Game freezes when trying to open inventory

[TenShadows]

Once every couple minutes, when I try to open an inventory or loot something, the entire game freezes. The inventory won't open, it will stay there for several seconds, then get the "(not responding)" response upon which point it will prompt a close. This happens far, far too often for the game to be even remotely playable now.

 

The game has run smoothly for several hours, through the opening tutorial, a few dungeons and a couple quests, and getting into the Thieves Guild, before starting up pretty much out of nowhere. I've begun the Order of the Virtuous Blood quest, and am on the way out of the Imperial City to check out the supposed vampire's hideout. I've also recently completed the unexpected voyage quest, picked up the lead bandit's sword, and - before either of these - disabled the Vanilla Combat Enhanced because it made it bloody impossible to ever win a melee fight. Only during the last part, after leaving the "vampire"'s house at the temple district, did the problem begin.

 

Reactivating the mod didn't work. The game froze again literally the second time I opened my inventory.

 

Also, for the record, I'm currently near Fatback Cave, a region where a lot of crashes have always happened to me - but this began to happen even within the Imperial City.

 

The hell's causing this now?

[bevilex]

Hello.

 

What's your mod list/load order ? Maybe a mod is causing that. Is your inventory full of objects ?

Try a new game and see if the problem persists on the new character.

Do you have some performance/stability mods ? Like "Oblivion Stutter Remover", "MoreHeap", "4GB patch". These mods can help to reduce crashes.

[TenShadows]

Load order:

 

 

Oblivion.esm
Francesco's Leveled Creatures-Items Mod.esm
bookplacing.esm
Fundament.esm
SDR.esm
Unofficial Oblivion Patch.esp
UOP Vampire Aging & Face Fix.esp
Oblivion Citadel Door Fix.esp
DLCShiveringIsles.esp
Unofficial Shivering Isles Patch.esp
Natural_Weather_HDR_with_darker_Nights_by_Max_Tael_RD.esp
Natural_Habitat_by_Max_Tael.esp
Enhanced Water v2.0 ND.esp
Natural_Water_by_Max_Tael.esp
Symphony of Violence.esp
Sounds of Cyrodiil.esp
AliveWaters.esp
AliveWaters - Koi Addon.esp
AliveWaters - Slaughterfish Addon.esp
Book Jackets Oblivion.esp
Enhanced Economy.esp
DLCHorseArmor.esp
DLCHorseArmor - Unofficial Patch.esp
DLCOrrery.esp
DLCOrrery - Unofficial Patch.esp
DLCVileLair.esp
DLCVileLair - Unofficial Patch.esp
DLCMehrunesRazor.esp
DLCMehrunesRazor - Unofficial Patch.esp
DLCSpellTomes.esp
DLCSpellTomes - Unofficial Patch.esp
MaleBodyReplacerV4.esp
StockClothingArmor-forExnems.esp
DLCThievesDen.esp
DLCThievesDen - Unofficial Patch.esp
DLCThievesDen - Unofficial Patch - SSSB.esp
Francesco's Optional Files.esp
LuckBasedLootForFrans.esp
DBSQR.esp
DBSQR - MehrunesRazor.esp
DBSQR - Orrery.esp
DBSQR - Shivering Isles.esp
DBSQR - Vile Lair.esp
ImpeREAL City Unique Districts - Talos Plaza.esp
ImpeREAL City Unique Districts - Elven Gardens.esp
ImpeREAL City Unique Districts - Green Emperor Way.esp
ImpeREAL City Unique Districts - Prison.esp
ImpeREAL City Unique Districts - Arena.esp
ImpeREAL City Unique Districts - Waterfront.esp
ImpeREAL City Unique Districts - Temple.esp
ImpeREAL City Unique Districts - The Arcane University.esp
ImpeREAL City Unique Districts - Market.esp
ImpeREAL City Unique Districts - Arboretum.esp
DLCBattlehornCastle.esp
DLCBattlehornCastle - Unofficial Patch.esp
DBSQR - Battlehorn Castle.esp
DLCFrostcrag.esp
DLCFrostcrag - Unofficial Patch.esp
Knights.esp
Knights - Unofficial Patch.esp
DBSQR - Knights of the Nine.esp
xuldarkforest.esp
xulStendarrValley.esp
xulTheHeath.esp
XulEntiusGorge.esp
xulFallenleafEverglade.esp
xulColovianHighlands_EV.esp
xulChorrolHinterland.esp
xulBeachesOfCyrodiilLostCoast.esp
xulBravilBarrowfields.esp
xulLushWoodlands.esp
xulAncientYews.esp
xulAncientRedwoods.esp
xulCloudtopMountains.esp
xulArriusCreek.esp
xulPatch_AY_AC.esp
xulRollingHills_EV.esp
xulPantherRiver.esp
xulRiverEthe.esp
xulBrenaRiverRavine.esp
xulImperialIsle.esp
xulBlackwoodForest.esp
xulCheydinhalFalls.esp
xulAspenWood.esp
xulSkingradOutskirts.esp
xulSnowdale.esp
xulCliffsOfAnvil.esp
xulSilverfishRiverValley.esp
xulJerallGlacier.esp
xulTheEasternPeaks.esp
Natural_Vegetation_by_Max_Tael.esp
Armored Skeletons (LL).esp
Book Placement v2.esp
SnusDungeons.esp
VanillaCombatEnhanced.esp
VCEClassOverhaul.esp
SkipTutorialv3.esp
GalerionUnarmoredAcrobatics.esp
Jjiinx_Enhanced Disease.esp
pmCrimeHandler.esp
sycHearNoEvil.esp
DenockArrowToo.esp
DocBlock.esp
kuerteeAttributeAndSkillBasedDamageModifiers.esp
DocDodge.esp
Bundlement.esp
nGCD.esp
nGCD Oghma Infinium.esp
Francesco's Slower skills x1.5.esp
Cava Obscura - Cyrodiil.esp
Cava Obscura - SI.esp
SDR_Oblivion.esp
Birthsigns Expanded.esp
Francesco's 10 days respawn time - 1-20 day lenght rescale.esp
BanditDeluxeV2.esp
drunk_with_SI.esp
MigTraining.esp

 

 

As a note, most of these were in effect in earlier games as well - I didn't pick up many new ones for this run - and back then I could go for quite a while before my save got inevitably corrupted. There were no inventory freezes like this.

[PC1986]

Any fix to this or did we just ignore this and pretend it never happened?

[cyberninja96]

pretty much