wasder Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 (this isn't discussing the technical side, that's why I put it here) How annoying is it? You lose all your characters and progress, Have to reinstall all your mods, grrr. Hate it. A lot. :verymad: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dezdimona Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 you won't lose your characters.Make a copy of your save game file,name it other than oblivion.When done with the re-install add your save games from that file! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasder Posted December 30, 2008 Author Share Posted December 30, 2008 Ah, but my save games rely on massive amounts of mods that aren't there anymore due to catastrophic rooster ups. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VincentAlliath Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 Not that irritating. I make a list of all the mods I have, then cross out at least five of them that I don't want anymore. With some mods, I back up the packages. Then I redownload mods. Doesn't get me that bad. And I always download after midnight, to take advantage of my off-peak downloads, so I don't waste my on-peak ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exanimis Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 I save the 7-zip files of every mod I install in a folder on my desktop. If I need to reinstall them, they are there when I need them and the zip files don't take up much space, plus you can arrange them in your load order so that the re- install is the same as before. In case you don't know. after you extract a file all the information in still stored in the original zip file and can be extracted again. very handy for storage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasder Posted December 30, 2008 Author Share Posted December 30, 2008 Ah, but I had a sort of accidental deletion (thanks dad) of the mods folder that screwed up oblivion. As most of them were active mods at the time, I think one of them may have taken part of the game out with it. (I think maybe The Heart of the Dead. The raven eye productions bit came up then Oblivion crashed completely) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dezdimona Posted December 31, 2008 Share Posted December 31, 2008 your characters will still show up,provided you have the race mods.They'll just be minus all their stuff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasder Posted December 31, 2008 Author Share Posted December 31, 2008 No, It crashes every time I try and load them up. And he's a dark elf. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dezdimona Posted December 31, 2008 Share Posted December 31, 2008 well,guess you start over! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SavageArtistry Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 This won't help you this time, but for future reference it may be helpful to back up your entire "Data" directory after you've installed your mods. Something gets borked and you can just delete the messed up directory and replace it with your backup. I have a vanilla backup just in case something I'm tinkering with messes up and it has saved reinstalling numerous times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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