bison1967 Posted November 24, 2010 Share Posted November 24, 2010 I have a fairly new dell windows 7 machine i got in june 2010. Soon after, I started modding oblivion. Everything has been running well with no problems and I run about 100 mods or so currently. last night I click on my OBMM icon to check on mods i was currently running, and something odd happened that i've never encountered before. I get a pop up window saying " OBMM must be installed to Oblivions base directory, if you have moved or renamed oblivion_default.ini please replace it. " I have been running mods and OBMM for six months and OBMM was installed correctly and I have had no problems as mentioned earlier in the help request. I erased the .ini file via going to my documents route and let oblivion create a new .ini file for me upon start up. When i start the game it ( clicking on the oblivion icon ) it just CTD on me. So to recap, if I click on Obmm I get that pop-up, or if I click to start Oblivion i get a CTD. Just on the previous day, and all the days that go back to june 2010 when I started to mod it worked without problems. Perhaps I did something to mess something up, or maybe something just malfunctioned, I'm not sure... I would appreciate any help or tips from the experts here on the forums, and I thank anyone who reads this ahead of time for willingness to help this puzzled gamer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trigoras Posted November 24, 2010 Share Posted November 24, 2010 The oblivion_default.ini is located where the Oblivion.exe is, when you delete your oblivion.ini in the My Documents route I assumed it would copy a Oblivion_Default.ini from the install directory, but it seems you acidentally deleted it or it got moved somewhere. You need to restore your oblivion_default.ini, I don't know if it would be legal to upload that or not, but re-installing the base game will restore the file, or you can install the game in a temporary place and drag the file to your real Oblivion directory. Hopefully all of this makes sense, good luck trying to fix it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bison1967 Posted November 24, 2010 Author Share Posted November 24, 2010 The oblivion_default.ini is located where the Oblivion.exe is, when you delete your oblivion.ini in the My Documents route I assumed it would copy a Oblivion_Default.ini from the install directory, but it seems you acidentally deleted it or it got moved somewhere. You need to restore your oblivion_default.ini, I don't know if it would be legal to upload that or not, but re-installing the base game will restore the file, or you can install the game in a temporary place and drag the file to your real Oblivion directory. Hopefully all of this makes sense, good luck trying to fix it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bison1967 Posted November 24, 2010 Author Share Posted November 24, 2010 The oblivion_default.ini is located where the Oblivion.exe is, when you delete your oblivion.ini in the My Documents route I assumed it would copy a Oblivion_Default.ini from the install directory, but it seems you acidentally deleted it or it got moved somewhere. You need to restore your oblivion_default.ini, I don't know if it would be legal to upload that or not, but re-installing the base game will restore the file, or you can install the game in a temporary place and drag the file to your real Oblivion directory. Hopefully all of this makes sense, good luck trying to fix it.Thanks for the reply. I'll give that advice you ggave a shot, I appreciate it. take care Trigoras Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trigoras Posted November 25, 2010 Share Posted November 25, 2010 No problem, if it doesn't work I'll look farther into it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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