Enochatron Posted July 6, 2012 Share Posted July 6, 2012 Just wondering. mw and my wife both mod, and both play oblivion/morrowind/skyrim is it possible to make two different oblivon downloads? one for each of us. hers would be in program files, mine on my desktop we don't want to have the same mods. any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eric31415 Posted July 6, 2012 Share Posted July 6, 2012 Check out mTES4Manager, an excellent utility for creating and managing multiple installs. You will only actually install the game once, then use mTES4 to make new clones. It works by renaming files to swap them out, so all your clones are in the same folder. Has a simple UI to switch between them. But do not install the game to Program Files, create a C:/Games directory instead. Program Files is a UAC protected folder, and will cause issues with many mods. To give a quick step-by-step; - If you already have OB installed, follow bben's reinstall procedure, to get a clean, vanilla install in C:Games to start from. Run it to make sure it works properly. - install mTES4Manager. When you run it, it will detect that you have OB installed. Select your new install, and name it "Backup". Never install any mods or other utilities to this clone. Any time you want to start a new clone, start by making a copy of this backup. Never clone a modded game. - Now just use the "Clone" button to make his & hers copies. - You will need to install any mod managers, BOSS, OBSE, and and other utilities seperately for each clone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enochatron Posted July 7, 2012 Author Share Posted July 7, 2012 Check out mTES4Manager, an excellent utility for creating and managing multiple installs. You will only actually install the game once, then use mTES4 to make new clones. It works by renaming files to swap them out, so all your clones are in the same folder. Has a simple UI to switch between them. But do not install the game to Program Files, create a C:/Games directory instead. Program Files is a UAC protected folder, and will cause issues with many mods. To give a quick step-by-step; - If you already have OB installed, follow bben's reinstall procedure, to get a clean, vanilla install in C:Games to start from. Run it to make sure it works properly. - install mTES4Manager. When you run it, it will detect that you have OB installed. Select your new install, and name it "Backup". Never install any mods or other utilities to this clone. Any time you want to start a new clone, start by making a copy of this backup. Never clone a modded game. - Now just use the "Clone" button to make his & hers copies. - You will need to install any mod managers, BOSS, OBSE, and and other utilities seperately for each clone. Will this work with morrowing and oblivion? ps thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eric31415 Posted July 7, 2012 Share Posted July 7, 2012 Check the description in the link i provided. You will see that Oblivion, Fallout3 and New Vegas are currently supported, with Morrowind "coming soon". However, you will also note that the file hasn't been updated in 2 years... so Morrowind probably isn't happening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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