Help with OBMM please...

[Disconnected13]

Okay, first things first, I've used OBMM for almost a year or so. Then Vista came around... XD Anyways, I have recently gotten back into Oblivion after figuring out how to play it on Vista, and of course I would want to mod the hell outta the game, right? Just one problem, OBMM isn't updating the "plugin.txt" file in C:\Users\Username\AppData\local\Oblivion\plugin.txt. Last time I played Oblivion I had a few mods running, and these mods, currently deleted off my computer, still show up in the list of plug-ins for OBMM to load. So upon exiting OBMM the program will crash. The exact error message reads as follows:

 

 

"Extra information should have been saved to 'obmm_crashdump.txt' in Oblivion's base directory.

 

Access to the path C:\Users\Username\AppData\local\Oblivion\plugin.txt is denied.

 

 

This has nothing to do with Vista's UAC, as turning it on/off doesn't change anything. Nowadays playing Vanilla Oblivion isn't fulfilling, so help is greatly appreciated.

[AlfredTetzlaff]

Hi,

right click on your OBMM icon and choose "Run as Administrator" and see if that works.

[eric31415]

Actually, this IS related to UAC. Even if you disable it, some parts of UAC will remain active. I had exactly the same error messages when running the game from program files with UAC turned off. Moving the game to a new location got rid of this, even with UAC re-activated.

 

I would highly recomend re-activating UAC, even if it means having to re-install the game to another location. It really does help with virus protection.

 

Edit: I went looking for an old post i read by bben where he gave a good explanation of UAC, but couldn't find it. I'll try to paraphrase;

UAC blocks programs from making changes to files within protected folders. Mods are changes, and UAC will try to block them. UAC is necessary because no anti-virus software is perfect. If a virus gets in, the first thing it will try to do is disable your anti-virus. UAC is meant to protect from this.

 

That was about the gist of it, but his was a bit more thorough.

 

From my own experiences with UAC, the biggest problem that i had was that, even with it deactivated, it wouldn't let me update the BOSS masterlist. While hand-adjusting and testing load order to get everything just right was a tremendous learning experience, once i got to around 100 esps it became a bit much. But with that many mods, re-installing can be a real chore. Save yourself a headache and do it now.

Edited August 8, 2011 by eric31415

[Disconnected13]

Actually, this IS related to UAC. Even if you disable it, some parts of UAC will remain active. I had exactly the same error messages when running the game from program files with UAC turned off. Moving the game to a new location got rid of this, even with UAC re-activated.

 

I would highly recomend re-activating UAC, even if it means having to re-install the game to another location. It really does help with virus protection.

 

Edit: I went looking for an old post i read by bben where he gave a good explanation of UAC, but couldn't find it. I'll try to paraphrase;

UAC blocks programs from making changes to files within protected folders. Mods are changes, and UAC will try to block them. UAC is necessary because no anti-virus software is perfect. If a virus gets in, the first thing it will try to do is disable your anti-virus. UAC is meant to protect from this.

 

That was about the gist of it, but his was a bit more thorough.

 

From my own experiences with UAC, the biggest problem that i had was that, even with it deactivated, it wouldn't let me update the BOSS masterlist. While hand-adjusting and testing load order to get everything just right was a tremendous learning experience, once i got to around 100 esps it became a bit much. But with that many mods, re-installing can be a real chore. Save yourself a headache and do it now.

 

Hmm, so installing Oblivion to something like C:/Oblivion rather than it's original location should work? I was looking around and a few peeps suggested that would be step one in modding but I wasn't certain if it was absolutely necessary. So far I only have a few mods running, but like you said manually installing them can be a learning experience haha.

 

And Alfred, I have full system permissions with Vista. I thought maybe that might have been the issue as well but, no change.

[eric31415]

Most people use C:/Games/Oblivion, just to keep things neat, but yes that will work.

 

Make sure you follow bben's reinstall guide and don't skip any steps.