A couple minor issues

[Meoix]

Hey all, I wasn't completely sure where I should post this topic, so if it's in the wrong sub-forum I apologize.

A multi-part minor set of issues I'm sort of dumping at once (sorry), nothing game breaking as I'm still playing now, just annoyances, but I do hope someone could point me in a direction for one or more issues. I'm replaying Oblivion for the first time in several years on my new PC.

I have a GTX 980ti, 24Gb DDR4 RAM, 3.7Ghz i7, SSD boot and install drive, Windows 7 Pro, all latest drivers as of this post (Before you say this is overkill, I use this machine for 3d modeling and programming).

I reinstalled the game completely as well as a couple of mods one by one all through NMM. This is when I noticed the first issue, NMM and Oblivion.

Here are the mods I have (plus a couple of texture packs for face and general enviornments), I used the latest Loot to sort them:

I also have a few obse plugins: Fast Exit, Oblivion Reloaded, Pluggy, Enhanced Camera, and better cities helper.

oblivion.esm

All Natural Base.esm

Oscuro's_Oblivion_Overhaul.esm

Better Cities Resources.esm

CM Partners.esm

Unofficial Oblivion Patch.esp

Oblivion Citadel Door Fix.esp

UOP Vampire Aging & Face Fix.esp

DLCShiveringIsles.esp

DLCBattlehornCastle.esp

DLCBattlehornCastle - Unofficial Patch.esp

DLCThievesDen.esp

DLCThievesDen - Unofficial Patch.esp

DLCThievesDen - Unofficial Patch - SSSB.esp

DLCMehrunesRazor.esp

DLCMehrunesRazor - Unofficial Patch.esp

DLCVileLair.esp

DLCVileLair - Unofficial Patch.esp

DLCHorseArmor.esp

DLCHorseArmor - Unofficial Patch.esp

DLCOrrery.esp

DLCOrrery - Unofficial Patch.esp

DLCSpellTomes.esp

DLCSpellTomes - Unofficial Patch.esp

DLCFrostcrag.esp

DLCFrostcrag - Unofficial Patch.esp

Knights.esp

Knights - Unofficial Patch.esp

All Natural.esp

Scroll of Spellmaking and Enchanting.esp

All Natural - SI.esp

P1DkeyChain.esp

xulRiverEthe.esp

xulTheEasternPeaks.esp

xulCloudtopMountains.esp

xulAncientYews.esp

xulBravilBarrowfields.esp

Better Dungeons.esp

OblivionReloaded.esp

xulLushWoodlands.esp

xulCheydinhalFalls.esp

xulSilverfishRiverValley.esp

xulBlackwoodForest.esp

xulBeachesOfCyrodiilLostCoast.esp

xulColovianHighlands_EV.esp

xulChorrolHinterland.esp

xulArriusCreek.esp

xulSnowdale.esp

xulAncientRedwoods.esp

xulJerallGlacier.esp

xulEntiusGorge.esp

xulCliffsOfAnvil.esp

Beautiful_Women_NotSoNice_Bonus.esp

Handsome_Gents_Bonus.esp

Handsome_Gents_Vampires_50.esp

Beautiful_Women_Vampires.esp

Beautiful_Women_SI.esp

Handsome_Gents_SI.esp

Handsome_Gents_Vampires.esp

Beautiful_Women_NiceOnly.esp

Beautiful_Women_DB_Addon.esp

Handsome_Gents_Addon.esp

Handsome_Gents_DB_Addon.esp

Book Jackets Oblivion.esp

xulTheHeath.esp

xuldarkforest.esp

xulAspenWood.esp

xulBrenaRiverRavine.esp

xulFallenleafEverglade.esp

Oscuro's_Oblivion_Overhaul - Knights of Nine.esp

Better Cities .esp

Kyoma's Journal Mod.esp

Better Cities - IC Imperial Isle.esp

xulRollingHills_EV.esp

xulSkingradOutskirts.esp

xulStendarrValley.esp

xulPantherRiver.esp

xulImperialIsle.esp

xulPatch_AY_AC.esp

Better Cities - All Natural.esp

Better Cities Chorrol - Knights of the Nine.esp

Better Imperial City.esp

EnchantmentRestore.esp

EnchantmentRestore_Wells.esp

ScriptIcon_Replacer.esp

EnchantmentMastery.esp

CM Partners Extra NPCs.esp

FastTravelDoubleFaceFix.esp

24HrArenaAliveV2.esp

CM Partners.esp

Better Cities Full - OOO.esp

Better Cities Full.esp

Better Imperial City - OOO.esp

CM Partners More NPCs.esp

CM Partners More NPCs NE.esp

RealSwords - Khajiit HI v1.3.esp

RealSwords - Khajiit LO v1.3.esp

Oscuro's_Oblivion_Overhaul.esp

CM Partners Special NPCs.esp

CM Partners Marker NPCs.esp

Sounds of Cyrodiil.esp

Sounds of Cyrodiil - Thieves' Den Add-On.esp

Sounds of Cyrodiil - Mehrune's Razor Add-On.esp

Sounds of Cyrodiil - KOTN Add-on.esp

CM Partners NPC NE.esp

CM Partners NPC.esp

I have the latest (as of this post) version of NMM, and it doesn't seem to like Oblivion mods anymore. A lot more crashing during installation (which causes faulty installs and I have to manually uninstall the files). Many mods like Better Cities caused NMM to consistently crash if I tried to install it, OOO was the same way. I eventually only used NMM to install the simple, unscripted mod installs like Arena Alive.

Another issue that has been cropping up is the crashing on loading certain cells (sometimes). That is very little information I know but I can't find a discernable pattern. Whether it's Shivering Isles or The Captain's Cabin in Dunborrow Cove of Thieves Den DLC. The crashing was more often when I had auto-save turned on so I turned that off. I can brute force my through these rare occurrences by saving closer and closer to the trouble spot. Once it crashes, I'll load the most recent save and often I can proceed on my merry way blissfully hacking my way into the Deadlands of Oblivion without more crashing.

I wonder if its because of an issue with the textures loaded in RAM? I just used a 4gb memory awareness patcher on Oblivion.exe (yes I made a backup) to see if that helps, I'll let you know if it does, otherwise assume not.

Finally, an addendum of sorts to my prior mentioned issue. I've had two crashes thus far on my 12 hours of playthrough, these were special crashes in the fact that they happened as I saved. I loaded my prior save and every time I tried to save after loading it subsequently crashed. I had to keep loading prior saves (playing Bethesda games as long as I have, you learn to keep a few GB, yes Gigabytes, worth of backup saves on hand for your playthroughs for just these sorts of issues) until I found one a bit of a ways back that finally did not have any issues with me saving. It was like my save got a weird corruption after that point on that caused crashing while saving. This happened a second time. As with the previous set of crashing I can't see any obvious pattern with locations, quests, armor, or etc, so I believe it's another behind the scenes type issue.

I apologize for the long post, I hope someone is willing to assist with one or more of these issues. People can debate on which is the better game, Morrowind, Oblivion, or Skyrim. Personally, I just think they're all awesome games with their own set of unique merits that shouldn't be ignored.
Thanks all, I can't believe I've been here 8 years already. I know I'm a pretty quiet member sometimes only coming out to either complain, post a small picture, or etc, but you guys have done some pretty awesome work and have been a great modding community.

Edit: As I got into the Shivering Isles the crash on save and even random crashing started to become far more frequent. I decided to try Wyre Bash and it's remove bloat from save function. This seems to have worked very well for me thus far. This may lie some of the issues with the crashing I am having, save bloating leading to save corruption?