Sometimes this past weekend I had the joy to find my wordpress instances dead with a Server error 500. All of them. At once. I first suspected an issue with the database, or maybe a server patch impacting PHP or WordPress, but a quick and helpful call to the helpdesk of my host confirmed that was not the case. The…
Tag: Troubleshooting
Broken navigation in WordPress .. and one way to fix it
After upgrading my sites to WordPress 3.3, as well as updating a few themes, I noticed page navigation was broken in some of them. Namely, the base path was repeated in the URL. Instead of using a URL such as ‘/linfa/create/page/2’ for older posts, the URL used was ‘/linfa/create/linfa/create/page/2’. The odd thing was that the bug did not happen all…
Mac Pro overheating
Twice in the last two days, I found my desktop unresponsive. The second time also had the fans running wildly. So far, everything points to something causing the CPU to overheat. Coincidentally, I noticed the latest version of Chrome getting stuck with 100% CPU on my laptop, also running MacOS. Google searches [1] and [2] pointed to occasional reports of…
Unexplicable crash ? reboot !
This is the fourth time I have had this happen to me in game – enough to think it is a trend. If your game suddenly crashes in an area that you believe should be working (either because you visited it before or because it doesn’t have anything new that you have not already encountered), try this simple step before…
Mysterious crashes
After weeks of more or less peaceful gameplay, I entered an area of intense fighting which turned out to be also prone to crashes. The area in question was the underground city from the Vampire questline in Origin of the Mages Guild. The crashes are apparently the result of that mod combined with StarX Vanilla Vampire Revisited and possibly other…
Indirect bugs
The latest issue I had to troubleshoot is worth mentioning. Returning from the Shivering Isles, I noticed that vendors in Cyrodiil were no longer aware of Living Economy rules. They were back to an infinite supply of gold. At first, I blamed the recent install of both Creeper and Tamriel Travelers SI edition, but running the game without these mods…
How do I install mods ?
Each mod can be a little different in how to install them. The bottom line is this : – create a folder on your machine (on your desktop for instance). Call that folder ‘Install’. – once you download a new mod, extract the files to that Install folder. Now look at the Install folder. .esp / .esm files need to…
Why do I have bright purple textures ?
Purple textures are missing textures. Either you did not install the full mod (sometimes, mods come as a base install and an update – you need to install both to get them to work) or you have new textures that have not been registered correctly with the game. Which method of Archive Invalidation are you using ? If you don’t…
Load order update and conflicts to investigate
I did a thorough check with TES4View and made several discoveries which caused me to move some mods around. I had to remove Persuasion_Overhaul_MMM as it overrides several changes from Persuasion_Overhaul_OOO. There are several mesh conflicts between AlienSlof’s Dogs and MMM. We need a compatibility patch to add Slof meshes to MMM dogs. Same thing, we need a compatibility patch…
I am having troubles installing mods
You will experience less issues with mods if you install them in an organized way : – create an ‘oblivion-download’ folder on your desktop. Download the archives files in that folder (rar, zip, 7z files etc). It is always useful to have a copy of the original file you downloaded in case you need to reinstall a mod later. –…