renadragoon Posted May 29 Posted May 29 Came back to Oblivion after a year or so. Downloaded the steam version, on windows 11. It crashes every few minutes or so. Sometimes it just flashes, then comes back as if all is normal, sometimes it crashes completely. I have tried going vanilla, using the stutter, but I don't know what to do. It's almost unplayable. Any thoughts please??
Oblivionaddicted Posted June 7 Posted June 7 Mods? Load order? Cleaned the mods you use? MessageLogger?
QuestSolver Posted June 18 Posted June 18 On 5/30/2025 at 1:34 AM, renadragoon said: Came back to Oblivion after a year or so. Downloaded the steam version, on windows 11. It crashes every few minutes or so. Sometimes it just flashes, then comes back as if all is normal, sometimes it crashes completely. I have tried going vanilla, using the stutter, but I don't know what to do. It's almost unplayable. Any thoughts please?? Are you using old save games? On Steam you will have older save games downloaded from Steam Cloud in case you have started a "clean" install (downloaded game from Steam Library) and have been playing for some years ago where you might have had save games being copied from local Documents/My Games/Oblivion folder to Cloud. When you install Oblivion and have older save games in Cloud, those will be downloaded into your user folder (Documents/My Games/Oblivion). Remove those files or move those out from that place to avoid loading every older files when you run game as it will search in that folder and list them when it finds save games which can become too much for game engine to handle with limited access to RAM. There is LAA patch for 4GB, but it will not magically improve game as it only changes some internal flags for game engine. https://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/45576 Without knowing anything about your system in form of what kind of hardware you are using and what kind of drivers that have been updated including which version of Windows 11 build that are in use, it can be close to impossible to narrow down what can cause your issue. Anyway I would recommend to start with removing all older files that in Documents folder for Oblivion, if you any, remove and reinstall Oblivion in a place where Windows 11 will not mess up write/read mode for files that aren't authorised by MS. Here is the default folder structure for Oblivion: https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Directories I am sure I read somewhere also from UESP that Program File(x86) isn't recommended in case you need some public confirmation that windows default program folders (there is two: one for 32 bit which (x86) and the other with any (x86) that is for 64 bit - that is only recommendation for app devs, so it is possible to find 32 bit app even in Program Files which where supposed to be ONLY for 64 bit apps. Take look at Vulkan (DXVK). For me that have at least made game a bit more stable. https://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/images/173167 Here is a guide which also recommend Vulkan as part of other options to make a more stable Oblivion. https://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/54158 Vulkan replaces DirectX 9C for handling API and seem to be better on new hardware that today have more then one core/threads. It does this by also making calls to GPU that is less constrained by the old DX9c way of doing this. Today's video cards make use of DirectX 11 or DirectX 12 API, so you will still have a layer with DirectX 9C to DX11 or DX12 for API which could be one cause to instability or crashes.
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