Need Help/Guide to a clean install + ceratin Overmods lol

[Vadilou]

Hi Hi

 

I mutilated my Oblivion, I exceed the 255 active mods and tried to merge some esp, It worked and until then everything was allright but then I start finding some issues caused by the lastest mods I installed (most of them graphic issues) so I decided to reinstall the game with some of those Total Conversion mods instead of ColourWheels and Hentai types. LOL

 

What I need is some type of short guide of how to install the following mods becouse they have LONG LONG english readmes for the requirements, incompatibilities and compatibilities. I can understand them but after an hour reading them I get a headache and lose the thread of what I already read LOL

 

My Base Oblivion

 

Oblivion + Shivering Isles + All The Official Plugins + Unofficial Oblivion Patches (FULL)

 

 

List of mods I want to install

 

1 - Oscuro's Oblivion Overhaul (MAJOR MOD)

2 - Better Cities (MAJOR MOD)

3 - Animated Window Lighting System And Chimneys AND/OR Illumination Within Revived (MAJOR MOD)

4 - Enhanced Water

5 - Book Jackets

6 - Shivering Book Jackets

7 - Grimbots Spell Tomes

8 - Book Placement

9 - Oblivion Stereo Sound Overhaul

10 - More Immersive Sound Edited

11 - Atmospheric Oblivion

12 - Better Storms And Weather

13 - Audia Arcanum Sound Overhaul

14 - Symphony Of Violence

15 - Weather Inside [seasons]

16 - Deadly Reflex (MAJOR MOD)

17 - Mayu's Animation Overhaul (MAJOR MOD)

18 - Natural Environments AND/OR Atmospheric Weather SystemSI (MAJOR MOD)

19 - Common Oblivion (MAJOR MOD)

20 - Shadowcrest Vineyard and Shadowcrest Vineyard COBL

21 - NibbenShores Estate

 

 

I need some advice about converting certain ESP into ESM, for example converting the official plugins into ESM is a good idea? <.<

 

I would be glad if somebody can recommend me some other mods to run togheter with those marked as MAJOR MOD if possible too.

 

 

PD: I wrote "ceratin" instead of "certain" in the title <.<

[bben46]

For the clean install, I have a procedure that will do this, as well as allow you to save your current saves and mods in a new directory outside of oblivion, and leaves you with a clean install, plus a backup clean install. Here is the link:

http://s1.zetaboards.com/TheStormRavenLibr.../1446421/1/#new

[Vadilou]

Thanks but I just Uninstalled/Erased EVERYTHING from saves to Registry... I'm a characters murderer xD

 

I finished with this... but I'm not sure how to arrange them. As an example, I don't know what are the level of changes made by OOO and Better Cities to know where to put/activate/deactivate my weapon/armor mods, animation mods, climate mods, races mods, sound mods and Unofficial Patch.

 

ESM and DLCs

 

Oblivion.esm

Oscuro's_Oblivion_Overhaul.esm

HorseCombatMaster.esm (Deadly Reflex master)

Better Cities Resource.esm

Kvatch Rebuild.esm

Cobl Main.esm (Common Oblivion)

bookplacing.esm

AWS-Core.esm

ScreenEffects.esm

DLCOrrery.esp

DLCHorseArmor.esp

DLCFrostCrag.esp

DLCThievesDen.esp

DLCVileLair.esp

DLCMehrunesRazor.esp

DLCSpellTomes.esp

DLCBattlehornCastle.esp

Knights.esp

DLCShiveringIsles.esp

 

 

MIDDLE ESP

 

VA_BetterGold.esp (Gold coins texture replacer)

BeautifulPeople.esp (The version found at Tes Nexus, not the 2ch)

IDKRRR_C_race.esp (Corean)

IDKRRR_C_race_closed_mouth_version.esp (Corean Add-On)

_Ren_BeautyPack_full.esp (Mystic Elf race and Hairs)

Corean_hair_for_Original_race.esp

 

Natural Environments (almost fully Inactive)

Natural_Habitat_by_Max_Tael.esp (Active)

Natural_Vegetation_by_Max_Tael.esp (Active)

 

Morrigan Armor Set v1_0.esp (Armor. Selled at Best Defense)

Morrigan Swords Axes and Shield by Jojjo v1_1.esp (Weapons. Found at Fort Linchal)

Lost Paladins of the Divines.esp (Armor/Weapon/Quest. Some items selled at the IC Market)

VA_UniqueKatana1.esp (Found at Skingrad Fighters Guild basement)

VA_UniqueKatana1Replace.esp

Akaviri Imports.esp (Weapons. Add a house at Weye town)

Blackluster.esp (Armor/Weapons. Selled at Fighters Chance, some pieces found at IC Market street)

UFF_Jenées_Honor.esp (Armor. Selled at Best Defense)

Ancient Silver Armor.esp (Armor. Found at a new sub-cave of Silver Tooth Cave)

ArmorOfTheFallen.esp (Armor. Found at Fort Linchal)

Reccurring Hell Spell.esp (Adds a spell to Edgar's Discount Spells)

KDDwemerSpectacles.esp (Selled at Red Diamond Jewelry)

ScreenControls.esp (Screen Effects)

 

Unofficial Oblivion Patch: Base, SI and DLCs

 

 

SOUND RELATED MODS (Already Arranged)

 

Symphony of Violence.esp

Atmospheric Oblivion.esp (Add Sounds and some graphics)

MIS.esp (More Inmersive Sounds)

MIS Low Wind.esp

MIS New Sounds Optional Part.esp

Storms.esp (Change lightning related effects (including spells))

weather inside [seasons] v1.2.esp

IWR - Windows Lights Shutters - Optimised.esp (Illumination Within Revived Optimised)

 

 

ANIMATION RELATED MODS (Already Arranged)

Deadly Reflex 5 - Combat Moves.esp

seph dual wield.esp

DMC Stylish - Specialanims.esp

Stylish Jump.esp

Spellsinger.esp

Mayu's Animation Overhaul.esp

 

 

DON'T KNOW WHERE... ESP (I put them at the end)

 

LoadingScreens.esp

Oscuro's_Oblivion_Overhaul.esp (Version 1.34b5)

OOO-Waterfish.esp

OOOPekImperialHorseArmor.esp

OOO 1.32-Cobl.esp

Atmospheric Oblivion - OOO Patch.esp

StockClothingArmor-forExnems - OOO Patch.esp

Kvatch Rebuilt - OOO Compatibility.esp

LoadingScreens-OOO.esp

Better Cities .esp

Better Imperial City.esp

Better Cities Full.esp

Better Cities - Full City Defences.esp

Better Cities - COBL.esp

Cobl Si.esp

Cobl Glue.esp

Cobl Tweaks.esp

Cobl Races.esp

Cobl Filter Late MERGE ONLY.esp

Salmo the Baker, Cobl.esp

Book Jackets Oblivion - BP.esp

GrimbotsSpellTomes.esp

Book Jackets DLC.esp

Book Placement V2.esp

Atmospheric Oblivion - AWS Patch.esp

Enhanced Water v2.0 HD.esp

Enhanced Water v2.0 HD - SI Addon.esp

AWS-ShiveringIsles.esp

StockClothingArmor-forExnems.esp

Kvatch Rebuilt.esp

Hiyoko Store.esp

Shadowcrest_Vineyard_COBL.esp

Romuska Fantasy Store.esp

[dezdimona]

General Load-Order Guidelines

Here are the guidelines that I adhere to, personally.

 

~ Unofficial Oblivon Patch should always be first on the list. The fixes are great, but most aren't essential, so if a mod overwrites them its not a big deal, and the fixes have the potential for screwing up other mods if loaded later.

 

~ Offical Content (DLC's) should be loaded last, until you complete all quests associated with them (that includes buying all furniture for the houses and whatnot). Once they're complete, they can be safely moved up in the list. This is especially important for Knights of the Nine, which will have some fairly major problems unless loaded last (unless you get the UOP for KotN)

 

~ Major overhaul mods (OOO, Frans, MMM) should be loaded near the end. That gives you the most complete experience with any of those particular mods. It also lets you carefully choose which other mods to load afterwards... only move mods that you know will conflict and that you want the changes from. For example, I have Improved Soul Gems below OOO because I know that OOO changes the icons of some of the SG's, and ISG needs to be below to show through.

 

Some people will recommend putting larger mods first, but personally I disagree. There are a number of mods out there that make minor tweaks, and loading after a large mod will end up completely overwriting a chunk from one of the bigger mods because of the way conflicts work in Oblivion (even one minor change will take precedence over the entire record... for example, simply tweaking the speed of a weapon can cause every stat of that weapon to be retained to vanilla levels if loaded later).

 

So basically, it stacks up like this...

 

Oblivion.esm

Unofficial Oblivion Patch

<Minor Mods / DLC's (Post-Completion)>

<Major Overhaul Mod/Mods>

<Mods that specifically conflict with overhauls and need to take precedence>

<DLC's (Pre-Completion)>

 

 

 

Expanded Load-Order Guidelines

by dev_akm

 

I would extend this to include:

 

Oblivion.esm

Unofficial Oblivion Patch

<Weather/Environment/Sound Mods>

<Minor Mods/New Items/Houses/DLC's (Post-Completion)>

<Major Overhaul Mods>

<Mods that specifically conflict with overhauls and need to take precedence>

<DLC's (Pre-Completion)>

<Quests>

<Compatibility Patches/UOMP/Merged Leveled Lists>

 

And a special-case warning for Knights.esp (Knights of the Nine) -- you may not be able to move it earlier than some other mods (some people have had problems after moving it before OOO, for example).

 

That's basically the structure I use and I have 140+ mods working well together.

 

Another way of describing this (posted by DMan77):

....

Oblivion

unoffical patch

Deeper realism mods that add sights and sounds

added content like weapons/items

gameplay changes, like 'must eat and sleep'

The OOO type

the 'new begining' type mod..

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[Vadilou]

Thank you, I will try that Load Order. =)

[yetimen]

can someone help me with shadowcrest vineguard,cant see to find the letter in the chapel(skingrad)

am not sure if COBL is installed write,

thanks for helping,