The Impirial City has disappeared??

[kittie885]

I just bought oblivion game of the year edition and installed it. Before starting to play, I made the mistake of installing a bunch of mods. Some i'm quite familiar with from playing it with the original Oblivion version a few years ago. A couple of them were new, but none of them did a big overhaul of anything. Among them were apachii goddess store, get wet, KT custom race fix, masterquest no gates, tabaxi race, tharanthiel deer mount, the unofficial oblivion and shivering isles patches and the ren beauty pack. There was one other "francesco's mod" that did some graphics and weather things i think? Needless to say my game broke, I went into the game, typed coc testinghall, exited to the door that takes you straight into the world, and tried to fast travel to the imperial city only to crash...

 

Re-entering the game I decided to WALK there only to find my way blocked by a mass of NOTHING where land should be! The imperial city is completely missing, there is not even land there. There is a big mass of water with square sides and when that ends there is nothing but empty space. I have no idea what I did wrong. I deactivated my cheats and re-entered the game via my save only to find the exact same thing. I then UNINSTALLED and reinstalled the whole game keeping only my saves but not the data folder, the data folder is completely new and a fresh install base game version. I re-entered on my save to find it still missing, it wasn't fixed. I started a new game and the imperial city is STILL missing.

 

I'm a bit worried now that another fresh install and a new game would not fix it which means i bought a defective game? The only thing that all of these have in common is that i entered the world straight away from my beginning game cell by using coc testinghall, could that have caused the imperial city to disappear? Any ideas?

[Smooth613]

If you have the exact same problem carrying over to a fresh installation you did not completely remove Oblivion. If you are using Windows 7 or Vista this is easily explained. Windows is basically ghosting your files since you installed to Program Files. UAC doesn't like it when files are altered in anyway and sees this as a security threat. This is why you should always install Oblivion outside of Program Files to a directory such as <drive letter>:\Games\Oblivion.

 

Windows is storing the files in the VirtualStore, located at C:\Users\<username>\AppData\VirtualStore.

 

Window 7 Related problems, etc...

 

Are you using Windows 7 or Vista? Did you install Oblivion to the default directory of Program Files? If you answered yes to to both then you are likely experiencing, or will experience problems due to UAC, Windows security. Windows doesn't like it when an application, program, or even the user, attempts to alter files in a protected directory. UAC sees this a potential security threat and treats it as a malicious attack and blocks the action from happening. To prevent this you need to install Oblivion outside the jurisdiction of UAC, to an unprotected directory. A popular and suitable location is <drive letter>:\Games\Oblivion. For information on proper installation I suggest you follow Bben's Reinstall Procedure.

 

Another great resource is Tomlong's site, TESIV:POSItive. She has included information on nearly every aspect of Oblivion you might need help or just be curious about. It has information to suite anyone from beginner to advanced. I urge everyone to bookmark this site and soak up as much information as you possibly can.

[kittie885]

Thank you so much, that does answer that question. I am using vista and did install in program files so I will uninstall again and use Bben's reinstall procedure this time. I hope it fixes the problem!