The guide hosted here will always be maintained and kept up-to-date by me, but you can also install the list through Nexus Collections from the link below. Thanks to VegasStephen for putting this together.
Note: To my knowledge, the collection is not updated anymore. You will need to follow the guide normally to get an up-to-date installation.
I've just followed your Guide and installed almost all mods from it for my new playhrough (all Required mods are installed for sure). Thank you very much for the wonderful Guide, endorsed!
3) I can see in Wrye Bash that [Balanced Creatures - DLC.esp] and [Balanced NPC Level Cap - DLC Patches.esp] both have a mismatching load order of their masters relative to your loadorder.txt. Should I sort their masters using TES4Edit?
4) [Ascension - Better Clutter Icons.esp] and [NAO - Even Brighter Nights and Closer Fog.esp] both are below your [Through the Valleys Patch.esp] after I've installed your loadorder.txt (i.e. they are not in the list). Should I let them be there below?
Game runs and plays great, no major issues so far on my playtrough. That being said, i've found I'm really easily staggered by arrows. At first I thought maybe it's a fatigue thing, but the fatigue status bar appears to be full. Could it be the fatigue bar is not accurately showing my fatigue? I'm running around in heavy armour, and it doesn't seem to be draining too much.
Its not Running and i checked the triangle it says: The masters for some plugins (esp/esl/esm) are not enabled.The game will crash unless you install and enable the following plugins: [table]MasterRequired ByAscension.esp Ascension - UOP Patch.esp, Through the Valleys Patch.esp[/table] Know how to fix
Hello, I have a question, can you play in Spanish? I have a friend who wants to play with this collection but does not know if you can play in Spanish. It is also compatible with the Oblivion Online Mod - MadeEasy?
My game looks really good now. I was amazed at how good nighttime now looks and the cities look so lovely with all the lights in the windows. In vanilla it is way to bright for it to be considered "nighttime". I already had some of the mods, but thank you nontheless. Truly.
Very much appreciate this well crafted and articulate guide, great for beginner modders like me.
If I may give one suggestion, in the very early part of the guide please let people know to install Oblivion (possibly all of Steam) outside of the Program Files folder. Though you do say to install MO2 outside of there, which I did.
The BSA Decompressor will not work at all since my Oblivion is installed there. Hopefully I don't encounter more issues. If I do oh well but still frustrating.
I have gone through several guides now and very few make this clear, I have only encountered it through later troubleshooting, on reddit and forum posts.
I cant seem to get oblivion display tweaks to properly work. Using it will make the game run at super speed however using oblivion stutter remover will work properly.
I try setting it to 160, because my monitor runs at 100 , however it still does not work, maybe a quirk of linux + bottles, but stutter remover seems to fix that
Hey, great vanilla guide Tho i would recommand you to replace Simple Better Inventory And Map with MajorJims UI Updated https://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/49492? They both do the same thing (allowing the vanilla menus to display more stuff) but MajorJims UI Updated handle it better, improve mouse support on some menus, provide more config settings and allows you to adjust the map size if you don't play on 16:9
The Unique Wolf Animations Restored was deleted sadly, i was able to download it through the waybackmachine, there is an older mod that exist that is supposed to do the same thing, but according to the page of Unique Wolf Animations Restored the old one was really script heavy and non optimized I will ask the author about it
How about adding this optional ini tweak ? bLocalMapShader, it makes the local map colored, up to personal preference
Concerning shaders 3.0, Oblivion sometimes does not detect correctly the best shader pack for your graphic card Even on my 750ti from 2014, i get that issue Check your RenderInfo.txt from your My Games\Oblivion folder and look for "Shader Package", mine was reporting a value of 4 Then go into your Oblivion\Data\Shaders folder and delete or rename the shaderpackage corresponding to the value you got before (so for me it was shaderpackage004) and replace it with the shader 3.0 one (copy it and rename it to the used number), if you use Bloom lightning it's shaderpackage009, if you use the ugly overbright HDR it's shaderpackage019 (1 to 9 are the bloom lightning shaders, 10 to 19 are the HDR ones) Not only this will give you better shaders, but it will also fix the black screen issue some pepoles are getting on modern GPU
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The guide hosted here will always be maintained and kept up-to-date by me, but you can also install the list through Nexus Collections from the link below. Thanks to VegasStephen for putting this together.
Through the Valleys, by VegasStephen
I've just followed your Guide and installed almost all mods from it for my new playhrough (all Required mods are installed for sure). Thank you very much for the wonderful Guide, endorsed!
However I have several questions regarding it:
1) Do I need to install your Balanced NPC Level Cap - Hooded Outlaws Patch if both your Balanced NPC Level Cap - Logical Levels for All NPCs and Hooded Outlaws mods are installed? It's not mentioned in the Guide.
2) Do I need to install your Hooded Outlaws - OCO2 Patch? It's not in the Guide either.
3) I can see in Wrye Bash that [Balanced Creatures - DLC.esp] and [Balanced NPC Level Cap - DLC Patches.esp] both have a mismatching load order of their masters relative to your loadorder.txt. Should I sort their masters using TES4Edit?
4) [Ascension - Better Clutter Icons.esp] and [NAO - Even Brighter Nights and Closer Fog.esp] both are below your [Through the Valleys Patch.esp] after I've installed your loadorder.txt (i.e. they are not in the list). Should I let them be there below?
That being said, i've found I'm really easily staggered by arrows. At first I thought maybe it's a fatigue thing, but the fatigue status bar appears to be full. Could it be the fatigue bar is not accurately showing my fatigue? I'm running around in heavy armour, and it doesn't seem to be draining too much.
Know how to fix
The game crashes when I try to select any race other than Imperial/Khajit.
When I went to the Imperial City, I see that the other races are faceless Voids with eyes.
If I may give one suggestion, in the very early part of the guide please let people know to install Oblivion (possibly all of Steam) outside of the Program Files folder. Though you do say to install MO2 outside of there, which I did.
The BSA Decompressor will not work at all since my Oblivion is installed there. Hopefully I don't encounter more issues. If I do oh well but still frustrating.
I have gone through several guides now and very few make this clear, I have only encountered it through later troubleshooting, on reddit and forum posts.
Rest of the guide is thus far immaculate though.
Tho i would recommand you to replace Simple Better Inventory And Map with MajorJims UI Updated https://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/49492?
They both do the same thing (allowing the vanilla menus to display more stuff) but MajorJims UI Updated handle it better, improve mouse support on some menus, provide more config settings and allows you to adjust the map size if you don't play on 16:9
The Unique Wolf Animations Restored was deleted sadly, i was able to download it through the waybackmachine, there is an older mod that exist that is supposed to do the same thing, but according to the page of Unique Wolf Animations Restored the old one was really script heavy and non optimized
I will ask the author about it
How about adding this optional ini tweak ?
bLocalMapShader, it makes the local map colored, up to personal preference
Concerning shaders 3.0, Oblivion sometimes does not detect correctly the best shader pack for your graphic card
Even on my 750ti from 2014, i get that issue
Check your RenderInfo.txt from your My Games\Oblivion folder and look for "Shader Package", mine was reporting a value of 4
Then go into your Oblivion\Data\Shaders folder and delete or rename the shaderpackage corresponding to the value you got before (so for me it was shaderpackage004) and replace it with the shader 3.0 one (copy it and rename it to the used number), if you use Bloom lightning it's shaderpackage009, if you use the ugly overbright HDR it's shaderpackage019 (1 to 9 are the bloom lightning shaders, 10 to 19 are the HDR ones)
Not only this will give you better shaders, but it will also fix the black screen issue some pepoles are getting on modern GPU