Specific/random CTDs

[cleric42au]

After recently upgrading my PC I reinstalled Oblivion and got the 1.2 patch... a couple on newer versions of my mods and started playing. cue ramdom CTDs... eventually i leveled up... cue CTD on exiting the "Spend your 3 points screen".

 

I've done some reading on this site and UESP... and that got me more confused... my wife reinstalled Oblivion on her PC (not upgraded yet) and now she's getting random CTDs alot more frequently than I am... about every 5-10 minutes. Sometimes i swear they CTD in sympathy of each other!.

 

We use the same mods but have differnet pcs... I use OMM... she does not...

 

I've read about load orders but I'm not sure where to start, this is the current order below, but I have tried putting all the DLCs to load first... no noticable change.

 

 

Mods

 

Oblivion.esm

HorseCombatMaster.esm

Unlimited Amulets 1.0.esp

975-Ultimate Archer-TESSource.esp

RealTime.esp

Blunt to Hafted.esp

All_Armor.esp

Robes over Armour.esp

Light Elven Weapons and Mithril Armor.esp

EnchantingFreedomPlus.esp

Casual Oblivion 0.2 Levelled Rewards.esp

Casual Oblivion 0.2 Increased Training.esp

Casual Oblivion 0.2 Improved Soul Gems.esp

Casual Oblivion 0.2 Durable Equipment.esp

Casual Oblivion 0.2 Increased Charges.esp

BuyLockpicks.esp

Unlimited Rings 1.0.esp

Rockshatter_fix.esp

attack and hide medium v2.0.esp

GrayFoxArmor.esp

FathisUleWorks.esp

Increased Value - Clutter.esp

Increased Value - Sigil Stones.esp

Increased Value - Clutter - Expensive Upperclass.esp

Increased Value - Gems & Jewelry.esp

sr_birthsigns_nomax.esp

300_Artifacts.esp

Potion Sorter.esp

More Arrows Recovered.esp

UnderwaterVisibilityMod.esp

DLCVileLair.esp

DLCHorseArmor.esp

DLCMehrunesRazor.esp

DLCOrrery.esp

DLCThievesDen.esp

DLCSpellTomes.esp

Knights.esp

Quest Award Leveling.esp

Quest Award Leveling - Finger of the Mountain.esp

DLCBattlehornCastle.esp

DeadlyReflex - Timed Block + Very High Damage.esp

Mounted_Spellcasting Deadly Reflex Compatible.esp

24hourArena.esp

Thieves Arsenal.esp

DeadlyReflex - Combat Moves.esp

BravilSeaDomes.esp

DLCFrostcrag.esp

Origin of the Mages Guild.esp

WeightLifter.esp

 

 

PC specs

 

Mine

2GHz Dual core Intel

1GB ddr3

GT8600 nvidia (512MB DDR2) - most recent drivers)

Game is installed in default location [shudder] - seems to CTD less

 

 

Hers

 

2GHz single core

1GB DDR2

GT7600 (I think)

Has only the the one 300GB HDD but installed to Games folder.

 

 

Any help/advice/direction appreciated.

[bben46]

Recently I have seen a thread that claims that turning off your screensaver might cut down on CTDs. also, a well known problem is ANY program running in the background that tries to do something can cause CTDs - one that I have seen a lot is an older version of the HP printer drivers. (Why does a printer need to call home every day to check for updates?)

 

Anti virus, anti spyware , Adobe, Java and any other program that is in background and may try to grab a few CPU cycles can cause CTDs.

 

Looking at your mod list, I had a significant reduction in crashes when I removed DLC Horse Armor from mine. There are several bugs in the Official Bethesda Horse armor mod and because it is a Bethesda program, the mod community can't (legally) fix it.

 

You don't say if you use OBMM, I recommend it as it can usually fix load order problems and can find some incompatibilities but it does seem to find a lot that don't cause problems.

 

I don't think we will ever get rid of all of the crashes, Oblivion is just too complex a game, and there are some mods that will not play nice with others. But we try to keep crashes to a minimum and save often.

[Vagrant0]

Another thing to considder is that you have so many mods being used, but only 1gb of RAM. RAM is needed for the game to load all those mods up. Not quite sure why it only crashes when you level up, but it might be because that is when a fairly large chunk of information is being taken in, and filling up the RAM. For whatever reason Oblivion does not seem to handle unloading of RAM well, and once it fills up the game usually crashes. You might want to try either disabling some of the mods that add alot of things, or require additional processes (like ones using OBSE), or upgrading your ram to 2gb.

[cleric42au]

Thanks guys... and yes I do use Oblivion Mod Manager, if that's what you meant from OBMM. I will try playing with the load orders and how many mods I have running. I tried running it without the Horse armour and that still CTD'd unfortunately.