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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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OOO, MMM, BCC, Streamline and other updates
By     |    Jan 10, 2008
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OOO, MMM, BCC, Streamline and other updates

The past few weeks have seen some exciting developments in the little world of Oblivion mods, and from the looks of things, the next few weeks will be just as exciting. Under the tireless lead of corepc, Martigen's Oblivion Mod reached the milestone... Read more

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By     |    Jan 8, 2008
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Annotated Load Order

(loosely copied from my post in the Bethseda forum). For a change, this is not a cry for help for a review of a load order but rather the opposite. After about two years of trial and errors, tests and troubleshooting, I have reached what looks like... Read more

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By     |    Jan 7, 2008
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Customized mods

I will use this entry to keep track of mods I had to customize manually and why.Note that none of these customizations are available for download yet. If you are interested in any of these, let me know and I will get in touch with the original owner... 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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Imperial Forts – Fort Nikel
By     |    Dec 19, 2007
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Imperial Forts – Fort Nikel

Where do the Imperial Patrols go at the end of the day ?Do they march until they drop ? do they stop at Inns for the night (I know some do... but that is not very martial of them).I found one missing detail in Cyrodiil was the lack of military camp... 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     |    Dec 9, 2007
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Optimizations

Granted.. I don't have the latest rig available. But my P4 3GHz with HT, 3 Gb of RAM and Radeon X1600 is able to run other graphically intense games smoothly - including Call of Duty 4 or Crysis. I keep reading of people running several mods and... 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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