gengar807 Posted March 2, 2012 Author Share Posted March 2, 2012 (edited) drakethedragon thanks a lot but im not sure with this yet.....thanks to you i found the oblivion.exe., it was quite hidden but i did what you said and i looked in the oblivion launcher (you know the one you were saying with the sign of an oblivion gate) and looked at its properties, when i looked at "type of folder" it said "application (.exe)"...if thats what im looking for then thank you..do i now just put the obse in the folders and if not tell me what to do..............................and my computer is windows 7....also a laptop if that makes a difference Edited March 2, 2012 by gengar807 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrakeTheDragon Posted March 2, 2012 Share Posted March 2, 2012 (edited) Once you put the OBSE files into there and it looks like the image from Worre, the highlighted files all present, then OBSE "should" work. If it doesn't, post the "full" error message the loader gives you. Maybe it's really a version thing.If you right-click "obse_loader.exe" is there no "run as administrator" to click? That could solve the permission issues, if there are any and that's the cause. edit: What do you mean by it was quite hidden? Was it the file named "Oblivion"? If you right-click on this file and go to its preferences, does it say executable as well? Then that's it. The "Oblivion.exe" is not the file named "OblivionLauncher", as that's the "OblivionLauncher.exe", of course, which is also an executable. But while we're at it, in case your "Oblivion.exe" is really gone somehow, double-clicking said OblivionLauncher will not be able to start the game either. So that's something else to check as well then. Edited March 2, 2012 by DrakeTheDragon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gengar807 Posted March 2, 2012 Author Share Posted March 2, 2012 (edited) this is what im looking at...when i click the oblivion l-auncher it starts the gameso i think thats normal maybe the oblivion launcher is the oblivion.exe. Edited March 2, 2012 by gengar807 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrakeTheDragon Posted March 3, 2012 Share Posted March 3, 2012 No, the file directly above "OblivionLauncher.exe" is the "Oblivion.exe". Both are simply missing their ".exe", so there's "OblivionLauncher" and "Oblivion" as your windows explorer is configured to hide it for known file types, such as ".exe". But I'm looking at a DVD drive's contents there. Where's your install directory, the place Oblivion was installed to? You can impossibly install the OBSE files onto the DVD, nor will the game ever use anything from up there. The launcher on the DVD is just designed the way so it detects where Oblivion was installed to and launches the game from there. If it wasn't installed, yet, it will also detect this and start the installation process accordingly. So if you plug your DVD into your drive, the autostart will come up and offer you to directly launch your game for example, but that's only a convenience thing. It's not even the common way to launch it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gengar807 Posted March 3, 2012 Author Share Posted March 3, 2012 im afriad your wrong about uh.well the oblivion on top of the launcher is just the oblivion icon...i dont know where the actual game with the icon is because im not on that computer right now...but i got a question........can i use system restore and restore it to when i first got it and what it looked like? i dont mind if i lose anything on the computer because i dont really have anything on my computer. also, i want to reinstall the game again because it just feels like something is missing in the files..so telll me if you think i should Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrakeTheDragon Posted March 3, 2012 Share Posted March 3, 2012 im afriad your wrong about uh.well the oblivion on top of the launcher is just the oblivion icon...i dont know where the actual game with the icon is because im not on that computer right now...but i got a question........can i use system restore and restore it to when i first got it and what it looked like? i dont mind if i lose anything on the computer because i dont really have anything on my computer. also, i want to reinstall the game again because it just feels like something is missing in the files..so telll me if you think i shouldIt's the icon? Ah, silly me! How could I forget about the icon file that is on every disc?! Of course, why should there be an "Oblivion.exe" already on the disc? It can impossibly be run from the disc already without being installed prior to that. My bad. ...That's what happens when your browser hides those suffixes! :sweat: A full-scale system restore? That's yet more drastical a solution than a complete reinstall of the game... the latter you'll likely never see me advertising already, as I always managed to fix my issues without so far. Well, It's up to you which way you'll choose, what's the least hassle for you. Though what exactly makes you feel like something's missing from the game's files? So far it is only a matter of "finding" them, as you can execute them fine, starting the game, so they must be there somewhere, and then we need to figure out if and why OBSE says it doesn't find "Oblivion.exe" when you start the launcher. If there's other issues as well, or you're convinced files are missing, then I'll say go for it. Reinstalling the game, especially to get it out of overly-protected system folders like program files on certain OS, if done the proper and clean way (there's a Complete Oblivion Reinstall Guide around here somewhere), can never hurt after all. But will a system restore also restore the state of your drives, so the game's files will be gone after it? Believe it or not, I never used this feature of my OS either, and I'm through all of them since Windows For Workgroups 3.11 (or what it was called). If it doesn't, you might get into trouble later as the uninstall will not be a clean uninstall at all to begin with. But I don't know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gengar807 Posted March 3, 2012 Author Share Posted March 3, 2012 (edited) i lost my oblivion unstaller program becasue i think i deleted it. and every time i unstall the game using the setup (look at the pic again thats what i use to unstall it) it never actually get rid of the files,it just stays there. ill look at my computer on monday becasue i dont have it right now and see if i have the oblivion file with the icon, if not ill see what system restore points i have. i think im missing just files from the game such as the unstaller, and my desktop is really messy..plus i only have like 7 mods that i can easily get again so i wont really mind if system restore gets rid of them Edited March 3, 2012 by gengar807 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrakeTheDragon Posted March 3, 2012 Share Posted March 3, 2012 Well, I can't find a specific uninstaller app for Oblivion myself right now, so I think there never was one.The only way to uninstall it are either through the "Setup.exe" on the DVD (which you tried already) or through Windows' own Program Remover from Settings or what it's called in English Windows, the page giving you the list of all Windows programs you installed and options to uninstall them. Anyways, you refering again to the screenshot from your DVD in conjunction with telling the files didn't vanish after uninstall makes me worried, are you by chance waiting for the files on the DVD you showed me to vanish? This of course will never happen. The files you showed in your screenshot are not the game's installed files. Just so we get that out of the way. So you run an uninstall already once, but you can still start your game through the loader... this means the tool was unable to uninstall... not unexpectedly so I must say, considering it's installed to program files, where no 3rd party software, such as uninstallers, will ever be permitted to mess with files or, prayers to The Nine, "delete" them... oh, well, I just don't like a piece of software telling me what I can or cannot do on my own system I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gengar807 Posted March 3, 2012 Author Share Posted March 3, 2012 (edited) o sorry i forgot to tell you. when i unstalled the game it didnt let me play the game so in a way it was working, i found a unstaller program but it was way too confusing to use and if i used it, it would force unstall the game which would probbly be bad for the game. i did go into my control panel and tried to unstall the game but that didnt even work (when i say work i mean it didnt unstall the game at all). yea i think it unstalled the game right.....i used system restore and well i thought it would delete all my files but it didnt becasue i did it to a part where it would delete all those files Edited March 5, 2012 by gengar807 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gengar807 Posted March 5, 2012 Author Share Posted March 5, 2012 hey uhh..good news..i got the obse working thanks to you. i got to say your one expert at mods and stuff, so yeah...thanks a lot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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