Shivering Isles Keeps Crashing Oblivion

[VarietyBucket]

Ok, so I just bought Shivering Isles today and installed it, but now when I launch Oblivion it will go to the first menu, then when I say 'Continue' or 'Load' the game crashes and has a little box that says: "Oblivion has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience." I don't know why it's doing this but it might be conflicting with one of my downloaded mods (the data files are:"Adonny's Elven Weaponry" "Apachi Goddess Store" "AW_Wings" "BlackLuster" "DarkIllusionArmour" "Deadly Relflex" "DLCShiveringIsles [of course]" "ExnemEC_Rouge01" "Growlfs Animated Hair" "Growlfs Hot Clothes" "Heaven Protecter Armor" "Natural Habitat" and "Quest Award Leveling") I have the latest oblivion patch 1.2.0146 and I tried to download the latest SI patch but it said it was already there or something. So please can someone help me out it would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

 

-VarietyBucket

[bben46]

Can you show us a load order? Also, if you have one language version of Oblivion, and a different language version of SI or a different language of a patch it could cause problems. Note that there is only one English language version of the SI patch that works with both US & UK English versions of Oblivion, But US & UK Versions of Oblivion require separate patches.

 

If you have to reinstall to fix this, here is my recommended procedure. It allows you to keep all of your saved games and mods and your original oblivion.ini in a separate place until after you have completely reinstalled. This procedure will leave you with a clean fully patched game including SI. Plus a back up of that clean fully patched game.

 

 

When you uninstall Oblivion it doesn't really uninstall everything. Then when you start adding mods before you have started the game, some things may not get initialized properly. Here is my recommended procedure for uninstalling and reinstalling.

 

I would appreciate any feedback on this as it is something I expect to post often and I hate to give bogus or useless information.

 

Reinstalling Oblivion

 

My instructions assume you are using Windows XP and have installed Oblivion into the default location. If you are using Vista or Linux, the file locations may be different.

 

For a full reinstall, first you should try to preserve your mods and save games. The easiest way is to rename the data folder where your mods are stored C:\Program Files\Bethesda Softworks\Oblivion\Data to something else such as \olddata. Then rename the folder that has your saved games and Oblivion.ini, C:\documents and settings\your user name\my documents\My Games\oblivion to something like \My games\Old Oblivion - this saves your saved games and the oblivion.ini file.

 

Then, using the original CD, NOT the Launcher on your Hard drive. Select uninstall.

 

After it completes the uninstall, reboot your computer - this is important as it allows Windows to remove some references to the original Oblivion.

 

This would be a good time to do a file clean up and defragment your hard drive.

 

Now, again using the original CD, reinstall Oblivion.

 

Before adding any mods, patches or Shivering Isles, start the game and make a save. This initializes some stuff that needs to be initialized.

 

Now, If you DO NOT use Shivering Isles, patch the game using ONLY the latest Oblivion patch. All of the stuff from the earlier patches is included.

 

Be sure you use the proper language patch. If you use the wrong one it may work, but with a strange mixture of languages. (Germanglish?) Or it may crash.

 

NOTE: there are two English Patches UK & US and they are different. (Some people actually think we speak the same language) Use the one that matches your original disk.

 

If you use Shivering Isles, DO NOT install the Oblivion patch. Install Shivering Isles, then ONLY the latest Shivering Isles patch. All of the updates for Oblivion are included. There is only one Shivering Isles patch for both US & UK English

 

Now, again start the game and make a save. Test to be sure everything is working right (No purple objects or yellow blocks)

 

Before adding any mods, back up both your \data folder and the save game folder. Copy them, don't move or rename them, to a different folder - such as \Bethesda\Clean Oblivion\data and \Bethesda\clean Oblivion\saves.

 

Note, Your Oblivion.ini file is in the same folder, but separate from, the save game folder.

 

Now rename the \data folder to \newdata and the \oldata back to \data. this restores all of your mods. You should now have 2 data folders \data, and \newdata. Then rename the new My Games\Oblivion to something like \New Oblivion. and the \Old oblivion to \oblivion - this restores all of your saved games and your original Oblivion.ini file.

 

If you have the same problem, it is most likely caused by a mod. However, you now have a clean install to fall back on. You can rename the files back to what they were and be back to your clean install without having to reinstall again.

 

Sounds like lots of work, but you will have a clean install and a back up clean install when you are finished.

[VarietyBucket]

My load order was the problem, i had Deadly Reflex downloaded and one of the files was being loaded before oblivion, i am now jut not using deadly reflex, thanks for the help :D

 

-VarietyBucket