Installing Shivering Isles on a modded Oblivion

[gurgelstock]

I recently installed OOO and for some reason I am getting odd mesh errors related to oblivion.esm. So I decided to go for the clean install since I have been wanting to install Shivering Isle and the Unofficial Oblivion Patch for quite some time now.

 

Now my concern is this: Oblivion is patched to 1.2, I have various huge mods installed that alter level lists or cells and I used wrye bash to import these changes. This probably means that my game wont even start if I load my last savegame with none of these mods installed. However to perform a real clean install I read that it is recommended to:

a) install oblivion

b) run the game once

c) install dlcs and/or shivering isles

d) install latest update

e) run once more

f) install mods and play

and I simply fear that this wont work for me.

 

So my plan was to:

a) install oblivion

b) run the game once if possible

c) install dlcs including shivering isles

d) install latest update

e) run once more if possible

f) install UOP

g) install OOO

h) install other mods

i) hopefully load my working savegame once all required mods are installed

 

Will this work or is it absolutely required to load and save a game with an unmodded version before reinstalling the mods?

Is it generally a bad idea to install SI on a modded save that has been played for more than 60 hours and has many many mods installed?

Is it generally a bad idea to install the UOP on such a savegame?

 

Thanks for any help!

[dezdimona]

obviously you have no mods requireing SI. Installing if OOO is being used might be a mistake,I'm not sure as I don't use it. My idea would be install Oblivion and SI then add OOO and any other mods.

[gurgelstock]

Yes, none of the various mods I have installed requires SI. I was going to try it that way (oblivion - SI - OOO). Hope this works but if I backup my saves, I can always go back to my current setup.

 

Thanks so far!