


To install you'll need OBSE, just put the AltTabFix.dll file into your Data/OBSE/Plugins/ folder. Very simple fix, in fact you can take a look at the source code for it here: ĪFAIK no other plugins include this fix, if you want to include it in your own plugins or mod compilations feel free, though I'd appreciate some attribution for finding it :) This plugin simply replaces the functions that look up those coordinates with ones that check if the exterior cell is NULL first, and if so just returns 0,0 for the coordinates. (this happens because it calls a class function with a null class pointer, and then crashes when it tries to access the coordinate data from that pointer.) The crash seems to be caused when you alt-tab back into the game, for some reason it tries to look up the coordinates of the exterior cell you're in, obviously when you're on the main menu you're not in an exterior cell - but the game still tries to look up the coordinates regardless, causing a crash because you can't really look up coordinates for a NULL cell.

This fixes a crash when alt-tabbing while on a menu, I'd guess that it could possibly fix other alt-tab crashes in-game too but I'm not certain about that - I just know that it does definitely fix the main-menu crash for me (and others have confirmed it fixes crashes with alt-tabbing in ingame menus too) - but if your game suddenly feels more stable hopefully it helped in some way! Of course they're doing great things for Oblivion, but improving alt-tab support probably isn't that high on their radar :P If I find anything out about the cause I'll be sure to let them know! NOTE3: If you use Oblivion Reloaded this fix probably won't have any effect for you, OR changes/fixes a lot of things, which sadly seems to make Alt-Tabbing even more troublesome to the game. NOTE2: For the stablest experience I recommend using this with ENBBoost, Oblivion Stutter Remover, EngineBugFixes and NVAC (NVAC is for New Vegas, but works with Oblivion too) NOTE: Requires OBSE! Should be compatible with pretty much any other OBSE plugin (since I haven't seen any other plugin that also includes this fix), but if you have any problems please let me know! Menu Alt-Tab Crash Fix is a mod for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, created by stoker25.įixes a crash caused by alt-tabbing while in a menu, doesn't seem to be fixed by any other mods yet, so here you go!
