TenShadows Posted August 12, 2013 Share Posted August 12, 2013 My game crashes disproportionately often when using quicksaves, and now even on normal saves that I delete each time I save again. It really starts to look like the whole thing has turned bad, and time for a reinstall. Still, that's all I know about the issue. I know that it's probably a corrupted master file, but I have no idea what that actually means, or what causes it. Is there anything I can do the next time to prevent this sort of thing, or is it just the matter of stars being right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hickory Posted August 12, 2013 Share Posted August 12, 2013 Do not use quicksaves; do not use 'Save on... <ANYTHING>'. Turn all of those options off; in Oblivion they are known save game corruption vectors. And no, it has nothing to do with a master file. Master files do not corrupt save games. If you had a corrupt master file, it is likely your game would simply crash to the desktop on startup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TenShadows Posted August 12, 2013 Author Share Posted August 12, 2013 Well, the game crashes almost literally each time I load a save - be it an autosave, a quicksave, or a fresh actual save I just made - unless it's right after startup. I'm not sure what else it could be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hickory Posted August 12, 2013 Share Posted August 12, 2013 If your save game loads fine when you just started the game up, and then after playing for a while does not (or crashes), then your computer must be struggling to keep up. What are your system specs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TenShadows Posted August 12, 2013 Author Share Posted August 12, 2013 12 gigabytes of RAM, quad-core, one and half terabytes of free space, and GeForce GT 630. Oblivion runs perfectly fine without a single stutter: I'd imagine if my computer couldn't keep up, it'd start by simply running slower, and only later bring in the load-game crashes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TenShadows Posted May 13, 2014 Author Share Posted May 13, 2014 (edited) It happened again. I'd become an arena Champion (not Grand Champion yet), went to do Hircine's Quest, delved into an Ayleid ruin on the way, got killed by some conjurers, loaded the game, and it crashed. Now it crashes every time I load it from the game. I tried to restore an older quicksave, didn't work. I tried to load the last proper save game, didn't work. I still have no idea what causes it in the first place, and especially not how to fix it - just that it seems to be a sad eventuality now. Edit: Is there even a difference on whether I use a quicksave or a normal save, if I'm going to save the game every five seconds anyway? Also, for the record, the game has been completely stable so far: I'm level 16 but it has only crashed twice and done a runtime error once. And then it dropped the bomb. Edited May 13, 2014 by TenShadows Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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