This ambitious project is a futuristic retelling of the fate of the Dweemer and their relationship with the extinct race of the Ayleids. CORE 1 is already released, but it is only a preview of the next chapter in the series. CORE 2 is still in progress with some very exciting screenshots and videos of new environments, weapons and armors.…
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Oblivion on a Mac Pro
The game feels like a very different beast now that I had a chance to upgrade my main desktop to an 8-cores Mac Pro. After installing bootcamp and migrating my files (including my customizations of Morrowind and Oblivion), I could take the game for a drive on this new machine. Multiple cores really make a difference compared to Hyperthreading, even…
February goodies
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…
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…