Archive invalidation

[Michlo]

Well, I was about to ask the above question but decided to continue my search and found the answer myself here.

 

So now I shall leave the thread here for others to learn but also to ask if anybody has had any experience of this helping them with any specific mods please? I still see far too many conflicts in my OBMM report to try going through all of them, I still have the occasional CTD and always have the "stopped responding" when I exit so could this help me at all?

 

Cheers.

[BossDweebe]

I forget where I read it, but all that red in your conflict is not necessarily a problem.

I don't recall the details, but it basically means that the mods are changing the thing

they are conflicting with in the original esm. i.e. - invalidating the archive ?

This may becomes a problem when two or more modsare trying to change the same thing,

but even then the last mod in the load order wins -usually.

To quote from the OBMM help file "A red conflict is more likely to do something utterly unnoticable

that it is to completely break a plugin. " (maybe this is where I read it :rolleyes: )

 

Is the "stopped responding " that bloody black screen error message that looses my mouse cursor ?

It seems to be part and parcel of modding Oblivion. I am hoping that Elys Crash Shield will fix that.

[Shadowcran]

It's why I've learned to rely on Wrye Bash and only use the Mod Manager to turn my downloads into Omods for easy storage. That's about all I use it for...backups.

 

The Wrye Bash looks intimidating to most when they first see it, but it's not nicknamed "the swiss army knife of modding" for nothing. Learn it's features one a time on the Wrye Bash page.

 

http://wrye.ufrealms.net/Wrye%20Bash.html

 

The problem with it is it makes a lot of tasks ultra easy to do...and people are used to having to do it the hard way. You'll be thinking "This can't possibly be what I need to be done, where are all the huge time consuming steps?"

[Michlo]

Thanks for the replies.

 

I myself thought that most of those red conflicts wouldn't be game breaking so thank you for confirming that. Of course, when you have tons of them the question then becomes, is there ONE in there that might be. heh.

 

I too use OBMM and OMODs for all of them. It is so much cleaner and easier when you need to remove / change one.

 

As for Wrye Bash, I might give it a go one of these days, thanks.

 

Cheers.