Question2 Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Apparently oblivion hangs every single time when i alt-tab out or exit the game. Any ideas on how to troubleshoot this? I have the oblivion crash preventer mod already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Striker879 Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 (edited) Alt - Tab + Oblivion = Asking for trouble. The game doesn't do a very good job of relinquishing control back to the operating system, so Alt + Tab is generally not recommended. There are some mods that attempt to make it work more reliably by running the game windowed, but I don't know how successful they are. - Edit - As chance would have it I ran across one of those Alt + Tab mods while perusing the mod comments section ... Fake Fullscreen Mode Windowed. I would suggest reading through the mod comments before trying (well, that's how I do things anyway). Edited January 18, 2012 by Striker879 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Question2 Posted January 18, 2012 Author Share Posted January 18, 2012 Thing is the game didnt use to hang at all when i did that...neither did it hang when i exited the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Striker879 Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Then my question is what have you changed since then (e.g. mods added/deleted, Windows/DirectX updates, audio codecs installed, etc.)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Question2 Posted January 18, 2012 Author Share Posted January 18, 2012 Mods i suppose but its pretty much impossible to find out what caused it... The game companion program helps a lot in letting me alt-tab out, but im still hanging when i exit the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Striker879 Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 I find that with my old character that has over 1200 hours game time I get fairly frequent exit crashes (maybe 60 or 70% of the time). With my new character that has 250 hours game time I seldom get crashes at exit (maybe 10% of the time). With both characters I've adopted using either save from the Esc menu (old character) or save from the console (new guy). I only load an autosave when I've neglected to save frequently enough and don't want to lose too much progress and I never use quicksave. When I say exit crashes I mean I get the black windowed screen with the Windows error message (I use Win XP). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Question2 Posted January 25, 2012 Author Share Posted January 25, 2012 So is there any way to stop it from crashing at exit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverCobra126 Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 Give this mod a try: Fast Exit. It won't completely remove lock-ups on exit, but it should dramatically reduce how often you encounter them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Question2 Posted January 28, 2012 Author Share Posted January 28, 2012 Thanks, that seems to do the trick quite well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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