Oblivion Remastered completely freezes computer--worked before updating Bazzite?
I have been playing Oblivion Remastered the past two days and loving it. Today I tried to start it up, and the game completely locks up my computer to the point I need a cold reset. Aside from updating Bazzite (and Oblivion's recent updates), I have not changed or altered anything. Able to access the main menu, go to load up my file, but on the loading screen it very quickly freezes up (audio crackling too).
I rebased Bazzite to a prior version and then a subsequent prior version but the freeze happens exactly the same way. I also tried to run Expedition 33 and it also causes the same freezing, but don't know if that game ran before now anyways. Overwatch runs fine. Haven't tried a lot of other games but will keep experimenting.
This might not even be a Bazzite issue but can provide specs/data logs if any would exist for something like this to diagnose the problem or if this might be some sort of known issue I could not locate. Run a Radeon 7900 XTX.
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Notably both games have Unreal Engine 5 and DirectX 12, so could be something caused by either one of those?
i had this issue at some point, but it turned out i had a bad save that caused the game to crash not only the game itself, but gamescope. If you get a black screen, just give it like 10 minutes to see if gamescope restarts.
It's an old bethesda game under the hood, has all the bugs OG oblivion had, including this crash. My word of advice is avoid using quick save, use the full save often. If you end up running into this, you will have to go back to an older save and redo everything leading up to your most recent.
be on the look out for the unofficial oblivion patch mod, that mod, along with a few others, were known to correct some of these gamebryo engine bugs
the old version will not work, we have to wait for modders to port over to the remastered version. But yea, overall i don't think this is bazzite specific
Thanks! I booted up Windows and was able to play my save, so I'm doubting it's an issue with the save, but you're probably right in it being an Oblivion issue rather than Bazzite. Though why Expedition 33 crashes my computer I can't figure out for the life of me
The remaster is based on their old engine but with UE5 on top of it. Little messy, but it is what it is 😛
It could be a mix of where you are located when you boot the save and game instability when running through Proton. It is something you will have to deal with, especially with brand new games.
I'm playing it through xbox cloud gaming, and the game even crashes there sometimes 😂
That doesn't surprise me 😂 Expedition 33 is also breaking my computer so that doesn't surprise me. Is that true even trying different versions of Proton? I tried Experimental, GE, the hotfix.. none made a difference. Just confused since Oblivion ran the first day or so I played perfectly, then the next day I run it and my computer just freezes up completely. So bizarre