Game Crashes All The Time Now,didnt Before:mods?

[robedits]

PLEASE FORGIVE ME FOR CROSS-POSTING THIS;I'M DESPERATE FOR AN ANSWER!

i'LL Try to make this short:

I've got a new rig,running Oblivion at max rez,everything running smoothly,high FPS etc etc. So its not my rig...or the game.

BAsically finished the game,just doing a few random missions not completed yet.

Have d'loaded dozens of mods,with an eye out for conflicting mods,etc. Have NOT updated the game with latest game patch,due to all the problems I have read about it.

NONE of the mods I have used(various buildings,lands,weather mods,BT mod,etc) have crashed my game thus far UNTIL the last few days. I d'loaded and used a few more mods in the last few days:treehouse,new weather inside,skingrad-rosenthal(??) hall,etc. Although the mods (except for a treehouse) load and seem to work OK,as SOON AS I enter anyone's HOUSE now...in ANY land ANYwhere,the game crashes to desktop,no message.

ONly houses that allow me to enter are the Topal House mod house and Ki-something manor mod. ANY OTHER building I enter causes me to CTD.

So,I had a recent save-game backup dating back a week or so,and I reinstalled those saves,and got rid of what I THOUGHT were the offending mods. Even with an earlier saved game,where EVERY location worked BEFORE these mods took effect over the last several days,causes me to CTD whenever I enter ANY building. ALSO,whenever I now tried to save a game in ANY area,my game ALSO CTDs.

I realize I can uninstall and reinstall,etc,but how do I know what save is safe to use (I've tried sevral,.dating back a month or so,all with the SAME house-entering and saved-game crash now),and which mod is also safe? I dont know how to "track" which mod screwed my game up.

Suggestions? ANyone else with this problme recently?

As stated,mI've got a new Dell XPS,ATI 1900 something vid card,everything running fine full rez,no problems with any other games,system scanned and defragged,virus free etc etc. HELP please!

[email protected] Rob

[Stampede]

Please do not post the same topic twice, someone will answer your request if they are able to help you.

[Vagrant0]

I would guess it having to do with a conflict with weatherinside and some other mod, probably one of the weather related ones. But with you reinstalling and using old saves you're running into two problems.

 

First is the original reason for the crash. What mods did you "think" were responsible, and which ones are you still using?

 

Second, if you have an old save which was made with any non-currently running mod active, you will likely run into problems. Especially mods that have long lasting effects; ike weather changes, scripting changes, as well as changes to anything which was loaded at the time of the save. What this means is that unless you have everything back to how it was at the time of the save, you may be unable to restore that old save.

 

Ultimately, alot of this could have been prevented by thinking about what mods might conflict with eachother. You might want to considder getting "Oblivion Mod Manager" (google it, I don't have a link). You can use it to not only use omods, but it can also check for conflicts and change loading order. These last two, when used intelligently, can help work through most problems.

 

That said, your best bet would be to try starting fresh, using only mods that you find necessary to have, and getting a few good saves with just those mods. Creating a backup of your data folder (minus .bsa). Then slowly adding additional mods as needed. If you play fine with one mod at a time, it will be less catastophic when something has a serious conflict. Using the CS to look at what exactly a mod changes also helps in reducing conflicts, or deciding on load order.

[robedits]

Thanks much. Good suggestions. I tried not using weather inside modes,still same problems. So I finally reinstalled game,went back to the latest save with no problems,and have narrowed the corruption down to 2 mods: TS (?) treehouse and Kumiko Manor. Everything before those 2 mods ran fine. A shame,as Kumiko Manor was and is a beautiful mod. As soon as I purchase the manor and get the keys,ANywhere else i travel to within the game...game CTDs as SOON as I enter ANY other building. No idea why and I am about a -5 on a scale of 1-10 when it comes to figuring out mods and how they work :-(

Anyway,thanks. NO more mdos for me.