Hello,

I am only getting lock-ups upon loading a new area. When the message (or right before the message) shows up to say loading new area my game will just lock up. I can ctrl-alt-delete it fine doesn't hard lock the computer.

It is very odd though why this is happening! It is not a memory problem, I have run memtest with no issues. This is getting very frustrating, please help me out. :banghead:

Here's my load order:

Oblivion.esm
All Natural Base.esm
Francesco's Leveled Creatures-Items Mod.esm
Francesco's Optional New Items Add-On.esm
Cobl Main.esm
Oscuro's_Oblivion_Overhaul.esm
Mart's Monster Mod.esm
Enhanced Daedric Invasion.esm
TamrielTravellers.esm
FCOM_Convergence.esm
Armamentarium.esm
Artifacts.esm
Better Cities Resources.esm
bookplacing.esm
CM Partners.esm
HorseCombatMaster.esm
HrmnsOblivionScriptOptimizationv1.0.esp
Younger Hotter NPC's v1.0.esp
Unofficial Oblivion Patch.esp
UOP Vampire Aging & Face Fix.esp
DLCShiveringIsles.esp
Unofficial Shivering Isles Patch.esp
Better Cities .esp
Francesco's Optional Chance of Stronger Bosses.esp
Francesco's Optional Chance of Stronger Enemies.esp
Francesco's Optional Chance of More Enemies.esp
Francesco's Optional Leveled Quests-SI only.esp
Francesco's Optional Leveled Guards.esp
FCOM_FrancescosNamedBosses.esp
Fran Armor Add-on.esp
Fran_Lv30Item_Maltz.esp
Natural_Habitat_by_Max_Tael.esp
All Natural - Real Lights.esp
All Natural.esp
All Natural - SI.esp
All Natural - EW + NW.esp
Enhanced Water v2.0 HDMI.esp
ln.esp
Symphony of Violence.esp
AmbientTownSounds.esp
MIS Low Wind.esp
MIS New Sounds Optional Part.esp
Atmospheric Oblivion.esp
PCSoundCalisto.esp
Storms & Sound.esp
Rainbows.esp
WindowLightingSystem.esp
bDLTIC-1-6.esp
ClocksOfCyrodiil.esp
ClocksOfCyrodiil_BC_OBC_OC_OCLR_Vanilla.esp
ImprovedSigns.esp
Luchaire's Neck Seam Concealer.esp
Musical Immersion 1.0.esp
Oblivion Cats v0.22b.esp
personality_idles4.esp
P1DanywhereSittable.esp
P1DseeYouSleep.esp
SummonChest_v2.1.esp
Living Economy.esp
Living Economy - Items.esp
Cutthroat Merchants.esp
moDem's City Life.esp
DLCHorseArmor.esp
DLCHorseArmor - Unofficial Patch.esp
DLCOrrery.esp
DLCOrrery - Unofficial Patch.esp
DLCVileLair.esp
DLCVileLair - Unofficial Patch.esp
P1DseeYouSleep - DLCVileLair.esp
DLCMehrunesRazor.esp
DLCMehrunesRazor - Unofficial Patch.esp
DLCSpellTomes.esp
Dancers clothes.esp
R18PN - Lingeries.esp
DLCThievesDen.esp
DLCThievesDen - Unofficial Patch.esp
DLCThievesDen - Unofficial Patch - SSSB.esp
ExnemRuneskulls.esp
Cobl Glue.esp
Cobl Si.esp
OOO 1.32-Cobl.esp
FCOM_Cobl.esp
Bob's Armory Oblivion.esp
FCOM_BobsArmory.esp
Loth's Blunt Weapons for Npcs.esp
Oblivion WarCry EV.esp
FCOM_WarCry.esp
Oscuro's_Oblivion_Overhaul.esp
ArmamentariumArtifacts.esp
Mart's Monster Mod - Additional Enemy NPC Vars.esp
FCOM_Convergence.esp
FCOM_RealSwords.esp
FCOM_DurabilityAndDamage.esp
Mart's Monster Mod - More Wilderness Life.esp
Mart's Monster Mod - Safer Quest Locations.esp
Mart's Monster Mod - Dungeons of MMM.esp
Mart's Monster Mod - Gems & Gem Dust.esp
Mart's Monster Mod - Hunting & Crafting.esp
Mart's Monster Mod - Farm Animals.esp
Mart's Monster Mod - Diverse WaterLife.esp
TamrielTravellers4OOO.esp
TamrielTravellersItemsCobl.esp
ShiveringIsleTravellers.esp
OOO-WaterFish.esp
cyrodiil transportation network 1.3 wz.esp
Artifacts.esp
Sno_DB 1.0_Full Version.esp
Solace.esp
VaultsofCyrodiil.esp
VaultsofCyrodiilBC.esp
Apachii_Goddess_Store.esp
Villages1.1.esp
za_bankmod.esp
DLCBattlehornCastle.esp
DLCBattlehornCastle - Unofficial Patch.esp
DLCFrostcrag.esp
DLCFrostcrag - Unofficial Patch.esp
Knights.esp
Knights - Unofficial Patch.esp
AFK_Weye.esp
Enhanced Daedric Invasion.esp
xuldarkforest.esp
xulStendarrValley.esp
xulTheHeath.esp
MMMMWL-TheHeath patch.esp
XulEntiusGorge.esp
xulFallenleafEverglade.esp
xulColovianHighlands_EV.esp
xulChorrolHinterland.esp
xulBeachesOfCyrodiilLostCoast.esp
xulBravilBarrowfields.esp
xulLushWoodlands.esp
xulAncientYews.esp
xulAncientRedwoods.esp
xulCloudtopMountains.esp
xulArriusCreek.esp
xulPatch_AY_AC.esp
xulRollingHills_EV.esp
MMMMWL-RollingHills patch.esp
xulPantherRiver.esp
xulRiverEthe.esp
xulBrenaRiverRavine.esp
xulImperialIsle.esp
xulBlackwoodForest.esp
xulCheydinhalFalls.esp
Villages-CheydinhalFalls patch.esp
Harvest [Flora].esp
Harvest [Flora] - DLCVileLair.esp
Harvest [Flora] - DLCFrostcrag.esp
Cliff_BetterLetters.esp
Dungeon Actors Have Torches 1.6 CT.esp
ImprovedSoulgems.esp
P1DkeyChain.esp
Salmo the Baker, Cobl.esp
Enhanced Vegetation [125%].esp
Storms & Sound - AFK_Weye.esp
Storms & Sound - Better Cities.esp
talkwithyourhands PI4.esp
More Capacity Encumbrance.esp
RealisticForceMedium.esp
RealisticMagicForceLow.esp
lumi_enchantments.esp
Deadlier Traps.esp
Deadly Reflex 5 - Timed block and 150% damage.esp
DeadlyReflex 5 - Combat Moves.esp
RealisticLeveling.esp
Let There Be Darkness - Cyrodiil + SI.esp
Let There Be Darkness - Knights.esp
Let There Be Darkness - Mehrunes Razor.esp
babehair_EV.esp
CuteElf11.esp
CM Partners.esp
CM Partners Special NPCs.esp
CM Partners NPC.esp
CM Partners More NPCs.esp
CM Partners Marker NPCs.esp
CM Partners Extra NPCs.esp
Better Cities - Full City Defences.esp
Better Cities Full.esp
BCBravilFULL-Barrowfields patch.esp
Better Cities - Unique Landscape Barrowfields.esp
BCChorrol-ChorrolHinterland fix.esp
Better Cities - Unique Landscape Chorrol Hinterland.esp
BCCheydinhalFULL-CheydinhalFalls patch.esp
Better Cities - Unique Landscape Cheydinhal Falls.esp
Better Cities - No LEYAWIIN Flooding.esp
Better Imperial City.esp
Better Cities - COBL.esp
MM_NoMoreAnnoyingMessages.esp
Francesco's 10 days respawn time - 1-20 day lenght rescale.esp
Get Wet.esp
LetThePeopleDrink.esp
SnArrowEffects.esp
Cobl Silent Equip Misc.esp
ChaseCameraMod.esp
Bashed Patch, 0.esp
SWalk.esp
Streamline 3.1.esp

Just read the above on another topic. Not sure if it is the cause of said freezing issue, but it's one to check off your list if you haven't updated it already...
The link for the hotfix is at the bottom of the description btw.

I have that installed already. I hear about CTD all the time, but I don't even have that problem. My game just freezes. And it is always when the fps gets low and I am entering a new area. It's almost as if I went slower (say, walked on my horse instead of run) I wouldn't get a crash. Very strange.

Could it be the CPU overclock?

What could be causing FREEZES?! This is very frustrating, any help would be appreciated.

Anyone dealt with this before?

It is worth bringing your clock speed back to default to test. Overclocking can have strange effects on this game. Once you rule that out, you can test other things. But, your tests will be more reliable without the overclocking.

gothemasticator

If possible, could you post the full specs of your system?

Sure.

i7-920 @ 4ghz
HD5970 2GB
6GB OCZ RAM
Asus P6T Deluxe V2
Windows 7 x64

Is it possible to have a crash-free, lock-up free, CTD free Oblivion with mods?

I tried to do this as clean as possible and I am still getting crashes and such every so often.

Has anyone managed to get a completely stable or relatively stable Oblivion with 175+ mods or so. Including UL, BC, FCOM, QTP3, and the other big ones?

I find being near Better Cities very buggy for me, it may be that moDem's City Life is conflicting, but I downloaded the 2.1 version of City Life b/c Better Cities comes with a compatibility patch for that specific version.

I worry that it may be that one little mod that I added, such as Cliffs Better Letters or something little like that which is causing crashes.

So has anyone been successful in getting a very stable game with such a large amount of mods?

I would like just to be able to play Oblivion without there always being a probable chance that the game will crash. I never, ever crash when in caves or dungeons. It's when I get outside that I will get crashes, especially near cities.

http://www.gamesas.com/bgsforums/index.php?showtopic=1004123&hl=crash+free

I followed pretty much every step including Pyffing meshes.
I'm nearly crash free minus my Overclock that sometimes BSOD's on me. (just started doing it yesterday)
But my OC is @ 4.44ghz, so I kinda of expected to run into issues once I had my game heavily modded.

Best of luck, oh and I envy your CPU power!

EDIT: If you are OCing your GPU by chance, I would pull it back to stock speeds if you are, at least to test.
I can run stable with a CPU OC 90% of the time, but with GPU OC I always experience instablity.

As for mods, I don't use Modems City Life, but when I did, it crashed all the time for me. That was before the patch you are talking about though.
The best I can say is to uninstall mods and start new games to test for CTDs. Or, rebuild your mods from the ground up and re-test for CTDs on the
mods you consider suspicous. When I say test, try to shoot for 2 hours of stable gaming at a time. Sometimes build a load order is a slow task, but
if you add mods slowly, you won't have the headache of not knowing which mod out of the last 20 you installed is crashing your gem of a computer.

I'm personally attempting it(I have been at it for 2 days now).
First BAINing everything, cleaning every single mod(except some for being on the "do not clean" list and some where I clearly understand the intention behind the duplicate).

So far I've done FCOM and I've just realized that the official DLCs weren't clean either, cleaning those too and BAINed the clean mods(just finished). I've also done the unofficial patches.

I'm wondering about the PyFFIng steps in the "50 steps" tutorial. The original game didn't crash so does it really help to PyFFI those? Maybe it helps with memory problems?

Wow thank you for that link. I did the 300_test.esp for FCOM shown here - http://devnull.sweetdanger.net/convergence.html under the Testing section.

I had the vampire initiates attacking the vampires and in the goblin/fallen one cell they just stood there. In none of the cells were the factions fighting eachother except for the imp/rat/wolf ones. Is my FCOM setup F***ed?

Gahhhhh, this is all so frustrating. Its looking like I might have to re-install for the THIRD time. Takes the whole damn day to re-install.

And is that part about loading your game, then saving, and repeating activating each mod ONE by ONE really necessary?

So the way they are describing it is to load ONE mod, load your game, save your game, exit. Load ONE more mod, load your game, save your game, exit.

That would take years... :banghead: