Game freezes upon entering/exiting Inventory

[TheTrooper1138]

Have been having this problem since yesterday, not always, but often the game just freezes, when I open or close my inventory. Have to hit ctrl+alt+del and use task manager to close it.

Using a lot of mods and OBSE, but never had this problem before, tried it with deactivating recently installed mods, but it didn't help either... anyone got an idea? This is really annoying, especially since I've played more than 90 hours with my char... :/

I could upload my latest save if it helps, but as I said, I'm using a lot of mods and I don't know if any of it is causing it, but since they worked well before, I don't know why they should stop doing so now... If anyone can help me, that would be much appreciated!

[Zaldir]

Have you tried turning off all your mods?

[TheTrooper1138]

Have you tried turning off all your mods?

 

No, but in the meantime I created a new char and the problem did not occur so far... so I'm guessing it's the save maybe... I am using a weightless item mod, so could this maybe be cause by too many items in my inventory? I don't know, is there maybe a limit on how many items Oblivion can handle or something like that? Also it does not always occur, funny thing is, the best fix so far was to load some earlier saves and then load the current one again and then sometimes it worked again... I'm actually a bit puzzled by that... Oo

[Shadowfen]

Have you tried turning off all your mods?

 

No, but in the meantime I created a new char and the problem did not occur so far... so I'm guessing it's the save maybe... I am using a weightless item mod, so could this maybe be cause by too many items in my inventory? I don't know, is there maybe a limit on how many items Oblivion can handle or something like that? Also it does not always occur, funny thing is, the best fix so far was to load some earlier saves and then load the current one again and then sometimes it worked again... I'm actually a bit puzzled by that... Oo

 

If the problem is because you have too many items in your inventory/container/bag-of-holding/etc, then if you will wait for Oblivion to finish opening up the inventory it will work. It could take 15 or 20 minutes if you are really loaded up. I'd recommend going to a vendor and selling stuff or storing your stuff away in safe containers (your vanilla houses have them as do many mods) - just divide it up between more than one container.

[TheTrooper1138]

 

If the problem is because you have too many items in your inventory/container/bag-of-holding/etc, then if you will wait for Oblivion to finish opening up the inventory it will work. It could take 15 or 20 minutes if you are really loaded up. I'd recommend going to a vendor and selling stuff or storing your stuff away in safe containers (your vanilla houses have them as do many mods) - just divide it up between more than one container.

 

Seems that was indeed the problem, finally managed to sell most of the stuff I didn't need... around 500 thousand worth of gold... lol, didn't realize I had so much garbage on me... :D

 

But that brings me to another problem: usually when I open a container, the game needs up to an estimated 30 seconds to show me it's contents, even if it's just a rat with rat meat on it... is that normal? Oo Or rather is that problem known and is there a fix for it maybe? I mean, I've got 4GB Ram, that should be enough... :O

[Zaldir]

The last mentioned problem, does this occur on other characters as well, or only on that character?

Either, some mod(s) is causing this, your savegame(s) are corrupted, or there's something wrong with your game copy.

 

So, what you should try:

1. Deactivate all mods, to see if the problem persists.

2. If it doesn't, try turning on your mods one at a time. (If you have many mods, activating them, say 10 at a time should also be fine of course)

3. If it does persist on more than one character, I recommend you reinstall your game.

[TheTrooper1138]

The last mentioned problem, does this occur on other characters as well, or only on that character?

Either, some mod(s) is causing this, your savegame(s) are corrupted, or there's something wrong with your game copy.

 

So, what you should try:

1. Deactivate all mods, to see if the problem persists.

2. If it doesn't, try turning on your mods one at a time. (If you have many mods, activating them, say 10 at a time should also be fine of course)

3. If it does persist on more than one character, I recommend you reinstall your game.

 

Well, I've been having this problem for quite some time now, I don't think it is any of the mods. But usually it's only 3-5 seconds, up to 30 seconds only when it's getting really bad and that's usually when my laptop's performance is dropping... so I'm guessing I'll just live with it, since I don't really want to have to install everything again...

 

To the other problem: It still occured after I sold most of the useless stuff, but I figured it was a mod after all and after deactivating it, the problem hasn't occured so far... was the Keychain mod (http://tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=3409), don't know if I did anything wrong installing it, also I've been using it for more than a week now and the problem only occured the last two days, but as I said, deactivating it seems to have fixed it... at least I hope it did...

[Shadowfen]

The last mentioned problem, does this occur on other characters as well, or only on that character?

Either, some mod(s) is causing this, your savegame(s) are corrupted, or there's something wrong with your game copy.

 

So, what you should try:

1. Deactivate all mods, to see if the problem persists.

2. If it doesn't, try turning on your mods one at a time. (If you have many mods, activating them, say 10 at a time should also be fine of course)

3. If it does persist on more than one character, I recommend you reinstall your game.

 

Well, I've been having this problem for quite some time now, I don't think it is any of the mods. But usually it's only 3-5 seconds, up to 30 seconds only when it's getting really bad and that's usually when my laptop's performance is dropping... so I'm guessing I'll just live with it, since I don't really want to have to install everything again...

 

To the other problem: It still occured after I sold most of the useless stuff, but I figured it was a mod after all and after deactivating it, the problem hasn't occured so far... was the Keychain mod (http://tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=3409), don't know if I did anything wrong installing it, also I've been using it for more than a week now and the problem only occured the last two days, but as I said, deactivating it seems to have fixed it... at least I hope it did...

 

If it seems to have fixed it, then it did. The keychain mod works by removing all your keys from your inventory at the point when you open up your inventory and then puts them all back when you close your inventory. It had to do this to avoid problems with quests, keys, and locked doors, but it can add some amount of time for processing to the act of opening and closing the inventory.

 

I've had ... uneven luck with Keychain. A couple of my characters have absolutely no problems at all. One character has a little bit of lag opening the inventory. One character crashes when trying to use it. :confused: I wish I could figure out why.

[TheTrooper1138]

If it seems to have fixed it, then it did. The keychain mod works by removing all your keys from your inventory at the point when you open up your inventory and then puts them all back when you close your inventory. It had to do this to avoid problems with quests, keys, and locked doors, but it can add some amount of time for processing to the act of opening and closing the inventory.

 

I've had ... uneven luck with Keychain. A couple of my characters have absolutely no problems at all. One character has a little bit of lag opening the inventory. One character crashes when trying to use it. :confused: I wish I could figure out why.

 

Maybe I've just got too much keys now... :D

After all it's a level 33 character with more than 90 hours played and those keys are really growing in number... such a shame, 'cause it is a good mod after all, since the keys are really annoying in the inventory... same goes for the "House-..." items btw (those furniture/room "deeds")... do I even have to keep those, or is it OK to store them somewhere? Or does that remove the stuff from my Houses? Oo

[Zaldir]

It's okay to store them somewhere else. :)