akbaroth

I've done several searches for shadow-related bugs, although i've found TONS of results for many kinds of bugs none are anything like mine. this is one of two problems that update 1.4 introduced for me, and before anyone asks, yes i have done the basics: turn off every mod then turn them back on one at a time (the bug occurs without any mods), re-install (didn't help at all). my graphics card is NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M. i've uploaded several screenshots here to help explain it, but i think a video might do it more justice (i've never made a video from a game before so i wouldn't know where to start). i play in third person most of the time and the bug is totally different in first person. 1st i don't think i need to say what is wrong here. 2nd you may notice the left side of the screen... where my shadow is. this causes a lot of places to become much darker than they should be (comparison) the shadows also move along the ground whenever the camera moves, if i start moving and the camera follows the shadows move with me, following me. if i turn the camera the shadows ripple a little they stay in roughly the same spot (here, here, here, and here) I only switch to first-person when stealth or precision are needed. when i do things start out normal, but whenever the camera moves closer to an object this happens. i'm at a loss as to how to fix this at this point, i've checked guide after guide on how to fix shadow bugs but i can't find anything even related to this. --- on a side note patch 1.4 has made the underwater shader totally opaque. as soon as the camera dips below the water the screen turns solid blue, solid green, or in some waters solid brown or gray. i'm not too fussed about this as the console command TCL can at least make water visable. not the best fix, but i haven't found anything better yet. here we can see the picturesque Lake Honrich in all it's glory!

the mod the armor i've been using these robes (clothes version) for a few days now, it's the first time i've actually LOVED a piece of equipment. unfortunately, i hate red. if someone would be willing to recolor the ends of the sleeves, the rim at the bottom of the robes, the armor plating on the chest, the buttons holding the piece of black cloth over the plate, the shoes, and the gloves, probably the book as well: all to a dark vivid blue. using a hex color code generator i think #000059 seemed like it was the best color i would like. and that's pretty much it. if this isn't the sort of thing normally done here, or i'm doing something else wrong, i apologize in advance. i also recognize that i may have been a bit too specific when writing this up, but having been one of the only half-intelligent students at a high school for 'special' kids, i learned hard and fast to be clear and precise in EVERY step of instructions you give. if you find anything else red, or that you think would clash too much with the new color, go ahead and change it. obviously don't just simply change everything to that exact shade of blue, the red isn't all exactly the same, so the blue shouldn't be either. thanks in advance.

i, also, strongly support this. i almost never play non-mages, no matter what game i'm playing, and this just sounds awesome.

i don't know if this is the right place to put ths, or if there's much chance of help, but here goes i recently have been encountering a glitch where certain types of enemies will spawn completely paralyzed (or i think they are) they don't move, they're lying down in a standing position, their eyes are open, trying to talk to them makes me pickpocket them (sneaking or not) they don't react to anything. it seems the longer i play a character file the more likely this is to happen. but i've only seen it happen to necromancers (boss or otherwise), xivilai, daedroth, dremora, and once to a spider daedra. it happened after i installed wyre bash, i'm pretty sure i did everything correctly, even w/o being told i could tell it was not a simple mod to install, so i carefully followed instructions. i had been using wrye bash for a little over a day when i first noticed it, but it was the most recent thing for oblivion i got, and the only new thing i'd gotten in over a month. turning other mods on and off made no effect. i have since uninstalled oblivion, made backups of 2 mods' settings text files, delete the oblivion folder in 'program files' and all mods within, deleted the oblivion folder in 'my games,' realized the backups i made were in that last folder, re-installed oblivion via GOTY cd, and re-downloaded a short list of mods i always use, left wrye bash out to see if it really was the culprit (i'm not saying it is, by any means, but from my perspective it had been the prime suspect). but just now i found a necromancer lying on the ground in a standing position, completely ignoring me, staring at the ceiling. i tried talking to him, and ended up taking his potions, before killing him with a nice lightning bolt. so, it doesn't seem to have been wrye bash, i uninstalled it, wrye python, and everything else that came with it. i don't know how easy this kind of troubleshooting is, but here's a list of the mods i'm currently using: Obmm 1_1_12 (from the full installer) obse version 18 from the omod list: Unofficial_Oblivion_Patch_v3_2_0_OMOD_Version-5296 (exactly what obmm lists it as) Supreme Magicka 0.89 Robert's Male Body Replacer v5 Beta 1.0 Oblivion_XP_v415_-_OMOD-15619 DarNified UI 1.3.2 from the .esp/.esm list: Oblivion.esm Unofficial Oblivion Patch.esp Knights.esp DLCShiveringIsles.esp Ring of Console.esp Kikai & Slof Clothing.esp Slof's Oblivion Goth Shop.esp Demon Hunter.esp (http://tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=27133) Spell Delete And Item Remove.esp MaleBodyReplacerV4.esp SupremeMagicka.esp SM_ShiveringIsles.esp SM_Scrolls.esp SM_SigilStone.esp SM_EnchantStaff.esp Oblivion XP.esp i've been using all of these for a long time and don't see what could have caused this to have happend, before i reinstalled oblivion, my main file was over 31 hours old (not old at all), and the problem kept getting worse the longer it went. i hadn't been able to fight a daedroth at all, it got so bad. about half of all xivilai were paralyzed like this, and more than half of all necromancers. when i charge through the dark fissure, spells blazing, i expect to be met with a fight, not nap time. i don't know if this kind of problem is easy to deal with, if this is common, or w/e. but any help would be apreciated. as to trying to use forum search to look for help already given: i tried, but ask any of my friends, if i find something on a search, it's a sign of the apocalypse.