A guide to installing Oblivion Mods and Common Problems

[Lunairalasce]

Great guide mate, i honestly think it should get pinned.

[dezdimona]

Guide is looking very good. stay at it! :thumbsup:

[AncientSpaceAeon]

The guide is really good, keep improving it.

 

Is this pinned yet ?

[bben46]

It's not finished yet. I will consider it for pinning then.

[Cold101]

Updated.

[BossDweebe]

The guide is looking good, and it has made me realise the error of my ways as well.

My earlier comments would show my own confusion on the mechanics of installing a mod.

 

Many read me's say things like "copy to your Oblivion Data folder". It's been a long

time since I have done that, so I forgot what happens. This has led me to say the same

thing in my read me's, but I don't install that way. So your guide had helped clear some of

the mush from my ancient brain as well.

 

After reading this thread I looked at the procedure again and was reminded that if you copy

a Data folder to the Oblivion\Data folder you will have a new Data folder in the original -

Oblivion\Data\Data. This then is the reason many read me's correctly say "copy to the Oblivion Directory".

(I can see clearly now the mush has gone)

 

I had this double folder name problem when I first started installing mods, but had forgotten

about it over the years. The multiple folders issue, along with my paranoia about overwriting files

without knowing what is being overwritten, has led me to being a die hard manual installer.

 

I still install every mod the slow way.

Click through the mods folders/subfolders one by one and compare with the folders/sub folders

in the games Data folder.

When I find a folder in the mod with a new name I copy it over to the game.

So the game folder I am in, eg - Data\Textures - will get this new folder (as, TK, custom, etc).

-Data\Textures\TK.

If the mod has no new folder then I keep going until I find a new file -

Data\Textures\Weapons - if the mod has a dds file with a new name that is not in the weapons folder.

I know I can safely copy this to the games - Data\Textures\Weapons\ - folder.

- Data\Textures\Weapons\BigHugeMonsterMasherHammer.dds

If there is a dds file with the same name I may, or may not, back up the original before

replacing it with the new one.

With big mods like the Unique Landscapes with all those lod's I make a backup of the lod folder

before copying the new mods lods to it as it saves time locating the lod's by number if I decide

not to use the mod.

 

Anyway - I'm off to re-write my read me's.

[Cold101]

Updated.

[Cold101]

Updated.

[Cold101]

Well, im back, anything I should add to this?

[Cold101]

Updated.