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mmm, reminds me of Seyda Neen in Morrowind. Can't wait for my copy to arrive.
OBLIVION - MooSe's Essential Links/mods & Tips
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bah!
i won't be going back to the Shivering Isles for a long time!
my pre uninstall/install save games are utterly corrupt from beth's patch *#$! up
still i have a lovely fresh install with lovely fresh mods and a lovely fresh patch order. i can start afresh with indepth knowledge and power my way to where i was how i want to this time.
the S.I are a remarkable place to wonder round though, great scenery so keep yer adventurers handy cam on a hotkey and post us lovely screenies
i won't be going back to the Shivering Isles for a long time!
my pre uninstall/install save games are utterly corrupt from beth's patch *#$! up
still i have a lovely fresh install with lovely fresh mods and a lovely fresh patch order. i can start afresh with indepth knowledge and power my way to where i was how i want to this time.
the S.I are a remarkable place to wonder round though, great scenery so keep yer adventurers handy cam on a hotkey and post us lovely screenies
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im guessing none of my mods will be compatible with SI will they?
go to the beth's forums. under oblivion mods and S.I sections theres posts about mod compatibility.
the biggies are Mart's Monster Mod, OOO, the unofficial patch etc. these all have update patch fixes.
i believe some updates only work for a set patch order though.
oblivion>1.2>plugins>S.I>mod fixes
just browse thru. most of the mods in my list @ post 20 are ok.
the biggies are Mart's Monster Mod, OOO, the unofficial patch etc. these all have update patch fixes.
i believe some updates only work for a set patch order though.
oblivion>1.2>plugins>S.I>mod fixes
just browse thru. most of the mods in my list @ post 20 are ok.
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MooSey-UK said:
ok, thanks
Soldato
MooSey-UK said:bah!
i won't be going back to the Shivering Isles for a long time!
my pre uninstall/install save games are utterly corrupt from beth's patch *#$! up
still i have a lovely fresh install with lovely fresh mods and a lovely fresh patch order. i can start afresh with indepth knowledge and power my way to where i was how i want to this time.
the S.I are a remarkable place to wonder round though, great scenery so keep yer adventurers handy cam on a hotkey and post us lovely screenies
That's unlucky MooSey!
I've had no problems so far since installing SI with OBMM & OOO.
Will see if I run into any.
I ran into the problem in the original game with the slo-mo effects after 200 hours of game time. However I resolved that with the OOF program to alter the hex value on my game save. Sounds like a similar problem with this SI issue.
FishPolice said:This is a cool thread -spent the last couple of hours downloading mods & I'm gonna reinstall Oblivion tomorrow (new system bits arriving in the morning)
One question though regarding Deadly Reflex 3: How does OBSE_LOADER work with Oblivion Mod Manager? In the obse_loader readme it says: Run oblivion by running obse_loader.exe from the Oblivion directory. Thing is, I always used to run Oblivion by launching it from within Oblivion Mod Manager
No doubt it will all become clear tomorrow...
As far as I know with the latest version of OBMM you don't have to launch Oblivion from within OBMM. Just click your normal shortcut & all mods should be enabled in the game.
As requested here is a page about character creation including some examples.
Firstly a refresher on governing attributes and associated skills
STENGTH - governs blade-blunt-hand to hand
INTELLIGENCE - governs alchemy-conjuration-mysticism
WILLPOWER - governs destruction-alteration-restoration
AGILITY - governs security-sneak-marksman
SPEED - governs athletics-acrobatics-light armour
ENDURANCE - governs armourer-heavy armour-block
PERSONALITY - governs speechcraft-mercantile-illusion
LUCK - governs no skills but effects everything you do
when you create a character you must choose the following:-
RACE - CUSTOM CLASS - SPECIALIZATION - CLASS ATTRIBUTES - BIRTHSIGN - SKILLS
these will effect your powers, gameplay and levelling speed. read your Oblivion instruction book for race bennefits and weaknesses.
lets just make a few very valid points now.
1stly how long do you intend to play your character? the reason being as most model characters have attributes and skills that suit levelling to play style and give you a headstart to journeyman bonuses.
2ndly if you plan to play longterm, which race would suit you so you play as your character within the game relm.
the reason being is despite starting attribute and skill bonuses ALL races are not attribute handicapped. that means a teenyweeny wood elf can attain a strength attribute of 100 just the same as a hairy nord, it just takes longer to get there.
longterm play will result in maxed attributes and skills across the entire spectrum. you just need to decide how to get there and make sure you level efficiently.
3rdly and very importantly. MAGIC! do you want to use it? maybe not early but later? if you choose a race and birthsign with low a magika pool you will NEVER be able to cast high powered spells (unless you use mods).
magika will be forever stunted to your intelligence level + enchanments.
other birthsigns and race bonuses can be aqquired with spells and levelled attributes through out your journey. think wisely about your needs for spellcraft.
here's some popular model classes you can find in any guide or website. they all play to the class specialization and level accordingly to that style.
WARRIOR
RACE - Orc Nord Redguard
SPECIALIZATION - Combat
CLASS ATTRIBUTES - Strength and Endurance
BIRTHSIGN - Warrior
SKILLS - Blade Blunt Block Heavy Armour - Armourer Restoration alchemy
here you have the offensive skills, armour,repair facility and the means to heal wounds and poison weapons. magic is only for restoration and buying cheap spells to enchant your equipment.
can be made into a "Tank" to smash through opponents. levelling speed is dictated by constant fighting/repairing/healing
MAGE
RACE - Breton or High elf
SPECIALIZATION - Mage
CLASS ATTRIBUTES - Intelligence and Willpower
BIRTHSIGN - The apprentice, Mage or Atronarch
SKILLS - Alchemy Alteration Conjuration Destruction Illusion Mystism Restoration
overcomes everything with magic. dies if anyone gets close with a melee weapon. fast to level if you train skills. combat attributes such as strength and endurance will wither as you have no skills to level them up.
add a blade skill in place of restoration to get a War wizard.
STEALTH MAGE
RACE wood elf
SPECIALIZATION - Stealth
CLASS ATTRIBUTES - Agility and Speed
BIRTHSIGN - Thief
SKILLS - Marksman Sneak Light Armour Alchemy Illusion Conjuration Blade
a thinking mans character. use stealth and cunning to overcome opponents and rob the rich.
THIEF
RACE - Khajitt or Wood Elf
SPECIALIZATION - Stealth
CLASS ATTRIBUTES - Agility and Speed
BIRTHSIGN - Shadow
SKILLS - Sneak Security Illusion Mercantile Speechcraft Marksman Light Armour
Clear that loot and protect yourself with ranged comat
The above are very single minded classes for single minded role playing. whilst they level attain very good initial start bonuses and level up quickly within their field, they are somewhat limited to broadening attributes for a stronger all round character.
*NOTE* many template characters will have skills you don't want or need. ie why does a warrior need blade and blunt. for all of the above cases simply replace skills you don't want with the ones you do. you may find for example you want a battlemage character but, it takes a while to increase your intelligence, willpower and destruction skill to give you the required magika and proficiency to cast high powered spells in succession. you could in that case choose marksman over a skill you don't favour to give you early game ranged attacks which will later be superceeded by ranged destruction.
think what you want, how your character will round out with play and maturity and choose accordingly.
Here's some split skills models. they take longer to level but are ultimately very powerful
WAR MAGE (my last character)
RACE - Dark Elf
SPECIALIZATION - Mage
CLASS ATTRIBUTES - Strength and Intelligence
BIRTHSIGN - Apprentice or Atronarch
SKILLS - Blade Block Marksman Light Armour Destruction Conjuration Sneak
A special service type soldier. competent with all weapon and magic offense but uses stealth and range to weaken opponents first. uses heavily enchanted armour and weapons. (Atronarch is a risky birthsign as magika does not regenerate without sleep-use potions and welkynd stones to replenish in combat and take advantage of the spell absorb ability by enchanting some jewellery to give you 100% spell absorbtion)
IMPERIAL HEAVY BATTLEMAGE (my next long term character)
RACE - Imperial (because i like the look and Roman likeness)
SPECIALIZATION - Combat
CLASS ATTRIBUTES - Strength and Intelligence
BIRTHSIGN - The Apprentice
SKILLS - Blade- Heavy Armour-Armourer-Destruction-Conjuration-Alchemy-Sneak
skills chosen for attribute increase when levelling. ie blade/stength heavy armour/endurance destruction/willpower conjuration and alchemy/intelligence sneak/agility.
this gives strength and endurance for combat and ability to wear heavy armour.
intelligence and willpower for powerful destructive magic and quick magika regeneration. alchemy for early level money making and level training (likewise conjuration) to quickly raise intelligence and total magika and sneak because its governed by agility. agility gives balance and resistance to knockdown in a fight. not to mention the sneak attack and pickpocket bonuses!
a strong, deadly blade and spell wielding opponent encased in heavy armour with back up from summoned creatures.
my idea of the perfect powerhouse to demolish dremora!
done last night. my imperial Maximus Titus Aurellius is now on the loose in Cyrodill! interesting to note that imperial is one of the weaker starting races you can choose. quite poor race attributes. but if you read on you can see there are ways of quickly evening the balance....
The Leveling Conundrum
most players whom are less pleased with their characters normally refer to levelling speed as the basis of their woe.
levelling in oblivion is a double edged sword.
on one hand you get to increase your attributes, you get access to cooler armour,weapons and creatures and you can get higher damage levelled weapons etc.
on the other hand, every time you level, so does every other npc.
(creatures are at fixed levels with the exception of boss type creatures)
if you increase say, your blade skill and level up every other npc gets an increase to blade skill.
the trick is to choose your character so that race/specialization/attributes and skills work for your gameplay so you can attain the best attribute bonuses when you level up.
essentially then you will stay ahead of most npc's in your chosen skills as long as you think about your levelling and apply your bonuses carefully.
what do i mean by this?
well, you need 10 skill point raises to level up. if you raise blade by 10 points alone you'll get a 5 point bonus for strength attribute and 1 for anything or you could just choose two 2 point bonuses on any attribute and 1 spare.
if you diligently apply your biggest bonus to its attribute you will level more efficiently than spreading points willynilly, to recap, make sure when you get those +3 and +4 bonuses, apply them to their relevant attribute. don't take the option of equally spreading those points around.
in order to level efficiently you have to train your skills.
ie. if you want the maximum level bonus to raise your intelligence (hence increase your magika pool) you need to apply a skill to get 10 consecutive skill points.
this generally means going somewhere you won't be disturbed and "training" that skill. each skill has a way of being trained. strictly speaking its not really in the spirit of how beth intended the game, but.....
its easy to encompass into your role playing idealology. besides, when you see npc's practicing sword skills against boards etc they are actually increasing their skills!
how to train each skill then? most are easy, just apply the skill repeatedly.
although some require tricks.
Block - go to sewers and block repeatedly against rat attacks
blade - hit the boar in "thieves den" add on. the "bloodbank" unconcious dude in "vile lair" add on. shadowmere (he can't die) although you'll get expelled from guilds or thwack the petrified followers at the daedric shrine to peryite. (you need to then committ a crime and clear bounty as thwacking the followers mucks up bounty figures)
Blunt- same as blade.
Armourer - repair everything a lot!
Heavy armour - go to sewers and get attacked by rats. don't block
Light armour - same as above
Athletics - run or swim against a wall
Hand to hand - same as blade
Destruction - create a weak "weakness to fire" on self spell (or any similar spell that won't actually hurt you and cast repeatedly. TIP. weight cast key down and watch telly for few hours!
Alteration - repeatedly cast shield
Illusion - repeatedly cast a light spell
conjuration - repeatedly summon a gauntlett or skelly
Mystism - repeatedly cast detect life
Restoration - repeatedly cast a heal self or at target
Alchemy - create tons of cheap potions
Security - open easy locks and snap lockpicks
Sneak - sneak around a sleeping beggar
Acrobatics - jump around a lot, bigger jumps best
Marksman - same as blade
mercantile - sell lots of cheap crap. after each sale exit dialogue screen then re enter
speechcraft - play the speechcraft game on everyone
If you look at the UESP wiki site it goes into some detail on training, how each fast each skill trains etc.
you can see though that by applying training methods you can control levelling and attribute bonuses.
hope that helps some people struggling to level.
Firstly a refresher on governing attributes and associated skills
STENGTH - governs blade-blunt-hand to hand
INTELLIGENCE - governs alchemy-conjuration-mysticism
WILLPOWER - governs destruction-alteration-restoration
AGILITY - governs security-sneak-marksman
SPEED - governs athletics-acrobatics-light armour
ENDURANCE - governs armourer-heavy armour-block
PERSONALITY - governs speechcraft-mercantile-illusion
LUCK - governs no skills but effects everything you do
when you create a character you must choose the following:-
RACE - CUSTOM CLASS - SPECIALIZATION - CLASS ATTRIBUTES - BIRTHSIGN - SKILLS
these will effect your powers, gameplay and levelling speed. read your Oblivion instruction book for race bennefits and weaknesses.
lets just make a few very valid points now.
1stly how long do you intend to play your character? the reason being as most model characters have attributes and skills that suit levelling to play style and give you a headstart to journeyman bonuses.
2ndly if you plan to play longterm, which race would suit you so you play as your character within the game relm.
the reason being is despite starting attribute and skill bonuses ALL races are not attribute handicapped. that means a teenyweeny wood elf can attain a strength attribute of 100 just the same as a hairy nord, it just takes longer to get there.
longterm play will result in maxed attributes and skills across the entire spectrum. you just need to decide how to get there and make sure you level efficiently.
3rdly and very importantly. MAGIC! do you want to use it? maybe not early but later? if you choose a race and birthsign with low a magika pool you will NEVER be able to cast high powered spells (unless you use mods).
magika will be forever stunted to your intelligence level + enchanments.
other birthsigns and race bonuses can be aqquired with spells and levelled attributes through out your journey. think wisely about your needs for spellcraft.
here's some popular model classes you can find in any guide or website. they all play to the class specialization and level accordingly to that style.
WARRIOR
RACE - Orc Nord Redguard
SPECIALIZATION - Combat
CLASS ATTRIBUTES - Strength and Endurance
BIRTHSIGN - Warrior
SKILLS - Blade Blunt Block Heavy Armour - Armourer Restoration alchemy
here you have the offensive skills, armour,repair facility and the means to heal wounds and poison weapons. magic is only for restoration and buying cheap spells to enchant your equipment.
can be made into a "Tank" to smash through opponents. levelling speed is dictated by constant fighting/repairing/healing
MAGE
RACE - Breton or High elf
SPECIALIZATION - Mage
CLASS ATTRIBUTES - Intelligence and Willpower
BIRTHSIGN - The apprentice, Mage or Atronarch
SKILLS - Alchemy Alteration Conjuration Destruction Illusion Mystism Restoration
overcomes everything with magic. dies if anyone gets close with a melee weapon. fast to level if you train skills. combat attributes such as strength and endurance will wither as you have no skills to level them up.
add a blade skill in place of restoration to get a War wizard.
STEALTH MAGE
RACE wood elf
SPECIALIZATION - Stealth
CLASS ATTRIBUTES - Agility and Speed
BIRTHSIGN - Thief
SKILLS - Marksman Sneak Light Armour Alchemy Illusion Conjuration Blade
a thinking mans character. use stealth and cunning to overcome opponents and rob the rich.
THIEF
RACE - Khajitt or Wood Elf
SPECIALIZATION - Stealth
CLASS ATTRIBUTES - Agility and Speed
BIRTHSIGN - Shadow
SKILLS - Sneak Security Illusion Mercantile Speechcraft Marksman Light Armour
Clear that loot and protect yourself with ranged comat
The above are very single minded classes for single minded role playing. whilst they level attain very good initial start bonuses and level up quickly within their field, they are somewhat limited to broadening attributes for a stronger all round character.
*NOTE* many template characters will have skills you don't want or need. ie why does a warrior need blade and blunt. for all of the above cases simply replace skills you don't want with the ones you do. you may find for example you want a battlemage character but, it takes a while to increase your intelligence, willpower and destruction skill to give you the required magika and proficiency to cast high powered spells in succession. you could in that case choose marksman over a skill you don't favour to give you early game ranged attacks which will later be superceeded by ranged destruction.
think what you want, how your character will round out with play and maturity and choose accordingly.
Here's some split skills models. they take longer to level but are ultimately very powerful
WAR MAGE (my last character)
RACE - Dark Elf
SPECIALIZATION - Mage
CLASS ATTRIBUTES - Strength and Intelligence
BIRTHSIGN - Apprentice or Atronarch
SKILLS - Blade Block Marksman Light Armour Destruction Conjuration Sneak
A special service type soldier. competent with all weapon and magic offense but uses stealth and range to weaken opponents first. uses heavily enchanted armour and weapons. (Atronarch is a risky birthsign as magika does not regenerate without sleep-use potions and welkynd stones to replenish in combat and take advantage of the spell absorb ability by enchanting some jewellery to give you 100% spell absorbtion)
IMPERIAL HEAVY BATTLEMAGE (my next long term character)
RACE - Imperial (because i like the look and Roman likeness)
SPECIALIZATION - Combat
CLASS ATTRIBUTES - Strength and Intelligence
BIRTHSIGN - The Apprentice
SKILLS - Blade- Heavy Armour-Armourer-Destruction-Conjuration-Alchemy-Sneak
skills chosen for attribute increase when levelling. ie blade/stength heavy armour/endurance destruction/willpower conjuration and alchemy/intelligence sneak/agility.
this gives strength and endurance for combat and ability to wear heavy armour.
intelligence and willpower for powerful destructive magic and quick magika regeneration. alchemy for early level money making and level training (likewise conjuration) to quickly raise intelligence and total magika and sneak because its governed by agility. agility gives balance and resistance to knockdown in a fight. not to mention the sneak attack and pickpocket bonuses!
a strong, deadly blade and spell wielding opponent encased in heavy armour with back up from summoned creatures.
my idea of the perfect powerhouse to demolish dremora!
done last night. my imperial Maximus Titus Aurellius is now on the loose in Cyrodill! interesting to note that imperial is one of the weaker starting races you can choose. quite poor race attributes. but if you read on you can see there are ways of quickly evening the balance....
The Leveling Conundrum
most players whom are less pleased with their characters normally refer to levelling speed as the basis of their woe.
levelling in oblivion is a double edged sword.
on one hand you get to increase your attributes, you get access to cooler armour,weapons and creatures and you can get higher damage levelled weapons etc.
on the other hand, every time you level, so does every other npc.
(creatures are at fixed levels with the exception of boss type creatures)
if you increase say, your blade skill and level up every other npc gets an increase to blade skill.
the trick is to choose your character so that race/specialization/attributes and skills work for your gameplay so you can attain the best attribute bonuses when you level up.
essentially then you will stay ahead of most npc's in your chosen skills as long as you think about your levelling and apply your bonuses carefully.
what do i mean by this?
well, you need 10 skill point raises to level up. if you raise blade by 10 points alone you'll get a 5 point bonus for strength attribute and 1 for anything or you could just choose two 2 point bonuses on any attribute and 1 spare.
if you diligently apply your biggest bonus to its attribute you will level more efficiently than spreading points willynilly, to recap, make sure when you get those +3 and +4 bonuses, apply them to their relevant attribute. don't take the option of equally spreading those points around.
in order to level efficiently you have to train your skills.
ie. if you want the maximum level bonus to raise your intelligence (hence increase your magika pool) you need to apply a skill to get 10 consecutive skill points.
this generally means going somewhere you won't be disturbed and "training" that skill. each skill has a way of being trained. strictly speaking its not really in the spirit of how beth intended the game, but.....
its easy to encompass into your role playing idealology. besides, when you see npc's practicing sword skills against boards etc they are actually increasing their skills!
how to train each skill then? most are easy, just apply the skill repeatedly.
although some require tricks.
Block - go to sewers and block repeatedly against rat attacks
blade - hit the boar in "thieves den" add on. the "bloodbank" unconcious dude in "vile lair" add on. shadowmere (he can't die) although you'll get expelled from guilds or thwack the petrified followers at the daedric shrine to peryite. (you need to then committ a crime and clear bounty as thwacking the followers mucks up bounty figures)
Blunt- same as blade.
Armourer - repair everything a lot!
Heavy armour - go to sewers and get attacked by rats. don't block
Light armour - same as above
Athletics - run or swim against a wall
Hand to hand - same as blade
Destruction - create a weak "weakness to fire" on self spell (or any similar spell that won't actually hurt you and cast repeatedly. TIP. weight cast key down and watch telly for few hours!
Alteration - repeatedly cast shield
Illusion - repeatedly cast a light spell
conjuration - repeatedly summon a gauntlett or skelly
Mystism - repeatedly cast detect life
Restoration - repeatedly cast a heal self or at target
Alchemy - create tons of cheap potions
Security - open easy locks and snap lockpicks
Sneak - sneak around a sleeping beggar
Acrobatics - jump around a lot, bigger jumps best
Marksman - same as blade
mercantile - sell lots of cheap crap. after each sale exit dialogue screen then re enter
speechcraft - play the speechcraft game on everyone
If you look at the UESP wiki site it goes into some detail on training, how each fast each skill trains etc.
you can see though that by applying training methods you can control levelling and attribute bonuses.
hope that helps some people struggling to level.
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ive just installed the Knights of the Nine mod and when i try to do the quests all the characters i talk to do not have dialog speech and the text moves really fast
anyone know whats wrong
using oblivion 1.2 + shivering isles + all other DLCs
anyone know whats wrong
using oblivion 1.2 + shivering isles + all other DLCs
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yeah had that problem...nothing you can do atm. till beth get their fingers out
Excellent thread... and thanks to those that have already supplied some great info.
Quick question to those die-hard Oblivion peeps... I recently treated myself to a 8800GTS OC 640mb card. With this card, and my other bits and bobs as per the sig, what textures would you suggest I put on in order to get the most out of the game, and stretch my new cards legs?
Quick question to those die-hard Oblivion peeps... I recently treated myself to a 8800GTS OC 640mb card. With this card, and my other bits and bobs as per the sig, what textures would you suggest I put on in order to get the most out of the game, and stretch my new cards legs?
depends what resolution you play at.
from what i've read your 8800GTS should play well at up 1920 x 1200 with large textures and most sliders max. you may have to pull grass distance back and a few others for high exterior frame rates.
check out the tweak guide link in the main post 01. that is excellent for optimizing your system and links you to some nice graphics mods that won't effect performance much.
be careful with the likes of Quarls texture mods. they may slow your game to a slideshow!
out of interest all the screenies in this thread come off my system which was optimized thru tweak guide. my specs are:
X2 4400+ skt 969 @ 2.66
2 Gig Ram @ 220
Gainward 7800GS+512 @ 600/1400 (agp 7900GT but much faster)
X-Fi
Mitsubishi Diamondtron 19"
Sammy spinpoint 250GB SATAII games only
Win XP
game played at 1280 x 960 no AA 8 x AF and quality in Nv control panel. sliders are all varied and config is optimized.
fps vary from 40's indoors to low teens outside.
shall be getting an R600 or 8800GTX to go with shiny 20 or 24" tft soon so i'll be whacking on more screenies to show off
point being though with your card, careful tweaking and application of graphics mods you can get Oblivion looking stunning.
from what i've read your 8800GTS should play well at up 1920 x 1200 with large textures and most sliders max. you may have to pull grass distance back and a few others for high exterior frame rates.
check out the tweak guide link in the main post 01. that is excellent for optimizing your system and links you to some nice graphics mods that won't effect performance much.
be careful with the likes of Quarls texture mods. they may slow your game to a slideshow!
out of interest all the screenies in this thread come off my system which was optimized thru tweak guide. my specs are:
X2 4400+ skt 969 @ 2.66
2 Gig Ram @ 220
Gainward 7800GS+512 @ 600/1400 (agp 7900GT but much faster)
X-Fi
Mitsubishi Diamondtron 19"
Sammy spinpoint 250GB SATAII games only
Win XP
game played at 1280 x 960 no AA 8 x AF and quality in Nv control panel. sliders are all varied and config is optimized.
fps vary from 40's indoors to low teens outside.
shall be getting an R600 or 8800GTX to go with shiny 20 or 24" tft soon so i'll be whacking on more screenies to show off
point being though with your card, careful tweaking and application of graphics mods you can get Oblivion looking stunning.
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anyone able to shine some light on my problem?
on a clean install of Oblivion, I put some of my mods in, and this keeps happening:
i've reinstalled both Oblivion, SI and the mods but it keeps doing it, any ideas guys?
on a clean install of Oblivion, I put some of my mods in, and this keeps happening:
i've reinstalled both Oblivion, SI and the mods but it keeps doing it, any ideas guys?
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yeah, I had a look on the forums and apparently i've got out dated mods or something which kinda sucks 
Yep, I also had this last night. Clean install, downloaded a ton of mods as per the Tweak Guide and this thread... followed the instructions to the letter. 2 hours later I started the game, and got that!
So after 2 hours of tweaking, I decided to uninstall the lot, and play vanilla Oblivion... while it looks a little less appealing, at least I get to play the thing, rather than spend hours 'tweaking' and 'modding' it!
Don't get me wrong, I love the idea of a modd community, and I employ them for all sorts of games, but Oblivion has by far given me the biggest headache, and I've wasted more time fiddling with it than actually playing it.
So after 2 hours of tweaking, I decided to uninstall the lot, and play vanilla Oblivion... while it looks a little less appealing, at least I get to play the thing, rather than spend hours 'tweaking' and 'modding' it!
Don't get me wrong, I love the idea of a modd community, and I employ them for all sorts of games, but Oblivion has by far given me the biggest headache, and I've wasted more time fiddling with it than actually playing it.
This might be a nuts question... but as you can guess from my previous post, myself and Oblivion are not best mates at the moment!!!
Is there any sites that clearly state what the mod is, and more importantly what patches it will work with?
I've looked at a few mods over the past 24 hours, and in many cases, the authors notes does not indicate what patches it works with 1.1 or 1.2.
I think this is where I fell down last night!
Is there any sites that clearly state what the mod is, and more importantly what patches it will work with?
I've looked at a few mods over the past 24 hours, and in many cases, the authors notes does not indicate what patches it works with 1.1 or 1.2.
I think this is where I fell down last night!
the best place is the official bethesda forums at
here
you'll have to scroll thru either the oblivion mods topic or S.I topic, possibly a far trawl.
there were some big posts regarding mods that had bugs or worked with S.I.
all the biggies such as OOO. MMM. Francescos. unofficial patch etc have update mod patches for S.I.
if you look back at a post i did on page 2 it shows a complete list of mods i use. all these work except for those mentioned above (use patches). oh i think "open cities " is buggy too.
the main prob at the moment is patch order complying with mod patches. because patch 1.2 was out prior to S.I and S.I changed the version # again some mod patches require a specific order.
as a rule of thumb - game changing mods such as OOO etc have a patch but you'll want to read the latest "readme" with the mod.
mods that simply add armour content etc tend to work.
i have gone thru my mod list and read up on each again and re-installed oblivion from scratch. i never suffered from crashes with S.I (once i updated mods) but re-installed the whole shooting match again anyway.
get yer nose into beth's forums and get trawling
(if you read the last couple of pages of this topic you'll see there are a few posts about mod conflicts etc to start you)
here
you'll have to scroll thru either the oblivion mods topic or S.I topic, possibly a far trawl.
there were some big posts regarding mods that had bugs or worked with S.I.
all the biggies such as OOO. MMM. Francescos. unofficial patch etc have update mod patches for S.I.
if you look back at a post i did on page 2 it shows a complete list of mods i use. all these work except for those mentioned above (use patches). oh i think "open cities " is buggy too.
the main prob at the moment is patch order complying with mod patches. because patch 1.2 was out prior to S.I and S.I changed the version # again some mod patches require a specific order.
as a rule of thumb - game changing mods such as OOO etc have a patch but you'll want to read the latest "readme" with the mod.
mods that simply add armour content etc tend to work.
i have gone thru my mod list and read up on each again and re-installed oblivion from scratch. i never suffered from crashes with S.I (once i updated mods) but re-installed the whole shooting match again anyway.
get yer nose into beth's forums and get trawling
(if you read the last couple of pages of this topic you'll see there are a few posts about mod conflicts etc to start you)
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Fantastic mod list m8, cheers for this. Downloaded and installed them yesterday with SI, it brought my 8800GTS to its knees. Had to lose a bit AA and AF to get it playable 30-50 fps outside with max quality at 1440/900.
Looks so much better tho, I love the extra birds and animals. Im off to SI as soon as cos its making me home sick for morrowind
Looks so much better tho, I love the extra birds and animals. Im off to SI as soon as cos its making me home sick for morrowind