Oblivion Crash Problem

[giantpinkbunnyhead]

Just wondering if anybody has had similar problems. There are certain areas of the Cyrodiil map that, when I approach them or fast-travel to them... the game crashes out to desktop. It's happened on the original game; then the patched game; and now with Shivering Isles. It's got to be a mod issue but I have about 100 mods running and could never isolate that. I'll probably end up re-installling from scratch with no mods; then adding them one by one to see. But if anyone has had this happen before.. have you discovered the cause? It happens whenever I draw near to Anvil or Leyawiin, or any of the caves/camps/etc in a small radius from those places.

edit:

system specs...

DFI Lan Party Ultra D
Opteron 165 @ 2.4GHz
2x1GB G.Skill Performance RAM
ATI X1900XTX

 

[Kindjal]

A similar crash to the desktop happens on my system after I exit a cave or building then switch to the map for fast travel. After I restart the game I don't have any problems. I do not know why the game crashes but I've come to anticipate it. Fortunately the game saves frequently and its rarely caused a problem.

I seem to recall having this problem prior to installing any mods. My game is patched to 1.1.5 - I haven't installed the 1.2 patch because the game is running just fine at the moment and I'm not sure if QTP3 or my other assorted mods are compatible with the new patch.

 

[Captante]

I also get the occasional crash in Oblivion but theres no rhyme or reason to it ... just be sure to augment the auto-saves with frequent quick-saves & its not a huge problem.

 

[MrWizzard]

I get crashes in oblivion every once in a while, I have come to expect it, I think it's a bug, but it's so infrequent and the game is so good that I am able to overlook it. I just save a lot.

I have it for my 360 also; when that crashes there is no desktop so it hard locks the 360. That is a pain and it takes about 2 minutes to get back into the game. The PC it takes about 20 seconds.

 

[nullpointerus]

Originally posted by: giantpinkbunnyhead
Just wondering if anybody has had similar problems. There are certain areas of the Cyrodiil map that, when I approach them or fast-travel to them... the game crashes out to desktop. It's happened on the original game; then the patched game; and now with Shivering Isles. It's got to be a mod issue but I have about 100 mods running and could never isolate that. I'll probably end up re-installling from scratch with no mods; then adding them one by one to see. But if anyone has had this happen before.. have you discovered the cause? It happens whenever I draw near to Anvil or Leyawiin, or any of the caves/camps/etc in a small radius from those places.

I had a similar problem with triple buffering. Apparently, I was just using too much vram with the combination of resolution, AA, and mods being run that going into certain areas would cause a crash everytime (and on a 512 MB card!). Once I disabled v-sync and triple buffering, the consistent crashes disappeared.