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Big Trouble in Little Oblivion; problems, problems, problems...
Topic Started: Dec 1 2016, 02:15 PM (161 Views)
Serethil
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Ugh. Well, I'm not going to be much further help - I don't have icons on my desktop at all (just the recycle bin and desktop.ini you can never get rid of - and I have them hidden), never have. Mine live in the quick launch bar at the bottom....

For the CTDs, well, dunno. I never had any problem running Ob on win10.... It's a very odd situation for sure!
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neildarkstar
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Wanta hear something strange?

I decided to go radical on figuring this thing with Oblivion out. I deactivated everything in my load order that wasn't straight up Oblivion or official DLC. I completely deleted all traces of saves and so forth from the first attempts to make characters..Then I went in to try to make another character.

All of that effort hadn't cured a thing. Twice I got characters 3/4 created, and had the game minimize on me, and then not be restorable. Then...

I'd opened Steam to verify local files one more time, and instead of closing Steam, I minimized it, and then completely forgot it was even open. I started trying to create another character, got to about 3/4 through, and an odd resizing pointer showed up on the top of my Oblivion screen, and then CRASHO the game was minimiized.

I hit alt-tab and found myself looking at the Steam interface, and without thinking I clicked somewhere or other on the Steam interface. Next thing I know, Steam has minimized again and I'm looking at a black screen. Two seconds later, Oblivion was there just as I had left it, and running fine. Technically, that is supposed to be impossible.

I've played for hours now, and the same thing has happened a couple of times. It seems that I can play the game as long as Steam is open in the background and minimized. Using a bow is still problematic though, as trying to draw and aim the bow inevitably causes the game to minimize. At least now the game is recoverable.
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Neil,

In this case I would create a new separate HDD partition and load a more compatible OS into it.

That way you can run say Windows 7 for Ob and Win 10 for SSE.

My 0.02
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Did you get Ob through steam to begin with? If so, it's not the same as the one I run from disk.... and maybe you need to have steam at least set to be offline but open for Ob like you do with Skyrim?
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Rick
Dec 3 2016, 08:45 AM
Neil,

In this case I would create a new separate HDD partition and load a more compatible OS into it.

That way you can run say Windows 7 for Ob and Win 10 for SSE.

My 0.02


My disk is already partitioned to the max, and I also have a thoroughly borked version of 8.1 sitting all by itself, so I'm not willing to make things any more complicated. It's a good thought though. :)

Serethil
Dec 3 2016, 10:29 AM
Did you get Ob through steam to begin with? If so, it's not the same as the one I run from disk.... and maybe you need to have steam at least set to be offline but open for Ob like you do with Skyrim?


Yeah, I bought it from Steam, and they've actually been quite decent about it... even offered me a refund. I didn't take it because I actually want to play the damned game. :)

However, Steam being open in the background for Skyrim is quite a different thing. For Skyrim, I open the game using NMM so that SKSE will also be opened, and it opens Steam so that I can access the Steam services while in-game, but... in the case of Skyrim, Steam does not show up on my task bar as being minimized.

It also doesn't normally show up as minimized when I open Oblivion through OBSE or NMM. When Oblivion started working last night, I had actually opened Steam and manually minimized it, then launched the game through NMM.

It's very strange....
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Well, if there's nothing wrong with your game, then something else is interfering with it.

It's probably a program that auto-starts when you start windows, or some background process that'll be a nightmare to track down.

I used to have a problem with one of my games not working, turned out it was a background process that was screwing things up.
Edited by Callidus Thorn, Dec 3 2016, 03:04 PM.
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Well, at least it's playable now that I know I have to open Steam first, then start the game using NMM or mod organizer so that OBSE will run. :)
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I blame Sheo! :angry:
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