Eddie_Buddha Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 First off, the Mod Manager is a truly great utility, I have been using it on my desktop (a Dell) at home. with great satifaction for the past year or so. But now, I'm in another city/state and I'm on an HP Pavillion Entertainment PC laptop with Vista Premium running on it. I've brought my copy of Oblivion with me and loaded it thereon. If it means anything, I directed the prog to reside in a 160 gb WD brand flash drive. The vanilla version works just like it's supposed to, but then I run into trouble when I try to load mods into the game with the help of OBMM. The mod manager loads perfectly well, as it did on the desktop, but then none of the mods I've downloaded with it into Oblivion activate, at all. Some of the mods have been loaded by the OBMM itself, but the overwhelming majority have gone through winrar first. I get most of the mods from the TES Nexus site. I've take every component off the laptop and re-installed them repeatedly, in dirffering orders, read and re-read the accompanying readmes, gone online googling the problem, but so far no joy. The OBMM just sits there, with a dumb, happy grin on its face as if all was right with the world, and none of the mods manifest themselves in the Vanilla Oblivion environment. As well, I've played mix'n'match with OBSE, OCOL, whatever I've found and initiated, .... doesn't help. I've even gone so far as to taking everything off and going online via Internet Explorer, as opposed to my preferred Firefox, in the hope that loading everything via that route might somehow be a factor. Yet the results have been the same. And, now that I'm documenting this, I realize that one thing different between the Dell D-top of last year, and the HP L-top now is that I haven't gotten any conflict warnings --no red, purple, or black flags-- in the OBMM listing-window. Even mods that did carry warning flags when I loaded them last summer/ autumn don't have one now. Some of the things I've read seem to indicate that maybe Vista has issues with OBMM (such as the description Falados wrote in his TES Nexus offering the hack add-on to mod manager), but I can find no indication as to: 1) what to look for if there is a conflict, and 2) what I should do next if such is the case. If it's something embarassingly simple --like a step I should be taking but aren't-- I'm ready to hear it and act accordlingly. SO, that's why I've come here with my hat in hand. Would you folks have any suggestions for me? I'd be ever so grateful if you do. Thank you for at least reading this note.Ed Meares Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freddycashmercury Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 As it so happens, I think we have the same laptop. My model number is HP dv9740us. I have used OBMM for quite a while now without any problems, so I think the flash drive may be your problem. I must confess, though, I am not sure why runnning a program from a flashdrive would cause the problem you speak of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xenxander Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 To be fair, flashdrives were NOT meant to have programs run from them. They were meant as a medium storage unit. I have no reason other then that, but also don't -work- off of a flash drive either, or play a game off of it. always move all files to your HD and then back to the flash drive upon completion of your task. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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