Anduril Reforged CTD

[TeeSeven]

As a huge Tolkien fan, I recently downloaded "Anduril Reforged" for Oblivion. I went to Emile in Bravil, he gave me the first quest, I fast traveled to the nearest location, began walking towards the quest marker...and...crash. I tried it multiple times, disabling many of my mods, I have Unofficial Oblivion Patch, I use Wrye Bash and BOSS, and no matter what I try, it keeps crashing. Help?

[Lanceor]

Usually it's best to post in the mod's comment thread when it's about a specific mod, but since I stumbled across your post randomly, I may as well answer it here. :smile:

 

Is Cadlew Chapel the place that you can't get near? How close are you before you crash? From which direction are you getting there?

 

At this stage, I can't think of anything in Anduril Reforged that could cause a CTD like this since the only exterior change was the addition of a trigger zone.

[TeeSeven]

Sorry, I'm completely new to the Nexus Forums. Yes, it is Cadlew Chapel, I go there from "A Strange Door" from The Shivering Isles, the place where it crashes varies, but it's usually when I'm about to reach the coast which Cadlew Chapel is on. I also tried the "movetoqt" command multiple times, each time it crashed. Here's my mod list on Wrye Bash (sorted by load order):

 

Francesco's Leveld Creatures-Items Mod

Francesco's Optional New Items Add-On

Francesco's Optional New Creatures Add-On

Knights - Revelation(.esm)

Unofficial Oblivion Patch

Oblivion Citadel Door Fix

DLCShiveringIsles

Francesco's Optional Files

Knights

Knights - Revelation(.esp)

SupremeMagicka

MidasSpells

Francesco's Slower skills x 1.5

bgMagicEV

bgMagicEVStartspells

bgMagicPotionNumberSoulGemValue.esp

AlternativeOblivionMagicSystem

Francesco's 10 days respawn time - 1-16 day length rescale

bgMagicEVShader

bgMagicLightningbolt

Bashed Patch, 0 (have no idea what this is)

Weightless Arrow

Andúril Reforged

 

Sorry it's so long, and thanks a ton for helping!

[Lanceor]

That's actually a small load order compared to most that get posted here. :wink: It doesn't seem to be Anduril Reforged causing the crashes so all I can give is general crash related advice.

 

You could try typing "coc cadlewchapel" in the console to teleport into the chapel. It will probably crash if you leave the chapel via the front door unless you teleport out (e.g. coc Weye).

 

UESP also has advice about crashes that occur in specific areas. Give these a try to see if it helps:

 

Problem

In some areas the game crashes within seconds of entering the area.

 

Cause 1

Requirement for specular lighting in the areas, while it has been switched off.

Solution

Set Specular Distance in the in-game video options to minimum.

Workaround

Set the variable bDoSpecularPass in Oblivion.ini to 1 if you switched it off before. You can turn it back off after you're past the problem area.

 

Cause 2

Corrupted master file. Casual crashes in Oblivion are to be expected, but sometimes the crash corrupts the master file causing exceptional crashiness in damaged areas (and as result likehood for further corruption of the file).

Workaround

Be in the first person perspective mode. As soon as you enter the area, look straight down at the floor and run to the desired exit door using your feel (map, hints from the floor looks), without looking up. Of course you can't do much in such areas that way. It can get you, say, across the Skingrad castle courtyard though.

Solution

Reinstall Oblivion. Your saves shouldn't be lost but just in case back them up (My Documents\My Games\Oblivion\Saves) then uninstall Oblivion (with Add/Remove Programs), reboot, install Oblivion again, possibly reboot again. Most likely your savegames are still present, if not, recover from backup. Don't start with a savegame created in the crashy area, pick an earlier one if needed. If you would prefer not to reinstall the game, you can restore your autosave. Go to your Saves directory (commonly C:\Documents and Settings\"user name"\My Documents\My Games\Oblivion\Saves) and delete autosave.ess. Then rename autosave.bak to autosave.ess. Occasionally, the .ess and .bak will not have been generated during the same save, so restoring the .bak will result in starting from 2nd most recent autosave point. For reasons unclear, following the steps in Solution 2 will cease corruption of autosave files also.

Solution 2

Stop overwriting existing save files and avoid using Quicksave. Disabling quicksaves will have a dramatic effect in reducing crashes. Supporting the hypothesis that corrupted saves cause game crashes rather than game crashes corrupt saves, it seems that clicking "new save" everytime will eliminate those pesky "crash on area transition" crashes. Autosave is still ok.

 

Cause 3

iShadowMapResolution was changed from 1024 to 256 in Oblivion.ini for patch 1.2

Solution

Open Oblivion.ini. Find iShadowMapResolution. Change 256 to 1024. Close Oblivion.ini and save changes.

 

Cause 4

HDR lighting is enabled

Solution

Just go into video settings and turn HDR lighting off.

 

Cause 5

Internal shadows are turned off. Sometimes going through a door will immediately CTD.

Solution

Turn on Internal shadows.