Having several Oblivion installations.

[bevilex]

Hi guys,

 

 

I have Oblivion on Steam, fully modded, and the mod manager I use is Wrye Bash.

 

I would like to have 2 Oblivion installations in order to test different mods combination.

 

What is the best way to do that ?

 

Can I have 2 oblivion folders in the Steam folder (like Oblivion and Oblivion_bak depending on the one I play) with inside each of them 1 Wrye Bash installation and 1 oblivion mods folder (used for the 2 Wrye Bash) ?

Do you think this will work correctly ?

 

I read that I could use Mod Organizer , but I don't want to learn how to use a new mod manager. So I ask you if I can do that with WB for Oblivion bought on Steam.

 

 

Thanks ^^

[DrakeTheDragon]

Do you really want 2 installations of the game or will 2 different sets of installed mods work as well? I'm asking because Wrye Bash very well has a profiling feature for mod lists based on savegames as well, so you can have savegames where you play with one list of mods and other savegames where you play with a completely different list and cleanly switch them back and forth at any time.

 

There is means to install and use 2 different game installations as well, of course, I'm just wondering whether it's needed for what you aim for or not.

[bevilex]

In fact what I want is to start from scratch the mods installation process, in order to try a different mod list (different overhauls, etc), while keeping my current fully modded Oblivion.

 

Moreover, I want to start again in order to build something very clean, and test it rigorously. Because my current setup has some little imperfections and I can't find why because of the number of mods I installed, and the installation was not yesterday ^^

 

I also have a back up of the complete Vanilla Oblivion. That is why I think about that.

 

Thanks for telling me about the profiling option. Currently I don't know a lot about profiling. And I don't know very well which option I should use, and what are the advantages and drawbacks of both.

 

But I think having 2 installations can be more interesting for me, because with the profiling feature I may have the same obscure problems in my 2 profiles.

 

 

Thanks

 

edit: and also space is not a problem for me, I have enough space to have 2 fully modded Oblivion folders in my drive

Edited June 3, 2016 by bevilex