Here is a funny collision between mods that I just witnessed. I was checking out the Fallenleaf grove (part of Unique Landscapes), next to Silorn (south of Skingrad). The grove ends with a very sharp cliff right up to the Shrine of Akatosh. At the bottom of the cliff is a pond where I found a few Pilgrims of Akatosh…
Hard Drive access is definitely a bottleneck for Oblivion and the cause of a lot of Crash To Desktop.. Oblivion will run smoother if you follow these tips with regards to Hard Drives. – Install it on the fastest hard drive you have (if you have more than one)Use softs like HD Tack to measure speed of your drives :…
– Disable the background music altogether and use only sound effects. The constant loading of new MP3 files for the background music can have a serious effect on you performance depending on your system. Edit oblivion.ini file and set : bMusicEnabled=0 – Remove the Natural Vegetation part of Natural Environments, especially if used in conjunction with Unique Landscapes Mods. –…
Are you getting the sound effect of a spell every 5 to 10 seconds after you started wearing a particular item or being affected by some other mod ? You are most likely victim of a conflict between mods in which one mod is altering the way some magic effect is working in order to create a new effect, which…
I’d say you can get very close to the same gaming experience. I still miss the customizable interface from Morrowind, the text based storytelling (a lot richer than voice acting) and levitation also to some extend (I know there is a mod for that but I got used to not having it by now) but that’s about it. First, some…
If you are in a mod debugging phase, the best approach is to create a base character without any mod – save it at the beginning of the prison cell tutorial and save it just before the exit of the sewers (in case you want to make changes to the race or class later). Once the character is saved, reactivate…
Missing meshes appear as yellow squares with a giant exclamation mark. The official patch version 1.2 (included with Shivering Isles) introduced a ‘fix’ that replaces missing meshes by these giant yellow markers instead of just ignoring them. Read below for instructions on how to fix missing meshes.
I used to have systematic crash on exit after installing/removing/tweaking mods for a few months. I went through the pain of doing a clean install, with only the mods I found absolutely necessary, and used OBMM along the way to keep things clean. A good load order is vital to avoid crashes (for example, Knights of the Nine is known…
Based on the observation that the .esp file from Shivering Isles seems to be doing nothing more than registering new resources in the game, famous modder Quarn released a clever alternative to OBMM and Archive Invalidation files. ArchiveInvalidation Invalidated! v1.1.0
I just went through a major optimization. After backing up Oblivion.ini and let the game create a new one, I got rid of several tweaks that do not make sense any more with the 1.2 version of Oblivion. Then I installed Oblivion Script Extender (OBSE) which is a requirement for the Streamline 1.0 mod, and experienced a significant improvement of…