Unplayable due to CTD's

[Kagemusha]

Repeating my review here in hope that the message will reach the developers.

I have loved this game for a long time. It's one of the few original packages for a game that I kept and display in my office. But this remaster is a hot mess. I am part of a gaming club and almost all of us bought it right away. There is about two dozen of us in this club. The rigs range from generally above average to well...... a gamer's wet dream machine.

All of us have experienced a fairly massive amount of crashes (usually the GPU error). The crashes occur anywhere from 5 minutes to no more than about 15 minutes. Some have very few (if any mods) and some have heavily modded it. Many of the folks are modders themselves. They have spent a fairly decent amount of time trying to debug this issue.... to no avail. We are all putting the game aside and not recommending it for now.

Since all of us have liked this game there won't be 25 bad reviews. This review will represent the club.

The bottom line is..... just fix the game please.....

[IchigoMait]

Clean install gpu drivers for nvidia gpu.
Try older drivers for amd gpu.

If you have less than 32GB ram, try setting yourself custom page file with at least 10GB custom size (min/max same).

Underclock your gpu and/or cpu.

Don't use turbo mode for cpu.

If you're using an intel cpu from 13th or 14th gen, and you managed to use it without a bios update that fixed the voltage problems for it, then your cpu is basically toast, it can cause loads of crashes randomly, and a temp fix for that is underclocking it, so it would be more stable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-9GpV2CO_A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7Eyv5d2Rq8

The game has some specific crashing issues with some specific mechanics, but those happen when you do the same thing, aka you'll see the patern.
But if it's random then your hardware has just issues, could be cpu, gpu, ram, drivers etc.
Thus why most people just play the game and don't have nothing to say, only very few people have problems, and most don't post any specs, only complain.

[Kagemusha]

Thanks for the feedback. We've already tried many of the things you suggest. Didn't really help much but we will give the other suggestions a try.
Our fundamental issue is we really shouldn't have to jump through all these hoops to make the game work (like under-clocking). Our gear works great on other games.
But thanks again for the quick response.

[smoketrees]

99.9% of people aren't having anything like that level of problem. I've CTD 4 times in 60 hours. Interestingly all within the first 20-30 hours.

It's unfortunate that PC performance will always be varied. Are you on a weird Frankenstein's monster of a machine?

[neruuk]

Nothing helps, all those tube troubleshootings are a lot of work and amounts to nothing. Small relief with virtual memory patch I use before starting the game.
https://ntcore.com/4gb-patch/
Better but still no guarantees.

[Lou]

I have a brand new PC with a RTX 5070 and there are also random CTD's, that is just a faithful reimagining and should be considered a feature.

Jokes aside, I guess those are unfixable by the devs since they never fixed those, depends as always on mods.

[SmallArchangel]

Originally posted by smoketrees:

99.9% of people aren't having anything like that level of problem. I've CTD 4 times in 60 hours. Interestingly all within the first 20-30 hours.

It's unfortunate that PC performance will always be varied. Are you on a weird Frankenstein's monster of a machine?

I don't have any issues either (yet...). Seems many do, though - but I doubt any devs will see the reports on this forum. Is there a better place to post so Virtuos might be made aware if they are not already? I assume that studio will be responsible for patching and not Bethesda, since they did the remaster.

[Kagemusha]

Originally posted by smoketrees:

99.9% of people aren't having anything like that level of problem. I've CTD 4 times in 60 hours. Interestingly all within the first 20-30 hours.

It's unfortunate that PC performance will always be varied. Are you on a weird Frankenstein's monster of a machine?

A few are a bit of a Frankenstein but most are clean purchased gaming PC's.

[Kagemusha]

Thanks to all for your thoughts. It is really odd that experiences are so massively varied.

[Habeeb]

Sorry to keep posting this on multiple threads, but I did list some fixes that helped me with a lot of games that ctd'd on my system.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/2623190/discussions/0/553491101355363410/?tscn=1747598160

Hope this helps. For me, personally, downclocking my gpu solved all my Oblivion crashes. Also helped with Starfield, Alan Wake 2, Cyberpunk 2077 and other newer games.