OBMM won't show .ESPs anymore

[DingerDan]

A while back when I reinstalled Oblivion, I started heavily modding it, up until one day OBMM just didn't show any new .ESPs... I just ignored it and used Oblivion's own Data Files manager, but when I got p***ed off with the game constantly crashing randomly, I reinstalled Oblivion and thought it would be a good chance to reinstall OBMM too... I moved all my old .ESPs into the Oblivion/Data folder again, and even after reinstalling, OBMM won't show any .ESPs :/

 

How do I fix this?

 

By the way, sorry I'm new to this forum, I usually hang out at other forums, just please don't avalanche me with TESNexus lingo just yet. ok? :)

[Tomlong54210]

Are you running Win7 or Vista? If you are, you should reinstall Oblivion outside of the default folder. There are other options, but that one avoids the most problems.

 

Installing Oblivion - http://sites.google.com/site/oblivionpoinfo/install <-- Another thing to be aware of is making sure you actually uninstall cleanly, as there are many files that Oblivion's setup (uninstallation) does not remove.

 

 

Edit: Forgot to explain the problem... Those OS's have the annoying UAC, which helps, but does a little to much when certain types of applications are concerned. This is one of those situations where its help is more like major interference.

 

Edit: For future reference - http://sites.google.com/site/oblivionpoinfo/prep/obmm <-- Highlights many of OBMM's features, and also has advice for getting around OBMM's UAC issue if even moving Oblivion out of the heavy UAC territory fails...

[DingerDan]

Are you running Win7 or Vista? If you are, you should reinstall Oblivion outside of the default folder. There are other options, but that one avoids the most problems.

 

Installing Oblivion - http://sites.google.com/site/oblivionpoinfo/install <-- Another thing to be aware of is making sure you actually uninstall cleanly, as there are many files that Oblivion's setup (uninstallation) does not remove.

 

 

Edit: Forgot to explain the problem... Those OS's have the annoying UAC, which helps, but does a little to much when certain types of applications are concerned. This is one of those situations where its help is more like major interference.

 

I am running Win7 x64, and I am already installing it to D:/Games/Bethesda Softworks/Oblivion, so that shouldn't be causing any problems.

 

Although, a clean uninstall might help. What other files must I manually remove?

 

Thank you for replying.

[Tomlong54210]

Since moving Oblivion did not work, right-click on OBMM.exe, go into its properties, and set it to 'Run as administrator'. This may trigger the UAC turning back on on that folder, so you should check to make sure that the UAC is turned off on the Oblivion folder afterward. The other file you need to take care of is the Oblivion.ini file, the one in your Documents\My Games\Oblivion folder. There are a couple of other files in there that can be problematic if they are not regenerated (i.e., the one for your GPU) which is why a clean uninstall involves deleting (or removing) that entire folder from My Games. The safest thing you can keep around is your Saves folder, so you could move your Saves folder onto your desktop, delete (or clear out) that folder for Oblivion. Once you relaunch your game, all of the necessary files will be restored, and you can move your saves back. Sometimes the Saves folder contains bad information, however. Toss it if you do not have any really important save files in there.

 

Check out the page I linked (on installing Oblivion) anyway because there are some other things there that are fairly important. 1) There is a link to a page about Oblivion.ini tweaks, and some of those tweaks actually correct issues with the Oblivion.ini. 2) There is a blurb about a patch that any 64-bit users with more than 3GB (probably 3.5GB or greater) of memory should find very interesting.

 

 

Edit: wording

[DingerDan]

Since moving Oblivion did not work, right-click on OBMM.exe, go into its properties, and set it to 'Run as administrator'. This may trigger the UAC turning back on on that folder, so you should check to make sure that the UAC is turned off on the Oblivion folder afterward. The other file you need to take care of is the Oblivion.ini file, the one in your Documents\My Games\Oblivion folder. There are a couple of other files in there that can be problematic if they are not regenerated (i.e., the one for your GPU) which is why a clean uninstall involves deleting (or removing) that entire folder from My Games. The safest thing you can keep around is your Saves folder, so you could move your Saves folder onto your desktop, delete (or clear out) that folder for Oblivion. Once you relaunch your game, all of the necessary files will be restored, and you can move your saves back. Sometimes the Saves folder contains bad information, however. Toss it if you do not have any really important save files in there.

 

Check out the page I linked (on installing Oblivion) anyway because there are some other things there that are fairly important. 1) There is a link to a page about Oblivion.ini tweaks, and some of those tweaks actually correct issues with the Oblivion.ini. 2) There is a blurb about a patch that any 64-bit users with more than 3GB (probably 3.5GB or greater) of memory should find very interesting.

 

 

Edit: wording

 

Thanks :)

[Tomlong54210]

Since moving Oblivion did not work, right-click on OBMM.exe, go into its properties, and set it to 'Run as administrator'. This may trigger the UAC turning back on on that folder, so you should check to make sure that the UAC is turned off on the Oblivion folder afterward. The other file you need to take care of is the Oblivion.ini file, the one in your Documents\My Games\Oblivion folder. There are a couple of other files in there that can be problematic if they are not regenerated (i.e., the one for your GPU) which is why a clean uninstall involves deleting (or removing) that entire folder from My Games. The safest thing you can keep around is your Saves folder, so you could move your Saves folder onto your desktop, delete (or clear out) that folder for Oblivion. Once you relaunch your game, all of the necessary files will be restored, and you can move your saves back. Sometimes the Saves folder contains bad information, however. Toss it if you do not have any really important save files in there.

 

Check out the page I linked (on installing Oblivion) anyway because there are some other things there that are fairly important. 1) There is a link to a page about Oblivion.ini tweaks, and some of those tweaks actually correct issues with the Oblivion.ini. 2) There is a blurb about a patch that any 64-bit users with more than 3GB (probably 3.5GB or greater) of memory should find very interesting.

 

 

Edit: wording

Thanks :)

Sure, happy gaming!

- Tomlong54210