Ruin, Ruin, wherefore art thou?

[Michlo]

Yeah no problem...

 

But also random CTD's are apperantly -normal- in oblivion... what isnt normal is a CTD in a specific place (example: while exiting a mod related out or talking to a specific person), so i tend to break CTD's into to categories:

 

1) CTD at specific place or location

CURE: Change load order, put current quest (the one giving you CTD's) at bottom

 

2) Random Crash

CURE: Curse god for making humans imperfect ;P then restart oblivion

 

3) very very frequent crashes with very slow game/lagging

CURE: Either a bad mod (try #2) or Re-Install oblivion.

 

The reason for a reinstall is because many mods change crucial files needed for oblivion to run, and if you use a mod overwriting a nessisary file and then that mod ends up being a bad mod then unless you have a backup of every file that mod over wrote then a reinstall is needed.

 

Ive found moving all the mods out my data folder and reinstalling oblivion and reactivating them really ups the reliablity of my game. less crashes, higher frame rate, and better graphics without slowdown

 

Thanks. :)

 

I actually keep a "clean" copy of my data folder so that hopefully I wouldn't have to reinstall if it should all go wrong.

 

I'll definitely keep your points in mind for any future crashes but over the weekend I think I only had one. :)

 

Cheers.