TheMastersSon Posted June 25, 2017 Share Posted June 25, 2017 (edited) "Actually, there was an issue I had to investigate, apparently the GOG version (backup installer or Galaxy installed) sets the Last Modified times of the vanilla ESM/ESP files to Dec 31 23:00 1969"Not that it matters but does anyone know what Bethesda thought of that decision? Obviously GOG either didn't know or didn't care that file dates prior to 1-1-1980 cause all kinds of problems with a long list of software, everything from AV to backup software. The confusion is by no means limited to tools based on TES4edit. Do GOG have any members over the age of 14? Edited June 25, 2017 by TheMastersSon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dizzy Posted June 26, 2017 Share Posted June 26, 2017 If you can list a few links to detailed information of problems with "all kinds of software" with those dates I'll include it in my bug report with GOG. They are usually very responsive to support tickets and perform the needed changes (ex. a similar problem was with the dates of the BSA files which they did release an update to set those to 2006-01-01 but that update doesn't impact ESP/ESM files). I can make a much stronger case on the ticket I'll file if I don't have to only point at tes4edit & derived tools (because all other tools I tried, Wrye Bash/BOSS/LOOT and Oblivion itself) seem to be working fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMastersSon Posted June 26, 2017 Share Posted June 26, 2017 (edited) You can start with Windows Explorer (in later Windows versions) and work your way up to application software with next to no effort with a search engine, e.g. https://superuser.com/questions/796762/what-is-the-range-of-dates-that-windows-explorer-can-display https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_8-files/pre-1980-modified-date/f17edd9a-44d4-48c5-aa00-d6c619f2765c?tab=question&status=AllReplies#tabs Edited June 26, 2017 by TheMastersSon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wfandrews Posted June 28, 2017 Share Posted June 28, 2017 I did not see an answer to the post asking if the unofficial patches worked or were necessary for the GOG version. I would like to know myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dizzy Posted June 28, 2017 Share Posted June 28, 2017 I am using it with UOP/UOP-SI/UOP-DLCs. I haven't checked (I will when I get home in a few hours) but I would expect that the BSA/ESM/ESP files to be identical to the disc/Steam versions and GOG only made some changes to Oblivion.exe (ex. it already has the 4G/LAA flag). They also officially recommended the UOP in their own post about Oblivion modding: https://www.gog.com/news/mod_spotlight_fallout_3_new_vegas_tes_iv_oblivion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wfandrews Posted June 28, 2017 Share Posted June 28, 2017 Thank you Dizzy, that pretty much answered my question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anonimousone Posted September 3, 2017 Share Posted September 3, 2017 dizzy, did they upload the date ? I was looking to buy it but I will just avoid if they didn't because I don't want to mess around with stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anonimousone Posted September 5, 2017 Share Posted September 5, 2017 I've written a query to gog. They said they will forward the post above (concerning the date of .esp and .esm) to the team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anonimousone Posted November 21, 2017 Share Posted November 21, 2017 Was this issue solved? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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