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By     |    Aug 25, 2008
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Unexplicable crash ? reboot !

This is the fourth time I have had this happen to me in game - enough to think it is a trend. If your game suddenly crashes in an area that you believe should be working (either because you visited it before or because it doesn't have anything new... Read more

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By     |    Jun 18, 2008
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Mysterious crashes

After weeks of more or less peaceful gameplay, I entered an area of intense fighting which turned out to be also prone to crashes. The area in question was the underground city from the Vampire questline in Origin of the Mages Guild. The crashes are... Read more

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By     |    Apr 6, 2008
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Indirect bugs

The latest issue I had to troubleshoot is worth mentioning. Returning from the Shivering Isles, I noticed that vendors in Cyrodiil were no longer aware of Living Economy rules. They were back to an infinite supply of gold. At first, I blamed the... Read more

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By     |    Jan 16, 2008
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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... Read more

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By     |    Jan 14, 2008
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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... Read more

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By     |    Jan 11, 2008
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Load order update and conflicts to investigate

I did a thorough check with TES4View and made several discoveries which caused me to move some mods around. I had to remove Persuasion_Overhaul_MMM as it overrides several changes from Persuasion_Overhaul_OOO. There are several mesh conflicts... Read more

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By     |    Dec 20, 2007
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I am having troubles installing mods

You will experience less issues with mods if you install them in an organized way :- create an 'oblivion-download' folder on your desktop. Download the archives files in that folder (rar, zip, 7z files etc). It is always useful to have a copy of the... Read more

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By     |    Dec 20, 2007
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Discovery about load order and crash on exit, the plot thickens..

(Summary from a post in the Bethesda forum). I got tired of getting a systematic crash on exit with my game, so I started playing with the load order. After a lot of trials and errors, here is what I found. My load order ends something like this... Read more

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Mutant bandit in Fort Strand
By     |    Dec 10, 2007
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Mutant bandit in Fort Strand

(Summarized version of my post in the Bethesda forum) Here is an encounter I had at Fort Strand (ruins directly East of Anvil). http://www.alquier.org/TES/images/Oblivion...fort-strand.jpg My first thought is that something went bad with MMM... Read more

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By     |    Sep 12, 2007
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Don’t blame mods too quickly, Cautionary tale

So I was tweaking with updates, still waiting for the final releases of OOO and MMM (are we there yet ? ). I thought I had everything up to date, clean load order and brand new game. And then... suddenly ... the Spell Effect replacer bug started... Read more

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