Quick suggestions for newb modder

[c0rg1]

I've had oblivion for years and only recently started modding it. Im an extremely casual player. After a week of banging my head against dumb guy road blocks I'm seeking help.

 

As to what I preffer in game play, I just love to explore that wonderfull world. Appearance, exploration reasonable realism is what I like. Difficulty in gameplay, light/easy. That's why Dark dungeons and unique landscapes is a must for me. I would love to get the guard overhaul to work but im so suspicious of it as you will see when you read below.

 

graphics mode 640x480 with hdr and set to MAX. I was raised with pong, Atari 2600 and 320x240 so to me it works as long as I can read the text. Geesh very low mode would be acceptable it wernt for horrible object fade and distant textures looking horrible. And no use of darkness in caverns.

 

I'm think I have everything loaded okay but just in case im in error correct me.

 

System

Inspiron 570

AMD Athlon 2x4 processor 2.8ghz

8gb ram

64 bit processor

ATI Radeon HD 4200 integrated graphics card with shared memory

Amd vision system list memory size as 3067 mb hypermemory

Windows 7 home premium SP1 64bit

 

I found this install process works so if I got it wrong correct me.

Install oblivion, play and save once exit, install official patch, obse, wyrebash, Really Texture Normal Maps. All mods manually installed by copying into oblivion/data directory. and approiate subdirectories per mod.

 

Load order.

oblivion.esm

bashed patch, 0.esp

streamline 2.0 esp

sounds of cyrodill.esp

let there be darkness - cyrodiil.esp

DropLitTorchesOBSE.esp

Night Eye Togge.esp

Natural habitat

Natural vegitation

Natural water

Natural weather

FullGrass1.1.esp

Unique Landscapes.esp (complimation with bsa activated)

 

For some reason Let there be darkness has a red bar highlight. I'v tried to find out if it means incompatibility but I don't think so.

 

Optional without unique landscapes Trails Of Cyrodiil merged.esp

 

After this I tried the unnofical patch and everything listed below. It crashed. I was so deflated I uninstalled and reinstalled.

 

4gb patch. (directions mention LLA but is this something I have to get separate or did it come with it.)

 

Mods that crashed the game that I put in all at once.

Quarls & timeslips depth of field. It messed up textures and messed up the game.

Illumination within (duno if it was quarls or something else)

Packrideponies

Reneers guard overhaul

SM combat hide

 

After the crash install I erased and uninstalled oblivion and reinstalled to the before crash state. I have not loaded any of them for fear of corrupting something. Even now every so often when I exit oblivion it slows down to a crawl as if trying to unload and often becomes unresponsive to the point that windows pops up "oblivion is not respsonding". even that button to close does not work. I have to use CAD + TM to end the process.

 

I also acquired 'Always foggy 1_0-39912-1-0' as a kind of "low end fix all to limit view distance but to also keep drop off looking crappy but did not install.

 

If I missed anything or if my load order is out of wack please tell me.

If there are BETTER mods for my now OUTDATED system I am open to suggestions. Visibly the textures & darkness are what really worked great for me. Just reworked, not oversized. Simple but sweet.

 

I thank everyone for their great help and suggestions ahead of time!

Edited October 25, 2017 by c0rg1