Does Steam prevent skeleton.nif substitution?

[mike448448]

OBMM

 

For OBMM users:

1. Start OBMM.

2. Click Utilities.

3. Select Archive invalidation. You'll get a popup window.

4. Click BSA redirection (it's the default choice).

5. Click Update Now.

6. Close the Archive invalidation popup (click the red X in the upper-left corner).

7. Quit OBMM or click Launch Oblivion.

 

Wrye Bash (Bain)

 

For Wrye Bash users:

1. Start Wrye Bash.

2. Go to Installers tab.

3. Right-click the column header.

4. Select "BSA Redirection".

 

Mod

 

Alternately, you can install a mod specifically designed to do BSA-redirection. It's called ArchiveInvalidation Invalidated!.

[DrakeTheDragon]

In addition to this, make sure you remove any and all ArchiveInvalidation.txt files from any of your folders (yes, there can be more than one spread over different folders). Those were part of the old manual way which never reliably worked to begin with, and now with the only BSA requiring invalidation replaced by a dummy one (so there is nothing requiring invalidation anymore), those files will try to invalidate files in the dummy one which aren't in there to begin with. This is prone to cause several random issues.