Idle Oblivion Breaks

[Ashengrace]

Does anyone else ever have the issue of oblivion breaking if you haven't played it in a while?

 

I've got a pretty good number of mods installed (130 running out of probably 160 installed) and I've noticed on a couple of occasions of playing oblivion that if I stop playing for a month or two then if I try to pick up where I left off and continue my game, it just stops responding in task manager and wont load my saves. Is this common and is there any way to fix it? A lot of my mods are clothing, armor, and weapons and it really sucks having to start a new game and trek all over trying to replace my inventory after this happens.

[CasperTheLich]

i haven't really noticed this issue, mainly because i can't seem to step away from oblivion for quite that long. however, i have noticed that if i stop playing saves for a character for a while and load the same mods and go back to older characters they no longer work, crashing when i try to load saves (even with the same mods loaded using the savegame utility from OBMM). heard that my problem could be related to ini issues. some mods are a little quirky about tweaking ini files then loading saves. don't know if that has anything to do with it. but that's all i got.

[Telyn]

I'm guessing during the time you were not playing Oblivion, you may have done things like changed your video drivers. Regenerating the .ini in the folder where your saves are, NOT the default ini, may help. Don't ever delete or mess with the default ini.

[orctor]

lol there is no problem with messing with the default ini.

Sure you can "break" the game but you can easily restore it.

 

 

edit: Yeah I have the same issue. Happend several times.

Edited May 10, 2011 by orctor

[Telyn]

You mean reinstall? The default ini is what the ini you edit uses to regenerate.

 

From the Where Is It? FAQ in this forum:

"Someone told me to change a value in oblivion.ini. Where is that?

C:\Documents and Settings\**USERNAME**\My Documents\My Games\Oblivion"

[orctor]

You mean reinstall? The default ini is what the ini you edit uses to regenerate.

 

From the Where Is It? FAQ in this forum:

"Someone told me to change a value in oblivion.ini. Where is that?

C:\Documents and Settings\**USERNAME**\My Documents\My Games\Oblivion"

No not reinstall... Just remember the settings you had before, or keep an extra copy of the file.

[Telyn]

I guess I do not see the point of editing the default ini. There is no advantage unless you have multiple users.

[orctor]

I guess I do not see the point of editing the default ini. There is no advantage unless you have multiple users.

graphics settings ? For those with bad/better computers. You can change a lot more there than in the game menu.

Allow screenshoot?

[bruisedooze]

I guess I do not see the point of editing the default ini. There is no advantage unless you have multiple users.

graphics settings ? For those with bad/better computers. You can change a lot more there than in the game menu.

Allow screenshoot?

 

You can edit oblivion.ini to change those without touching oblivion_default.ini.

[Telyn]

Thank you. That's what I was trying to explain but it sounds like for some reason he thought I was saying to change the game settings in the game menu. I never mentioned the menu. My user ini is fairly hand-modified. I used this http://www.tweakguid...Oblivion_8.html and some other advice provided for HDR users at another tweak site. It works, and I never touched the default ini.

 

Renaming oblivion.ini in \**USERNAME**\My Documents\My Games\Oblivion might possibly help in cases where a player has not played in some time. If hardware changed in that time, or the person updated drivers, or anything else that changes the computer configuration significantly, regenerating the ini forces the game to detect the new configuration. Might help, might not, but worth a try.