Distrance

Any news on the invisibility fix/workaround? I like to sneak around a lot, steal items and sell the loot, but I really don't feel like wasting my once-per-day spell (power of those born under Shadow) when the skill is gone when you open a door for example. Haven't played at all yet due this (and due dying all the damn time..). Thanks for all of your help though.. at least now I am at a point where the game works.

Sure is hard to level up if high level creatures wonder around even at the starting place .. o,o. how am I supposed to level up if anything i meet kills me so quickly? As I was heading to Chorrol, there was also this fort that Oblivion XP identified as '' easy ''. Despite that, as soon as I was spotted by a raider there, I got owned like hell. As for DR, to my understanding it offers a lot different attack types but I'm not really sure how to execute them? For example, it talks about shield bashing, or power attacks. However, it does not speak how to execute these. The only power attack I'm aware of is holding down attack key for longer but surely there are others, probably even in vanilla? So if there are, how do I learn those. As for invisibility, it's exactly what I meant. There's Chameleon spell but that does not make you completely invisible. There's also spells/scrolls that make you completely invisible, but while invisible, if you take any action such as attack/open door or well, anything besides walking around, the invisibility is lost. I find this annoying and would like a '' fix '' for this. # Active Mod Files: #

It's just on Local Map wherever I go. What do you mean by 100% and 75% values? I have met yet another problem with Deadly Reflex, or at least I think it's by DR : This isn't exactly a problem I suppose but lack of skill or my understanding of the mod .. So what I did was exit Imperial City and head to the first place on the main quest near Chorrol. And what happened was that I died to the very first wild life animal that I came across. my sword did almost no damage at all, and I could only take two hits and then I died.. Though I had no shield, I doubt that it would have made much of a difference. Also not related to any of the above but is there a mod to modify how invisibility skills work? I find it retarded that if you're invisible but then open a door to exit/enter a building or interior within a building will make the invisibility to disappear. A mod to '' fix '' this would be appreciated.

Well I think I can live with the '' immersion '' the DR brings, because at the DR page I was told there's no way to remove it, only tweak it with the fnear (tho it doesn't work for me but oh well..) Anyway.. I got Fearsome Magicka now installed, as well as Sounds of Cyrodiil though not sure if either of them is working as I've not played much. The game appears to be stable so far, but there's a problem for minimizing/exiting the game : Whenever I minimize the game, and return, all I see is black. Whenever I close the game, it just freezes and doesn't close. I also installed the crash prevention thing but it didn't help at all. Any suggestions for more mods? What I specifically want is more texture/graphic mods to enhance the '' eye candy '' the game could offer. The Qarl's texture pack only enhanced the building textures and such, but things like clothes, weapons (I think..?) and for example, Oblivion Gate and inside Oblivion remain untouched. Only one graphical glitch for now, and that is in the map menu. The blackness I assume is fog, but that red square overlapping with the map puzzles me.. http://www.xfire.com/profile/distrance/screenshots/?view#118411995

It's weird though.. I got different modified skeleton that was suggested to me at DR comment section, but the skeleton remained exactly same as it was before installing the new skeleton... Oh and I tried it ; If I delete the skeleton file and then run Archive Invalidation, I no longer have any kind of '' skeleton '' in 1st person mode.. my sword and whole body is invisible.

I dont want to remove the animations for DR, they're one of the reasons why DR is great. However, like I said, I want to get rid of the immersion. I want to see my weapon properly and my magic casted properly instead of going '' outside '' of the screen. Maybe there's certain file I should delete if I only want to get rid of this?

Edit : nvm what was written before. So I think I got Liquid Water now working, but I'm not sure.. how do I know? I don't even remember what the water is supposed to look like in Vanilla. Also does Liquid only really affect how it appears on surface? When I '' dive in '', it looks as plain and boring as it did in Vanilla, it's almost like I'm floating in air, not swimming in water.. I got the DR graphical glitches fixed by running TES4LODGEN that for some reason no longer came up with the DR error, but the immersion problem remains.. I cannot seem to turn it off to the normal version.. what to do? Also : I got All Natural installed.. I think it messes with the weather .. or something, I'm not really sure. Anyway, whenever I load a game, there's a huge thunderstorm going on. Does the weather really carry over even when you quit and load a game? Cause now as it is it seems that the storm will go on and go on... Also got some weird graphical glitches in my Tab menu.. I'll post them here when I figure out how.

Did what you suggested with DR : It still doesn't work ... sword/magic is outta screen and the graphical glitches are still present. BC is now functioning correctly, I had completely ignored the '' Resources pack '' and had only downloaded main files and '' Permanent resources ''.

It doesn't crash when taking screenshots, it crashes when screenshots are enabled from ini and I try to load my game o.O. I'll see if I can get xFire working with it and take scrn shots thru that if i run into any problems. Thanks for the Reflex fix, I prefer it as normal and not as '' immersive '' as you say. When I installed DR thru OBMM, it should be noted that it never asked me that optional step ... I also might have found a fix to the BC problem.. I'll try it in a moment and report back. As for the graphic intensive thing, I think I'm fine with my rig. And if I'm not, all it should require is some overclocking for my processor and I'm back in the business (5Ghz can be easily reached..). At least, that's what I was told because apparently Oblivion is more a CPU hog than graphic card. Speaking of graphics, what other texture mods do you recommend? Qarl doesn't include the Oblivion for example, or armor/clothes among other things and it would be nice to have those looking as good as the other textures.

I got rid of the graphical glitch by de-activating Better Cities. However, as I want to use Better Cities, I'm not sure what to do now..? As soon as I enable Better Cities and whether I run it thru archive invalidation or not, the towns are glitched. There's also still also the issue of the weapon/magic/hands being glitches/out of screen and whatever. This also has caused weird crashing to happen : If I disable Deadly Reflex which I believe is the cause of this '' problem '', the game no longer loads but crashes to the loading screen when loading a save. If i enable DR again, the game will load normally, but the glitches are present ... WHY MUST THIS BE SO DAMN DIFFICULT?! Edit : got DR glitch somehow fixed meaning it doesn't crash now with it disabled. However, as I do want to use DR, I'm at loss what to do now because I find it retarded that I'm missing half of my hands and the spells/sword are so zoomed in/high up that I can barely see them.

Doesn't matter which settings I use ; The towns remain glitched and i don't understand why.

More bugs hooray : I got out of tutorial and to Imperial city. No crashes there so it's '' stable '' I guess, except that the Imperial City was bugged as hell. There was portion of Imperial city behind the actual city that was missing a lot of textures .. just floating walls and whatnot, but this was the case with the actual city too.. from the outside, and from the inside. a lot of '' WTF?! I'm missing a mesh '' stars.. How do I fix this?

Yea I implemented alterattion NOW, after installing loads of mods. Does this apply for any other mods aside from the text. pack or do I have to de-activate and re-activate those mods again? And I say alteration because the Texture pack said so in the instructions.. to use alteration. More glitches : I got rid of the weird animation effect, but now there's a graphical glitch. When I draw my bow, the end of the arrow isn't displayed properly and my hand which is holding the arrow also disappears.. How do I fix this? This also happens for my left hand whenever I swing my sword.. the hand is displayed briefly on the left as I swing, and parts of the hands are missing o.O Also I can't see my sword properly.. Is this also because of DR or was Oblivion always like this? What I mean basically is that even in first person it appears somewhat zoomed and the sword is against the right edge of the monitor and you can't see all of it.. I don't recall it looking like this though. Same happens when I cast spells.. my hand is raised above the screen and I can't see the magical effect aside from the sparkles around me when I heal .. wtf? I'd take screen shots of my problems but the game crashes when I enable them in the ini -.-.

Forgot to do it : Did it now, and the textures are working correctly. The guards aren't glitching anymore either with what missing legs and such. I'll play thru the tutorial now and see how it works outside of the prison (or if it crashes...) and report back then. There's still few mods I have to install too. Also something I'm wondering about : Are there any other mods in which I should use archive invalidation after installation? When I did it, it didn't work at first so I had to de-activate and re-activate the mod and then do it for it to work.. Do I have to do this for all my currently installed mods? Edit : weird glitch happening. Is this because of Deadly Reflex? When I ready my weapon, or put it back, the action happens twice like so : Press F and it does the movement as if I drew my sword but it's just my hand moving about (sound effects play though..), then, it does it again right after it, with this time actually drawing the sword. Same goes for putting the sword away and I do have to say that it is rather annoying.

Well it definitely ISNT working if that's how the cell should look like. I used OMOD to install the texture pack so why isn't it working? And guess what, I can't take a screenshot because the game crashes right when I start a new game and I've created my character if the screenshot option is enabled from the ini... disable it, and it doesn't crash o.O There's also some weird graphical glitches going on.. When the guards come by and enter the room, the two male guards lack any hands or legs... they're just floating about ... The female guard, and the king however, appear normal.