A Guide to preventing bugs and crashes in Oblivion

[NexusKnight]

I was having the same CTD's upon loading screens as Lord Valarian (above). I found that "Pluggy" was the culprit in my case. Once I removed this mod my CTD's occurred 50% less often. Also, in my case, I had MMM & OOO installed natively and they weren't getting along very well together. When I switched to FCOM Convergence 1.0, which is designed around these two mods, I found even less crashes to desktop, as it's a much more stable install of these two excellent overhauls.

 

Therefore, if anyone is using Pluggy, it would be prudent to try removing it to see if it may be the cause of your CTD problems. I'm not saying that Pluggy is a 'bad' mod, but there have been enough reports about this that suggest it isn't for everyone. So, I thought I'd mention it here... hope this helps.

[vfrench2012]

would someone mind helping me out? I can provide any vital info that you'd need, but simply put, my game gets a CTD after a few minutes of game play and i cannot tell why or how to fix it.

[AlphaOmegaFreak123]

Okay, so here's the problem. I have tried everything to Mod Oblivion correctly and nothing has worked thus far. At first, I attempted to use Nexus Mod Manager. But every time I attempted to open Oblivion, it immediately crashed. Then I started using Wrye Bash, even though it was a pain to get up and running as I use the steam version of Oblivion. But then I attempted to use the Deadly Reflex mod, and a camera bug came into play wherein the npcs and my own character appeared to be much smaller. I tried to root out the problem as much as I could, but it only worked when I completely uninstalled Oblivion and deleted all of its files. Now, I'm attempting to use Oblivion Mod Manager, which seems to be the simplest solution. But now I am having the same problem as I am having when using Nexus Mod Manager, the game keep crashing on start.

So I tried only installing a limited number of mods, including The Unofficial Oblivion Patches, the 12146 Patch, enginebugfixes, OBSE, OBGE, and that's it. Then again, I probably don't need the 12146 patch, as the steam version are already up to date. Will doing so help? Whenever I pull up the launcher menu, there are three invalid esm files where they should be, including the citadel door fix, the oblivion patch, and vampire aging. As of now, I have had the misery of uninstalling Oblivion seven times and will about to do so an eighth.

Now Oblivion freezes whenever I just install the Oblivion patch and the shivering Isles patch. This never happened with Wrye Bash!! what the f*** is happening?