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I do this myself manually using active inventory spell. Thats probably the best your gonna get.

Do you use Wyre Bash? I think there is a bashed patch option to override it with an alternet animation...

Hey guys, I realize most people use OCOv2, but i'm wondering if there are any XEO or EURN users out there? Maybe you can help me out. For my new Oblivion play through, I was planning on using MBP and XEOSP or ES74's Unique Race & NPCs for an anime like oblivion overhaul. I'm looking for feedback as to witch one people prefer more. Which one is more complete?(changes the most NPCs). Which one is more buggy/gamebreaking? I also plan on using the one I chose to manually change npcs via TESCS from other 3rd party mods like Better Cities and Elsweyr Anequina, and wondering if anyone knows which would be easier for this task.. XEOSP is pretty cool but I like the idea of a MBP based NPC replacer since I will already by installing MBP anyway. Also, I haven't seen or heard any mention of anybody trying out EURN's latest 2013 version, and was hoping to hear feedback from anybody who has used it. Thanks in advance for your feedback guys...

why not just use fomo? You could just rip all the outfits you want from the individual, mods then dump them all into one esp using the tes constuction set.

Yes, I have had the same problem as well. i would usually ignore it and keep moving and the stuck partner would eventualy just respawn next to me. dies that not happen for you?

Hi guys. I usually use oco2 as my character overhaul but this playthough I decided to use Xeosp instead. As you may or may not know, xeosp only changes vanilla npcs and not those of added mods like cm partners. I tried chandging the vanilla races of npcs from cm parnters to that of xeosp using the standard method of making your own custom race cm partner ( ) but the results were disastorous to say the least.lol! I somehow managed to delete the oblivion world space where me and all other npcs all fall into an endless black hole!. can somebody please explain the procesess of changing the race of npcs of other 3rd party mods like cm parntners and better citties? or at least point me twards some sort of guide on how to do it. The cm partner readme only tells you how to make your own custom race partner, not how to cange the race of the alreasdy exsisting partners. Thanks guys.

Welcome to Oblivion. As you may or may not know, your problem is a common one. 1st off, It always helps to list your computer specs. Oblivion is basically a very poorly optimized port of a console game. Combine that with resource heavy mods like FCOM and Better cities and your bound to have performance issues at some point... It kinds comes with the territory. When you say it drops down to 15-20fps, for how long does it drop for? is it permanent or does it only last a few seconds then go back to 60?

Lol! you're probably right ;) I'll post the results when I pop the new card in, I may wait till rx 580 are back in, which may not be until a few weeks from now.

That's true for The vanilla game, but I think graphics mods are a different story. In fact, if I remember correctly, there is a ENB based mod that specifically states that its best used by a gpu with 4gb of vram or more, I will post a link if I remember it or come across it again. We'll find out once I get the new card and I crank it up to 4k, add a bunch of EBN effects/shaders and dump the highest grade textures I can find into the game.

Hell, that's the most important part...at least to me. Even a 1050ti would be a improvement over my 6950. She's served me well for 6 years now but she's showing her age. At this point I've narrowed it down to either a rx580, rx480 or a 1060, which seem to be the "best bang for the buck" cards. The rx480 and 580 seem to be sold out everywhere, so I may have to settle for 1060, despite being slightly slower and only 6gig as opposed to the 8gigs of vram I'll get from a 480 or 580...but who knows if I'll even get to use up all 6, let alone 8. I'm gonna try though.. :wink:

What part of Canada do you hail from? You're not near Windsor are you? I rarely kill anymore .. Wow, how ...empathetic of you. Reminds me of good old days when I'd play Metal Gear Solid and just use the tranquilizer gun on everybody... so they could all go home to their families. Plus, I think you got rewards if you could beat the game without killing anybody. That also kind of explains why you were only getting 15 minutes of playtime. Hell, I usually got at least an hour from my 8800gt. Lol, I was hoping blockheading was referring to some magical way of lowering the polygon count for NPC's heads. From what I've learned, NPC heads are one of the main things the game has to render that brings game performance down. I think it has to do with oblivion coming out before advanced bitmapping techniques that reduce the need for high polygon counts when rendering human faces. I was looking at getting a 1050ti or 1060 with as much VRAM as possible, so I can play at 4k, add some REALY hi-res textures and ENB shaders. I figured getting a lower end card with more VRAM makes more sense than buying a superclocked 1080 that would most likely be overkill for Oblivion and Dolphin.

I not exactly sure what you mean by cpu limit, but if you're referring to bottlenecking than yes, I'm already aware of that. However, from my research, my Phenom 2 can be used with anything up to a 760 without any bottlenecking or performance loss. Anything above that i.e. a 960 or 970, depending on the game, there will be about a 10-25% bottleneck/performance loss. I would still see a dramatic improvement over my 6950 in most if not all modern games, older games like Oblivion are a different matter though. I'm glad you saw such a dramatic improvement from your cpu upgrade but I 'm not sure I will have the same performance increase in Oblivion as you did. First off, you were upgrading from a 15 year old cpu to a modern one, I will be upgrading from a 6 year old cpu, less than half the time gap. Second, as I stated above, the last time I upgraded my cpu and gpu, I saw little to no performance increase in Oblivion. Also, clock speeds are not always the determining factor of how well a processor performs. For example: both my former E4500 Core 2 Duo and my current Phenom 2 are clocked at 2.2 and 2.8ghz, yet both are vastly superior to your former P4 clocked at 3.0ghz. If it were just a matter of clock speeds, I could easily overclock my cpu to 3.8-to 4.0ghz with the aftermarket cooler I already have installed on it. I guess at this point, the question isn't will I see an improvement with a brand new system, its whether or not it will be enough of a performance leap forward to justify $1000+ buck cost. If I were to do it to play all the new Call of Duty and Modern Warfare games at 4k, then It would be worth it I guess. But for all the old s#*! I play like Oblivion, Neverwinter 2 and emulators like MAME and Dolphin, its probably money better spent else ware. At this point, I'm thinking of just getting a new lower end GPU (like strikers 1050) just for more VRAM to add more hi res textures and shaders/ENB effect...

Hey striker...I was hoping you would reply...:) First off, If you could explain exactly what blockheading is? Thanks. "The game runs about the same as it did before performance wise" That's kinda what I was afraid of, I actually first started playing Oblivion back in 2008 on my then brand new 2.2ghz Core 2 Duo with 3gb DDR2 ram and a NVidia 8800gt to now on my current Phenom 2 1055t 8gb DDR3 and 6950 system...and honestly noticed very little difference in Oblivion's performance despite the fact I'm running it on much better hardware. In all fairness though, I only ran a handful of mods back then compared to the 200 plus mods in my load order now. "You would perhaps think that the video card upgrade should have got me more than the ability to handle my Blockheading but remember I'm plugging it into that same old version 2.0 PCI-E slot so it still is communicating with the rest of the system no faster than the old card" If I remember correctly, GPU's at that time were not fully utilizing the transfer speeds of PCI-E 2.0 ports even if they were 2.0 designed cards. I remember reading up on it at the time debating whether or not to wait for PCI-E 3.0 or just buy a 2.1 motherboard I'm using now. The argument at the time was not to wait to upgrade or waste money on PCI-E 3.0 when brand new cards at the time(like your 275) weren't even fully using 2.0 bandwidth limits. I'm pretty sure that's not the case for a newer card like your 1050, so you should still expect to see a increase in performance, obviously not as much as you would get with a newer motherboard/cou. Otherwise, if there was no transfer speed/ performance increase, why bother spending $150 bucks on a fully handicapped 1050?

Interesting, was the CPU the only thing you upgraded? What are your system specs before and after the upgrade? Texture mods should be GPU dependent, other mods could be a different story I guess. Interesting bit of info from Striker789. Link to the thread: https://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/4753255-overclocking-cpu-for-oblivion/ "Modern CPUs have some features that work against performance on an older game like Oblivion. In multi-core CPUs (and actually all CPUs since the GHz wars ended) there have been an increasing number of changes to how CPUs execute tasks that have put older software at a disadvantage, with the biggest culprit being execution pipelines that try to predict what the next task or operation will be. When they guess right the CPU appears faster than clockspeed alone would predict ... when the guess is wrong the whole execution pipeline needs to flush it's contents and start over, losing a large number of CPU cycles in the process. Older CPUs had shorter execution pipelines as well and as such were trying to do less "at the same time" than modern execution pipelines. This Wikipedia page will probably put you into information overload ... scroll down to the part about Parallelism for more detail around the modern optimizations of CPU execution units." By no means am I saying you're wrong or anything, I just want to make sure that if I spend a $1000 plus bucks on a brand new build, as opposed to just throwing a new GPU in my current system, the gains will be worth the expense and effort.

I guess a better questions is, are there any other hardware upgrades besides a new gpu that would make Oblivion(my favorite game) run any better at this point? I don't think a new processor or ddr4 ram would help much, which would be my only reasons for building a brand new system at this point.