The Oblivion mod community has been very busy for the past few weeks. Both Oscuro’s Oblivion Overhaul and Martigen’s Monster Mod released final versions after weeks of testing. Time to upgrade to OOO 1.33 and MMM 3.5.5 Several optimization and eye candy mods came out as well. Detailed terrains, Optimized distant lands and Beaming Sunglare push the limits of what…
Tag: Mods
With or without mods
Someone in the Bestheda forum asked for comparison screenshots of Oblivion with and without mods to convince a friend of the importance of a modded game over a console. It occured to me that textures alone was not enough to really showcase the power of mods – most mods add subtle details that take some time to identify for an…
WAC – Waalx Animals & Creatures
“A new batch of beasties…” WAC is a highly anticipated collection of wild animals for Oblivion. The mod will include primates, zebras, gazelles, felines, pixes and even some nasty underwater animals (the list of all animals is available). No ETA yet, but a placement map is in the works and corepc has offered to include at least some of these…
Load balancing for Oblivion
A great optimization tip picked up on the development thread of Jaga Telesin’s ORB – it is possible to spread your .bsa files across multiple hard drives. Simply create a (short name) folder on other hard-drives you may have in your machine and move heavily used .bsa files to these folders. For example, I created a : E:\TES and G:\TES…
Better Cyrodiil with Travelers
That did not take very long… only a few days after I finally decided I had a version of Oblivion stable enough to (finally) play the game, three major updates were announced in the Bethesda forum. Tireless modders bomret and dev_akm unveiled the completion of their secret project – Qarl’s Texture pack 3 – redimized – a complete review of…
Streamline in a nutshell
How to configure Streamline 3.1 for better performance ? Difficult question to answer since it depends on so many parameters : your CPU, memory, video card, hard drive, services running on your machine, other mods you selected. Any of these can require different adjustments to your Streamline configuration. There is no “one size fits all” set of parameters. The only…
First stop – Anvil
– Arrived in Anvil with pocket change and traveling clothes – Signed up for Fighter’s guild and received basic equipment (battledress and a dagger) – Joined an all female gang and killed them, some were already in their ‘work’ clothes – Epic fight with Battlemage in fort Strand. Ended in fireworks after a run with a traveling merchant. – Found…
How do I install mods ?
Each mod can be a little different in how to install them. The bottom line is this : – create a folder on your machine (on your desktop for instance). Call that folder ‘Install’. – once you download a new mod, extract the files to that Install folder. Now look at the Install folder. .esp / .esm files need to…
Why do I have bright purple textures ?
Purple textures are missing textures. Either you did not install the full mod (sometimes, mods come as a base install and an update – you need to install both to get them to work) or you have new textures that have not been registered correctly with the game. Which method of Archive Invalidation are you using ? If you don’t…
System specs and performance
Here is the hardware I have to deal with: CPU: Pentium 4 with HT, 3.2 GHz, 3 Gb of RAM Video card: ATI HD 2600 AGP, 512 M of VRAM Resolution: 1280×768 in windowed mode Graphics options: HDR, Tree Canopy shadows, fixed trees LOD Oblivion installed on dedicated SATA 10,000 RPM drive I want to play with these ‘heavy’ mods:…