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Hello, I just had to put down a level 12 character I made because there was nothing I could do to stop crashing on wait in the market district. This persisted with autosave off, after leaving and reentering the city, after resetting the .ini, after uninstalling the only mod I had (which was just a texture pack), and after reinstalling the game completely. I've come to terms with having to start over, but I don't want to just start experiencing crashes again 12 levels in. Is there anything I can do to prevent this? I'm fine with playing completely vanilla oblivion, I don't want to create more hassle by installing anything that isn't explicitly a bug fix. So what can I do? Are there specific settings or ini configurations I should be using?
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It sounds like something was corrupted upon installation. The game should not crash regularly at the same point. I've had this game for many years and its crashed on me many time. It almost always crashes after playing for quite some time. But then again, I tried something different today and the game crashed unexpectedly. The crashes most often seen are falling through the floor and textures incorrectly loading, then the game will crash soon afterwards. I'd reload and the game would be again good for several hours. I've borked my installation several times with mods and trying different things.
If you use something like galaxy it might have a feature to repair installation.

If all else fails, back up your save, do not delete it. Uninstall the game. Delete the entire folder with oblivion, run something like ccleaner. Make sure you clean up the registry entries.

Finally install the game again along with the one mesh using the correct mod installation program. The save should still be good. I've never seen a corrupted save game.
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abbayarra: It sounds like something was corrupted upon installation. The game should not crash regularly at the same point. I've had this game for many years and its crashed on me many time. It almost always crashes after playing for quite some time. But then again, I tried something different today and the game crashed unexpectedly. The crashes most often seen are falling through the floor and textures incorrectly loading, then the game will crash soon afterwards. I'd reload and the game would be again good for several hours. I've borked my installation several times with mods and trying different things.
If you use something like galaxy it might have a feature to repair installation.

If all else fails, back up your save, do not delete it. Uninstall the game. Delete the entire folder with oblivion, run something like ccleaner. Make sure you clean up the registry entries.

Finally install the game again along with the one mesh using the correct mod installation program. The save should still be good. I've never seen a corrupted save game.
I agree that it sounds like a corrupted installation (possibly caused by the texture pack - only a guess). But before going through the process described above, you might as well try to simply repeat the installation and then try again. Chances are that the registry entries are not damaged, and then this simple method is likely to work. If not, then it's really advisable to uninstall Oblivion, to make sure that everything is gone, including (and mainly) all registry entries associated with Oblivion, and to install the game again.
Post edited April 14, 2020 by Greywolf1
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abbayarra: It sounds like something was corrupted upon installation. The game should not crash regularly at the same point. I've had this game for many years and its crashed on me many time. It almost always crashes after playing for quite some time. But then again, I tried something different today and the game crashed unexpectedly. The crashes most often seen are falling through the floor and textures incorrectly loading, then the game will crash soon afterwards. I'd reload and the game would be again good for several hours. I've borked my installation several times with mods and trying different things.
If you use something like galaxy it might have a feature to repair installation.

If all else fails, back up your save, do not delete it. Uninstall the game. Delete the entire folder with oblivion, run something like ccleaner. Make sure you clean up the registry entries.

Finally install the game again along with the one mesh using the correct mod installation program. The save should still be good. I've never seen a corrupted save game.
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Greywolf1: I agree that it sounds like a corrupted installation (possibly caused by the texture pack - only a guess). But before going through the process described above, you might as well try to simply repeat the installation and then try again. Chances are that the registry entries are not damaged, and then this simple method is likely to work. If not, then it's really advisable to uninstall Oblivion, to make sure that everything is gone, including (and mainly) all registry entries associated with Oblivion, and to install the game again.
I agree, it is best to uninstall and then reinstall the game in the normal way. Then make sure you install the texture pack using a mod installer. I tend to agree that it sounds like the mod installation did not work properly.
crashing that offen [in one place] is going to be Ram related... you have too little ram in your system or you don't have a tick in the advanced options to let the game use more Ram would be my first guess