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Posted February 22, 2011
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Runehamster: EDIT: On a side note, with some of these overhauls and mods installed, does decreasing the texture size mess things up? I usually keep it set on medium.
Uh-oh, I think you have to set the texture size to "large" or you would have funny things...
Posted February 22, 2011
I updated OOO, and now Oblivion crashes on the loading screen. I think it's back to vanilla for me, I spent five hours this morning working on it and it still doesn't work. Eugh.
Posted February 22, 2011
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Runehamster: I updated OOO, and now Oblivion crashes on the loading screen. I think it's back to vanilla for me, I spent five hours this morning working on it and it still doesn't work. Eugh.
Dont give up as I managed to get it going with a fukton of mods. My advice would be to make a back up of your vanilla textures and meshes folders before you begin modding. Use OMOD's wherever possible with the OBMM but when the OMOD has finished installing open the OMOD with 7zip and copy the meshes and textures folders manually. Dunno why but sometimes OMOD's don't seem to copy everything correctly. Lastly follow this installation step by step.

It's certainly much more frustrating to install mods than Fallout 3 as i'm on my 4th fresh install before modding it but finally it works.
Posted February 22, 2011
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Fenixp: Just use Nehrim, nothing else.... ... Well it DOES enhance the game!
That's so true. Nehrim is awesome. If the OP is looking for a new way to play Oblivion (totally new story and environments built from Bethesda's tools), definitely check out this unbelievably good fan-made adventure:

http://www.nehrim.de/indexEV.html
Posted February 22, 2011
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Runehamster: I updated OOO, and now Oblivion crashes on the loading screen. I think it's back to vanilla for me, I spent five hours this morning working on it and it still doesn't work. Eugh.
I think you should follow that guide http://forums.bethsoft.com/index.php?/topic/1119325-50steps-to-stable-fcom/ installing of course only the interesting parts for you. I follow that guide when I reinstall Oblivion and it has greatly reduced the mishaps.
Posted November 16, 2011
Since it's my fault the Deals thread is being over-run, I'll go ahead and bump this since there's talk.

I've been downloading mods all day/night. Haven't even bought the game yet, but figured I would get all the mods/tweaks/tools I need or want before I spend all night downloading the game.

Here are the mods I've grabbed:

Better Oblivion Sorting Software: http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=20516
Better Cities: http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16513
FCOM (And associated mods): http://forums.bethsoft.com/index.php?/topic/1091142-relz-fcom-convergence-and-ufcom-relz
Weapon Expansion Pack: http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=35560
Oblivion Script Extender: http://obse.silverlock.org/
All Natural Weather: http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=18305
Unique Landscapes: http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=19370
Wyre Bash: http://tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=22368
Darnified UI: http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=10763
Unofficial Oblivion Patch: http://planetelderscrolls.gamespy.com/View.php?view=OblivionMods.Detail&id=1417
Unofficial Shivering Isles Patch: http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=10739

I suspect it's going to take a few days to properly install all that.
Posted November 16, 2011
Steams is currently selling Oblivion GOTY edition, the whole she-bang with all the DLCs, for about $6.

You should head over to the relevant Steam forums because everyone who has just bought the game are having discussions on mods and stuff:

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=615
Post edited November 16, 2011 by ktchong
Posted November 16, 2011
Man this takes me back. I spent a whole week carefully downloading mods, reading mod forums, fiddling with Wyre Bash and the load order.
Turns out I had much more fun doing all that than finally playing the game itself. Sigh.
Posted November 16, 2011
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Pemptus: Man this takes me back. I spent a whole week carefully downloading mods, reading mod forums, fiddling with Wyre Bash and the load order.
Turns out I had much more fun doing all that than finally playing the game itself. Sigh.
Don't tell me about this. I can honestly say I spent way more time modding Oblivion than actually playing it! Heh, my highest level character might have been 10 or something... So this time I think I'll play Vanilla Skyrim first ;)
Posted November 16, 2011
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Pemptus: Man this takes me back. I spent a whole week carefully downloading mods, reading mod forums, fiddling with Wyre Bash and the load order.
Turns out I had much more fun doing all that than finally playing the game itself. Sigh.
Whole week? How about a whole year? Yea, I deleted the game precisely for that reason, I was constantly modding it, and NOT playing it... at all.
Posted November 17, 2011
I've been spending almost twelve straight hours (breaks for studying and NOT GETTING ANGRY ENOUGH TO KILL PEOPLE) to try and get FCOM to work right with Oblivion. I've looked online, I've found guides, I've followed said guides, and I can't freaking get anywhere.

All the mods appear perfectly green with happy little merged patched symbols in Wyre Bash. They're 100% sorted correctly using BOSS. I even used OBMM to enable BSA Redirection and fun things. All the mods install correctly but every single time I load the game up, the second I leave the sewers (Or try to sleep using Alternative Start), the game crashes trying to load the outdoors.

The only time I actually saw the game was when I disabled Martigen's Monster Mod. And while I could see the world, I also had missing textures and floating disembodied castles.

I've used mods my entire PC life. I've modded dozens if not hundreds of games. *THIS SHOULD NOT BE THIS HARD* ARGH.

Edit: Right after posting this, the game let me load Anvil. Then upon trying again, it crashed.

Lost my mind and uninstalled Oblivion, deleted all the files, and will start again....Someday.
Post edited November 17, 2011 by Hawk52
Posted November 17, 2011
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Hawk52: I've been spending almost twelve straight hours (breaks for studying and NOT GETTING ANGRY ENOUGH TO KILL PEOPLE) to try and get FCOM to work right with Oblivion. I've looked online, I've found guides, I've followed said guides, and I can't freaking get anywhere.

All the mods appear perfectly green with happy little merged patched symbols in Wyre Bash. They're 100% sorted correctly using BOSS. I even used OBMM to enable BSA Redirection and fun things. All the mods install correctly but every single time I load the game up, the second I leave the sewers (Or try to sleep using Alternative Start), the game crashes trying to load the outdoors.

The only time I actually saw the game was when I disabled Martigen's Monster Mod. And while I could see the world, I also had missing textures and floating disembodied castles.

I've used mods my entire PC life. I've modded dozens if not hundreds of games. *THIS SHOULD NOT BE THIS HARD* ARGH.

Edit: Right after posting this, the game let me load Anvil. Then upon trying again, it crashed.

Lost my mind and uninstalled Oblivion, deleted all the files, and will start again....Someday.
Really? Incredible... Are you talking about the PC version? It wasn´t hard at all for me...
Posted November 17, 2011
I've thought about it for the hour or two since I lost my mind. I think when I did the first install, I messed the process up. And like an idiot I didn't back up the Oblivion folder. So every time after that I tried to reinstall FCOM, I kept having left over files or packages causing issues. It was pretty much the same error every single time.

I'll probably set Oblivion to reinstall tonight, back it up, and give it another go. If I can't get it I'll just play vanilla Oblivion with fancy graphic updates and tell FU to FCOM.
Posted November 17, 2011
http://store.steampowered.com/app/22330/

75% off, ends in 9 hours.
Non-deluxe version is also 75% off, and £1 cheaper.
Posted November 17, 2011
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Hawk52: I'll probably set Oblivion to reinstall tonight, back it up, and give it another go. If I can't get it I'll just play vanilla Oblivion with fancy graphic updates and tell FU to FCOM.
I may be the only person in the world to think this but I think FCOM is terribly dull. I understand the point of removing the leveled enemies, but it makes the first few levels so insanely boring and difficult because there doesn't seem to be a single dungeon possible to beat for beginning characters. I'm pretty sure some readme or forum post recommended that I grind to level 5 before begnning any quests. Grinding. Seriously.

I had to change my level to 5 and bump up all my combat skills via console commands to enjoy it at all, and even then I don't think it was worth the two week period of tinkering to install.

I know I'm in the minority, but I thought I'd just add that FCOM isn't required by any stretch, unless you really want a challenge. Though I will say it makes a second playthrough more interesting.
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