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Post by Sniffles on Jun 8, 2016 22:02:09 GMT
It's just too much of a mess with random mods strewn all over the place. Needs simplifying and organizing. So I'm going to do a fresh install and restart.
Could someone please suggest, simplfied, no mod requiring a mod requiring a mod requiring a mod stuff... -Face and body improvement. -Hair. -Landscape overhaul (without 4000 conflicting borders) -Improved quests I'd like to be able to install all mods and get things running in an hour or so. Help!
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Post by dogonporch on Jun 8, 2016 23:16:04 GMT
It's just too much of a mess with random mods strewn all over the place. Needs simplifying and organizing. So I'm going to do a fresh install and restart. Could someone please suggest, simplfied, no mod requiring a mod requiring a mod requiring a mod stuff... -Face and body improvement. -Hair. -Landscape overhaul (without 4000 conflicting borders) -Improved quests I'd like to be able to install all mods and get things running in an hour or so. Help! These are a start for female PCs www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/4431/?www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/25524/?www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/20022/?Bodies are a totally different matter. The most advanced body/skeleton systems allow everything to move. My Hammerfell should be a good addition...just wait for the next version. It does need Clocks of Cyrodiil (or Better Clocks).
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Post by jgf on Jun 8, 2016 23:59:16 GMT
Good luck! I've had Oblivion less than a year, and within a week had the same complaints you've expressed ...in fact one of my first complaints was, "can't anybody make a stand alone mod for this game?!!".
The only head/hair replacers I've found require the script extender - a can of worms I'm not yet ready to open. (The default "potato heads" quickly become tiresome.) "ntobmodfan" created a series of face replacers that you may, or may not, find an improvement (at least they require nothing else).
There are several stand alone body replacers, though most are exclusively for female bodies. I'm currently using "Light Guts Body Replacer", it has several options from a nearly tomboy physique to Comic Book Voluptuous.
I haven't tried many landscape mods as my old system barely handles the default textures (actually added a low-poly grass mod to help with this; and I like the "Always Foggy" mod, you can leave the view distance such that you don't endure popups but also cannot see coast-to-coast - from the hills behind Cheydinhall you can just make out the spire of Imperial City in the distance). Several people recommended the Unique Landscapes package, a 260meg d/l with separate folders for different regions (ULComp166-19370-1.zip; "This mod changes many outdoor locations, making them more diverse and interesting. It includes all Unique Landscapes packages available as of 6/21/2011."); I've yet to install it, but the screenshots are nice.
The only quest mod I've tried so far is simply "Mages Guild Quests", it adds several quest givers and several dozen quests.
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Post by dogonporch on Jun 9, 2016 1:27:04 GMT
OBSE is pretty painless...you need to run it as admin.
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Post by dogonporch on Jun 9, 2016 1:36:14 GMT
Running TES4LODgen each time you add mods is also a good idea if things pop-up all the time. www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/15781/?If tears and gaps are an issue, Land Magic sorts out most of it... www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/30519/?I already assume you're all using Oblivion Mod Manager. As for quests, there are tons, of course. The Nexus has many as does LoversLab. The Brasher ones are always a good bet. The Vampire one is one of my favs.
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Post by jgf on Jun 9, 2016 17:07:18 GMT
OBSE is pretty painless...you need to run it as admin. Running it isn't an issue. The fact that there are a dozen versions of it, each tailored for a specific version of Oblivion, is. The fact that some mods specify a particular version, which may not be the version for your specific game, is. The fact that their site even states one version will work with V.x of the game, but only with the retail release of V.x, not with an earlier version updated (with the official Bethesda patch!) to V.x (that is ridiculous, V.x = V.x = V.x, no matter how you acquire it). This is such a kludge I just don't want to be bothered. (Get a dictionary, open it to the page with "standardize", and beat these people over the head with it.)
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Post by jgf on Jun 9, 2016 17:17:45 GMT
... I already assume you're all using Oblivion Mod Manager.... Never. I've even caught flak on other sites for complaining of people only releasing mods in that format. Whether in flight sim, racing sims, rpgs, or any other genre, I prefer to manually install additions. Then *I* know exactly what was added and where, what changes are made to ini/cfg/txt files, etc. From my experience placing blind faith in any form of auto-installer is just asking for problems. As for quests, I haven't yet searched for many since I haven't yet completed all the defaults (will probably never do the Brotherhood, even in Morrowind I only joined the Assasins once, and never finished those quests). Vampires don't interest me, in all the years of Morrowind I never played as a vampire or werewolf. But my preference is for mods which add numerous quests, especially if there is a common thread to them; a sense of accomplishing something - exploration, discovery, building... - is, for me, more fun than an endless stream of hack-and-slash dungeons filled with boss level opponents (for that I'll fire up Torchlight on hard difficulty).
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Post by Sniffles on Jun 9, 2016 21:11:35 GMT
KRAPP!! This is horrible.
Okay. Yes, I'm using Ob Mod Mangler. I very carefully installed the GOTY and tested. Ran fine. Installed all the patches and fixes, unofficial and so on. Ran fine.Selected Oblivion Character Overhaul. It demanded I installed Blockhead and whatever body mod first. So I grabbed HGEC, and installed in the order as directed. Mod mangler immediately starts getting all fussy. This is sitting on that sitting on this stuff. I DID AS TOLD! Dangit!
Well, it still ran sort of fine. Except the PC looks like a Ruben's painting, bulgy max, and has a potato for a head. But HGEC has options. But I don't know how to work this. If I uninstall and reinstall will that screw everything up?
Well, I decided to tolerate the ugly for the moment, got my bulge monster out of the sewers into broad daylight and look out upon a very nice landscape. I'm sure the PC was offending slaughterfish. So I then installed Vilja and jet4571 hairdo. OH CRIPES. Vilja looks like one of these overstuffed SUVs! I can NOT play the game with PC and her like this!
Then I check the mod manager. It has put a red mark beside every mod installed!! What the hell does this thing want??? And now the game starts sort of slow and crashes when I go to exit.
HELP!!!!
Okay okay, get a grip. I've got 5 mods installed. No, 6. I installed the HGEC comparability thing, which hasn't helped at all. Ob runs, but much slower. I put in Darnified. Scenery looks great. Load order is probably pure crap. I've got about 40 mods waiting. I can't see the game surviving at this rate. I've still got PC potato head and spent 3 solid hours looking for a mod to fix. Had an invisible PC at one point, about 6 game crashes from other PC improvement mods and I know everyone but me is able to make everything look and run wonderful. What am I doing wrong?
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Post by blockhead on Jun 9, 2016 23:02:34 GMT
It demanded I installed Blockhead Err? I can be installed?
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Post by Sniffles on Jun 9, 2016 23:02:39 GMT
Oh how nice. Vilja bought herself a blue velvet dress, and one for the PC. A matching pair of train accidents.
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Post by dogonporch on Jun 9, 2016 23:03:09 GMT
OBSE is pretty painless...you need to run it as admin. Running it isn't an issue. The fact that there are a dozen versions of it, each tailored for a specific version of Oblivion, is. The fact that some mods specify a particular version, which may not be the version for your specific game, is. The fact that their site even states one version will work with V.x of the game, but only with the retail release of V.x, not with an earlier version updated (with the official Bethesda patch!) to V.x (that is ridiculous, V.x = V.x = V.x, no matter how you acquire it). This is such a kludge I just don't want to be bothered. (Get a dictionary, open it to the page with "standardize", and beat these people over the head with it.) There is only one current version of the Script Extender (v0021). As far as I know, they've always been backwards compatible. So just grab the latest. obse.silverlock.org/
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Post by dogonporch on Jun 9, 2016 23:04:41 GMT
... I already assume you're all using Oblivion Mod Manager.... Never. I've even caught flak on other sites for complaining of people only releasing mods in that format. Whether in flight sim, racing sims, rpgs, or any other genre, I prefer to manually install additions. Then *I* know exactly what was added and where, what changes are made to ini/cfg/txt files, etc. From my experience placing blind faith in any form of auto-installer is just asking for problems. As for quests, I haven't yet searched for many since I haven't yet completed all the defaults (will probably never do the Brotherhood, even in Morrowind I only joined the Assasins once, and never finished those quests). Vampires don't interest me, in all the years of Morrowind I never played as a vampire or werewolf. But my preference is for mods which add numerous quests, especially if there is a common thread to them; a sense of accomplishing something - exploration, discovery, building... - is, for me, more fun than an endless stream of hack-and-slash dungeons filled with boss level opponents (for that I'll fire up Torchlight on hard difficulty). Not OMOD...the Mod Manager...you MUST be able to adjust your load order for things to work properly. www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/2097/?
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Post by Sniffles on Jun 9, 2016 23:07:02 GMT
I got the latest OBSE. The most up to date everything. And I'm trying to be so meticulous. This is horrible. And the new monitor is making things ultra bright glare and I can't turn it down. With the ugly bodies, maybe this is a blessing? It demanded I installed Blockhead Err? I can be installed? Well, I handed the .zip to the mod managed and it crammed it in. I screwed up again?? I'm using Oblivion Mod Manager 1.1.2 full installer.
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Post by dogonporch on Jun 9, 2016 23:08:25 GMT
Blockhead (the mod) is problematic in that you're not making things simpler.
Mine was simple...lol
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Post by Sniffles on Jun 9, 2016 23:12:19 GMT
Blockhead (the mod) is problematic in that you're not making things simpler. Mine was simple...lol Ack. Huh? How am I supposed to know what the load order should be?
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