OBSE Launcher Faux Pax, Clicked the wrong shortcut Options

[TheOtherRick]

Ok...this probably serves me right because I have posted in other threads about how worry-free and smokin my GPU has been. Yesterday, I upgraded my OBSE from ver. 18 beta 6 to 19b. I also added three mods. One was Map Marker Overhaul and the other two were Kafeis Better Amulets and Kafeis Better Rings.

After doing this, I launched the game from the wrong desktop shortcut. OBSE says to use the OBSE Launcher instead of the Oblivion Launcher. Well, I launched it from the latter by mistake. The first thing that happened was the launcher set all of my video settings to the lowest possible. So in the Main Menu screen, I reset them all to my usual Ultra-High settings. Then I loaded a save.

The graphics went haywire on me. The ground level was screwed up to where low areas looked like they were in a green lake. Evrything that was visible above that was very vivid with no shadowing. It was a mess. I completely uninstalled all of the mods and reversed the upgrade to OBSE. No change...graphics still screwed. I ended up doing a System Restore (ugh...I HATE doing that!) and now everything is back to where it was before I changed my game and the graphics are fine.

What I want to know is, did all this happen because I clicked the wrong launcher, or are there issues with OBSE 19b? I suspect the former, but thought I would get some expert opinion. Thanks.

[Thomas Kaira]

I just dropped a shortcut to the OBSE loader onto my desktop and tagged it with the icon in Oblivion.EXE. No need to even go through a mod manager there; they see enough use by me that I don't really feel the need to launch my game through them even though I can.