How many mods do you use? I use... almost none right now, I like to keep a clean file in case something good comes out but is incompatible with mine or something.

only 1.
A mod with a bank called za_bankmod.esp

O that's kool what is that

Un-official mods I'm using none, Official mods (aka as plug-ins or DLC) I have all. I'm on the Xbox 360 so I can't use any un-official mods.

Just checked and it would seem I have about 80 mods activated right now.

80!!!???

Man Rane you're a modaholic.

That I am. Not too long ago the number was probably close to a hundred but then I thought I'd merge a few of them. Still, quite a few of the current ones are equipment mods.

I've got none. Sad, but true, I never got to use mods even in Morrowind (mostly becouse I didn't have Tribunal). I haven't bothered to get any on Oblivion either.

We'll just say... a lot.

I have yet to get a mod for Oblivion. I guess I just don't play it enough to have the necessity to get some.

54. Some of them are varying difficulty settings on mods, though. I also have a lot of new spell mods.

Here's a complete list

TEST ESP
DopplegangersV13
Polymorph Self OBSE TEST!
Eccentric Spells
Actors In Charges
Adventurers 0.6
ArianaTrudeaux
AttackAndHideEasier V2.1
BetterPowerAttack 1.0
ChallengingTheiveryFull
Cheydinhal Petshop
CoupDeGrace
CWar's Chest Of Fun v1.4
DarkBrotherhoodPoison
DuncanFrostsMod ( )
Experiemental Magic
Heroes Retreat
Hilarity 1.21
Inebration
JADPolymorphSpellv3
LostTelvanniCodex
MathFunctions
MightyMagick - Settings
MightyMagick - Spells and Creatures
Mods - Oblivion - Extreme Marksman
MofMagecraft 1.7
More Realistic Sneaking 1.9
morespells
Necronlittlemagicmod
No Psychic Guards v1.2
Oblivion Cats v0.1
Oblivion
PinchPurseSpell
PJs Disco Spell
PJs Spells - Cheap Spells
Security Rebalance - Traps and Bash Locks
Spellbreaker (My own little mod)
The Complete Ranger
Thievery Normal Thrill
Update 2.0 Visually Enchanted

Oh, and I just downloaded Crowded Roads.

I lost all my mods due to major formatting on my system

Got a 500 GB SATA II hardrive A lot faster and better. Love it.

I plan to get my basic tweaks done and all that good stuff and then get my mods again, such as the distant LOD improvement one

I've only got one mod active. It makes the game much more bearable and enjoyable though, even though it doesn't change the generic setting of the game. I think you all know this mod. It's Obscuro's Oblivion Overhaul 1.3

More than a mod!

I don't think you need to mod in Oblivion. Oblivion is LIKE a mod to me. Maybe because I played Morrowind alot.


//Daedroth

I love mods.tthey just like expand the game.i like to download the mods especially weapon ones...right now i think i have 53 mods..unfortusntely they all have to be deleted coz the laptop has to be reformatted...

Around 20 right now.

i had a bunch of mods (like 50 or so) and i got rid of them all cause they scewed up my game and i couldnt figure which one was causeing the problem cause i had so many lol so i just went back to my Xbox version

I'm using a few, albeit ones that have several components.

Oblivion Script Extender
Deadly Reflex
Supreme Magicka (with an edited Sigil Stone component)
Darnified's DarkUI
Stronger Allies (levels NPC guards, Fighters' Guild and Mages' Guild members, etc.)

And a currently alpha-testing, probably unlikely to be released mod that turns the Battle of Bruma into a full-blown battle. Unfortunately, between the performance demands and numerous bugs, my buddies and I have practically dropped it as a viable project.

What am I playing with then? Let's see...

1. Common Oblivion (I assume that what COBL is)
2. Horse Armor
3. DEJ Harvest - Flora
4. Mehrunes Razor
5. Orrery
6. Spell Tomes
7. Unique Landscapes: The Heath
8. Unique Landscapes: Colovian Highlands
9. Unique Landscapes: Bravil Barrowfields
10. Unique Landscapes: Panther River
11. Unique Landscapes: Entius Gorge
12. Unique Landscapes: Dark Forest
13. Unique Landscapes: Ancient Yews
14. Unique Landscapes: Lush Woodlands
15. Unique Landscapes: Rolling Hills EV without wheat
16. Unique Landscapes: Stendarr Valley
17. Unique Landscapes: Cloudtop Mountains
18. Unique Landscapes: Arrius Creek
19. Unique Landscapes: Chorrol Hinterlands
20. Unique Landscapes: Fallenleaf Everglade
21. Pitchable Tent cleaned
22. Oblivifall - let's talk!
23. IOM - Main Quest
24. IOM - Kvatch
25. HVH Life Detect
26. Nighteye shader replacement 1.1 (currently 'infrared')
27. Knights of the Nine
28. COBL Salmo the Baker
29. Living Economy
30. Oscuro's Oblivion Overhaul v1.31 (and if I ever see a spectral knight again I am going to scream)
31. Shivering Isles

Um. A few more than I thought then

After checking my OBMM, I count 32 checked boxes. But some of those are patches and DLC.

Read it and be amazed:



And let's not even start on the ESP-less mods (texture replacers, and whatnot).



(Load order is hidden via spoiler tags to keep the post length down)

So ... er ... now I know who to ask regarding how to work Wrye Bash & Boss to get the most out of my mods with the least conflict! GAAAAH!

I only have a dozen mods activated and they conflict constantly - my game crashed 3 days ago and I spent days rebuilding it so it will run again. It is running, but right now with only about 3 mods. I am almost afraid to add anything I really want for fear of losing the game again.

These all ran great together till I added just one more thing - the straw that broke the camel's back:

1. Ring of Console - necessary to access console with my POS HP PC and Windows Vista.
2. Kawa Khajiit - absolutely essential to me, I don't want to go back to vanilla Khajiit
3. KT Custom Race Fix - Utility
4. "Stepford Husbands" - my mod, rarely conflicts with anything
5. Shiny Emotions - see below
6. Personality Idles - just because I like the more realistic actions and emotions displayed
7. Actors in Charge - posing for screenies
8. Basic Instincts - a bit of fun on the run
9. All available DLC except Battlehorn Castle (which I would like) and SI.
10. Female Eye Candy Body Replacer - so she looks good undressed, (instead of like a male who changed his mind halfway through surgery to become female and had a very bad plastic surgeon).
11. Roberts male body - nude (because I don't like seeing a man in a diaper)


Here is the mod that crashed my game the other day and caused me a ton of grief:

12. PCSound - Annah

Really ticks me off that SOMEONE (not mentioning any names, Thomas Kaira) - can have a list of mods they have to HIDE WITH A SPOILER so as not to extend post length, and their game runs fine! ... grrrr!

So last night I DL'd Wrye Bash/Python and Boss to try and sort out the mess and load orders so what few mods I want to enjoy will quit conflicting.

Ok, so I DL'd WRYE BASH last night, and spent all night staring at ... huh? Do what? Say WHAT? GAAAAAAH !!!! WTF do I do with that thing? Where is McGiver when you need him? GAAAAAH !!!

Sounds like someone could use a newbie's guide!

Fully illustrated Wrye Bash for Dummies. You were not alone, when I first got it I was utterly lost in all the features it had, and I didn't even have the newbies guide because it wasn't written yet! I had to self-teach myself everything about the tool, good thing I'm a quick study! I will say this, though, it gets A LOT easier as you learn, trust me. Now, I swear by it, and am using almost everything it has to offer.

By the way, I'm also using a whole slew of advanced tricks to keep my game up and running at a decent performance. Maintaining a 100+ mod load order is not easy, but to me is half the fun of playing this game. Bash is only half of my wizardry.

For this reason, you often see me hanging around the Oblivion Mods forum down on BGS. It's the best place to go for the most up-to-date info on modding Oblivion.

WOO HOO !!! Thanks Thomas Kaira !!! I DL'd all of them, not sure what any of the descriptors meant, lol. But the first screenie told me exactly why I was unable to move files into the Bashed Patch! Thank you, seriously. I did need a "Dummies" style explanation, that is for sure, lol.

Er ... mistake made on my list. That is how it looks now. Unfortunately I forgot to include the mods I took off when it crashed. All of the mods below were running smoothly - till I added PCSound Annah :


I pulled the full list from BOSS and alphabetized it, here it is:


Oblivion.esm

actors_in_charge.esp - worked good
BasicInstinct.esp - more fun than a barrel of monkeys
cidnothump.esp - I never heard the thump in the first place, don't know what this did.
CM Partners.esm - If I'm not mistaken, this is a part of one of the Werewolf mods
CM Partners.esp

CTAddPose_v_1.esp
CTAddPose_v_1_1.esp
CTAddPose_glock3.esp- some poses worked, others didn't - may not have had all three of these checked, not sure. All three were on OBMM.

CurseOfHircine.esp - AWESOME!
DAWerewolf.esp - Can't remember what this one added
DesuChan's Kawa-Khajiits.esp - best Khajiit mod EVER !!
Druid.esp - Okay, cool - had a glitch where it gave you every power without earning it first, eh.
DSPirateIsleBeta.esp - a ball !!
FenrirTheWolf.esp - fine, but invisible for some reason.
KT_CustomRaceFix.esp
LithiansVampEyes.esp - Awesome mod - never made it to vampire long enough to check cool powers
Lycanthropy V. 2.esp - OK
MaleBodyReplacerV4.esp - I DL'd V 5, but this shows 4. Huh?
personality_idles3b.esp - Awesome
Prometheu'sPiratesHideout.esp - lots of fun
Ring of console.esp - Needed
Not sure why BOSS isn't showing them, but I had a couple ... er ... X mods. Where'd they go?
shinyEmotions.esp - Love this one
StandingJOJO.esp - Great
Stepford Husbands Love Nest.esp - my mod
StokerWolff.esp - worked, but ... eh, yuch.
VampireCompanions.esp - great, but missing mesh on Vicente in certain rooms
Werewolf-Legends.esp - Second best mod EVER !!! (one complaint, it changed Oblivion music).
Wolf Diversity.esp - Awesome !!



DLCFrostcrag.esp
DLCThievesDen.esp
DLCVileLair.esp
DLCMehrunesRazor.esp
Knights.esp


And all worked well together till I added :

PCSoundAnnah.esp

That one was either the last straw that broke the camel's back or the rotton apple that spoiled the whole bushel (etc, etc, etc.)

It's actually much better to post mods in the order they are being loaded into the game. Bash can do this for you, just right-click the top bar in the mods tab and select "list mods." Bash will then display a small window containing your load order and automatically copy the contents, so you can just paste them into the forum. (Take the code tags off, though, I'm not sure this board supports them. )

I downloaded TESV Edit yesterday, I'm going to try removing all the mods and archiving them - then using that mod (or a list if I can find it) to clean up the Oblivion and Data folders - see if I can get my game running well again. Also, I DL'd a new driver for my NVidia and they did not have my card on their list - gave me a different one. Ever since I got the new graphics driver my PC has been crashing daily. I have to try and bring it back to the old driver if possible. GAAAAH !!! Doesn't my PC know I am PC illiterate? GAAAAAH !!!

TESIVEdit is not for cleaning up the Oblivion and Data folders, it's for low-level editing and cleaning individual plugins (.ESPs). First glance will likely net you the same response as a first-timer in Wrye Bash, "WTF am I supposed to do with this thing?!"

Here's another guide that should help you out with getting your mods cleaned up using TESIVEdit.

(Psst, I'm a contributor on that guide . I helped with the "to be cleaned" compilation)

In other news, I decided today that I would extend my Visible When Distant graphics to include the Forts and Cities (minus the Imperial City). This, coupled with the Ayleid Ruins and High-res bridges and castles means pretty much every large structure in the game is now visible when distant for me. Bit of performance hit, but nothing too serious.

I marked it as a favorite so I can refer to it continuously while I destroy what is left of my game trying to fix it. I scanned the page till I got to the part that describes how to actually use the TES4 Edit. (I knew I was at the right place when my brain numbed up and I suddenly could not understand a word it was saying - but it was an improvement over the "Read me" that came with the mod, lol. This part at the end had me rolling:




PS: You must have a whopping system to handle the graphics for that kind of detail/distance!! Feel free to brag about your system to me, I love to drool over other people's great set-ups!!

I'd like to know too

Fine, you win... I'll post my rig here...

Motherboard: MSI P6N Diamond PCI-E
Firmware: nVidia nForce 680i
OS: Microsoft Windows XP Pro SP3
Memory: 3GB DDR2 RAM @800MHz
Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.40 gHz
Graphics: nVidia GeForce 8800GT
>512MB GDDR3 VRAM @900MHz
>Shader Model 3.0
Audio: Creative SB X-FI Titanium
>Turtle Beach EarForce X41 Digital Surround headset

Drool ... drool ... drool ...

I'm really liking the CPU
I have a Radeon HD 5770 with 1GB of DDR5
My CPU is an AMD Athlon 64 dual core. It's a few years old and wasn't great when I got it.

I couldn't find your GPU on this chart: http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html

I use this site for comparing GPUs. You'll find it there.

The 8800 GT was one of the most powerful cards (arguably THE most powerful) released in the GeForce 8 series. My system is actually equipped with two of them in SLI configuration (though I force single-GPU on Oblivion because it doesn't support SLI)

Here's their entry on the card:

http://www.gpureview.com/show_cards.php?card1=544&card2=

There's also this table here on the Bethsoft forums listing how capable specific GPUs are at running Oblivion. You'll find mine is listed under the "Extreme" category.

Rest assured my system is perfectly capable of handling what I'm throwing at it.

SLI? GAAAAaaaaaah!!! Drool ... drool ...

ha ha ha NICE. I used to have a POS card that I found another of and put both in my comp and it ran some decent games for a while.

That compare site is pretty cool, I'm going to bookmark it.

My GPU is a monster, its so big I was concerned about airflow.

I bought a GTX 580 a little while ago, and it would only barely fit in the case. For a few moments I was afraid I would have to send it back! Thankfully it squeaked in though.

Even with it and 12gig of ram, Oblivion still runs choppy. FO3 runs great though, even with everything turned up to max. I have been playing Morrowind for the last week, with MGE. It is nice to be able to play a game at 32x Anti-Aliasing and 16x Aniostropic Filtering! For an ancient game, It still looks pretty good with mods of course)

I really wanted that GPU but I had to settle for the more affordable 5770. It's still not a bad card, but it's not #1 like yours is right now!

I bet both cards are the same size, I can't really imagine a larger card. I have a large case and it takes up so much room in it.

Is that Teresa? ARGH!! I have a sudden desire to hear about Teresa in Morrowind !!!

I have a total of 31 mods installed...a drop in the bucket compared to TK (whom I must start referring to as the Mod-God )



Since some folks were posting their rigs...

OS - Windows 7 64-bit
MOBO - Gigabyte GA-770T-USB3
CPU - AMD Phenom IIx4 925 Quad-Core @ 2.8 Ghz
RAM - 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3/1600 Mhz Dual Channel
GPU - ATI Radeon 5770 - 1GB RAM DDR5

I have around 25 mods.

My puter is a pretty black one, and is kind of new. Through the 7 windows that it has I can see beautiful blue lights and it makes soothing little whirring noises. It came with a new keyboard - that was good 'cuz the white bits were wearing off the keys on the old one, lol. Anyway, the puter folks that built it said it has lots of gigajuice and stuff. It has a spare puter inside that writes down everything the first one does and, I guess, keeps the first one company. They were able to summon the spirit of my old puter right into the new one so I didn't have to reinstall my game or anything! We put the game settings up to By Azura!!' and it runs real nice.

Chuckled bubbles into my coffee as I read this.

SPEW!!! There went my keyboard and monitor !!!

Lol'd in the library. People glared. sorry!

And I have 25 mods as well. I will provide a list later, I thought I could simply copy and paste them from OBMM but that's not going to happen it seems.

61 as it turns out I'm trying to get Kvatch Aftermath to work as well, but there are some complications with that. Then I'm not currently using any extra official content(except Shivering isles) or Unique Landscapes, which might prove troublesome to incorporate with the mods I'm using. And maybe I should only count the CM Partner mods as one...

Mods(.esp's):



Hm, yeah I use a lot of mods. And I only use the mod manager to keep track of them, still I haven't found any clashes yet. Or well, Stokers face is gone, but I cover it with a mask.

Edit: That's interesting, why ain't the spoiler there? The writing is here when I edit the post.

Stoker's missing face: There is a "Face Fix" you can get for him on TESNexus. If it still doesn't show up and all you see is floating teeth - it is your load order - he has to be dead last or he has face problems, lol. Clavicus Vile's mask probably looks better than his own face anyway, I would have covered his face with a mask if I had thought of it - he is not a pretty sight. I wish they had different faces for him that you could choose which you preferred. Or the ability to edit his features - something.

My Khajiit refused to have anything to do with him, balled her fists up and pinned her ears to her head every time he was even in the room with her. She hated him - I don't blame her. I hope they take the Stoker idea and put it on a different facegen - maybe a diff storyline too, lol. Maxical was highly offended by him. I would like them to make a similar mod but using NPC's - that I would love to see.

That mod is a troublesome one, it is chock-full of dirty edits that need to be cleaned out with TES4Edit that can will cause problems in your game. Same with any mods created by that author (Giskard).

This actually caused quite the scandal on the BGS forums a while back. I won't go into details, but it ended with Giskard being banned and his name being tabooed. Please don't ask further as I will not discuss this. Just letting you know that Giskard has a bad reputation among the TES4 modding community.

Don't let that stop you from using his mods, but take in mind there will be some quality control problems you'll need to deal with.

updated list: 47 50 51. Will post after I get load order help from the Mod God and BOSS

list posted!

And now... (brace yourself) the SECOND load order!

You read right, I actually have two installations, fully modded, to play as I see fit (actually four, if you count Nehrim and the pure Vanilla game). The difference is this: instead of coaxing out the best graphics and diversity from Oblivion as I do in the first LO, this one is centered entirely around immersion. This means that most heavy hitting expansion mods (the ULs, Mart's Monster Mod, etc.) are gone, and some mods have been replaced with different ones (E.G., Better Cities for Open Cities).



As you can see, the backbone of this Load Order is almost the same as the previous one (OOO), but I'm doing some significantly different things here than I am with my previously posted LO.

And no, I did not axe the first one, it is still there. I use a handy program called mTES4 Manager to quickly and painlessly switch between the two depending on what I'm in the mood to play.

My updated list