Kutter

I had the same issue. This is the solution: Open Tools -> Settings -> Workarounds Open Executables Blacklist Delete Steam.exe from the list and press OK.After doing this, Zuun's solution works perfectly, with Steam fully closed. Zuun's and this solution work! I tried for a VERY long time to get this working, following every solution there was online. The official posts on Nexus and every other source seem to suggest that this is YOUR problem, that somehow you have done something wrong. I was convinced I had not! This solution requires you to have steam shut down before launching. Then it launces the usual lancher (which feels wrong) just click play.. Dont add data files.. nothing. Just follow the two posts and the solution seems to be magic!! Don't question it, just thank these guys and go play Oblivion!

AH HA! That would explain it, thankyou David. So does this mean that NO Frostbite Spider in the game will ever have the new stats, or just the one spawned infront of me? Could you clarify how far reaching the 'savegame data' is please, and is there a way to make it work for all mobs (even those spawned already.) Or do I need to restart playing the game to see my changes.. Which also seems odd, considering the game is supposed to be modable and this seems restrictive. Thanks for your help!

Hi David, thank you so much for your time. Unfortunately this doesn't work either :( I have retried it after reading your post, and NOTHING changes the health of the spider infront of me in my save game. Are you sure its the right spider your changing? Yes, as I change its name each time to make SURE I am editing the right one. As above NOTHING changes its health amount. Offset does nothing (with or without autocalc) Level does nothing Calculated health seems to be ignored altogether. I am incredulous that this would be such a difficult thing to do! lol.. Any one else? Any other thoughts David? Thanks again all for your input.

Can noone help me with this?

Thanks again for your quick reply! :) I have unticked the Auto Calc button but still I can't change the Base Health amount, it remains greyed out! I've never modded a thing before, and was just wanting to mess around with individual creatures to see how things worked. I figured that the easiest thing to do would be mess with their overall health amount. I had no plans, just really wanted to see what my lvl 44 character was capable of killing 'Health Wise' with the weapons he has. I have a save game infront of a frostbite spider, and seeing as this is a random encounter I understand that changing the health amount would change it for ALL spiders of that type. This is fine as I'm saving all changes to my own mod file. It's very dissapointing that the first thing I try and do I have such amazing difficulty doing :( I would have thought that changing a creatures health would be about the easiest thing to do.. Obviously I'm wrong. Is there no way to do this at all? And if not.. How do people do create these rebalance mods that I see all the time for bethesda products. Surely there HAS to be a way to change the base health of a creature? Thanks so much for your help and thanks for your patience in helping out a noob :P

Hi, thanks for the reply... I am not at all sure what you mean here. I simply want to change the Base Health of a creature (all instances of that creature) I dont even see anything about 'template' and I also dont see anything showing me whats being 'taken' from that template. Sorry :( I don't understand at all.

Hey all, I would like to know how to change the base health stat of creatures who's base health stat is 'greyed out' Example... Encfrostbitespider and the large and giant versions also. When you look at their stats tab, the base health amount is unchangable... How would I go about changing this BASE stat for ALL of these spiders?? Thanks for your help.

Hi all, As the title suggests I have a crash EVERY time I try to enter the Senaca station. I know from past play of the game its where Ian west is, and I was wondering if I can just skip it? I have tried everything to get it working, the rest of the game seems to work no problem whatsoever. I have disabled every mod I have, back to vanilla Fallout, but the crash still happens, like this: Enter the station, move mouse left or right, CRASH... If i dont move the mouse however I can walk forward???? Go figure, but as soon as i move the mouse left or right, CRASH I cant start again, I have started this game OVER AND OVER and wanted to play right through this time! So, can I skip this place altogether without damaging my game or enjoyment? Thanks in advance. Kutt.

Hi all, I am a long time fan of Fallout3, but have never had the chance to play it properly. For one reason or another I have had issue, after issue, after issue with the game, and have spent more time looking at mod descriptions than actually playing. I don’t want to do this anymore, I desperately want to just PLAY Fallout 3… finally! I have bought myself a nice new shiny Fallout GOTY edition, so I now have everything, and it’s all installed and patched to 1.7! Now here’s what I really want from this game, and the reason I’m here to ask the mod community for help because I am just so confused by how much the ‘major overhauls’ do that I am thinking I don’t really want to use one of those at all! I would like to use mods because I think they have a lot to offer the game, but as a fairly new-comer to this it all seems so incredibly complicated that I don’t know where to start… That’s hopefully where you kind folk could help me :) So here goes… How do I accomplish all this… I want to do away with ‘leveled creatures and npc’s’ (I really don’t like this style of gaming, I want to become tough and be able to kill things with one shot when I’m tough enough’ I want to feel my character grow in strength, and not always be bashing at monsters that are always just tough enough to give me a fight! Leveled lists… I want them gone!) I want to have companions, not overpowered ones, just companions that can help me thorough out the game and DLC. (Being able to hire help has always appealed to me. Note that I don’t actually know if this is part of the vanilla game/DLC or not as I have never played far enough through) I want to have a place of my own that I can store items in. I want to be able to craft there too. (This area of the game I would love to be fully featured – I did look at the ‘Real Time Settler’ mod for this but felt that it may be a little overkill. I did love the idea of being able to create your own place though – albeit a village! :)) I would like a GOOD weapon mod that makes weapons sound and feel more powerful. (and hence more useful. Weapon mods in my view need to be done extremely well, are there any out there?) I would like a good working economy, one that I can use to my advantage. (I don’t mind going out and lookin for/farming items for profit. I actually quite like it. But I want it to feel that it’s worthwhile. I don’t want a broken economy that would ruin the game for me. There are some other things I’d like, but I think browsing the mods some more is on the cards for me anyway, so I’ll look some up. I think all I really want from you guys is some suggestions on mods that may help make the game more like I want it above. Mods that play nicely together etc. Thanks for your help in advance all, Kutter.

Hi all, I am at my wits end! I am a person that likes to 'return' to games... I have 'returned' to Fallout 3 and Oblivion more times than I can remember! And i have ALWAYS had the same problem! I desperately want to use mods!! So badly! In Oblivion, I want to use Obscuro's Oblivion Overhaul.. With MMM. In Fallout 3 I want to use MMM and Fook2! But after 'returning' to these games time and time again (oblivion I would say more than 7 times!!!)... And carefully installing Bashed patches, and Mod manager programs etc etc etc etc etc etc etc!! I can NEVER... and i repeat NEVER get these games to work without crashing!! I just dont get it! A little about me... I am an IT engineer for a large company. I work with PC's everyday. I started my computer life at age 15 with a zx spectrum that I used to program and take to bits... From there i went on to commodore 64, amiga, atari ST, pc 486... pentium 1.... etc etc etc... I am NOT a newb! I know how to edit an ini file, and I know how to read and follow instructions! But no matter how many times I try to make Fallout and Oblivion work with mods (no mater HOW CAREFULL I AM TO FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS) I fail every single time! The latest installation of Fallout, which I desperately want to play with mods (because I think leveled lists and mobs is extremely BAD for enjoyment) just crashes randomly within 15 minutes of play EVERY time I start it. I have carefully picked a load order for mods, I have carefully made bashed patches (cant remember what they called for fallout - but done those carefully too!) I use the mod manager and yet simply cant get the game to work fluidly!! Seriously folks.. Can anyone even guess at how I am going wrong? It cant even be my hardware, as over the years I have had several 'different' machines that BOTH games have repeatedly failed on! Oh and get this... The latest failure is the Texture pack! NMC's texture pack! (I only know this because the game will run for 10 minutes before crashing!) It simply does not work! I have installed it MANY times, making sure that its not installing to the wrong folder, making sure it OVERWRITING files in its instilation! yes STILL the new textures do not show up in game! GO FIGURE!! WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY, can I not make these two games work with mods??? I dont really expect a reply, but would appreciate anyone else who wants a rant to tack on to this post... Oblivion and fallout 3 are amazing games that NEED to be patched to be what they should have been out of the box... But no matter how hard I try! I can NOT make either work, smoothly with mods! Thanks for listening to my rant.... Kutter.