game crashes when I save

[briancs159]

Ok I'm going to start at the beginning. I installed the newest Lovers from this site along with joburg, creatures, Rapersgalgat, tomago club, and various small add-ons. I got those all working with no noticeable problems. I then installed lovers bitch and got that working. I also installed Lovers Crowning Isle but left that for later. I completed the Lovers Bitch quests. By then I had my first kid but I left her at my house in bravil so I could do the Crowning Isle quests. I lowered my joburg settings to 0 for Crowning Isle. After playing Crowning Isle for a while, my lovers bitch mod started acting up. I would continously be shoved onto all fours. Since my dog companion was only a stray, I killed it but it had no effect. I ended up just disabling the Lovers bitch mod completely. I then continued with the Crowning Isle quests. I installed the chocolate elves patch for MPB after i realized i didn't have it. When I was finished with the Crowning Isle quests I installed some additional animations from a forum post here, some of which had BBB. I then raised my joburg settings back to normal levels. After I got back to my house in bravil I realized my kid had no head and was of a default race instead of the x117 race she was. I then found out that all the kids were like this. I loaded an earlier save from just before I left for the CI, without disabling anything, and she looked normal with no problems. I then disabled a few lovers mods and re-installed the chocolate elves patch while i tried to fix this issue. Nothing I did could fix it. I re-enabled the mods I disabled and then I used the child settings spell to clear the world of children so I could start over. It was here that I realized I could no longer save. When I tried to save whether it was through the menu or through the console it would crash to the desktop. I tried resetting my settings with tomago, disabling the MBP mods, and disabling some and then all Lovers mods. None of that had any effect. I started going back through my saves to see if I could save my game at all. I realized the only time the game would allow me to save is before I installed lovers bitch and crowning isle and when I was experimenting with tomago.

Does anyone have any idea what I could have done or what I can do? I would hate to have to play from that last working save since it was near when I first started playing oblivion this time around.

[Guest Donkey]

From what i could read from that giant sentence of yours is seem you have a corrupt save game.

What you could try. at least from what i could do under fallout 3 and new vegas engine. is first load your save then initiate kill on your self. then load that that save game again. and see if you can save your game. since both game are built in the same engine, this fixed it for me for fallout 3

[s60yucca]

normally for a corrupted save game is load a previous save or start a new. i got this problem some times, tried many way but never lucky cure that save. then i loaded a previous save. too bad i normal overwrite a save multi time, so, previous save is pretty far.

but, anyway, if problem simple due to animation you can just deactive HGEC and activate it again and check if it work, i current got some crash due to animation - i always install many animation replacer to get some cool act, but some time it go to crash, then i deactivate HGEC-omod and activate it again. dont know how many animation it overwrite but i got game work again

[The Mad God]

tl;dr

Are you saving in the main crowning isle after you have sex? I have the problem where the crashes there, but only there. If this is happening to you then just go back to Cyrodiil and do the sex tasks there, you'll crash much less.

[abinas]

I used to get corrupted saves in both oblivion and fallout 3 to the point I was about to can both games. But found that making a new save every time cured it for me. overwriting seems to be a guaranteed corruption over time (at least in my case)  the saves will pile up but periodically you can just delete some of them.

I also use the console to save my games so I can name them, that helps keep them straight.

[briancs159]

I try to have a lot of saves. I use the console to save a lot so I can name the save. For example: I'll name the save after my character let's just say "Zelda". So my saves look like zelda-1, zelda-2, zelda-3, and so on. When I start a fairly big mod I save to different slots till I know everything works. Like for Lovers Bitch I saved my games as Zelda-Bitch-1, Zelda-Bitch-2, Zelda-Bitch-3, and so on.

I've been playing Lovers Bitch and Crowning Isle for about a week now. So I used to be able to save in my old files but now I can't. I'd save lets say Zelda-CI-5 and quit for the day. The next day I would load up my save and continue playing like normal. I would have no problems. But now if I load up that same save game I can't save anymore.

I don't save right after sex unless I have to. I'd like to be done with what I was doing or about to start something when I save.

I went back through maybe 20 saves or so and I can't save in any of them until I get to the saves from before Lovers Bitch and Crowning Isle were installed.  How could I have corrupted all of them?  I made Crowning Isle and Lovers Bitch into their own omod's so I could easily remove them but if I remove them both the problem still persists. I have tried console killing myself and reloading that same save file at the game over load screen with no success.

[abinas]

hmm, is it possible the ini is corrupted? try renaming the current one and see if the new one the game generates works. I've even heard of the exe getting corrupted though I don't understand how it's even possible for that to happen.

[briancs159]

Which ini? Oblivion_default.ini?

Like I said not all of my saves are corrupted, only up to a certain point. If the ini or exe were corrupted would it show problems only in certain saves? I'm willing to try anything.

[Guest Donkey]

You may have caught a weird bug i only encountered in fallout 3 not oblivion.

Also this seem to be the case with BUDungeon whenever you have it fully installed, then add new mod to the mix, bu-dungeon won't work no more until you start a fresh new game. Or play with a save from before bu was first installed.

But this only applied to the mod and not saving a game. And it is part of oblivion itself not the mods you play with.

[beck11]

Gamebryo basically means: never overwrite saves and never quicksave : But tbf it probably has to do with the adding and removing mods more probably than anything that can be blamed at the engine. Saving through console is the preferred method but you can get away with just making a new save every time instead. The suicide method Donkey posted might be worth a try, it worked in F3 for me a few times too.

[Renax]

I ha this problem too, my problem was the Heel system. I unchecked it and it got fixed

[beck11]

OMG why :'( Heel system is so smexy. But case in point about mods causing save game issues: been using heel system, never had any problems; Someone else using same mod, nothing but problems.....lol

[briancs159]

Yeah I don't know what I did. The only things I remember doing was install some additional animations from a board posting here. When I finished crowning Isle and found that all the kids had no heads I tried a few things but I don't remember installing anything new. I may have removed a mod or 2 only to re-install them like chocolate elves for MBP. I even tried disabling everything related to the Lovers system but that wouldn't do anything either. I believe the kids stayed around even without the lovers stuff active which surprised me though. Is that normal?

Either way there seems to be no hope for the game-saves in question unless I want to disable my other mods to see if anything else was corrupting it. That would take a while though since I have 100+ mods active.

Thanks for all the help everyone anyway but it seems that I'll just have to restart my game afterall.

[Guest Donkey]

if you have wreybash installed you can have a look at how the save game structure was and compare it to your current one and adjust that accordingly to get them both up to the same types of mods and load order. At least that way you can still play it normally.