Floating heads

[liuri]

I equipped armor that made the NPC invisible. Obviously the same thing happens to me. I also noticed that the item icons that you can normally see in the inventory next to the item name are gone (If it's any help, I picked up fur armor from bandits).

 

I installed all my current mods with Mod Manager and with quick look everything seems to be where it should. However, under the armor tab in texture folder I only found male imperial armor and ebony armor textures, one which happens to be the only one I can see (new saves, I can't find any ebony armors yet). Is there available any 're-skin' mods that will overwrite the old armors or are the old textures available to download from somewhere? Maybe adding them might do the trick...?

 

I will try to reinstall everything manually.

Edited December 30, 2010 by liuri

[WastelandAssassin]

this is very strange

usually, this should be a problem if the path is the same as the original, because all of these textures should be inside your texture BSA file

so this would probably mean that the paths are different, in which case reskins shouldn't solve the problem (at least as far as i know)

 

so if this is the case, then you need to make sure that the mod that's causing this (i would guess OOO) is installed properly

have you installed OOO 1.32 before installing 1.33 and the 1.34.5 update??

because this sounds like the resources are missing....... (not sure if this is what's causing this, but this would be my guess)

[liuri]

Yeah I installed OOO 1.32 Finale before OOO 1.33 patch, although I have never heard about 1.34 update, perhaps I will have a look at that also. For some reason I have this feeling that Mod Manager might have somehow deleted everything from the way when installing new mods, I'm in the middle of setting official and unofficial patches right now. I will tell what happens when I'm done.

[WastelandAssassin]

the update for OOO is found in the same page as the 1.33 update

 

also, you should probably install the official patch first, before everything else

then OBMM and OBSE

than you should install the unofficial patches, and only after this start installing mods

 

this is the only way to prevent problem from the start (as far as i know)

 

also, it has been reported that for vista users, the exe version of OOO might not install properly

however, i think you've said that you installed the OMOD version, which should be working just fine (all my mods are OMODs, some that i made, and i don't have any such problems)

[liuri]

Well with common sense I installed official patch->unofficial patch->OOO->everything else.

[Smooth613]

You never mentioned what Operating System you're running. Please enlighten us and read the information I've posted below.

 

There are only three reasons for the issue you are experiencing to occur.

1. OS Related interference. i.e. UAC blocking/relocating files on Vista and Windows 7.
   
2. Improper mod installation. i.e. Missing resources and/or files installed to improper directories.
   
3. Archive Invalidation is not active and/or updated correctly. See below.
   

 

That's it. There is no other reason you should experience this issue.

 

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.

 

Virtual Store – Win 7 & Vista |

 

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.

 

If that's not the case then you have either improperly installed the mods, therefor needing to completely uninstall and reinstall the mods properly according to the ReadMe, or you need to activate, or update, Archive Invalidation. You might also want to read the section about Pink or Missing Textures Section.

[liuri]

I am running vista. I will try to install oblivion outside of program files now and see what happens. Although a year ago everything worked fine with oblivion being at program files, but I will try that and see what happens.

 

That seemed to have worked. Thank you very much!

Edited December 30, 2010 by liuri