Hi guys,
I have been trying to set up my Oblivion for too long now without success (and without being able to play and enjoy for long properly yet) after coming from Skyrim.
My problem is that everything runs perfectly.....for about an hour. Then it will CTD. I restart and it will run for about 15 minutes then CTD. The next CTD takes about 5 minutes and after that only 1 minute until it is constantly crashing just after loading (I get to move my character about 5 feet before CTD).
It doesn't seem to matter where I am when it happens (in dungeons, in houses, out in the middle of nowhere and even in the Testing Hall). It will happen when I try to sleep, wait, save a game or just stand there.
I have tried restarting with new characters, some saves from ages ago and pretty much anything.
I am using FCOM but I am pretty sure that I got that working all good before all of these problems started.
I have my game pretty heavily modded (which yes I did read through all of the readme's carefully, and have spent a LOT of time going through for the past month). It seemed to be alright with my mod set up until the point that I added some quest mods (see setup lists below) - after I added the quests it started doing the CTD thing. So I removed the quests one by one but no luck. Then I reloaded my earlier version before I installed the quests in case there were bits left behind after uninstalling (Yes after weeks of hair pulling frustration I started fully copying my 'Oblivion' and my 'saves' folder to my hard drive after installing each group of mods........ after having to do a full re-install half a dozen times). Even reverting back to before I started adding those mods gets me only to where it plays for an hour nicely before quickly deteriorating again.
It is really doing my head in and I can't come up with anything logical that could be causing it nor find anything similar online.
I am running Windows 7 professional on a Gateway P780 Core 2 Duo x64 with 4GB Ram and a NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS video card.
I am using the 4GB exe memory patch for 64bit machines and Streamline.
I use Wryebash and OBMM to install my mods and BOSS for helping sort the order.
As far as I know everything is at the latest version.
Here are my mod lists:-
What I am running now (basicly everything without the extra 'Quest mods')
This is how I had it before I started uninstalling things to try and fix this problem (and what I would really like to be running)
I am sure that someone out there has the know how to help me fix this and get it going 'cos it is pretty much unplayable right now. But the times that it does play it is so damn excellent.....it teases me.
I was trying to get this all going before Xmas for my 11 year old (yeah yeah also me of course lol) so its bit of a let down for her so far.....but if I can get it working in the next couple of days at least I would be forgiven for my hours trying to fix it.
Oh yeah....one final really weird thing that started happening on my last game testing it.......I was in Imperial City....came out of a shop and suddenly a group of people just keeled over dead ....8 of them...when I searched them it said they were all zombies (they were some of the standard inhabitants of IC and had their house keys etc on them). As I went around the market area I noticed a lot of other 'zombies' dead on the ground. Maybe there's a plague or something in the city??? I'm not sure if its related to my CTD problem but was really weird anyway.
I would really appreciate any help that I can get to sort out my game asap and many thanks for reading my very lengthy post.
Cheers,
Eon