RobidyBobidy Posted October 3, 2009 Share Posted October 3, 2009 I was just wondering if there was a way to find out exactly what crashes your game after it happens. Unfortunately for me, the case with my game is that it's crashing COMPLETELY at random (in cities, in the wild, in fights, sometimes during loading, ...as if it were on a time limit from when I start playing?), and that when it kicks me out to my desktop, not only is there no "ERROR" message to indicate a problem, but my desktop view is magnified so I can only see like 1/4 of it, and it stays that way until I open up oblivion again and exit back out. Trippy, huh? I never heard of any mods disagreeing in such a way that would cause these odd symptoms (especially the desktop thing)...but in any case, if there is some way to keep track of the crashes that occur, I'd greatly appreciate it if someone could tell me. Or, if someone already knows the problem, that would be even better. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grmblf Posted October 3, 2009 Share Posted October 3, 2009 There are many many things that can cause a CTD (Crash To Desktop), and no, there's no single utility that tells you exactly what's wrong with your mods, that'd be fantastic. The thing that you see your desktop 'magnified' is probably because as oblivion crashes, your windows keep your screen resolution from the game and applies it to windows. Normally, as for what I've experienced with the game, if two or more addons are in conflict the game uses to crash only on certain circunstances (or it doesn't load at all). The only time I've experienced that kind of random crashes was when I was abusing from graphics (very high res replacements, water enhancement, anti-aliasing, shadows, etc, etc, etc) like my graphic card was running out of memory or so. Perhaps that's what happen to you too, but in any case, most of the times finding what's wrong with your mods is a matter of trial and error. Go, uncheck what you suspect that may be causing the crash and load the game. It doesn't crash? You've found it! Otherwise you should still trying other mods. Reading the readme included with the mods and following the installation process as described usually helps preventing oblivion undesired behaviour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobidyBobidy Posted October 3, 2009 Author Share Posted October 3, 2009 The only mods I'm using are the HGEC body modifiers and UV/deadly reflexes (as well as BOSS and OBSE, which all run accordingly without in-game error or lag). I agree though - if my mods were conflicting with eachother and causing CTD's, it wouldn't be random. Certain things would have to set them off. So, it's most likely my video card settings. I have the resolution on the very lowest setting, all shadows ------ EVERYTHING set to low/best performance. Even though I'm using a Radeon 9550 (sad, I know), and only 1gig of Ram and a 2.0ghz processor, my game runs surprisingly smooth. And as I said, it will not just crash in hectic fights with lots of pixels being thrown about - it'll take an action as simple as trying to jump or shooting a fireball while I'm alone in a room. All the sudden, my game will freeze and my computer starts acting like it's having a hernia...then out to the desktop I go. I've been meaning to download some of the mods I've heard about like the stutter-reducer mod and the crash preventer, but unfortunately the server is down, so I'm stuck saving my game every 30 seconds in fear of a flash-crash :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobidyBobidy Posted October 3, 2009 Author Share Posted October 3, 2009 Well, I solved the problem. Apparently, the "unofficial" oblivion and SI patches were the culprits. I went through from scratch with no mods on, and it crashed...when I turned those off, I played for an hour without a crash (when it normally crashes w/in 10-15 minutes). It may have just been conflicting with one of the mods or some sort of file or loading process, but w/e, I don't crash now, and it feels great ^.^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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