Created: 2026-09-08T19:06:42Z
There are many posts on the internet describing supposed workarounds for Oblivion Remastered on Switch 2 crashing when spending some time in the Oblivion Gate in Kvatch. However, none of them work because people are just suggesting random things such as deleting old savegames that do nothing.
Since multiple things crashing the game is not unlikely, I’ll describe my situation that I solved first: The time I could spend on the Planes of Oblivion was limited and would progress. Once reached, the game would crash. If e.g. I had 30 seconds to the crash and I would save after 10, when loading the save, it would still crash after 20. But it only would crash on the Planes of Oblivion.
The proper workaround is rather easy – and unlike most supposed workarounds does not require an old savegame if you still have a few seconds until the crash. Run as fast as you can inside something – a cave, a tower, it doesn’t matter. Then wait for 72h in-game time using the waiting function. Every 72h, NPC state is reset, and it seems that an NPC action is causing that crash, so this solves it. After waiting for 72h, leave to the Planes of Oblivion again and it should no longer crash.