Should I be worried?

[akiray]

Alright, so I've been playing Oblivion a while ago, free of crashing, running with lots of mods all smooth. I stopped playing for a few weeks, and a few days before I come back to play it again, I decide to defrag my PC. When I come back to play Oblivion as soon as my savegame in chorrol loads it crashes to desktop with the 'Oblivion stopped working' error, my first thought is, what the hell? Why does it just suddenly start being like this? I figured the save was corrupted or something, so I try to load an older save outside of Chorrol, works perfect, but as soon as I try to enter chorrol again it crashes again. I thought, maybe it's just Chorrol, load the save again, fast travel to bruma, crash again. So now I know there's obviously something wrong. I go to Wrye Bash and I notice my savegames are marked orange, I don't know what the hell this means, probably some missing files? I dunno, so out of desperation I run BOSS again, rebuild patch, go back same crash.

 

I'm upset at this point, so I thought maybe all the mods marked orange in my savegame ARE missing files? So I try to reinstall just one mod out of the many that were marked orange (a brotherhood renewed), then I reinstall Wrye Bash and Python. Load an even older save, go back to Chorrol, works perfect. No crash. I'm extremely confused at this point, I try to load that savegame that made my game crash earlier, guess what? Works perfect now. Went to some stores, opened new cells, hell, even fast traveled to Bruma, all perfect. So now I'm even more confused, I go back to Wrye Bash to check my saves and now the new saves that I made are pink/purple.

 

http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/6968/wtfip.png

http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/2756/wtf2d.png

 

Could the defragging have affected my Oblivion folder? Could it have deleted some files? Why did it just suddenly start working again? Why didn't it worked before? Was it Wrye Bash?

 

I'm honestly kind of scared to go back at the game, I dunno if it's all fixed by now, or not.

[Rydan]

Did you use Windows' defrag utility or a 3rd party defrag tool? I use auslogics disk defrag, it's much faster and I never had filesystem corruption problems.

 

You could try to run this command in Windows' command prompt (or Run in the start menu) to check and fix the filesystem: chkdsk C: /F

 

(obliviously if your disk drive is not "C" change its letter in the command specified above)

Edited November 11, 2011 by Rydan

[AlfredTetzlaff]

About the orange colored saves:

Orange is just an indicator for a changed load order. Don't worry about that too much ;)

[Balakirev]

Pink/purple is the optimal color for game saves in Wrye Bash. Maybe you should post your entire mod list, in order. I don't see your Bashed Patch, for example. Have you tried recompiling it?