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Hey Everyone,

After a looong time away from Oblivion I thought I'd come back and do one more run of the game. It's been quite a few years since I had done a modded oblivion, but I still remembered most things. So far I've got my mod list up and running reasonably well, but I still get unexpected crashes at what seems to be completely random times.
I did a clean install, installed the UOPs first, then my 4 gb patch and utilities like OBSE and Oblivion Reloaded. Then started my mod installs. All installed via OMOD or BAIN packages. Followed the order described in MMM 3.8 (though admitedly it's a very mild guideline).

OBSE plugins are Pluggy, Blockhead, MenuQue, NIfs, Oblivion Reloaded, Elys USV and ShadeMe. I have 'A tweaked ENB' on at the moment (with AA/MSAA disabled in nVidia control panel). All mods were cleaned with TESIVEdit and my tags line up with BOSS's suggestions. I've also tried using LOOT's load order instead and it feels maybe a little more stable over BOSS, but it's hard to say. Bashed patch has been rebuilt, with only one error in the notes (Quest Award Leveller Knights of the Nine, and apparently it's not an issue).

 

Archive Invalidation is BSA redirection, list of mods are as follows;

Active Mod Files:
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The only 'red' one is the All Natural - Indoor Weather Filter For Mods.esp which says to not have checked but imported into the bash pattch, which is what I did. Texture packs are QTP3, Bomrets SI, Real Wood Signs, Improved Fire, Improved Trees and Flora 1+2.

Any tips for something I may have missed or overlooked? Pretty much stumped my knowledge at this point.

Thanks much!
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Did you register the Fran's .bsa's with the game? I remember that you have to either rename them or add a line to the .ini to force the game to load them. Caused random crashes otherwise, just like you describe.

 

In fact, I think also remember having to dl the .bsa files from somewhere else, I think they were too big for the Nexus servers. Make sure you have them at all.

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I'm copying this from a steam post I made. Just make sure to back up every file you change just in case this doesn't work for you. By the way don't use LOOT for Oblivion and only use BOSS.

 

 

I had been crashing every five minutes until I finally figured out a solution and I'm running even more mods than that with Better Cities + UL + OOO.

 

http://forums.bethsoft.com/topic/1437921-4gb-patch-on-steam-version/?p=22117957#entry22117957

I used the 4 gig patch to patch everything listed in the link above (although patching the .dll's and steam overlay may be pointless, I did it anyway to no ill effect.) Then download OSR as well as the optional ComponentDLLs (This won't work without the optional files so make sure you get them). Make sure you follow the instructions closely as you have to make the ComponentDLLs folder yourself and I've read that it is case sensitive. Open the .ini for OSR and change bReplaceHeap = 0 to bReplaceHeap = 1. Then set "iHeapAlgorithm" to iHeapAlgorithm = 6 and change "iHeapSize" to iHeapSize = 1024.

Then open Oblivion.ini and change these settings to the following:

uInterior Cell Buffer=6
uExterior Cell Buffer=72
iPreloadSizeLimit=52428800

I did all these and now I'm running for over two hours at a time without a crash. I've had one crash in the past six hours of gameplay and it was only when I had been testing a new mod out that may have been less than stable. Also clean your mods (especially those damned dirty ass DLC's). Oblivion is weird and what works for one computer might not work for the next but this should at least help.

I don't know what sort of video card you have but I wouldn't overload it with too many high resolution textures unless you have at least a gig of VRAM. I'm on a GTX 970 FTW+ and I'm not even running too many high resolution textures becuase Oblivion just can't handle that s*** too well for long periods of time.

 

 

 

EDIT: Since this post I've since added WAC and quite a few other various mods (I would recommend adding in Less Annoying Magic Experience and Maskar's Oblivion Overhaul if these above tips help your stability as they work amazingly well with most other mods.) I've also been slowly replacing all the textures with higher resolution textures and probably have a good 70%-75% of the textures upgraded from various texture mods and I can pull a good two hours easy before I crash.

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