Heavy slow down whenever my character takes damage

[Bonesz]

The game runs pretty smoothly on a regular basis. I'm running the game on medium settings even though I think my pc could handle a little more. The only time I really have frame rate issues is when my character gets hit. The game will run very slow and choppy for about 5 seconds unless I get hit again which it'll run slow longer.

 

It's really annoying because after this happens, it's hard to control my character or tell what's going on and a lot of times it results in me getting killed. So can someone help me out please? Here's my load order...

 

 

 

Oblivion.esm

Morrowind_ob.esm

Oscuro's_Oblivion_Overhaul.esm

Mart's Monster Mod for OOO.esm

HorseCombatMaster.esm

MorrowOblivion_World Transport.esp

Unofficial Oblivion Patch.esp

Oblivion Citadel Door Fix.esp

DLCShiveringIsles.esp

Unofficial Shivering Isles Patch.esp

Natural_Weather_by_Max_Tael.esp

Natural_Weather_HDR_by_Max_Tael.esp

Natural_Habitat_by_Max_Tael.esp

Natural_Water_by_Max_Tael.esp

Atmospheric Oblivion.esp

Soundscaper.esp

BetterMusicSystem.esp

P1DseeYouSleep.esp

Living Economy.esp

Living Economy - Items.esp

Cutthroat Merchants.esp

FormID Finder4.esp

DLCHorseArmor.esp

DLCHorseArmor - Unofficial Patch.esp

DLCOrrery.esp

DLCOrrery - Unofficial Patch.esp

DLCVileLair.esp

DLCVileLair - Unofficial Patch.esp

P1DseeYouSleep - DLCVileLair.esp

DLCMehrunesRazor.esp

DLCMehrunesRazor - Unofficial Patch.esp

DLCSpellTomes.esp

DLCSpellTomes - Unofficial Patch.esp

HGEC_special_armor_repl.esp

CapesandCloaks.esp

NexonsArmoryENG.esp

Dark Rose Armor.esp

DLCThievesDen.esp

DLCThievesDen - Unofficial Patch.esp

DLCThievesDen - Unofficial Patch - SSSB.esp

Oscuro's_Oblivion_Overhaul.esp

OOO-Armor_Perks_WearRate_Repair.esp

OOO-BirthSigns.esp

OOO-Combat_Skills_Perks_Marksmanship.esp

OOO-Dangerous_Traps.esp

OOO-Deadly_Combat.esp

OOO-DLT_Immersion.esp

OOO-Magic_Effects+Enchantments.esp

OOO-Magic_Effects+Spells.esp

OOO-Magic_Game_Settings.esp

OOO-Potions.esp

OOO-ThiefGuild_Difficult.esp

Alluring Potion Bottles v2.esp

Mart's Monster Mod for OOO.esp

Mart's Monster Mod - Shivering Isles.esp

Mart's Monster Mod - Additional Enemy NPC Vars.esp

Mart's Monster Mod - Hunting & Crafting.esp

Mart's Monster Mod - Looting NPCs & Creatures.esp

Mart's Monster Mod - Durability & Damage.esp

Mart's Monster Mod - Less Bone Loot.esp

Mart's Monster Mod - Less Rats.esp

Mart's Monster Mod - Safer Roads.esp

Mart's Monster Mod - Spawn Rates - Moderate Increased.esp

Mart's Monster Mod - Safer Quest Locations.esp

Mart's Monster Mod - More Wilderness Life.esp

Mart's Monster Mod - More Wilderness Life No Gates.esp

Mart's Monster Mod - More Passive Wildlife.esp

Mart's Monster Mod - City Defences.esp

Mart's Monster Mod - Extra Wounding.esp

Mart's Monster Mod - Friendlier Factions OOO.esp

Mart's Monster Mod - Farm Animals.esp

Mart's Monster Mod - Slof Horses Complete.esp

Mart's Monster Mod - Diverse Runeskulls Loot OOO.esp

OOO-WaterFish.esp

Apachii_Goddess_Store.esp

24HrArenaAliveV2Towers.esp

DLCFrostcrag.esp

DLCFrostcrag - Unofficial Patch.esp

Knights.esp

Knights - Unofficial Patch.esp

Mart's Monster Mod for OOO - Knights .esp

Natural_Vegetation_by_Max_Tael.esp

Harvest [Flora].esp

Harvest [Flora] - Shivering Isles.esp

Harvest [Flora] - DLCVileLair.esp

Harvest [Flora] - DLCFrostcrag.esp

SkycaptainsBloodTime.esp

defaultstand.esp

StarX Vampire Deaths.esp

RealisticForceLow.esp

RealisticMagicForceHigh.esp

No psychic guards harder v1.2.esp

Deadly Reflex 5 - Timed Block and 250% damage.esp

DeadlyReflex 5 - Combat Moves.esp

babehair_EV.esp

_Ren_BeautyPack_full.esp

Mart's Monster Mod - Resized Races.esp

MiniMap.esp

1SB_PureFantasyMage_Outfits.esp

female idle animation.esp

EC's Auto-Standing Idle.esp

DontCloseMYGates.esp

Ragdoll Camera.esp

CSR - Fine Iron.esp

CSR - Golden Saint.esp

Vvardenfell_Imports.esp

Map Marker Overhaul.esp

Map Marker Overhaul - SI additions.esp

Aberwiin Manor.esp

 

 

[Hickory]

My first guess, from your description, is that you may have hit the Animation Bug in you saved game. Wrye Bash has a function to reset the 'A Bomb' counter, which is what causes this.

[Striker879]

If you're not a Wrye Bash user the Oblivion Animation Fixer works for me.

[Bonesz]

Really? Ugh, I've never been able to get Wrye Bash to work for Oblivion... Works just fine for Fallout 3 and Fallout NV, but when I try it on Oblivion, I get the UAC asking me if I'm sure I want to allow it to run, then nothing happens after that. Let me see if I can figure it out.

[Bonesz]

If you're not a Wrye Bash user the Oblivion Animation Fixer works for me.

Haha, guess I posted too soon. Thanks!

[Striker879]

No problem. Like it says in the mod description I need to run it again every now and then. I can tell well in advance of the A-Bomb causing problems by the weird flames on the Legion and courier torches.

[Bonesz]

Ok, so you're right, I do have to keep running it every now and then... But every now and then seems to be not a lot of time, lol. It seems like the problems starts up again after about 10 minutes or so after I run that program. And also, it corrupted my save file once, but it's a good thing I made a back-up, lol.

 

Edit: Ok, I was wrong. It actually doesn't seem to be working at all. The game runs fine for about 10 minutes or so after closing oblivion and starting up again even if I don't use the animation fixer.

Edited March 28, 2011 by Bonesz

[Striker879]

I've not run into any problems using OAF myself. It doesn't do anything to fix corrupted saves though. As far as OAF causing save corruption I wonder if that may be related to the issue I see reported of quick save and auto save caused corruption. I've also seen overwriting a save being implicated in corruption (not sure about the validity of that claim). When I'm going to use OAF to clear the A-Bomb I always start from a clean save (a new save from the menu and not overwriting an older save). I run OAF on that save and then after I've loaded the OAF fixed save I create another new save. I keep a large supply of backups myself, and try to remember to make a save before starting anything of importance. Hard drive space is cheap nowadays.

[Hickory]

Ok, I've just had another look at your mod list, and you are, it seems, enabling redundant plugins. For example, you have OOO installed and all of the optional plugins. If you went for the full OOO experience, none of those optionals are necessary. Same with MMM, you have, for example Mart's Monster Mod - More Wilderness Life.esp and Mart's Monster Mod - More Wilderness Life No Gates.esp when you should be using one or the other. You have Natural Weather, which is outdated. Go for All Natural. Check over all of your installations for similar discrepancies.

 

You must also be aware of any animation replacers you have may impact your FPS when interacting with other actors.

[MarkInMKUK]

If you are getting the UAC asking you whether you want to change stuff every time with Wrye Bash, it probably means you installed into the default directory. The recommendation is to move your Oblivion install to c:\Games\Oblivion, taking it out from UAC control - this fixes no end of apparent bugs where the UAC refuses to let files update correctly. Bben46 has written a guide to how to (relatively painlessly) move your installation while keeping all mods and save games happy. If you are using a Steam version, there's a similar problem with the default install and a similar movement workaround, but I'm not sure whether it's spelled out step by step as it is for the disk installation.