Looking for help picking mods

[Puff3r]

I need some help picking mods. I've been playing Oblivion since it was released, on a 360. So, I am new to modding the game as I just got it for PC. I picked some on my own and found out my PC isin't as good as I had hoped at running them. I'm quickly learning how to be picky and would love some input. I have an AMD Athlon 64 4200+ at 2.2 GHz with 2 GB DDR and a GeeForce 9600 GT. I run OBMM, BOSS, and OBSE. To help with performance I dual booted with a barebones Win XP for the game, set up on a partition at the front of the drive with the game installed on a seperate drive. I have followed most of the tweaks in the post by BallofFire. I will attach a list of the mods I was using to give you an idea as to my tastes. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Also, I read somewhere that converting all mods to OMOD is better than dumping them in the DATA folder. Is this true?

 

Oblivion.esm

Cobl Main.esm

Oscuro's_Oblivion_Overhaul.esm

Better Cities Resources.esm

CM Partners.esm

Colourwheels Sexy Female NPCs.esp

Colourwheels Sexy Female NPCs Vwalk.esp

Unofficial Oblivion Patch.esp

UOP Vampire Aging & Face Fix.esp

DLCShiveringIsles.esp

Unofficial Shivering Isles Patch.esp

Enhanced Water v2.0 HD.esp

Enhanced Water v2.0 HD - SI Addon.esp

Atmospheric Oblivion.esp

WindowLightingSystem.esp

AliveWaters_nofish.esp

All normal clothes buyable.esp

Oblivion_SI Vwalk Full.esp

Spell Delete And Item Remove.esp

Update My Statue.esp

Living Economy.esp

Living Economy - Items.esp

Cutthroat Merchants.esp

Landmarks, w Wells.esp

DLCHorseArmor.esp

DLCHorseArmor - Unofficial Patch.esp

DLCOrrery.esp

DLCOrrery - Unofficial Patch.esp

DLCOrrery Vwalk.esp

DLCVileLair.esp

DLCVileLair - Unofficial Patch.esp

DLCMehrunesRazor.esp

DLCMehrunesRazor - Unofficial Patch.esp

DLCMehrunesRazor Vwalk UOP.esp

DLCSpellTomes.esp

DLCSpellTomes - Unofficial Patch.esp

Growlfs Hot Clothes.esp

Jedi LightSabers with Sound.esp

SpeedBuster Collection.esp

Colourwheels Sexy Stock Armor & Clothing Replacer.esp

Colourwheels Sexy SI Armor & Clothing Replacer.esp

AncientTowers.esp

DLCThievesDen.esp

DLCThievesDen - Unofficial Patch.esp

DLCThievesDen - Unofficial Patch - SSSB.esp

DLCThievesDen Vwalk UOP.esp

Cobl Glue.esp

Cobl Si.esp

Cobl Tweaks.esp

Oscuro's_Oblivion_Overhaul.esp

OOO-Water_Weeds.esp

OOO-WaterFish.esp

Naughty_Joana_01.esp

Apachii_Goddess_Store.esp

DLCBattlehornCastle.esp

DLCBattlehornCastle - Unofficial Patch.esp

DLCfrostcrag.esp

FrostcragRebornCobl.esp

DLCfrostcrag Reborn Vwalk.esp

Knights.esp

Knights - Unofficial Patch.esp

Knights Vwalk UOP.esp

road+bridges.esp

Harvest [Flora].esp

Harvest [Flora] - Shivering Isles.esp

Harvest [Flora] - DLCVileLair.esp

Harvest [Flora] - DLCFrostcrag.esp

Colourwheels Sexy Imperial Legion.esp

Colourwheels Sexy Imperial Legion Vwalk.esp

Colourwheels Sexy Bank.esp

Unlimited Amulets and Rings - Shivering Isles.esp

boh_dungeonbgone.esp

SupremeMagicka.esp

SM_ShiveringIsles.esp

SM_DLCSpellTome.esp

SM_OOO.esp

SM_COBL.esp

SM_EnchantStaff.esp

SM_VanillaSpells.esp

SM_UnlockSpells.esp

SM_NoSpellLights.esp

SM_Scrolls.esp

SM_SigilStone.esp

CM Partners.esp

CM Partners NPC.esp

Cobl Races.esp

[GFX]_Initial_Glow-all.esp

Get Wet.esp

Real Lava 1.3.esp

NRB4 Standard Road Record.esp

Streamline 3.1.esp

ANBMiniMicroBikini double melon.esp

Kurtis's Spell Pack v1.0.esp

DMRA Stock Clothing Skimpy.esp

DMRA Stock Armor Skimpy.esp

DMwardropemerged no enchant.esp

Loading Screens - Vanilla No Text.esp

Better Cities .esp

Better Cities - Full City Defences.esp

Better Cities Full.esp

Better Imperial City.esp

Better Imperial City FPS Patch.esp

Better Cities - COBL.esp

Better Cities and IC Vwalk.esp

Better Cities Full FPS Patch.esp

 

Thanks again for the suggestions.

[ptbptb]

Also, I read somewhere that converting all mods to OMOD is better than dumping them in the DATA folder. Is this true?

 

That was probably me. ;)

 

It won't improve fps, and it won't magically stop clashing mods from clashing. What it will do is greatly improve mod management (for example by easing the process of changing which mods are installed). This helps when tracking down which mods may be causing trouble.

 

I'm no expert on these things, but I'm not the only person to prefer .omods. See ABOs OMOD Collection for example.

 

I also have made some omod conversion data folders for mods myself (See http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=28491 )

 

I have an AMD Athlon 64 4200+ at 2.2 GHz with 2 GB DDR and a GeeForce 9600 GT.

 

Is there an X2 missing from AMD Athlon X2 64 4200+? In any case you have a better graphics card than I do, but 512MB on your card is still low enough to slow things down on high resolutions. I only have 256 MB on my card and play at 800 x 600 resolution. What resolution do you play at?

 

Better Cities .esp

Better Cities - Full City Defences.esp

Better Cities Full.esp

Better Imperial City.esp

Better Imperial City FPS Patch.esp

Better Cities - COBL.esp

Better Cities and IC Vwalk.esp

Better Cities Full FPS Patch.esp

 

Better Cities is probably responsible for much of the load on your system. I'm not saying they're as fancy but Extended Imperial City, Extended Chorrol, Extended Skingrad and

Crowded Roads Revisited could be considered as a "budget alternative".

 

I would also consider LowPoly Grass for outside scenes.

[Puff3r]

Is there an X2 missing from AMD Athlon X2 64 4200+? In any case you have a better graphics card than I do, but 512MB on your card is still low enough to slow things down on high resolutions. I only have 256 MB on my card and play at 800 x 600 resolution. What resolution do you play at?

 

Yes I forgot the X2 on the specs. I am testing different resolutions to play and 1280 * 720 generally works at about 35 fps but drops to around 23 in the Imperial districts.

 

Better Cities is probably responsible for much of the load on your system. I'm not saying they're as fancy but Extended Imperial City, Extended Chorrol, Extended Skingrad and

Crowded Roads Revisited could be considered as a "budget alternative".

 

I would also consider LowPoly Grass for outside scenes.

 

I will definately give these a shot. I just dumped my complete install and am redoing everything as OMODS now. It does make things much easier to manage. Thanks for the suggestions!!!