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[TheCheshireKhajiit]

No doubt y’all have discussed this to death elsewhere, but I was just curious what are some of y’all’s favorite mods for Oblivion? Feel free to leave out things like the Unofficial Patch, and OBSE since those things are pretty much crucial to modding this game.

[TheCheshireKhajiit]

I absolutely bow down to all of you who can manage to playtest rather than actually start off playing. I have heard of gamers setting up their games for months before they start playing.

Is the character you're testing with going to be the same who you'll game with?

Maybe you already know this Khajiit, but what I would do is make a save somewhere around the area where the wolf got killed. Then disable those mods. Go toward Anvil. If the game doesn't CTD now you at least know it's a mod which is causing CTDs-near-Anvil.

I did this just yesterday in Fallout 3. Once again, my game was crashing every time my character went from an inside cell to an outside one. I was able to narrow this down to Mart's Mutant Mod. Which sort of made me upset because I really want MMM in FO3, but it's just not worth trying to figure out why it's crashing my game. Good bye MMM.

Yeah, just clean reinstalled Oblivion and I’m slowly adding back mods. I’m thinking the issue was either with Natural Environments or the Weather All Natural mod.

I had Skyrim crashing every time I entered an outside cell - first from the north, then again from the east. Fortunately, I had MO with NetFramework as part of my load out, and it generates a crash report every time. So I looked at it and saw that it had errors reading LOD's. So I regenerated my LOD's and since then no problem! I find that having that installed for Skyrim really helps in troubleshooting crashes. I'm not sure if there is a similar mod/tool for Oblivion though.

Ooo that does sound like a very handy tool! I’ll have to remember that one if I pick up Skyrim again. I’ll have to look and see if there’s something like that for Oblivion.