autumnsky38 Posted May 17, 2020 Share Posted May 17, 2020 Hi everyone. I installed Oblivion yesterday and have been playing obsessively. ð Iâm dying to use some mods that I found, but when I open them in Winzip, I canât find the location of the game in order to install them. I think I may have installed the game in the wrong section, but I canât find it in order to change that. Does anyone know the best place to install the game? Also, I have Windows 10, and Iâm wondering if that might change where the exe is located? Iâd love to have your help with this, and if you need specs, let me know and Iâll post them. Thanks so much, Tracy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mixxa77 Posted May 17, 2020 Share Posted May 17, 2020 What copy of the game do you own? Steam, GOG, Disc, etc.? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Striker879 Posted May 17, 2020 Share Posted May 17, 2020 (edited) The vanilla game does not have a lot of the folders you see in mods because those folder paths are all hidden in the vanilla game BSA files (e.g. Oblivion - Meshes.bsa and Oblivion - Textures - Compressed.bsa etc).. If the extracted downloads don't start at a Data folder you will probably see something like ... JoesCoolSwordMod | | | JoesCoolSword.esp | |___Meshes | |___Textures JoesCoolSword.esp goes in your Oblivion\Data folder, The Meshes folder goes in your Oblivion\Data folder (so it's then Oblivion\Data\Meshes) and the same with the Textures folder (so Oblivion\Data\Textures). If there are other folders (e.g. Sound) the same deal applies. Old mods (from back in the day of install instructions like "Just extract to your Data folder" ... usually without capitalization and ending with lol) will not have the top level JoesCoolSwordMod folder and will just have the ESP and then subfolders. More modern mods created with the "Use XX Mod Manager to install this" instructions will often have the top level folder. The top level folder is also often found in the "Download this to your desktop and extract there" crowd. There really is no substitute for reading mod descriptions and install instructions (and yes, as you can probably tell, I iknow that a lot of those leave plenty of room for improvement). Edited May 17, 2020 by Striker879 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
autumnsky38 Posted May 17, 2020 Author Share Posted May 17, 2020 Thanks so much, Striker. Going to have to give that a try. And Mixxa 77, I'm using the old Oblivion disc from the old Elder Scrolls Anthology. Love to hear your ideas too. : ) Tracy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Striker879 Posted May 18, 2020 Share Posted May 18, 2020 (edited) All the disk installs I've ever done (using the original release that I got bundled with Bioshock and the disk GotY version) installs to C:\Program Files (x86)\Bethesda Softworks\Oblivion by default (which of course I change to G:\Games\Bethesda Softworks\Oblivion because Program Files is not a good place for games and I have a hard drive dedicated to just games). Didn't the Anthology version require Steam to activate ... that'd be another spot to go looking for the game install if it's not in the obvious location. - Edit - Sorry about the :ninja: Mixxa ... I can't help myself. Edited May 18, 2020 by Striker879 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mixxa77 Posted May 18, 2020 Share Posted May 18, 2020 What Striker said, look for your Bethesda Softworks\Oblivion folder in C:\Program Files, that's the default installation path of the disc versions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leonardo2 Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 Love to hear your ideas too. : )Do you want to hear my ideas? :whistling: Seriously, If you really want to play a modded game then it's highly recommended to use Wrye Bash. Here is a pictorial guide for Wrye Bash and it has everything you need to know about getting started to use Wrye Bash, plus a few other things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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