How to get the game contents from CAB files

[dommy68]

Hi all how can i get the game contents like character\_male\skeleton.nif out of any of these cab files.

It seems the cab files are not compatible with WinRar or WindowsXP.

Is there a special extracter to use these cab archives?

Or how else can i get in touch with the original game content

 

Tom

[Hsandman_1]

Hi all how can i get the game contents like character\_male\skeleton.nif out of any of these cab files.

It seems the cab files are not compatible with WinRar or WindowsXP.

Is there a special extracter to use these cab archives?

Or how else can i get in touch with the original game content

 

Tom

 

Oblivion stores .nif files in .bsa files, you will need a program like Oblivion Mod Manager to extract/view those.

 

To extract .cab files you would use ZipGenius program, i think that can decompress .cab files. edit: yes it does.

[dommy68]

Oblivion stores .nif files in .bsa files, you will need a program like Oblivion Mod Manager to extract/view those.

I can not find any *.bsa file on my DVD only dataX.cab files

 

To extract .cab files you would use ZipGenius program, i think that can decompress .cab files. edit: yes it does.

ZipGenius says unknown cabinet file if i try to open the data1.cab or data2.cab or any other. But works with Windows cab files.

 

Maybe the PC Game DVD is different?

[Abramul]

The .BSAs are in the directory Oblivion installed to, by default C:\Program Files\Bethesda Softworks\Oblivion.

 

As has been said, you need a BSA extractor to get at the files in the BSAs. My preference is TES4BSA.