Screen freezing at peculiar times.

[dragon1604]

Okay, I've installed OBMM, OBSE and am running the latest official version of Oblivion + SI, the 1.20.416 or w/e. I'm certain I am up to date on everything official.

 

Whenever I'm walking through dungeons, delivering a final blow to an enemy, or even being on the verge of leveling up, my screen freezes and yet audio continues to work.

 

The game freezes, no functions work, however the music continues looping.

 

My load order is this:

 

Oblivion.esm

A_Bloody_Mess.esm

HorseCombatMaster.esm

Unofficial Oblivion Patch.esp

DLCShiveringIsles.esp

Natural_Weather_HDR_by_Max_Tael.esp

Natural_Habitat_by_Max_Tael.esp

Natural_Water_by_Max_Tael.esp

300_Combat Sounds.esp

MIS.esp

MIS Low Wind.esp

MIS New Sounds Optional Part.esp

Atmospheric Oblivion.esp

AliveWaters.esp

AliveWaters - Koi Addon.esp

AliveWaters - Slaughterfish Addon.esp

RAEVWD New Sheoth.esp

HGEC_special_armor_repl.esp

Knights.esp

Natural_Vegetation_by_Max_Tael.esp

MidasSpells.esp

_Ren_BeautyPack_onlyhairs.esp

Cernasite - DragonEyes.esp

Cosmetic Compilation.esp

Capucines Character Expansion.esp

_Ren_BeautyPack_full.esp

Beautiful People.esp

QTdof.esp

Oblivion Graphics Extender Support.esp

Versa's Item and Flora Overhaul.esp

Ragna Parry V2.esp

babehair_EV.esp

Deadly Reflex 5 - Timed Block with no damage or durability changes.esp

DeadlyReflex 5 - Combat Moves.esp

xulAncientRedwoods.esp

xulAncientYews.esp

xulArriusCreek.esp

xulAspenWood.esp

xulBlackwoodForest.esp

xulBravilBarrowfields.esp

xulBrenaRiverRavine.esp

xulCheydinhalFalls.esp

xulChorrolHinterland.esp

xulCloudtopMountains.esp

xulColovianHighlands_EV.esp

xuldarkforest.esp

XulEntiusGorge.esp

xulFallenleafEverglade.esp

xulImperialIsle.esp

xulBeachesOfCyrodiilLostCoast.esp

xulLushWoodlands.esp

xulPantherRiver.esp

xulRiverEthe.esp

xulSkingradOutskirts.esp

xulSnowdale.esp

xulStendarrValley.esp

xulTheHeath.esp

xulRollingHills_EV.esp

xulPatch_AY_AC.esp

 

 

Now, I'm sure there may be several things wrong with this load order, however, I'm merely curious as to which may be causing the screen freeze. If you need any more information just ask.

[Hickory]

Your load order *is* incorrect, but often random freezes can be a symptom of hardware not coping with the load (graphics, normally, but can also be sound, or even printer drivers). You should troubleshoot your load order first: run BOSS and add a Bashed Patch. If you still get random freezes, try temporarily uninstalling high graphic bottlenecks, like RAEVWD, QTP3, Better Cities, UL. If the freezes stop with the bottlenecks disabled, you probably need to upgrade your hardware, and most likely graphics card.

[dragon1604]

Your load order *is* incorrect, but often random freezes can be a symptom of hardware not coping with the load (graphics, normally, but can also be sound, or even printer drivers). You should troubleshoot your load order first: run BOSS and add a Bashed Patch. If you still get random freezes, try temporarily uninstalling high graphic bottlenecks, like RAEVWD, QTP3, Better Cities, UL. If the freezes stop with the bottlenecks disabled, you probably need to upgrade your hardware, and most likely graphics card.

 

EDIT: You could be right, perhaps something is peaking the load and causing it to freeze, however I've run much more hardware intensive games such as Far Cry 2 and Call of Duty: WAW.

 

I've narrowed it down now to mostly when something should be decapitated or altered by the Deadly Reflex mod.

 

Right at the impact of the final blow, be it a rat/goblin/anything, it just pauses and stays that way until I ctrl+alt+del and exit.

[Hickory]

Your load order *is* incorrect, but often random freezes can be a symptom of hardware not coping with the load (graphics, normally, but can also be sound, or even printer drivers). You should troubleshoot your load order first: run BOSS and add a Bashed Patch. If you still get random freezes, try temporarily uninstalling high graphic bottlenecks, like RAEVWD, QTP3, Better Cities, UL. If the freezes stop with the bottlenecks disabled, you probably need to upgrade your hardware, and most likely graphics card.

 

EDIT: You could be right, perhaps something is peaking the load and causing it to freeze, however I've run much more hardware intensive games such as Far Cry 2 and Call of Duty: WAW.

 

I have a very modest system, and trust me, Oblivion with high texture mods and overhauls is MUCH more graphic intensive than any of those games.

 

I've narrowed it down now to mostly when something should be decapitated or altered by the Deadly Reflex mod.

 

Right at the impact of the final blow, be it a rat/goblin/anything, it just pauses and stays that way until I ctrl+alt+del and exit.

 

I don't use Deadly Reflex (never have), so I can only suggest the BOSS and Wrye Bash route to minimise any conflicts. Run BOSS first to sort your load list, and then follow the instructions on the Wrye Bash page on how to build a Bashed Patch. I suggest, once Wrye Bast is installed, and before you build your patch, you set the Bash Tags (bottom right window) to Automatic, so that it uses the tage suggestions from BOSS, and negates you having to add them manually.

[dragon1604]

Okay I'm still having this problem. I've reinstalled Oblivion like twice. This time I haven't installed any combat mods.

 

I've only installed OOO, Beautiful People, Qarl's DOF, Midas Magic, and some others that I don't personally think are linked but may have an effect on my game.

 

This is the new load order:

Oblivion.esm

BetterMusicSystem.esm

Oscuro's_Oblivion_Overhaul.esm

Unofficial Oblivion Patch.esp

UOP Vampire Aging & Face Fix.esp

Oblivion Citadel Door Fix.esp

DLCShiveringIsles.esp

Natural_Weather_HDR_by_Max_Tael.esp

Natural_Habitat_by_Max_Tael.esp

Natural_Water_by_Max_Tael.esp

IWR-Lights.esp

IWR-Windows.esp

IWR-Shutters.esp

Book Jackets Oblivion.esp

DLCHorseArmor.esp

DLCOrrery.esp

DLCVileLair.esp

DLCMehrunesRazor.esp

DLCThievesDen.esp

DLCBattlehornCastle.esp

DLCFrostcrag.esp

Knights.esp

mythsandlegends.esp

Natural_Vegetation_by_Max_Tael.esp

MidasSpells.esp

Streamline 3.1.esp

Beautiful People.esp

Harvest [Flora] - DLCVileLair.esp

Harvest [Flora] - DLCFrostcrag.esp

Harvest [Flora] - Shivering Isles.esp

Living Economy.esp

Living Economy - Items.esp

Harvest [Flora].esp

Oscuro's_Oblivion_Overhaul.esp

OOO-Level_Stock.esp

Ragna Parry V2.esp

QTdof.esp

xulAncientRedwoods.esp

xulAncientYews.esp

xulArriusCreek.esp

xulAspenWood.esp

xulBlackwoodForest.esp

xulBravilBarrowfields.esp

xulBrenaRiverRavine.esp

xulCheydinhalFalls.esp

xulChorrolHinterland.esp

xulCloudtopMountains.esp

xulColovianHighlands_EV.esp

xuldarkforest.esp

XulEntiusGorge.esp

xulFallenleafEverglade.esp

xulImperialIsle.esp

xulBeachesOfCyrodiilLostCoast.esp

xulLushWoodlands.esp

xulPantherRiver.esp

xulRiverEthe.esp

xulSkingradOutskirts.esp

xulSnowdale.esp

xulStendarrValley.esp

xulTheHeath.esp

xulRollingHills_EV.esp

xulPatch_AY_AC.esp

 

 

And don't just say "The load order is wrong," or "Bash patch it!"

 

It's been bashed, and unless someone offers me a proper load order, there's not much I can do about it except use BOSS.

[DavidBudreck]

Oblivion is just plain buggy--ESPECIALLY with this many mods installed.

 

If you have any texture replacers, like Qarls, installed, then that could be a huge contributing factor. Oblivion is 4 years old and simply can't handle some of the things thrown at it.

 

If you do have any textures installed, try moving or renaming your ArchiveInvalidation.txt (or Alternate) and then trying. This will force vanilla textures, and in my case the game popped right back to "normal." If you have textures Do this First.

 

 

If you Don't have any textures installed, then you are probably going to need to start disabling mods one at a time until you find the conflict.