Shivering Isles Crash - Anyone else?

[atiomaste]

I've been playing the GOTY edition of Oblivion (yay steam sale) and just entered Shivering Isles. I'm in The Fringe, and every time I try to enter Wastrel's Purse, my game crashes immediately to desktop (PC version obviously). It's consistent, crashes every time, and only with that building. Wondering if anyone else has experienced something similar, or has any recommendations on a fix? I have.....basically all the dlc installed, everything that comes with GOTY. Tried deactivating all but Shivering Isles, same crash at the same spot.

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

It sounds like a normal problem that occurs within Oblivion. It is a fairly common issue posted in the forum albeit in different forms, although it doesn't happen very often in the game.

The exact cause of the problem is unknown to me, but occasionally something happens in the game that causes certain zones and certain NPC's to become corrupted causing CTD when trying to enter a zone or during conversations with the specific NPC. It also happens in the open world sometimes when running near a certain area and the game will always crash in the same spot.

Unfortunately there isn't much that you can do to fix it that I am aware of. Your best bet is to load an earlier save before you entered the Shivering Isles do everything again.

You can also try leaving the Shivering Isles, quit the game, open Data Files and uncheck Shivering Isles. Relaunch the game and load your save which removes the Shivering Isles DLC completely. Save your game again without the DLC present and exit the game. Reenable Shivering Isles in the Data Files and relaunch the game. The Shivering Isles will be reinstalled and in an unexplored state. You will have to wait for the door to open and do everything again.

Alternately if you just need to enter to speak to a specifc NPC to purchase items or for the main quest, you might be able to use console to teleport the NPC to you. If the NPC is the cause of the CTD it may crash the game.

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[atiomaste]

Thanks to you both for the advice - will try everything and report back for others' reference.

[Pissinger Boonisello]

Originally posted by atiomaste:

Thanks to you both for the advice - will try everything and report back for others' reference.

sooooo any luck?

[atiomaste]

Originally posted by FoxDAGISTON:

Originally posted by atiomaste:

Thanks to you both for the advice - will try everything and report back for others' reference.

sooooo any luck?

Sorry for my delay. It's been quite some time but as I recall, the response from Omgwtfbbqkitten did work - I loaded a save from just before I entered the Shivering Isles and was able to continue.

[Convenient Inflatable Bloodhound]

I know its an old post but it helped. Its a bit different now with the current steam version that has all the DLC, deluxe or whatever.

Right click on the game, properties.
Go to the DLC tab, uncheck the "oblivion game of the year DLC"
Wait for it to do some install/uninstall action.
When its done, recheck it and wait for it to reinstall.
Load your game back and see if that worked.

I was able to load up the shivering isles without the crash to desktop.

Thanks!

[hypo]

i used the console command player.movetoqt (teleports you to the next quest you have active) to get passed the area that was crashing for me