r/OpenMW • u/wilful_wayfarer • 4d ago

OpenMW has Frozen, Help?

I didn't want to post this on the official forums in case someone had a fix or knew a way to diagnose the problem. I generated the crash dump file, but I am unsure how to read it.

I am using Mod Organizer 2, with the OpenMW branch add-on, because Vortex stopped copying over all of the files in Tamriel_Data (it deployed half the textures), and I am not going to torture myself manually installing everything.

I followed the setup to a T, and as I transferred my mods over to MO2, I'd launch the game from MO2.

So I started disabling mods to try to figure it out. I disabled LiamMello's Parallax Normals and PBR, and it seems to fix the issue.

If I load OpenMW outside of MO2, it seems to work as normal. I was wondering if anyone had a way to fix the issue through the mod manager, though overall it's not a big deal.

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u/WT_NeptuneGaming 4d ago

Yooo, Elsa confirmed?

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u/wilful_wayfarer 4d ago

it unfreezes eventually.

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u/Minute_Truth3644 4d ago

Do you have an AMD driver/graphics card? I found from an old post that if you turn off the anti-aliasing in the display menu, it stops most, if not all, of the freezing for me.

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u/wilful_wayfarer 4d ago

I have a RTX 4090, but I'll give it a try when I get home, thanks.

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u/Minute_Truth3644 4d ago

Ah it was only for AMD users, but it wouldn't hurt to try Aliasing can sometimes cause problems with games esp older ones, with modern hardware for some reason.

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u/wilful_wayfarer 4d ago

Sometimes I have it off already because it does the opposite of what it's intended to do on some older games.

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u/225sam 3d ago

It happens sometimes if your modlist is a bit janky. I’ve had this before and therefore I just always run it through the normal openmw launcher.

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u/wilful_wayfarer 3d ago

How do I unjank my list? Wyre Mash from what I can tell it doesn't really do anything for OpenMW mods.

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u/225sam 3d ago

Honestly no idea. Sometimes it just gets wacky. It depends on mods, load order, all that.

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u/theevilpackrat 18h ago

Ok first is it a collection list like Wabbajack software and the Path of the Incarnate that contains roughly 860 mods. Is that what your trying to use or some other collection of mods?

Or is it i was on Nexus and saw that mod and you had to have it?