(Important things highlighted in green. You don't really have to read anything other than that, although there might be some clue to fixing the problem elsewhere in the post).

Hey guys,

Having a bit of trouble with my game lately. I recently started up a new character after downloading several mods with the intention of playing a stealthy character. Here's a list of them all;

Oscuro's Oblivion Overhaul (And several of the mods that come with it, including the Magic_Effects+_Spells and Magic_Effects+_Enchantments)
Deadly Reflex 5
Thievery in the Imperial City
Thieves Highway
Thieves Arsenal
Key-chain
Enhanced Grabbing
Reneer's Guard Overhaul
Jog's Stealth Overhaul

As you can see, nothing too major, aside from OOO. I was planning on adding in a bunch of quest mods after my char. had leveled up a bit and finished the main quest, but the only ones added in at the moment are thief-related (as you can see). So, I dropped Martin and Jauffree off at Cloud Ruler Temple while doing the MQ. Got the mission from the Jauffree involving Baurus, in the tavern. Anyways, none of that is really relevant.

I fast travelled to the market-district to sell off some of my loot before beginning the job properly. I'd just walked out of The Copious Coinpurse and was walking towards the Elven Gardens District, when I noticed that my health had been lowered slightly. Of course, my immediate response was to cast a healing spell. However, at the end of the animation, just before my char's hand went out of view, my game froze.

I've reloaded the save up several times since, and the same thing keeps happening. It's obviously not just restricted to that particular spell; the same thing happened when I attempted to use the ''flare'' spell. I wouldn't mind at all, but my game has run flawlessly up until this point. No other apparent conflicts, no other crashes. I recently changed my gear after an encounter with a Skyrim Bandit (OOO), but I'm almost positive that I've cast several spells since equipping his armor. I've used the spells without any trouble before; I had plenty of practice with the two of them due to an encounter with a Frost Titan next to Cloud Ruler (which involved me jumping in and out away from its attacks, firing fire balls at it and healing myself, letting Martin and J-man do the majority of the work. Even at that I ended up perched on an inaccessible ledge, firing arrows into its face along with a bandit hunter, the bandit mentioned above, an Imperial Legion forester and my two companions).

Any help that you modding pros can offer will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance!

Have you tried it with other save games?

Have you tried changing cell and casting the spell again?

Just sounds like one of those bugs that appear and disappear for no reason.

I′m almost absolutely sure you are missing Deadly Reflex 5 hotfix. The 5.0 esp had a freezing bug, exactly like that.


There′s many files on the Tesnexus page, but look closely it′s there.

Well, it's clear now that the problem was being caused by DR. I downloaded the hotfix, saved it over my current .esp of DR combat (using OMM). However, when I loaded the save, a message came up saying something along the lines of ''A problem has occurred with Deadly Reflex. Please report this to Sky Captain as soon as possible. As a temporary solution, type into the console: Set skycaptainsSB 0''. The message only went away after I did what it asked me to. Everything seems to be working fine, now. I can cast spells fine, and I can still shield-bash etc.

Thanks for the help, guys. I really appreciate it. I'm not 100% sure that the above solution hasn't caused more problems, but only time will tell if it's a perfect solution.