‘Unique Landscapes’ is a very ambitious community project aiming at changing entire areas of the game into unique places modeled after such diverse landscapes as swamps, lush orchards, rolling hills or steep gorges. Each area is a project in itself, designed to keep changes to the map to mostly cosmetic ones and minimizing overlap with other Unique Landscapes. :: Beaches…
LORE CREATURE EXPANSION v1.4 Gameplay – This mod adds several creatures that were included in previous games from the Elder Scrolls series, but were missing in Oblivion (Hunger, Spiders, Dwemer mechanical gardians, Golden Saints, etc). Update: I disabled this mod since most of the creatures introduced are now included in both Martigen’s Monster Mod 3.0 and Oscuro’s Oblivion Overhaul 1.32,…
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…
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…
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.…
:: 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) – 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…