:: Illumination Within Revived Optimised v1.0 Atmosphere Improvements – Extends the work on lighting in windows of buildings introduced by ‘Illumination Within’ to all cities in the game and optimizes the scripts to be more CPU friendly. A must have to add some life to cities at night. Note: This is an upgrade from the original mod. It is meant…
Purchased a new official mod and got the same, disappointing, pop-up quest out of nowehere when I activated it (speaking of activation, these official mods are a pain to activate. I had to start my PC in Safe Mod every single time I wanted to get past the activation code to actually install the thing).
I recently downloaded updates to several mods. Soon after, Oblivion refused to start (frozen during Loading sequence). After much tweaking I traced back the issue to three updates: – Mighty Magick 4.5 – Arcane university revamped – Cyrodiil Transportation Network The issue with MM was resolved with a further update (apparently, I the update I first caught was corrupted when…
:: Creatures Alive v1.3 Gameplay Improvement – Adds life-like behavior to most creatures in Oblivion. Young creatures who will follow their ‘mother’. Creatures will hunt and eat foods found in Tamriel that they would in real life. Creatures will ‘drink’ periodically during the day at nearby bodies of water. Creatures will generally behave in a more realistic fashion. Ex: Mudcrabs,…
I took some time over the holiday to reinstall the last round of plugins, one set at a time, to try and trace back the source of my performance problems. Thanks to the Oblivion Mod Manager (OBMM) – http://timeslip.users.sourceforge.net/ – I traced the issue back to the ArchiveInvalidation.txt file used by many mods to point Oblivion to new locations of…
The first official patch was released yesterday (v1.1). Curiously since installing it, I am experiencing very long delays when starting the game. Going from the initial ‘Bethesda’ video to the first ‘Loading’ screen (before even getting t the main menu) takes up to 20 minutes ! I am not sure if this is caused by the patch itself, a mod…
The wait is over. I got my hands on a copy of Oblivion. Like many fans of the Elders Scrolls series out there, I had been waiting this release with a mix of anticipation and fear. Anticipation for the wonderful improvements promised by Bethesda. And fear of the inevitable disappointment at some of the changes that would be introduced. Bethesda…
The game is gorgeous. There is no other way of saying this. Morrowind was the first game I ever played where one of my first actions was to sit on a rock and watch the sun go down. The landscapes were very alien, with charred valleys, giant mushrooms and flying jellyfish. Oblivion is several orders of magnitude better looking, with…
I created a new section in my main gallery for Oblivion screenshots. This time around, I will document the adventures of Selena in Cyrodiil , my main character, right from the beginning.
The news of more delays for Oblivion last December were enough to motivate me to get as close as possible to a new version of Morrowind. Four years after its release, Morrowind has spawned so many mods that it has become possible to literally upgrade the game to a whole new experience. Getting there not an easy task though, but…