DLCShiveringIsle.esp

[oldmike1]

Purchased ELDER Scrolls IV from GOG. When installed ran LOOT for load order and conflicts to fix. LOOT is saying DLCShiveringIsle.esp is empty. Checked directory and it is a 1k file, which is default size for files in windows, even if empty. Opened trouble ticket with GOG. They say it is fine, but their file listing from their end also shows it to be a 1k file. LOOT is placing it at the 2nd slot load order, due to it being 'empty'. Can anyone help? Please.

Thanks in advance.

Mike

[Striker879]

The file DLCShiveringIsles.esp is just that ... an empty ESP whose sole purpose is to get the game to load the assets found in DLCShiveringIsles.bsa. The rest of what the game needs to run SI is found in the replacement Oblivion.esm that shipped with that DLC (and I assume is the Oblivion.esm that GOG includes with their GotY edition that includes Shivering Isles).

 

BOSS has DLCShiveringIsles.esp near the top of the load order in the section they label //Fixes for vanilla game bugs, everything else must be allowed to override these.//

 

Does LOOT say it's placing it there because it's empty or is it placing it just below Oblivion.esm because you don't have any other ESM/ESPs that should go above it?

Edited January 8, 2020 by Striker879

[oldmike1]

Loot v0.15.1 puts DLCShiveringIsle.esp just below Oblivion.esm with these 'icons' to the right -

• The “Empty Plugin” icon.
• The “Loads Archive” icon.
• The “Verified clean” icon.

[Striker879]

I'm not familiar with LOOT myself (a bit of a dinosaur here) but having DLCShiveringIsles.esp right below Oblivion.esm won't cause any issues. The game will always load ESMs before ESPs anyway, so even if an ESM was listed below DLCShiveringIsles.esp it wouldn't cause any problems.