Missing .esm file

[afjim]

I had played this game before and was revisiting it. I reloaded it and it played fine. I started installing mods and then suddenly it crashed. I couldn't figure it out and finally resorted to uninstalling the game and reinstalling it. Now it crashes every time I start the game. After much anguish I found that I am missing the Oblivion.esm file. I have since attempted to reinstall the software but it still doesn't work.

 

What is strange is that BOSS and Wrye Bash shows it there and active, but when I look in the folder it is not there. I have loaded the patches, both official and unofficial but the file is still missing and the game will not play. I have the GOTY edition if that helps any.

 

I am running the game on Windows 8 and have set the compatibility of all the launchers to XP SP3 and set them to Run as Administrator.

 

Any ideas????? :sad:

[Dragon32]

Have you installed in Program Files? And are you running a version of Windows after Vista? You could be running into folder virtualisation problems. Re-install in C:\Games or something

[afjim]

I tried that. I loaded it in C:\Games with no change. It still will not run. I re-verified that all the .exe files were set to Windows XB Service pack 3 compatibility and set them to run as an administrator.

 

I also went through the steps in the sticky on this forum about going through the registry entries. I am running Windows 8.1 and followed the instructions but the items listed in the post were not there. They may be named something else but I have not gone through all the folders to find them.

Edited November 11, 2015 by afjim

[Dragon32]

Curses. Afraid I'm all out of ideas then.