Getting sick of the game crashing.

[jimtaggerty]

It's starting to get ridiculous that the game seems to crash with monotonous regularity, it's getting to the stage where I'm considering reinstalling the 2006 version of the game just so I can play without having the game crash on me.

[ebolaconundrum]

Fair enough I guess if it was crashing constantly for me I'd be unhappy to.

What hardware are you using, what drivers do you have? Do you have any mods? Are you using any Nvida card overrides?

[MabusGaming]

Yeah same, constantly access violation errors here, been what 2 weeks? still no fixes or patches. Every 10~ minutes or so. 4090, i9-14900kf

[Sgt. Flaw]

MSI afterburner crashes my game..I honestly think it's rivatuna but wtvr. I can play for hours and as soon as I fire up MSI, even without an overclock, it crashes

[★REM★]

Originally posted by jimtaggerty:

It's starting to get ridiculous that the game seems to crash with monotonous regularity, it's getting to the stage where I'm considering reinstalling the 2006 version of the game just so I can play without having the game crash on me.

What I can tell you based on what many players have reported here:

- Delete everything inside Documents/My Games/Oblivion Remastered/Saved except the SaveGames folder (to avoid lose your saves if you don't have steam cloud)
Why? This will force the game to recompile the shader cache. If you recently updated your GPU drivers, the old shader cache may mismatch and cause frequent crashes.

- Start the game once with the -clearPSODriverCache command line argument.
Why? Because the step above doesn't always fully clear all cache files. This argument ensures a clean rebuild.
Important: Remove the argument after the first launch; you only need it once.

It is very important to delete and recompile shader cache every time you update (or downgrade) your GPU drivers, as well if you change your GPU hardware.
Not doing so can lead to stutter, to extreme stutter to freeze and ultimately to crashes, depending on your hardware.

Systems behave differently. For example, I’ve played over 70 hours on a 4090 without a single crash but crashes are very real and well reported on this forum. In most cases, corrupted or mismatched shader cache is the cause.

Other known crash triggers:

Crafting potions too fast -> just slow down a bit.

Using stolen ingredients -> avoid them.

Marksman 75+ can cause crashes on specific hardware when trying to apply a paralyze effect to an NPC already affected by it (you can avoid this by add specific lines to your game settings, i can provide if you think this is the reason of your crashes)

Hopefully this helps you stabilize your game.

[richard.1666666]

Game ran Great until this NVIDIA update yesterday. I guess the update came 2 weeks ago but i downloaded last night. I cant even get the game out of start screen. 3080 ti

[★REM★]

Originally posted by richard.1666666:

Game ran Great until this NVIDIA update yesterday. I guess the update came 2 weeks ago but i downloaded last night. I cant even get the game out of start screen. 3080 ti

What i wrote above your post is valid for you too ^^

[Lucille]

Damn, I had a freeze with hard reset to unlock my PC after I won the arena, then I couldn't launch the game for several tries, then I could procede just to ran into a CTD...

[drakeloreroar]

Originally posted by ★REM★:

Marksman 75+ can cause crashes on specific hardware when trying to apply a paralyze effect to an NPC already affected by it (you can avoid this by add specific lines to your game settings, i can provide if you think this is the reason of your crashes)

Worth noting that this isn't exclusively caused by Marksman 75, any paralysis effect when effecting a paralyzed target (regardless of if you were the one who applied it, how the effect was applied, or what was effected by it) may cause this issue. Ran into this very issue with the Shivering isles quests, specifically in battles where the Saints and Seducers aid/fight you. But have had this occur when an imperial forester double-paralyzed a bear and suspect other seemingly random crashes may have been this happening in the background.

In cases where it's unavoidable the best solution is to run ahead of the party and clear things out first (and/or turn the difficulty down just to get through those fights). Other then that just quicksave frequently.

[Honig Dachs]

My Game also every like 10 Minutes can´t even get out of the first/kwatch gate

[Lucille]

I even DDU'ed and reinstalled Nvidia driver, but my 4090 keeps crashing, it'a so annyoing, unplayble...

[DebateMe]

I get an out of nowhere crash about one time every 2 hours. I hope they can fix that.

[AmaiAmai]

2006 version is superior anyway.

[drakehoffmeister]

DEFINITELY need to try this mod right here I can't believe people still haven't heard of this one. I instantly got rock solid 60fps and zero crashes after using this: https://www.nexusmods.com/oblivionremastered/mods/2637?tab=posts&BH=0

[Dyspeptic Icarus]

Originally posted by jimtaggerty:

It's starting to get ridiculous that the game seems to crash with monotonous regularity, it's getting to the stage where I'm considering reinstalling the 2006 version of the game just so I can play without having the game crash on me.

I think it's in part to windows security features, I disabled it from preventing oblivion from having right access, and it seemed to stop all the crashes.