UI mods won't work

[AFakeman]

When I try installing any UI mod manually or with Nexus Mod Manager it won't work. None of UI mods.

[Hickory]

If you are talking about complex mods like DarN then the NMM just does not understand it, like the majority of Oblivion mods. Use an OMOD version and use Oblivion Mod Manager to install it.

[AFakeman]

If you are talking about complex mods like DarN then the NMM just does not understand it, like the majority of Oblivion mods. Use an OMOD version and use Oblivion Mod Manager to install it.

Tried manual. XML files are in Data/menus. Nothing.

[DrakeTheDragon]

How about your Archive Invalidation? Without it replacer textures will not be used over Vanilla ones, and using Steam Oblivion this expands to just about every other file type as well.

 

Second point, where is your game installed? When on Vista, Win7, Win8 and installing the game to the default location, anywhere inside your 'program files', the User Account Control (UAC) will be giving you a hard time getting any files actually placed into your data folder physically. Your Windows Explorer will pretend they were there, but instead they got put into some compatibility folders inside your user folders. It will look totally fine to you, the user, but the game won't find the files.

 

That's why installing the game outside of this over-protected system folder structure is always the first suggestion when on these recent OS. And this is also true for Oblivion from Steam, as steamapps is also found inside program files by default.

[AFakeman]

How about your Archive Invalidation? Without it replacer textures will not be used over Vanilla ones, and using Steam Oblivion this expands to just about every other file type as well.

 

Second point, where is your game installed? When on Vista, Win7, Win8 and installing the game to the default location, anywhere inside your 'program files', the User Account Control (UAC) will be giving you a hard time getting any files actually placed into your data folder physically. Your Windows Explorer will pretend they were there, but instead they got put into some compatibility folders inside your user folders. It will look totally fine to you, the user, but the game won't find the files.

 

That's why installing the game outside of this over-protected system folder structure is always the first suggestion when on these recent OS. And this is also true for Oblivion from Steam, as steamapps is also found inside program files by default.

First: how do I set this invalidation? OMOD doesn't do anything

Second: It's instaled on external HDD

[DrakeTheDragon]

Since you're using OBMM already, that should be quite simple.

 

Go to the Utilities menu and into Archive Invalidation. Select 'BSA Redirection' and leave all options untouched on defaults (BSA Redirection doesn't have options or settings).

If you're using Steam Oblivion, click 'Reset BSA timestamps' first before doing anything else. Then apply the BSA Redirection through the dialog.

 

This will place an empty dummy BSA into your data folder and make an entry inside your "oblivion.ini" within "sArchiveList", so this new BSA is used at the place of the only BSA ever requiring Invalidation. As it's an empty one, no Archive Invalidation will be required anymore from then on, as long as the BSA and the setting in the INI persist. It's a 1-time-only fire-and-forget solution, that's why it's prefered.

 

The only thing left then, you must make absolutely sure there are no left-over "Archive Invalidation.txt" files to be found anywhere inside your game folders. These could've been created automatically, through OBMM or other tools and using one of the out-dated solutions to Archive Invalidation, or manually by yourself adding individual files into the list as instructed by out-dated install instructions in readmes. What they'll do now, as BSA Redirection got applied, is instructing the game to use external file X over internal file X from inside the 'now-empty' dummy BSA, and this is known to cause multiple random issues. No such files must be left in your folders, after applying BSA Redirection.

 

As for your game being installed on an external HDD, this should rule out any file access permission troubles on recent OS already quite fine. The cause for the trouble must lie elsewhere.

[AFakeman]

Yeah, thank you! Finally I can enjoy some nice DarkUI!