I discovered The Filter in one of those ‘Top 10 software you can’t miss’ articles. At first, it seemed a little esotheric – would it really create a useable playlist from a sample of only 3 songs ? After using it for a few months, I can say yes – it is working fine on both Mac and PC. This…
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Starting over…. again
After another fight with unreliable performance of my system I traced the issue back to a faulty USB card reader. I still experienced too many crashes to desktop playing the game, probably a bad mod or issues in saved game, so I waited a few months to dull the pain of starting over yet again. I had to review the…
Changed look and feel of the site
I found this ‘papyrus scroll’ theme while upgrading the site to a new version of Movable Type – it feels much more appropriate for an Elder Scrolls site. I also decided to revise the structure of the site itself. Instead of a chronological log of updates about mods, the site will read more like a book of articles about my…
Head in the Clouds and Flow
Forget about commanding armies, fighting monsters or killing soldiers from the Third Reich. Take a breath of fresh, creative air with these to, poetic games : Cloud and Flow by Xinghan “Jenova” Chen You will understand why they were presented at the experimental gameplay workshop and received several awards since. For more details about his wonderful philosophy, don’t miss his presentation about Flow in Games.…
What is the matter with Knight of the Nine ?
Known issues with Knights of the Nine : – should be loaded at the end of load order – increases chances of crash on exit (sometimes 100% with certain mods loaded AFTER Knights.esp)
Tiny people in London
Poetic and fascinating glimpses into the lives of tiny people on the streets of London. Little People – a tiny street art project
Optimizing Oblivion
Here are a few tweaking guides for Oblivion that helped me squeeze some performance from this game: Optimizing Oblivion v3.0: Into Modblivion (atomic pc) Oblivion Tweak Guide Note: ‘over tweaking’ the oblivion.ini file can result in degraded performance. Especially if you switched to the 1.2 version of the game (either with the official patch or through Shivering Isle). If you…
Lessons learned from managing Oblivion Mods
After a few months dealing with a multitude of mods for Oblivion, here are a few rules I have come to follow: – Save a copy of the original archive of every mod you care about (zip, rar, 7z files). I ran into a few situations where a new version of a mod introduced issues or features that I didn’t…
How to use OOO, MMM and other mods together ?
The real exciting news of the week was the much anticipated release of OOO 1.3 – Oscuro’s Oblivion Overhaul. After playing it a bit, it looks well worth the wait (and the trouble of installing it). Making this mod coexist with several other mods can be tricky as it incorporates versions of existing mods and flat out conflicts with others.…
Information Aesthetics
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