Missing Mesh

[exesinxmyxalias]

Just started another playthrough on Oblivion. First time this is being played on this computer and I've got a bunch of different mods this time 'round. I was just fighting with a whole bunch of goblins in the starting dungeon and one of the goblins was an archer but it's bow and arrows were replaced with a big yellow blob labeled 'wtf I'm a missing mesh'. after killing it I checked his inventory and it was carrying a Bone Bow and Bone Arrows. I've never encountered this before. What gives?

[LFact]

Tell us your mod list. And, you can use FormID Finder or RefScope to identify which mod adds the item(Both require OBSE).

[exesinxmyxalias]

Well I did myself some googling, and the google told me that Shivering Isles adds bone arrows, but at that point I didn't have shivering isles added to the mix yet, and I had some archer mod that throws all of the different bows and arrows that can be found in the game into the loot lists or something.

 

So I figured, what the hell, lets install SI and see what happens. So that's what I did. I ran the game again to see what happened and all my stuff was missing from my inventory and the chests. Not so much missing but there was no text.

 

Quit > unofficial SI patch (didn't have the official one for some reason) > internets > download SI patch > SI patch fail > google > uninstall unofficial SI patch > accidentally uninstall some important stuff I needed to run oblivion > back up data folder and save folder > uninstall everything ...

 

Now I'm at the point where I've installed oblivion again and I'm ready to restore the data and saves folder.

 

Let's see how this goes...

 

 

PS: sorry for the way the post is typed out, it's been a long day...

[bben46]

DO NOT install the official Oblivion patch if you are going to install SI. ONLY install the official SI patch after installing SI.

 

For some reason, Beth made the Oblivion patch incompatible with the SI patch and to cause confusion, gave them both the same revision number. :wallbash:

 

The order is

install Oblivion - the version doesn't matter - don't patch yet!

If you have WinXP, the default location is fine. If you have Vista or Win7, Not so good. instead install to C:\Games\Oblivion - or somewhere else outside of the 'program folders'. This will save much grief later. :thumbsup:

DO NOT install any patches or mods yet!

Start the game and make a save. this is to allow the game to initialize some stuff that will be needed later. (it doesn't matter about your character, you will have a chance to fix anything later)

Install Shivering Isles.

Again start the game and make a save - you can use the same character

Now Install the official SI patch. again start the game and make a save.

This would be a good time to make a backup of your data folder - just make a copy somewhere outside of the Oblivion folder. This will allow you to return to a known good vanilla version without reinstalling if your game becomes totally trashed.

 

Now start adding mods, OBSE, OBMM and whatever else you want. But only a very few at a time, with a round of testing in between. The time you think you will save by installing a bunch of mods all at once will be more than lost in trying to figure out which mods are causing problems.

[steelstiletto]

This would be a good time to make a backup of your data folder - just make a copy somewhere outside of the Oblivion folder. This will allow you to return to a known good vanilla version without reinstalling if your game becomes totally trashed.

 

Good tip. I wish I had done that, I've reinstalled a few times because of mod issues that I couldn't figure out.

[exesinxmyxalias]

Everything is working fine so far. There's times where I load the game and all the map markers and inventory stuff has no text, I just fix that by quitting and restarting.

 

Also Oblivion is doing the thing where it crashes whenever it encounters a new sound/texture/enemy etc but that only happens once in a while. I can play for about two to three hours before each crash and I usually take that as a sign that I need to take a break.

 

There is a mod that causes oblivion to flat out crash as soon as the program starts. But apparently I'm not allowed to talk about that mod on here so I'll just not worry about it for now.

[Tomlong54210]

Everything is working fine so far. There's times where I load the game and all the map markers and inventory stuff has no text, I just fix that by quitting and restarting.

 

Also Oblivion is doing the thing where it crashes whenever it encounters a new sound/texture/enemy etc but that only happens once in a while. I can play for about two to three hours before each crash and I usually take that as a sign that I need to take a break.

 

There is a mod that causes oblivion to flat out crash as soon as the program starts. But apparently I'm not allowed to talk about that mod on here so I'll just not worry about it for now.

The two to three hour crash sounds like Oblivion hitting its memory cap, so that is actually very good play time. The menu issue sounds like a UI mod config thing.

[exesinxmyxalias]

I'm actually having a problem on the main quest.

 

I'm liberating Kvatch with the Matius guy. We got all the civillains out of the chapel and went through the other side to stab some things and after everything is dead he just runs around waving his sword around and I can't progress any further and I've already made certain everything is dead except for the two dremora that respawn on the top of the castle and throw lightning at you.

 

Whenever I try to speak with him it says he's unresponsive and whenever I try to go back to a previous save he attacks me...

[Tomlong54210]

I'm actually having a problem on the main quest.

 

I'm liberating Kvatch with the Matius guy. We got all the civillains out of the chapel and went through the other side to stab some things and after everything is dead he just runs around waving his sword around and I can't progress any further and I've already made certain everything is dead except for the two dremora that respawn on the top of the castle and throw lightning at you.

 

Whenever I try to speak with him it says he's unresponsive and whenever I try to go back to a previous save he attacks me...

Have you tried rolling back to a pre-Kvatch save. Kvatch, regardles of whether or not the game is modded, gives many users problems. I have certainly had my fair share of trouble with it...

[exesinxmyxalias]

The last pre kvatch save I had would have lost me two in game days. I just went in and killed all the stuff and advanced the quest through the console. Savillian was still running around in the dark shouting to himself. I also noticed he wasn't wearing any pants either.