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[Victoria]

I find my game crashes to the desktop alot if I cast a spell with the menu disabled, it's perfectly fine with the menu enabled though. What could be the problem there?

[fyrefae]

not sure if this is the reason but with shivering isles/1.2 patch it can ctd if there is no timer display ark showing on timed spells do you have any ui mods ?

[Victoria]

I use this mod: http://tessource.net...ile.php?id=3760

[fyrefae]

it looks like that mod replaces the timer ark with numbers so that could be what is causing the cdt's .... but if it only happens when you have menus disabled i cant be sure , if there is a way to have it display ark and timer at the same time that might help , but then again with menus disabled neither would show so again i cant be sure , sorry i cant be much more help i will have to try casting spells with the menu disabled myself but i cant get to my pc right now

[Luchaire]

Yep, that'll happen with UI mods that replace the graphical timer with a numeric countdown. Options are:

(1) don't cast with menu off
(2) don't cast spells with timed durations (i.e. instant effects only)
(3) disable the UI mod
(4) edit the UI mod so it uses the graphical timer instead of the numeric one (pretty easy to do; just need to edit the appropriate .xml file - can't tell you which one offhand but could take a look if you want to try this)

[Victoria]

Yep, that'll happen with UI mods that replace the graphical timer with a numeric countdown. Options are:

(1) don't cast with menu off
(2) don't cast spells with timed durations (i.e. instant effects only)
(3) disable the UI mod
(4) edit the UI mod so it uses the graphical timer instead of the numeric one (pretty easy to do; just need to edit the appropriate .xml file - can't tell you which one offhand but could take a look if you want to try this)

If you could please.

[fyrefae]

http://www.tessource...le.php?id=10974

this is a fix for a different ui mod that modifies the hudmainmenu_config.xml file to display both graphic timer and numeric if you want to have a look at the xml file and see what changes you need to make to your own

[Victoria]

I'm a bit thick so can somebody just make the change to the appropriate file in the mod in my original link for me?

[Luchaire]

Download this:

http://luchaire.game...ds/UIModFix.rar

There are two different versions of the fix to choose from, in two different folders there:

Folder 1 - ArcOnly: Use this one to get only the graphical timer and no text

Folder 2 - Arc_Plus_Timer: Use this one if you want the text superimposed over the graphical timer

Whichever you choose, just copy the hudmainmenu_config.xml file from that folder to:
Program Files/Bethesda Softworks/Oblivion/Data/menus/prefabs/ui_config/

I've tested both versions and neither one causes a CTD for me when casting with menus off. Hopefully they'll work for you as well.

[Victoria]

Download this:

http://luchaire.game...ds/UIModFix.rar

There are two different versions of the fix to choose from, in two different folders there:

Folder 1 - ArcOnly: Use this one to get only the graphical timer and no text

Folder 2 - Arc_Plus_Timer: Use this one if you want the text superimposed over the graphical timer

Whichever you choose, just copy the hudmainmenu_config.xml file from that folder to:
Program Files/Bethesda Softworks/Oblivion/Data/menus/prefabs/ui_config/

I've tested both versions and neither one causes a CTD for me when casting with menus off. Hopefully they'll work for you as well.

Thanks!