First crash : IV

» Sat Apr 30, 2011 3:20 am

Just had my first crash after eight hours of playing.
And it was of course when going to the place I dread the most in Tamriel...

» Fri Apr 29, 2011 9:50 pm

Was it the Kvatch Oblivion gate?

» Sat Apr 30, 2011 12:32 am

Was it the Waterfront?

» Fri Apr 29, 2011 7:49 pm

Was it between that one tree and the small rock?

» Sat Apr 30, 2011 10:27 am

Was it the DB sanctuary?

» Fri Apr 29, 2011 7:57 pm

Was it the DB sanctuary?

Would I be in the DB sanctuary after 8 hours of play?

No, Ismelda was right; I think she has heard me moaning and groaning about the Waterfront before.

» Sat Apr 30, 2011 12:19 pm

Would I be in the DB sanctuary after 8 hours of play?

Why not? I would be

» Sat Apr 30, 2011 11:04 am

Why not? I would be

Yeah, but Your Shadowscale, you were Born into it.... :whistling:

» Sat Apr 30, 2011 2:05 am

Nornalhorst! :hubbahubba:

» Sat Apr 30, 2011 3:37 am

i LOVE the waterfront!

» Sat Apr 30, 2011 8:54 am

Eight hours?!? I guess your game was trying to tell you to stop playing lest you get carpal tunnel syndrome!

» Sat Apr 30, 2011 2:49 am

I want to see your load order... I've never gone more than 4 hrs without a crash. And that's rare!

» Sat Apr 30, 2011 12:00 pm

Eight hours?!? I guess your game was trying to tell you to stop playing lest you get carpal tunnel syndrome!

Not eight hours straight - eight hours total without a crash. I'm not 17 anymore...
But crashes due to system overload is just something I will have to accept will happen sometimes, and corrupted spawns are inevitable.

I want to see your load order... I've never gone more than 4 hrs without a crash. And that's rare!

Here, but note that I spent several weeks preparing the game - cleaning ESPs, pyffying meshes, checking and fixing mod conflicts with TES4EDIT and lots of testing, and several false starts.

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» Sat Apr 30, 2011 4:33 am

The waterfront does seem to be fussy sometimes. :brokencomputer:

» Sat Apr 30, 2011 7:08 am

The waterfront does seem to be fussy sometimes. :brokencomputer:

The worst part is when exiting from the tunnel, since the game already has more than 500 MB of VRAM loaded, so when you exit the VRAM usage is around 1 GB, but drops to around 800 MB when doing PCB. Getting past the Lighthouse it's not so bad now as it was in my previous game, probably due to not running full RAEVWD. In this game I have 13 666 (ominous number) files in my DISTANT LOD folder, while in my previous game I had more than the double.

» Sat Apr 30, 2011 4:34 am

I have 13 666 (ominous number) files in my DISTANT LOD folder

This made me curious so I checked to see what's in my DistantLOD folder too. I have 847. It's possible the difference may be because I'm not running as many mods as you are - at the moment I'm only running 141.

» Sat Apr 30, 2011 6:48 am

This made me curious so I checked to see what's in my DistantLOD folder too. I have 847. It's possible the difference may be because I'm not running as many mods as you are - at the moment I'm only running 141.

I think the main difference is that you don't use RAEVWD or TES4LodGen

» Fri Apr 29, 2011 10:42 pm

No, Ismelda was right; I think she has heard me moaning and groaning about the Waterfront before.

I know what you mean. I remember in one over modded game of mine I visited the waterfront to see all NPCs queing up to walk down the stairs to the bloated float, into that water, across it and out the other side by the lighthouse.

» Sat Apr 30, 2011 6:51 am

The worst part is when exiting from the tunnel, since the game already has more than 500 MB of VRAM loaded, so when you exit the VRAM usage is around 1 GB, but drops to around 800 MB when doing PCB. Getting past the Lighthouse it's not so bad now as it was in my previous game, probably due to not running full RAEVWD. In this game I have 13 666 (ominous number) files in my DISTANT LOD folder, while in my previous game I had more than the double.

I've got 12,433 in mine, which includes a not-total RAEWVD v1.8 install, RAEWVD Elsweyr-Anequina minus trees, and distant LOD files for a few individual mods like Fort Akatosh Redux.

Yeah, the waterfront area tends to be crash-prone. I avoided it when possible during my first play-through. This time around I've got a better graphics card with more memory (nVidia GTX470 1.2gb) and haven't crashed there once. Another crash-prone area for me is .... Border Watch. But I think that's at least partly due to all those NPCs being in a very confined outdoor area. I also tend to get crashes after visiting Elsweyr-Anequina, though the crashes usual aren't in Elsweyr itself but rather occur a bit after re-entering Cyrodiil. I too expect mine are due to system overload rather than mod conflicts, since there's no definite trigger for 'em other than a lot of land travel. (I don't fast-travel.)

As to frequency, I can crash several times a real-life day, or not crash at all for a solid week or more of often heavy play. This might be utter coincidence, but I've noticed that my game is most crash prone after having watched videos on the computer. I speak of online videos here, since I've not yet attempted to play DVDs through the computer since my system upgrade.

-Decrepit-

» Fri Apr 29, 2011 11:31 pm

I think the main difference is that you don't use RAEVWD or TES4LodGen

Thanks for posting your LO.
You are running a lot of mods, including one's that are merged. Even if you merge ESPs, don't you have to consider that the number of scripts is not reduced in the process? I'm not sure exactly how it works in OB, but in Real-Time programming the scheduler can only slice time into so many pieces (ESPs). Then if you add the dynamic of an ESP with a bunch of scripts, it get even worse. I could be misunderstanding how scripts/quests work though. But I like your approach to streamlining OB. [2 cents]

» Sat Apr 30, 2011 3:09 am

Just had my first crash after eight hours of playing.
And it was of course when going to the place I dread the most in Tamriel...

Congratulation on your very first CTD, Petrus. http://www.uesp.net/w/images/images.new/c/c4/Fishystick.jpg