LycanusTigre Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 I just recently bought and installed the Steam version of Oblivion. I use Nexus Mod Manager to manage my mods. I have quite a few mods installed but most are texture replacers with a few new adventures thrown in (like the Lost Spires). My problem is that whenever I equip a weapon added to the game from a mod my games crashed to desktop 99% of the time. It happens inside/outside everywhere. Whats weird is that I can equip the weapon in the inventory screen and see it on my character model there but when I exit out to the game world the game crashes. Same thing if I hotkey the weapon and equip it that way. So far the only weapons I have added that don't crash are Sinblood's Lethal Majesty weapons (the fans). Whats really weird is that all the armor works just fine. No crashes. Just the weapons. I have Macros Samurai mod, Apachii Goddess Store, Blacklusters weapons, etc. I have the latest version of OBSE installed and the Unofficial Oblivion Patch. I have installed and used Oblivion before with a lot of the same mods (non-Steam though) and I have never had this problem before. The vanilla weapons work fine though, only weapons added from mods seem to have this problem. I also used TES4 Edit to check for conflicts and to create a merge patch. It didn't find any conflicts except for some in the Race category, nothing in weapons. Any help would be appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Striker879 Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 Is your Steam installation in C:\Program Files or C:\Program Files (x86) and are you running either Vista or Windows 7? If so do yourself a favour and get Steam (and Oblivion) out of Program Files. Bben46's wiki article Oblivion reinstall procedure has a link near the top to instructions on moving your Steam installation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LycanusTigre Posted December 29, 2011 Author Share Posted December 29, 2011 (edited) Is your Steam installation in C:\Program Files or C:\Program Files (x86) and are you running either Vista or Windows 7? If so do yourself a favour and get Steam (and Oblivion) out of Program Files. Bben46's wiki article Oblivion reinstall procedure has a link near the top to instructions on moving your Steam installation. I am running Windows 7 64-bit and Steam is installed in Program Files (x86). Can you please elaborate on why I need to move my ENTIRE Steam directory along with my all my Steam games and saves to somewhere else on my hard drive? I have previously had Oblivion (non-Steam) installed on my same machine in the Program Files (x86) directory (though in a different sub-folder) and it worked just fine even with all my mods and I didn't have this crashing problem. Edited December 29, 2011 by LycanusTigre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nephenee13 Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 I am running Windows 7 64-bit and Steam is installed in Program Files (x86). Can you please elaborate on why I need to move my ENTIRE Steam directory along with my all my Steam games and saves to somewhere else on my hard drive? I have previously had Oblivion (non-Steam) installed on my same machine in the Program Files (x86) directory (though in a different sub-folder) and it worked just fine even with all my mods and I didn't have this crashing problem. Because Steam, UAC and mods don't work well together. Not having Steam in that directory is a good idea just in general though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Striker879 Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 Your other Steam games may be modern ones, designed from the start to work alongside UAC. Oblivion was designed back before UAC was even a dream in some Microsoft engineer's mind. If you know a way to install the Steam version of Oblivion in a directory such as C:\Games\Oblivion while leaving your Steam installation in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam then feel free to ignore my advice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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