Pissed off - Uninstalling mod

[jwick]

I have got a massive (well to me anyway) array of mods. I think it pumps my Data folder to about 12gb. I've got around 100 or so different mods. And up until today, they had all been working perfectly. I was recommended to use All natural Weather instead of Enhanced Weather. So I installed All natural and tried to uninstall enhanced weather. Now my game won't start. I've tried disabling the newly installed All Natural Weather. And it still won't start. I'm guessing I didn't uninstall Enhanced weather properly. But I don't know what else to do. I'm really pissed off Lol.. close to raging. I'm trying to restore my Data folder from a previous backup. Hopefully that will at least give me the chance to try to do it all again without stuffing it up >.<

Can anyone give me a detailed guide of how to uninstall enhanced weather? Or any other helpful tips about the whole thing. Thanks...

[DavidBudreck]

Whenever the game "won't start" like that, this typicaly means that you are missing a Master File. These end in .esm instead of .esp.

 

If you post your list of mods, somebody will probably be able to figure out what is causing this.

 

If you don't know how to easiy do this, here is an article from Bben:

 

 

How to post a Load order list article

http://www.tesnexus.com/articles/article.php?id=295

[jwick]

Oblivion.esm

Jog_X_Mod.esm

All Natural Base.esm

Francesco's Leveled Creatures-Items Mod.esm

Francesco's Optional New Items Add-On.esm

Francesco's Optional New Creatures Add-On.esm

TamrielTravellers.esm

Kvatch Rebuilt.esm

Better Cities Resources.esm

Unofficial Oblivion Patch.esp

UOP Vampire Aging & Face Fix.esp

DLCShiveringIsles.esp

Unofficial Shivering Isles Patch.esp

MOBS SI.esp

MOBS SI Optional Combat Settings.esp

Better Cities .esp

All Natural.esp

All Natural - SI.esp

Enhanced Water v2.0 HD.esp

1DeadlyShadows.esp

Adonnays Ranger Coats.esp

ChaseCameraMod.esp

GrayFoxOutfit.esp

Binoculars.esp

Caine's Outfit.esp

CapesandCloaks.esp

DMACArmor.esp

Sauron_Armor_Chest.esp

Thieves Arsenal.esp

Rope Ladders v1.esp

Francesco's Optional Files.esp

TamrielTravellers.esp

TamrielTravellersItemsNPC.esp

ArmoryLab.esp

BravilSeaDomes.esp

Break Into the Arcane University.esp

Dwemer_Skyship_1_1_0.esp

Abriael_Human.esp

Kvatch Rebuilt.esp

Kvatch Rebuilt Weather Patch.esp

MountainTower.esp

All Natural - Nascosto Isles Weather Patch.esp

thievery.esp

VaultsofCyrodiil.esp

24HrArenaAliveV2Towers.esp

Knights.esp

Lost Paladins of the Divines.esp

xuldarkforest.esp

xulStendarrValley.esp

xulTheHeath.esp

XulEntiusGorge.esp

xulFallenleafEverglade.esp

xulColovianHighlands_EV.esp

xulChorrolHinterland.esp

xulBeachesOfCyrodiilLostCoast.esp

xulBravilBarrowfields.esp

xulLushWoodlands.esp

xulAncientYews.esp

xulAncientRedwoods.esp

xulCloudtopMountains.esp

xulArriusCreek.esp

xulPatch_AY_AC.esp

xulRollingHills_EV_withoutWheat.esp

xulPantherRiver.esp

xulRiverEthe.esp

xulBrenaRiverRavine.esp

xulImperialIsle.esp

xulBlackwoodForest.esp

xulCheydinhalFalls.esp

KvatchRebuilt-CheydinhalFalls patch.esp

xulAspenWood.esp

xulSkingradOutskirts.esp

xulSnowdale.esp

gardening.esp

Gemfix-6955.esp

Borderless_Cyrodiil-3578.esp

Quest Award Leveller.esp

Quest Award Leveller - Knights of the Nine.esp

StealthOverhaul.esp

Stealth Entrances v1.esp

Thievery_Easy_Thrill.esp

No psychic guards v1.2.esp

Enter The Shinobi - Coors916.esp

Oblivion XP.esp

FastTravelAllowed.esp

babehair_EV.esp

CM_Blackie_the_Fence.esp

Better Cities - Full City Defences.esp

Better Cities Full.esp

BCBravilFULL-Barrowfields patch.esp

BCChorrol-ChorrolHinterland fix.esp

BCCheydinhalFULL-CheydinhalFalls patch.esp

BCSkingrad-SkingradOutskirts patch.esp

Better Cities - VWD of the IC.esp

Better Imperial City.esp

Better Imperial City FPS Patch.esp

Better Cities Full FPS Patch.esp

Francesco's 10 days respawn time - 1-20 day lenght rescale.esp

[GFX]_Initial_Glow-all.esp

! USEFUL VENISON,AND CLUTTER.esp

BlackGear.esp

R4C - Armaments of Bloodsight - Free.esp

 

 

So i put my backup data folder in a tried to uninstall again but it still doesnt start :S

 

Hopefully this will help

[bben46]

Just unchecking a mod does not actually uninstall it. All of the textures and meshes will still be loaded, but the esp just will not start. If those textures and meshes replace the vanilla, the game will try to use them instead of the vanilla meshes and textures in the game bsa files and when there is no esp it can crash

 

To actually uninstall you must go into the texture and mesh folders - and any others that the mod installed anything to and manually remove everything that the mod installed.

 

Using either OBMM OMOD format or Wrye Bash BAIN format does all of that for you - IF you used them to install the mod.

 

For troubleshooting, try going back to an unmodded game and adding only the mod you want to test. Here is an easy way to do that - and, it is completely reversible.

Bben's Oblivion Revert to Vanilla game

http://www.tesnexus.com/articles/article.php?id=340

[Trueblue1878]

It could be that you haven't installed a 3rd party mod that the weather one requires. Check the readme properly and make sure you have installed ALL required files. Also I have this problem with Wrye Bash sometimes when I don't update the bash patch file.

[jwick]

alright, i'll try these suggestions.

Thanks guys, as always, you are a very helpful community :)

[documn]

I had a similar problem when I first installed All Natural. Turns out I didn't read the readme close enough. My specific problem was that I activated the "All Natural - Indoor Weather Filter for mods" esp when I should have instead left it unchecked and merged it into the bashed patch. After I unchecked it, Oblivion worked fine.