [Flora].esp

MaleBodyReplacerV5.esp

Oblivion Gate Map Marker Remover.esp

Oblivion_Character_Overhaul.esp

RealSwords - Breton LO.esp

Harvest [Flora] - DLCFrostcrag.esp

HAZeatanimations.esp

ImprovedSigns.esp

KnightShield.esp

Let There Be Darkness - Cyrodiil.esp

Kvatch Battle.esp

LightSpellWhiteDimmer.esp

OOO-DLT_Remover.esp

OOO-Water_Weeds.esp

P1DseeYouSleep.esp

P1DseeYouSleep - DLCVileLair.esp

P1DseeYouSleep - VVAdvanced.esp

Quest Award Leveller.esp

actors_in_charge.esp

RealisticForceHigh.esp

RealisticForceLow.esp

RealisticForceMedium.esp

RenGuardOverhaul.esp

SkeletonShaders.esp

Skyrimized Water HD BLUE eng.esp

VA_BetterGold.esp

XSPipeMod.esp

Bashed Patch, 0.esp

Like you mentioned Augusta Claudia, there is a missing master according to Vortex. It says that p1dseeyousleep - vvadvanced.esp despends on Cobl Main.esm and VVAdvanced.esm and that they are not enabled.

[Oblivion Crashing on Start Up]

Hello, I've been having this problem fairly recently. Ever since I ran Oblivion through Vortex (choosing it from Games and then managing it), it has started crashing every time I press play from the launcher or run Oblivion.exe. Once I launch it, a small black window appears in the upper left part of the screen and then disappears after a few seconds. I am not sure if this is a Vortex problem or my game problem. Any help would be appreciated.

[Iventory Book Issue]

I have disabled those mods, but I still get the same problem. I am still able to examine the book once I've closed it when my inventory freezes though.

[Iventory Book Issue]

I did install some new textures for books before this started to happen. As well as Smoking Torches and Armor of Intrigue, but I don't know why this would happen.

[Iventory Book Issue]

I've been having this issue that happens every time I'm done reading a note or book. Once I have closed the book or are done reading a note, my inventory seems to freeze and I cannot select or mouse over any other items. If I do click the screen, however, this fixes it. I know this isn't a huge problem, but is there anyway I can fix this? Maybe have you experienced it? I have found out that this only seems to happen when I click the book to read it instead of pressing E to read.