How To Install Boss Oblivion
Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Step 1 A First DO NOT install oblivion to program files. Instead make a folder in your User partition for Oblivion. This should make Vista happy about modding and altering the game.
If you put it in program files, Vista is going to give you hell every time you try to mod it if it even runs at all. Did you buy the game recently? Most of the articles are old and they will tell you to patch it. DO NOT PATCH THE GAME OF THE YEAR ADDITION.
It is already the recent version and patching it with the official patch will destabilize your game. Step 2 After Installing Oblivion, download these programs. I know its a hassle but trust me you will thank GOD you did in the end.
Note about patch file size of 1.2.0416: The SI patch is smaller because the SI Install process updates Oblivion to 1.2.201, any patches after it would not need to be cumulative from Oblivion 1.0, just SI 1.2.201. Oblivion Lovers with PK Downloads - Lovers with PK Technical Support - Lovers with PK. How do I use BOSS for Skyrim? When LOOT or BOSS auto-detect your game's installation folder, they do so by checking your registry for the key generated by steam's skyrim launcher. So if you've reinstalled or something, make sure you have run.
• - for installing and organizing mods • - For integrating mods • - Auto sorts your mods with one click. No more endless load order tweaking. • - Tells you what mods are conflicting. • - Scripting software needed for most super cool mods These will take you an hr to setup and install and they will save you ungodly amounts of time and frustration. Simcity 3000 windows 10 patch. YOU WILL NOT ENJOY A HEAVILY MODDED OBLIVION WITHOUT THEM.
Unless you are a masochist. Step 3 Down load some mod lists.
Buddah has one on TES Nexus and there are others to be found. These are extensive and contain links to many thousands of mods Step 4 Download Unofficial patches. Make sure you do everything through OBMM so all mods can be easily removed. Otherwise your oblivion folder will become a tangled mess of unwanted files. Only texture files for bodies, faces, maps; and plugins for OBSE should be uploaded directly into your Oblivion directory now.
(more OBMM instructions further down) Step 5 Optimize graphics. Oblivion is a stuttering nightmare without these add-ons. Especially if you want to have alot of mods, are running it from a Lappy (like me) or have an older computer These are REQUIRED • - Keeps your scripts from being stupidly long and slowing the game. LOAD IT FIRST (Boss will tell you so too:-P ). • - DOUBLY REQUIRED for LAPPYS. Oblivion walking sounds are bugged and will weigh down your soundcard without this. • - People will tell you this slows down your game.
They are idiots who have installed this on default without experimenting with the settings. After installing read the config info and edit the Streamline ini to match your computer. ON DEFAULT IT WILL PROBABLY SLOW YOU DOWN!! In particular bring the fps range up, set combat fps very low (I have it at 3), bring the fog closer, allow clipping behind the fog, increase interval between Streamsaves, and lower rate of cache clearing (this is important if your GFX card is better than your cpu (like me). Note: if your choke point is your GFX card or you intend to overclock you might want to go the other route and set cache-clearing high). KEEP TWEAKING UNTIL YOU FIND THE RIGHT SETTINGS. STREAMLINE WORKS!!!
You just have to be patient and scientific with it: Experiment, experiment experiment. • / - There are many versions of this. Oblivion grass will eat up your cpu and make loading choppy without it. Step 6 Okay now the part you've been waiting for, the fun part.
Honestly sometimes I think modding oblivion is more fun than playing the game. Essentials There aren't too many that I'd consider essential, but here's a few • - I have tried every overhaul. This is the only one I use now. Because its doesn't stick its nose into every ^&%!!! Feature of the game. If you use other overhauls welcome to a world of endless conflicts and searches for compatible mods. MMM heightens difficulty so that mods won't make you uber by comparison, and it adds a whole lot of creatures and items to leveled lists.
All its other functions are modular so that you can avoid conflicts. I strongly advise against the other overhauls. • - Use it, love it, download every mod that loves it too. COBL gets your mods 'friendly' with one another. Absolutely essential if you want to have: custom houses or realism (survival mods). This mod is great bc/ it makes Oblivion an always unexpected experience. Components (like items and food) you install will no longer be limited to their set locations, they might show up in other places too.