No visible face during character creation

[CyniclyPink]

hi all, I have a strange problem when installing Oblivion. It will install but when you get to choosing the attributes for your character there is no picture. you can't see the face. The menu is on the left but nothing on the right. I have the disks (DVD) which I bought a few years ago both Oblivion and Shivering Isles. I run Skyrim and Witcher 2 on the PC so it's capable of running it. I have Win 7 Home edition, Intel Pentium E660 @3.06 ghz, 4G RAM, AMD Radeon 6850 (1024mb VRAM). Thankyou for any ideas.

[DrakeTheDragon]

Just so we get this right, the Vanilla game unmodded does this to you already?

Usually that's a sign of missing head meshes or their textures' normalmaps. But I wonder how the Vanilla game could be missing these already.

Those assets are stored inside the game's BSA files, so technically they should never be able to go missing.

 

 

There is, however, still ways to make them so anyways, as as much as the game can be modded, as much it can be messed up as well.

 

Archive Invalidation done wrong, for example, is a surefire way to mess with the game's ability to use its internal resources properly. A left-over "Archive Invalidation.txt" file telling the game to use external resource X over internal resource X, when there is no external resource X, for instance, can 'force' a missing resource error indicator in your game quite as well as required files actually being physically missing. But are you even using any mods in need of Archive Invalidation?

 

 

Then there's this weird situation on more recent Windows releases when the game is installed at the default location, somewhere inside "program files", and the UAC redirecting any 3rd party attempts to read or write files in there to some "VirtualStore" folder inside your user folders instead. Mod managers, for example, will get forced to install their mods' files into the Virtual Store folder, whereas the game, of course, will never find them in there. But it'd be a first for me having this happen to Vanilla game files and the game itself right now.

 

Still, I won't deny the possibility of Windows' UAC being able to mess up the original Vanilla game beyond repair as well, of course. The newer the Windows version, the more hostile it is to games it appears.

7 and 8 already are nightmares right now. Don't want to imagine what Windows 9 might be!

 

 

However, you see it's paramount for us to know if this is happening with a modded game or with untouched Vanilla game files instead first now.

[CyniclyPink]

 

Just so we get this right, the Vanilla game unmodded does this to you already?

Usually that's a sign of missing head meshes or their textures' normalmaps. But I wonder how the Vanilla game could be missing these already.

Those assets are stored inside the game's BSA files, so technically they should never be able to go missing.

 

 

There is, however, still ways to make them so anyways, as as much as the game can be modded, as much it can be messed up as well.

 

Archive Invalidation done wrong, for example, is a surefire way to mess with the game's ability to use its internal resources properly. A left-over "Archive Invalidation.txt" file telling the game to use external resource X over internal resource X, when there is no external resource X, for instance, can 'force' a missing resource error indicator in your game quite as well as required files actually being physically missing. But are you even using any mods in need of Archive Invalidation?

 

 

 

Then there's this weird situation on more recent Windows releases when the game is installed at the default location, somewhere inside "program files", and the UAC redirecting any 3rd party attempts to read or write files in there to some "VirtualStore" folder inside your user folders instead. Mod managers, for example, will get forced to install their mods' files into the Virtual Store folder, whereas the game, of course, will never find them in there. But it'd be a first for me having this happen to Vanilla game files and the game itself right now.

 

Still, I won't deny the possibility of Windows' UAC being able to mess up the original Vanilla game beyond repair as well, of course. The newer the Windows version, the more hostile it is to games it appears.

7 and 8 already are nightmares right now. Don't want to imagine what Windows 9 might be!

 

 

However, you see it's paramount for us to know if this is happening with a modded game or with untouched Vanilla game files instead first now.

 

 

 

Thanks for the reply. This is totally vanilla. No Mods. I've uninstalled and reinstalled a couple of times, thats it. The UAC thing might be worth looking at. maybe something to do with that. I'll mess around a bit more and see If I can solve it. As for Windows and games, I hear ya. I miss XP in some ways as far as gaming goes.

Edited August 9, 2014 by CyniclyPink