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Oblivion Crashing
Talka
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I'm home for Thanksgiving break, and so I thought I'd give Oblivion another go. I play it about 5 minutes and decide to install a bunch of mods. It's a messy process and I think a lot of the mods conflicted with each other, so I uninstalled the game and decided to try again using the Oblivion Mod Manager. I reinstall all of the mods, and now... the whole game won't load. It's doing the "This program has experienced an error and needs to close" thing whenever I try to open it. I've tried turning the mods off, but it still crashes. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling, but it still crashes. I've tried uninstalling and deleting all of the mods, but it still crashes. I've updated the game, my drivers, my OS, but it still crashes. I've checked for all sorts of viruses and stuff, but it still crashes.
I just don't understand what could have changed that it would have worked yesterday morning but won't even open today. How could fiddling with some mods cause the game to stop opening, even after I've disabled/deleted all the mods and reinstalled the game into another directory?
I just don't understand what could have changed that it would have worked yesterday morning but won't even open today. How could fiddling with some mods cause the game to stop opening, even after I've disabled/deleted all the mods and reinstalled the game into another directory?
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Could be something unrelated to Oblivion. Does everything else run ok? I would recommend doing a completely clean re-install. Delete the whole thing, including all the mods sitting on your hard drive. Just get rid of everything associated with the game. Hell, maybe take the time to do a scandisk/defrag afterwards, while you're at it, just in case you have some sort of corruption that's causing the issue. Reinstall the full game, and start it up and play for a bit to see if it works. Update all the patches, etc., and play the game to see if it works. Download and install the mod manager, and play the game. Then install each mod, one at a time, and play the game to see if they work properly. Wash, rinse, repeat.
If at some point the game stops working, you at least know at which point it does. It may well be that you're just running too many mods and they're conflicting with each other on startup. I have a nagging suspicion you managed to corrupt the game both times (which is why I'm telling you to scandisk/defrag as a secondary measure).