OBSE fail?

Post » Sun Jun 19, 2011 4:47 am

Hello everyone... I bet this part of the forum is bursting with "Oblivion won't start issues" but I really hope someone could assist me.

A while ago I reinstalled Oblivion with a considerable amount of mods (+patches and updates too ofc). I've never had so many complicated mods so I settled for not being able to play my old saves, because I wasn't even sure if the game itself would start! I installed OBSE, for example.
Now after another while I thought of playing Oblivion again, I didn't remember to launch Oblivion with obse_loader.exe and used the regular Oblivion launch menu instead, and now it won't work! It crashes immediately. I tried overriding the obse_loader.exe and I tried launching Oblivion via OBMM but neither option worked. Is there anything to be done? I seriously wouldn't want to go through the process of installing all the extra stuff again (it took me hours)! I am no genius with mods : (

Thanks in advance.
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Bethany Short
 
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Post » Sun Jun 19, 2011 4:35 am

Hello everyone... I bet this part of the forum is bursting with "Oblivion won't start issues" but I really hope someone could assist me.

A while ago I reinstalled Oblivion with a considerable amount of mods (+patches and updates too ofc). I've never had so many complicated mods so I settled for not being able to play my old saves, because I wasn't even sure if the game itself would start! I installed OBSE, for example.
Now after another while I thought of playing Oblivion again, I didn't remember to launch Oblivion with obse_loader.exe and used the regular Oblivion launch menu instead, and now it won't work! It crashes immediately. I tried overriding the obse_loader.exe and I tried launching Oblivion via OBMM but neither option worked. Is there anything to be done? I seriously wouldn't want to go through the process of installing all the extra stuff again (it took me hours)! I am no genius with mods : (

Thanks in advance.

I've had a history of epic failing with OBSE but i'm fairly sure you have to start Oblivion with the OBSE launcher.
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Post » Sat Jun 18, 2011 7:49 pm

Disable all your mods and try to load with only the Oblivion master file.
From what your discribing I feel the issue isn't OBSE related.
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Post » Sun Jun 19, 2011 3:07 am

Disable all your mods and try to load with only the Oblivion master file.
From what your discribing I feel the issue isn't OBSE related.

No, it will not start :/ Only the Oblivion.esm was abled and it still insta-crashed via launcher, OBMM and obse_loader.exe. Like I said, it previously worked with all the mods but when I accidently tried starting it from the game launcher (when I should have used obse_loader.exe) it started crashing.
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Post » Sat Jun 18, 2011 11:03 pm

Try the simple fix first.
Find the game ini in My Documents\My Games\Oblivion and rename it (anything will do). Restart your game with only the Oblivion esm and a new file will be generated.
If this works it's then safe to delete the original. Be aware any custom alterations will have to be done again.
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