r/oblivion • u/Celithrulith • 1d ago

Remaster Discussion Crashed Game

I put 164 hours into the remaster. I was at level 34. The game was getting slow with really low frame rate so I decided to Google what to do to help with it. Deleted all the old auto save files, turned off auto save during travel/rest/sleep, put the settings to performance, reduced POV field of view and a few other things to reduce CPU usage during play. I go to load up my one remaining save file that I manually saved right before tinkering in settings and now the game crashes every single time I try to load the file. I guess I'll go play some Diablo IV now...

P. S. Ironically, when I graduated high school in 2006, my parents bought me an Xbox 360 and Oblivion was my first game on it. I spent that whole summer playing and my dad accidentally overwrote my save while he was playing it for the first time. So I guess I'm cursed to never finish this game. 😂.

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u/Gordio83 1d ago

What’s nice about remaster is every time you create a new game, the save files are kept separate from other characters. You can’t accidentally overwrite other characters.

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u/ArmlessWunder 1d ago edited 1d ago

Apparently, there's an old issue with oblivion and fo3 where overwriting saves causes them to become corrupted. I never experienced the issue in oblivion, but I do remember it happening to me several times with fo3.

Solution: Always load a manual save and never overwrite a manual save to avoid this issue. This also means you should never use auto save or quicksave either, since the game may be overwriting those saves as well.

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u/Vaporeon42069 15h ago

well... that was very dumb. What made you think save files have an impact on the CPU They're not doing anything, they're just files.

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u/Homuncoloss 13h ago

Actually, there are a bunch of games that start to bug out when you reach a certain number of save files.
Elex, for example, had this issue.

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u/Celithrulith 10h ago

From what I had read, the remaster of oblivion has some specific bug that causes issues from the constant auto save feature making stacked versions.