Won't let me load or create a new game

[Xebarsis]

I've recently installed around 300 different mods. Yes... 300. Anyways, whenever I try to load or create a new game, it starts loading, then reaches 99% and stops forever. The same thing happens even when I use only the default oblivion settings with all mods disabled. Is there a way I can get the game to run again without having to lose all my mods? They took forever to find and install..

[elpiggo]

When Oblivion is loading, it looks for files. if it can't find one, instead of telling you so it will sit there doing nothing. For the starting a new game at least, it is clear that the introduction movie isn't present. This is because you have overwritten it when installing a mod. Backup all your mod files and reinstall.

[Xebarsis]

When Oblivion is loading, it looks for files. if it can't find one, instead of telling you so it will sit there doing nothing. For the starting a new game at least, it is clear that the introduction movie isn't present. This is because you have overwritten it when installing a mod. Backup all your mod files and reinstall.

 

Introduction movie? But I can't even load any files that are past the introduction point.

[Vagrant0]

When Oblivion is loading, it looks for files. if it can't find one, instead of telling you so it will sit there doing nothing. For the starting a new game at least, it is clear that the introduction movie isn't present. This is because you have overwritten it when installing a mod. Backup all your mod files and reinstall.

 

Introduction movie? But I can't even load any files that are past the introduction point.

How much ram do you have? Anything in .esp format is loaded into ram, if you have many large mods, and not much ram, this may lead to very long loading times, or errors when loading. While .esm format is less resource intensive most mods aren't in .esm format due to their small size, or because the author didn't invision anyone basing something off their work, or actually having so many mods. As for 300 mods, that just seems excessive and prone to multiple conflicts and problems. Don't really see how you would need 300 different mods unless you're some sort of weapon junky... and even then it's unusual, it might even be a bad idea as you really only can have 254 mods active at once as each one has a seperate ID grouping, (starting with 0100xxxxx and ending with FE00xxxxx I think).

[Xebarsis]

When Oblivion is loading, it looks for files. if it can't find one, instead of telling you so it will sit there doing nothing. For the starting a new game at least, it is clear that the introduction movie isn't present. This is because you have overwritten it when installing a mod. Backup all your mod files and reinstall.

 

Introduction movie? But I can't even load any files that are past the introduction point.

How much ram do you have? Anything in .esp format is loaded into ram, if you have many large mods, and not much ram, this may lead to very long loading times, or errors when loading. While .esm format is less resource intensive most mods aren't in .esm format due to their small size, or because the author didn't invision anyone basing something off their work, or actually having so many mods. As for 300 mods, that just seems excessive and prone to multiple conflicts and problems. Don't really see how you would need 300 different mods unless you're some sort of weapon junky... and even then it's unusual, it might even be a bad idea as you really only can have 254 mods active at once as each one has a seperate ID grouping, (starting with 0100xxxxx and ending with FE00xxxxx I think).

 

I got 2 gigs of ram.

[elpiggo]

Try disabling all your mods. If that doesn't work then try reinstalling.

[Xebarsis]

Try disabling all your mods. If that doesn't work then try reinstalling.

 

Yeah... I already tried disabling all my mods but it's still doing the same thing. If I reinstall it, I'll have to reinstall all my freakin' mods won't I?

 

I'll take the 3 days of silence as a yes. :(

 

EDIT: Merged your posts. Please only bump if your thread has been dead for a week or more.

 

You could try backing up your Data folder (copy/paste it to desktop) before reinstalling... but then if it's something wrong with Oblivion.esm the reinstall wouldn't fix it. Maybe if you just don't overwrite Oblivion.esm when you paste the Data folder back in after reinstall...

 

- Switch