Freezing when leveling up

[pillullis]

Hello all.

I have a problem every time I attempt to level up: After I distribute the points during the Leveling-Up screen, I click the button to continue and then... The game freezes. No CTD, no error message, just freezes like that. I am not using OBSE or OMM. I am playing vanilla Oblivion with all the official plug-ins from Bethseda (All the DLC, Shivering Islands and Knights of the Nine), after installing all of these I applies the "SHIVERING ISLES PATCH v1.2.0416" directly from the official website.

Hopefully someone of you guys can help me with this thing. Thank you for your time.

[Johny Obliv]

You could try to download the Unofficial Oblivion Patch, because it will fix alot of bugs and glitches in your game.

[dezdimona]

also try the unofficial SI patch

[pillullis]

I tried installing both of them and I still get the same issue.

[Qwaxalot]

Hello all.

I have a problem every time I attempt to level up: After I distribute the points during the Leveling-Up screen, I click the button to continue and then... The game freezes. No CTD, no error message, just freezes like that. I am not using OBSE or OMM. I am playing vanilla Oblivion with all the official plug-ins from Bethseda (All the DLC, Shivering Islands and Knights of the Nine), after installing all of these I applies the "SHIVERING ISLES PATCH v1.2.0416" directly from the official website.

Hopefully someone of you guys can help me with this thing. Thank you for your time.

 

I seem to recall that this issue comes up from time-to-time. The solution is to wait patiently. But for the life of me I cannot find the reference.

 

In my dim recollection, the solution might be along the lines of saving before leveling, exiting the game and restarting, then sleeping (to level up).

 

This issue has, for sure, been brought up before.

 

Maybe you'll be more successful in a forum search than I.

 

Qwaxalot.

[pillullis]

I've been doing that., Qwax and I still get the problem. It's a matter of probability: 50/50 chances of happening.

[BossDweebe]

Official or not plugins are still mods. Once a plugin is installed the game is no longer "vanilla".

I think it is best to install the official patch before any plugins/mods.

 

You should get OBMM and use it to set your load order. You are very likely going to get

more mods (if you are half as whacked out as the most of us :blink: ) and will need OBMM in any case.

 

You said you are using all the official DLC's, how many would that be ?

 

So maybe get OBMM then disable the plugins, but not the SI or KOTN.

Then apply the patch. Reboot. Enable whatever other DLC's you have

and set the load order. If you have more than three or five then only enable

the plugins two at a time. Then play test.

[pillullis]

That's what I've been doing and I still get the same result.

[pillullis]

I tested it with other computer and there's no problems. I wonder what might that be.

[bben46]

Here is my crash help file, Maybe you can find something in it that will actually help you.

 

Crashes are a part of the Oblivion experience. It's the game's way of telling you that you need to take a break.

 

There will always be some crashes, all we can do is minimize them.

 

Save often, it will keep the frustration level down.

 

Anything running in the background can cause a crash. Especially a program that likes to call home, such as an antivirus program that updates without warning, or an instant messaging program trying to connect.

 

Start by disabling everything that accesses the internet when you play. that includes the Vonage, Skype, IM, xfire and anything that calls in or out. You might even disable internet access altogether.

 

Many programs use an auto update feature - such as HP printers (how often does your printer driver need updating?)

MS auto update can cause crashes. Some of these will even try to connect when the internet is disabled, and keep trying every ten minutes or so. If you can, disable the autoupdate function, at least while playing.

 

Then look for programs that run in the background, they are stealing time from the game and if they don't give control back quick enough - crash. MS indexing service, antivirus progs that scan everything in the background, Auto defrag programs, Scheduling programs all steal cycles from the game. Any of these can cause crashes.

 

After you have cut down the crashes caused by external stuff, start looking at your mods. Some mods just don't play well with others. And for some the load order is very important. BOSS works for most load order problems, but it can't set them all. There are over 14,000 mods on Tesnexus alone.

 

Another often overlooked source of crashes is removing a mod. If you remove a mod that affects game play, it can cause a crash when something from the missing mod is referenced in game. The most common is the unable to enter Bruma crash. This is caused when you complete a part of the main quest with one character, make a new character, load an old save and try to enter Bruma with the new character. There is something (spoiler) in Bruma that references your old character - which is no longer in the game.

 

Then there are the Nvidia black screen crashes. A quick way around them is to disable both AA and HDR in your video settings. Then after you are passed the point where the black screen occurs, re-enable whichever you use. There are many posts telling what has worked for some, and not worked for others, along with several mods that help.

 

Try this, Windom Earle_s Oblivion Crash Prevention System

 

http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=22282

 

It's being updated often so if it doesn't fix all of your crashes check back in a few days. It completely eliminated my crash on exit as well as some others (but not all)

 

Note, it is not a mod and doesn't install like a mod, so be sure to read the instructions.

 

New info. A lot of unused .exe files left in the /data folder can cause problems. It seems that Oblivion likes to look through all of the unused files and even the extra folders in the /oblivion folder. new recommendation, make a new folder - OUTSIDE of /oblivion to keep this unused stuff. such as Bethesda/Oblivion_Mods. Note that Later versions of Wrye bash already do this with the ghosting feature. If you have a folder for unused mods in your /Oblivion folder, move it into the new/Oblivion_Mods folder.

 

Essentially, clean up your Oblivio/data folder and move everything not needed in /Oblivion and /Data to a new folder outside of /Oblivion.

 

If you are keeping your original or copies of zipped downloads inside of the /Oblivion folder, move them out too.

 

Also, if you can, empty the windows prefetch folder it may be keeping info on older now unused mods, and Oblivion will look for them if it sees that they are supposed to be there.

 

You probably won't be able to get rid of all of them, but you can minimize them.