Crash on Gold Coast / Dunbarrow Cove

[Snow Mexican]

I recently encountered a crash that only happens near the Gold Coast / Dunbarrow Cove. I can't fast travel there and even if I manage to go there on foot, the game shutdowns.

Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x0000000000000050

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Weird thing is, if I go to a previous save (20h prior), everything is just fine. So I'm guessing the Gold Coast is borked for my game?

Spent 4h looking for a fix but no success.

Anybody got an idea?

[Solora]

Same crash, I was able to visit and fully upgrade the dunbarrow cove with no issues and now suddenly everytime I try to go in that general area, including the area around castle anvil and part of the anvil docks, it crashes immediately with that same error. It sucks because a lot of quests in the thieves guild are in that area and now I can't finish the thieves guild questline at all.

I'm wondering if maybe an oblivion gate opened up in that time and something attached to it is corrupted, since I'd also completed a few main quests after dunbarrow cove. That's the only thing I can think of that would change the area and cause something new to load into an area I'd already visited several times earlier in game.

[TheShakiri]

Have you checked your plugins.txt file to see if the load order has been changed? If you use mods with Nexus's Vortex Manager it stupidly saves the load order in alphabetical order. This causes the esm (master) file to be loaded later which creates the access violation errors due to the plugins loading before it being overridden by the contents of the master file. The default load order for the deluxe edition should be:

oblivion.esm
DLCBattlehornCastle.esp
DLCFrostcrag.esp
DLCHorseArmor.esp
DLCMehrunesRazor.esp
DLCOrrery.esp
DLCShiveringIlses.esp
DLCSpellTomes.esp
DLCThievesDen.esp
DLCVileLair.esp
Knights.esp
AltarESPMain.esp
AltarDeluxe.esp
AltarGymNavigation.esp
TamrielLeveledRegion.esp
Any other mods.

For the standard edition you should ignore the esp files beginning with Altar.

[Snow Mexican]

@TheShakiri This is exactly how my plugins.txt is configured. It's a real pain in the ass figuring out why it's crashing.

[Snow Mexican]

@Solora There is an oblivion gate East of Dunbarrow Cove, but I'm pretty sure I didn't have any crashes after it appeared. Maybe a command line to close that oblivion gate would fix it

EDIT: Just tried it with the command line closeobliviongate. Still crashes when I go near

[FlareHead]

I'm having the exact same issue. Area was fine, then i went and completed Shivering Isles. After I returned, this is happening every time. It works on an old save just fine, but on my current save, I cannot go near this area at all without the game crashing.

[JDsHideout]

I am stuck in Fully Upgraded Dunbarrow Cove, no matter where I look it says I am interacting with an empty skeleton, can't talk to anyone, interact with doors, nothing! Reloaded trying to see if it would fix, too many times and don't have a save outside of cove! Bye 24 hrs of play on that character!

[Spence2345]

Same crash here, something I noticed is it only crashes when I cross specific points in the gold coast, that Oblivion gate east of Dunbarow, I can't cross that point and it feels like a line going from there to anvil lighthouse and who knows how far past the Oblivion gate is the line of no crossing allowed

[Snow Mexican]

@Spence2345 Yeah I noticed that too. I Hope they put out a patch or something soon

[Spence2345]

Originally posted by Snow Mexican:

@Spence2345 Yeah I noticed that too. I Hope they put out a patch or something soon

Yeah, I'm hoping for a patch soon too, I've also got the Manimarco script bug too so I can't even complete mages guild

[SHDWFCHRNBL]

I had the same issue in original game and in remastered =)
Game crushes with opening door of
Dunbarrow Cove location. Full upgraded team, also.

[Seeks]

waiting 3+ days for the asset refresh seemed to help. my crashes occured when trying to fast travel out of anvil after leaving dunbarrow cove though

[drakeloreroar]

Generally if you're getting consistent crashes in an area it means something in the memory is falling outside of the correct values (too many actors or objects in an area can cause this etc).

Try waiting 3 in-game days for the cell reset (or if you've already disable trophies use a command to reset the cell).

[pturner0922]

Just my 2c to help the smarter people figure this out, but it seems to have something to do with 20+ hours of game play. This happened to me and a friend. Weird part is we were doing different quests. I had come to that area on the aid for bruma quest. He never did any of the main quests (didn't even deliver the amulet) and went to that area for the thieves guild. Idk much about this stuff but it doesn't seem to have anything to do with the gate popping up outside Anvil.