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Actually, I found out that stacking the Spyro and Cynder mods on top of your dragon race mod allowed me to play as a Spyro/Cynder hybrid (as in, a Spyro-looking male dragon with Cynder's horns), yet using the actual Cynder model (female black dragon) caused serious lag issues, even on the lowest graphics settings. And I have a quad-core laptop with a 2.6 GHz standard processing speed, and 3.2 GHz overclock capacity. I have 8 GB of DDR3 RAM, and a 400 GB HDD. However, the main bottleneck is this: Intel HD Graphics 3000 integrated graphics chip. My only option for better performance would be to shell out around 300 dollars total for an external graphics rig (roughly 200 for the graphics card, and the other 100 for an external Thunderbolt rig with cooling fans). To put it into perspective, that's more than what I paid for this laptop. I got it on sale for a mere 200 dollars at a local pawn shop. ;)

Actually, it seems as if the only real problem is that I don't get the extra accents like the reddish colored belly, and the more metallic colored wing and arm blades. Not sure why it's not letting me do that. How would I go about changing the color of those parts? Also...the Spyro mod works as intended. The Cynder one doesn't, though. I might have to use the red/gold dragon model, but with the Cynder mod installed.

Welp...I'd rather just play Cynder as-is, without having to jump through more hoops to get armor to work properly. Besides...when did she ever wear armor in any of the games she played in? LOL One last thing, though: I'm not sure how familiar you are with the Spyro/Cynder mods, but how would I go about changing the color of Cynder's stomach? Right now, it matches the color of the rest of her skin (read: dark purple, almost black). How would I go about making it pink?

First off, I am indeed using the Steam version, which I just purchased around 2 weeks ago. And secondly, I am attempting to use manual install methods, as this is the most direct. And thirdly, I have already attempted to replace the default skeleton with various universal ones. (the one by Growlf, yours, and the Maximum Compatibility one have all been tried, all to no avail). However, your mention of the "Paranoia Folder" is quite possibly easily fixed. All I'd have to do is move the entire thing to an easy to identify (and get to) folder. And, ironically, I've used Mod Organizer before, and it is downright child's-play stuff for Skyrim. However...I have no clue how it would work for Oblivion. UPDATE: I found a set of skeletons that seems to have fixed the wing and armblade warping issue. However, I had to remove the default clothes a character normally starts with, to get the proper appearance. Now I have a proper Cynder character.

I applied that selfsame solution to my problem (same as OP--wings and tail horribly distorted), yet I'm still getting the same exact results, as if I hadn't even tried to replace the original skeletons used by the game. So...something else is either preventing the new skeletons from being detected by the game, or another variable is "at work" here. In either case, I'm still at Square 1 here. 1. I downloaded and installed ALL prerequisite mods. 2. I then installed the Spyro mod and Cynder mod. Despite following every single step to the letter, I'm still getting the stretched wings/tail problem. So...what could possibly be going wrong? Or, am I putting the skeletons in the wrong folder?