jlilly1 Posted January 20, 2008 Share Posted January 20, 2008 First off let me give an overview, my oblivion has about 100+ mod's running, and I am using mod manager+OBSE. I was careful about conflict with the mods, however I am aware you can't detect all conflict. The Problem: Every hour or so, my oblivion crashes, mainly when I am walking in the wilderness, and it also crashes occasionally when I exit the game. However, when I am playing the game the FPS is smooth, and it runs well, except for stuttering from time to time. I was wondering, could this be because of the amount of mods I am using, or maybe even my computer heating up during extended play. Computer Stats-----------------Intel Core 2 6600 2x2.50ghz 2.00GB ram Nividia 8800 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WoogieMonster Posted January 20, 2008 Share Posted January 20, 2008 If your game crashes every hour like clockwork, my guess would be that some program is causing it in the background. Are you using any third-party time keeping programs, or widgets, or maybe a program that clears up your RAM every hour or something along those lines? I guess it could be possible for your system to be heating up too, maybe an hour is about how long it takes to reach the temperature threshold. However, I think that would actually crash or shutdown your entire system, not just Oblivion. I'm only guessing, trying to give you some ideas. There are people with WAY more mods than you, so that is not likely to be the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wizardmirth Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 I noticed that higher rez landscape replacers may cause crashing if you travel too quickly through the wildnerness before the new area can load and I'm on a high end. Because of this I pretty much just walk whenever I could ride, but even then somtimes the game will still crash on me. As for crashing on exit -- it happens to me all the time, though I have probably close to 200 mods running. If you have windows sidebar running I would advise against it. I haven't tried running both at the same time but I've heard it's not suggested. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlilly1 Posted January 21, 2008 Author Share Posted January 21, 2008 Thank you for your input guys, I am not sure if Norton, or my Spyware doctor monitors time. I do have some landscape mods and I run at a high resolution. I'll try shutting down some programs while I play, and see how that goes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bben46 Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 At one time a program associated with Hewlet Packard printers was causing crashes. For some reason, HP wanted to check for upgrades every few hours. I think this is an ego thing with some programmers, they do it because they can. I see no reason for a printer driver to even be in memory all of the time, especially when the printer is powered down.. So when you are shutting down some background programs, use the task manager and shut down any tasks that start with HP. Hope this helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WoogieMonster Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 Thank you for your input guys, I am not sure if Norton, or my Spyware doctor monitors time... They both do. Spyware Doctor checks the net for updates every so many hours, but you can change it in the options to only check once per day and if I remember correctly you can even specify the hour that it will check. Norton is crap, there's no nice way to put it. It attacks innocent and harmless programs (like videogames), it's way too expensive, it's massively complicated to uninstall, and there are other cheaper or FREE programs that work much better and will not attempt remove your games .exe file while you're playing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlilly1 Posted January 23, 2008 Author Share Posted January 23, 2008 Thank you for your input guys, I am not sure if Norton, or my Spyware doctor monitors time... They both do. Spyware Doctor checks the net for updates every so many hours, but you can change it in the options to only check once per day and if I remember correctly you can even specify the hour that it will check. Norton is crap, there's no nice way to put it. It attacks innocent and harmless programs (like videogames), it's way too expensive, it's massively complicated to uninstall, and there are other cheaper or FREE programs that work much better and will not attempt remove your games .exe file while you're playing. Do you have any suggestions of better virus protectors. Also, I turned off spyware doctor while playing and surprisingly the crash rate went down slightly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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