I really should stop declaring victory. Began the arena, and I had got to Myrmidon level, and when i hit the killing blow on the bloke with Shimmerstrike, as soon as my sword connected with him the game froze. Note that everytime this happens I dont see the enemy killed, it freezes just before he dies.....
Seems that the only persisting crash (albeit becoming rarer) is the *killing blow* crash. Anyone ever had anything similar?
Yes, it could be the problem "Arthmoor" has been plagued with. It's some sort of collission thing. I'm not sure if I can re-find the thread. I'll be editing this post.
http://www.gamesas.com/bgsforums/index.php?showtopic=1073368
Maybe copy-paste your problem over there. However it sounded as if Arthmoor was essentially clueless, which means a lot. Because he is one of the modding gods here. Or write him a friendly PM. Sorry, not much help I can provide. :shrug:
EDIT: Well maybe a little bit of help. You can find out if it is a sound problem by disabling sound and music alltogether in the Oblivion.ini file:
[Audio]...stuff...bMusicEnabled=1bSoundEnabled=1....more stuff...
Setting those two values to zero will disable all sound in the game. Try it. I kinda doubt though that this will stop these crashes, provided you have up-to-date drivers for the card installed.