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RG4's PC Modding Crisis Thread |
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Renee |
Dec 22 2013, 01:49 AM
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Councilor
Joined: 19-March 13
From: Ellicott City, Maryland
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Check it out, my very first post in a modding forum. Interestingly enough this forum happens to be rather slow. I can see some threads haven't been touched since summer or even earlier. Enough with the small talk though. I am starting this thread because (let's face it) I am new to PC gaming and I'm going to need a LOT of help in the upcoming months and years. So this thread is a place to hopefully get all my answers questions, and questions answers. And of course if somebody else has questions they can ask 'em too. I keep a 'modding file' on a Word Pad page located in one of my PC's folders, and I've been adding a lot of helpful random advice there, but one of my probs is sometimes I'll read something online in some thread, and then later I'll go to have a look at that thread, trying to remember what the solution is to a problem, but I can't find it anymore. I'm somewhat of a PC dummy, but also a fast learner. I'm not sure if Beth's forums have a decent modding community; I'm sure it's great (and with a low rate of flaming), but I also can sometimes get too overwhelmed by Bethesda's official forums. I also know that Beth is packed with rude gamers, and I don't have time for that sort of nonsense. Also, Why ask questions there when everybody I trust is already here, right? I've been hearing about how great Wrye Bash is, so this is one of the very first things I think I'll mess with. I have also heard Nexus is better than Steam to get mods from, so I'm following that advice. When I go on Nexus and try to locate Wrye Bash, I find a page which has several different versions (?) attached to it. Which one do I choose? I am assuming it's this one? This post has been edited by Renee Gade IV: Dec 22 2013, 01:49 PM
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SubRosa |
Jan 21 2014, 06:04 PM
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Ancient
Joined: 14-March 10
From: Between The Worlds
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QUOTE(Renee Gade IV @ Jan 21 2014, 10:23 AM) QUOTE(mirocu @ Jan 21 2014, 03:35 AM) Donīt forget to actually play the game once in awhile other than for testing mods Not yet. It's gotta be perfect, the gameworld that is. Been waiting for mods for a long time, Crow. I already know what the vanilla game's like because I've been walking around in it for 5 years now, so what I want is something which is more obviously different. Now young grasshopper, you are ready... Seriously though, welcome to the same world that people like Wyrd and I live in. I have been planning on picking up Skyrim again for about a week now, and starting up an old character. But I cannot just start the game and begin playing. I wanted to change up her look some to reflect how far she has come as a person. So I spent the last week going over character concepts and experimenting with mods to which would work with the ideas I had, and which would not. I started playing her a few nights ago, and realized I am still not ready yet. I want to go over ideas for a new sword, and a lair for her. And this is with an established character! If she had been a brand new one it would have been much more work! This post has been edited by SubRosa: Jan 21 2014, 06:18 PM
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haute ecole rider |
Jan 21 2014, 06:40 PM
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Master
Joined: 16-March 10
From: The place where the Witchhorses play
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QUOTE(SubRosa @ Jan 21 2014, 11:04 AM) *snip* Now young grasshopper, you are ready... Seriously though, welcome to the same world that people like Wyrd and I live in. I have been planning on picking up Skyrim again for about a week now, and starting up an old character. But I cannot just start the game and begin playing. I wanted to change up her look some to reflect how far she has come as a person. So I spent the last week going over character concepts and experimenting with mods to which would work with the ideas I had, and which would not. I started playing her a few nights ago, and realized I am still not ready yet. I want to go over ideas for a new sword, and a lair for her. And this is with an established character! If she had been a brand new one it would have been much more work! I hear both of you, SubRosa and Renee! I've played the same character four times, trying out different mods and figuring out what she is. It's not as easy as my first PC, who pretty much dominated the vanilla game and needed little more than making Gweden Farm her own after she cleared out the ... umm ... squatters. Unfortunately her save games on the external drive are corrupted, so she only lives on in Old Habits Die Hard. I'm not sure I want to replay her from scratch . . . she was amazing to play the first time through and I'm not sure if I can capture that feeling again. Yet, I'm anxious to continue her story beyond the Main Quest and have some really cool snapshots from the game for that. And the mods I've tried out for Tallei would be useful for Julian as well - especially the textures and the All Natural system. Something you might want to consider -- sometimes you will not discover mod conflicts until you actually play the game and follow a quest or another. This happened to me after I loaded about 40 or so mods (most highly endorsed on Oblivion Nexus) and tested each of them. Then when I started playing a small quest mod, I came across a particularly annoying fatal conflict that prevented me from completing the quest until I deactivated the offending mod. The problem is I really, really liked that mod.
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Renee |
Jan 21 2014, 10:23 PM
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Councilor
Joined: 19-March 13
From: Ellicott City, Maryland
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Yes, that's how I am right now SR: everything's gotta be 'perfect', but also (in my case) obviously different from vanilla. This has been my dream for ... literally years now. It's snowing outside so I created a second character named Clea Vigge. (get it? Har har..) I only created her, I'm not actually playing her yet. But with her, I'm going to want some boobie mods. -(.)(.)- She's going to be a Bard I think, but she'll have an 'enhanced' chest, is what I mean to say. With Clea, what's going to happen is I'm going to find a (tasteful) boobie mod. I've seen these sort of mods out there, never thought I'd get one for a character, but with Clea Vigge it'll be just perfect. Good luck with your new Skyrim mama. QUOTE(haute ecole rider @ Jan 21 2014, 12:40 PM) Unfortunately her save games on the external drive are corrupted, so she only lives on in Old Habits Die Hard. I'm not sure I want to replay her from scratch . . .
This sounds scary. What did you wind up doing about these corrupted game saves? I guess you just said it: you needed to restart from scratch. How did they wind up getting corrupted, though?
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haute ecole rider |
Jan 22 2014, 03:33 AM
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Master
Joined: 16-March 10
From: The place where the Witchhorses play
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QUOTE(Renee Gade IV @ Jan 21 2014, 03:23 PM) QUOTE(haute ecole rider @ Jan 21 2014, 12:40 PM) Unfortunately her save games on the external drive are corrupted, so she only lives on in Old Habits Die Hard. I'm not sure I want to replay her from scratch . . .
This sounds scary. What did you wind up doing about these corrupted game saves? I guess you just said it: you needed to restart from scratch. How did they wind up getting corrupted, though? Well, I suspect a brownout from one of the numerous storms we get through here. All my electronics are plugged into surge suppressors, but nothing is ever 100% . . . In any case, I had my Windows partition on my Mac Pro run a disc diagnosis and it removed a bunch of corrupt files from the data folders as well as fixed a bunch of others. So I suspect the "backups" I had on the drive are no longer backups. However, I was able to copy over the saved games and the screenshots from the external drive to the desktop. I've formatted the external drive (from the Windows partition, natch) and am setting it up to be the backup drive for Windows (only for the game files, though, not for the entire drive). Now I'm off to finish setting up Oblivion on the Mac Pro. I'm reorganizing the entire Oblivion system on the Windows partition so I can have a separate folder for each game with its own mod load list. That means installing OBMM, Wrye Bash, CS, TES4Edit and TES4LODGen in each folder. All the other mods will be stored in their own folder and be available to each game. Sometimes all the work ahead of play makes the play worthwhile.
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Renee Gade IV RG4's PC Modding Crisis Thread Dec 22 2013, 01:49 AM SubRosa I do not use Wyre Bash, so I am afraid I cannot he... Dec 22 2013, 03:54 AM Acadian Renee, I started with OBMM for installs and have s... Dec 22 2013, 04:19 AM Grits That's the one I'm using. (The standalone ... Dec 22 2013, 04:59 AM King Coin
I've only used Steam for Skyrim, but Im gues... Dec 22 2013, 05:35 AM SubRosa I forgot to say. I always use the Nexus for my mod... Dec 22 2013, 05:29 AM Renee Gade IV
I do not use Wyre Bash, so I am afraid I cannot h... Dec 22 2013, 02:09 PM Acadian
[quote name='Acadian' post='203067' date='Dec 21 ... Dec 22 2013, 05:15 PM SubRosa
What do you use instead of WB? Just curious.
I ... Dec 22 2013, 06:43 PM mirocu I donīt use Wrye Bash or anything like that. I hav... Dec 22 2013, 03:44 PM King Coin I would definitely use a mod installer of some typ... Dec 22 2013, 06:42 PM Grits For installing Oblivion mods I mostly did it manua... Dec 22 2013, 06:54 PM Renee Gade IV Awesome, thanks again, all. I'm pretty confuse... Dec 23 2013, 05:13 PM King Coin
The question: [b]is it possible to start a mod [u... Dec 23 2013, 05:26 PM Acadian Once you have the game installed (you did install ... Dec 23 2013, 05:23 PM Grits Yikes!! Lets rename the Grits method Ask... Dec 23 2013, 08:11 PM Renee Gade IV
Once you have the game installed (you did install... Dec 24 2013, 03:33 PM Acadian On Windows Vista and above, mods sometimes get int... Dec 24 2013, 04:58 PM Thomas Kaira On the topic of Wrye Bash: I swear by it. It has s... Dec 24 2013, 05:22 PM Renee Gade IV Awesome! Thank you Acadian and Thomas Kaira. Dec 26 2013, 11:46 PM SubRosa Besides all of the excellent advice given here, I ... Dec 27 2013, 04:10 AM Renee Gade IV Awesome thanks SR. :) A friend of mine from Beth m... Dec 27 2013, 09:09 PM Renee Gade IV I am now copying files to the Vanilla Oblivion fol... Jan 2 2014, 01:41 AM SubRosa Copying can take a while, especially on an older c... Jan 2 2014, 01:44 AM Renee Gade IV
You won't need Steam if you are just playing ... Jan 2 2014, 02:23 AM SubRosa The graphics are way better than a PS3 or X-Box. T... Jan 2 2014, 03:06 AM Renee Gade IV
The graphics are way better than a PS3 or X-Box. ... Jan 2 2014, 04:34 PM Thomas Kaira No more ugly faces.
And as for the screenshots of... Jan 2 2014, 08:25 PM Renee Gade IV Thanks Thomas Kaira. You're named after a rare... Jan 2 2014, 11:39 PM Thomas Kaira
Thanks Thomas Kaira. You're named after a rar... Jan 4 2014, 01:08 AM Acadian Yes, that is where to put it. :) Jan 2 2014, 11:45 PM Renee Gade IV Awesome. Good lord, it's got a lot of reading ... Jan 2 2014, 11:56 PM Renee Gade IV What does esp stand for? Sorry, I tried Googling ... Jan 3 2014, 12:27 AM Renee Gade IV I'm downloading mod files as we speak. I haven... Jan 3 2014, 12:48 AM King Coin ESP stands for elder scrolls plugin file. Nearly e... Jan 3 2014, 01:14 AM SubRosa Hi Renee. You installed OBMM to the right place. T... Jan 3 2014, 01:31 AM Renee Gade IV Okay, one last thing before I launch my first PC g... Jan 3 2014, 01:32 AM SubRosa You got it. Use the ~ to open the console. Then ty... Jan 3 2014, 01:36 AM Renee Gade IV SWEET! The mod works! :D I put Natural Hu... Jan 3 2014, 04:46 PM haute ecole rider Congratulations RG4! Welcome to the world of m... Jan 3 2014, 05:22 PM Renee Gade IV
Congratulations RG4! Welcome to the world of ... Jan 5 2014, 08:39 PM King Coin Unofficial Patches are usually a good idea. It fix... Jan 5 2014, 08:55 PM Renee Gade IV Oh I see. So I'll probably just wait a bit unt... Jan 5 2014, 11:51 PM SubRosa
One more question, and this one has nothing to do... Jan 6 2014, 12:09 AM Renee Gade IV
Select the item. Hold down the Shift Button, and ... Jan 6 2014, 12:29 AM SubRosa Just don't ever get rid of the starting healin... Jan 6 2014, 01:17 AM Renee Gade IV Oh okay. Good to know. Yes you are right, the game... Jan 6 2014, 02:02 AM Renee Gade IV You guys and gals haven't heard from me; it... Jan 14 2014, 12:23 AM Grits
My question: is this the version I want? I notice... Jan 14 2014, 03:29 AM SubRosa I do not know a thing about Wyre Bash, so I cannot... Jan 14 2014, 02:05 AM Renee Gade IV
I do not know a thing about Wyre Bash, so I canno... Jan 14 2014, 02:39 AM Renee Gade IV
But one thing I can suggest before you start tink... Jan 14 2014, 10:41 PM Acadian Renee, I installed WB a long time ago, so am unabl... Jan 14 2014, 04:04 AM Renee Gade IV Awesome. Do you folks enjoy answering all these qu... Jan 14 2014, 04:41 PM SubRosa I think the first place to start is going to be yo... Jan 14 2014, 05:22 PM Renee Gade IV Hello it's me again, aren't you excited? :... Jan 15 2014, 11:04 PM Acadian Renee, I don't know on the WB message. What I... Jan 15 2014, 11:11 PM SubRosa Acadian is right, that is not how it should look o... Jan 15 2014, 11:25 PM Grits Renee, I am very new at Wrye Bash, so hold on for ... Jan 15 2014, 11:39 PM ghastley I'd add BOSS. Even though you don't have a... Jan 16 2014, 01:18 AM Renee Gade IV
Did that 'WalMart' lighting start after ... Jan 16 2014, 06:48 PM haute ecole rider I'm no WB expert, but I do use it quite a bit.... Jan 16 2014, 07:43 PM Renee Gade IV HA! figured it out! :) SubRosa gets the co... Jan 16 2014, 10:58 PM Acadian That's great news, Renee! Sometimes the a... Jan 16 2014, 11:07 PM ghastley It does make you wonder why the TLB command exists... Jan 16 2014, 11:26 PM Renee Gade IV
It does make you wonder why the TLB command exist... Jan 17 2014, 01:53 AM King Coin I read that command can make the game run a lot be... Jan 17 2014, 12:49 AM SubRosa I am pretty sure the TLB command is out there as a... Jan 17 2014, 03:06 AM ghastley
I think the TLB command might be enabled by defau... Jan 17 2014, 03:44 PM haute ecole rider I'm glad to know that you're off and runni... Jan 17 2014, 04:10 AM Thomas Kaira TLB is not for vision-impaired gamers. What happen... Jan 17 2014, 06:30 PM Renee Gade IV Interesting, Thomas, SR, and ghastley.
I have so... Jan 18 2014, 01:25 AM haute ecole rider Um. I had another question, but I forget it now. H... Jan 18 2014, 01:44 AM King Coin If you would like to know what graphics card you h... Jan 18 2014, 01:30 AM Renee Gade IV
If you would like to know what graphics card you ... Jan 18 2014, 01:39 AM King Coin
Naah, didn't work. It says "No items mat... Jan 18 2014, 02:33 AM SubRosa I don't know of any mods off the top of my hea... Jan 18 2014, 02:33 AM Acadian Renee, there are indeed mods that let you customiz... Jan 18 2014, 03:30 AM Renee Gade IV King Coin: I have a Hewlett Packard Pavillion 500-... Jan 18 2014, 11:05 PM SubRosa Every modder in the world started out knowing abso... Jan 19 2014, 02:51 AM haute ecole rider Renee, what that message from BOSS means is that y... Jan 19 2014, 03:10 AM Renee Gade IV
Every modder in the world started out knowing abs... Jan 19 2014, 05:48 AM mirocu You getting all the mods up and running, Renee? ;) Jan 19 2014, 06:03 PM Renee Gade IV
You getting all the mods up and running, Renee? ;... Jan 19 2014, 07:54 PM mirocu How many mods do you have now? Jan 19 2014, 08:34 PM Renee Gade IV
How many mods do you have now?
Here's the ac... Jan 20 2014, 01:10 AM haute ecole rider
How many mods do you have now?
Here's the a... Jan 20 2014, 01:25 AM mirocu 40 mods? Geez, I donīt think I have that many mods... Jan 20 2014, 08:37 AM SubRosa I have 122 .esps active in Oblivion, and 174 in Sk... Jan 21 2014, 02:25 AM Renee Gade IV 40 just seems like the right number for me. And 70... Jan 21 2014, 04:12 AM Renee Gade IV
Sometimes all the work ahead of play makes the pl... Jan 22 2014, 08:24 PM ghastley
... And at some point, I'll just sorta 'k... Jan 22 2014, 09:40 PM mirocu I love how you come up with your characterīs names... Jan 21 2014, 10:30 PM Renee Gade IV I like your Warrior Nuns mod, ghastley, and also t... Jan 23 2014, 01:23 AM
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