Gog Oblivion Options

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I bought Oblivion from Gog.com a while ago, and finally got around to installing it. It comes with the executable already pre-patched to 4gb aware. It also comes with all the dlcs. They install automatically with the game.

I tried it with my old Morroblivion files, and they work! For some reason Morroblivion had stopped working with my old GOTY disc install of Oblivion. So I think I might give that a try sometime soon.

I also got my Martial Arts for Oblivion mod mostly done today. As I did with Morrowind, I took a dagger and changed the mesh to a ring, and renamed it Martial Arts. Works like a charm. I just wish there was some way I could change it to use the hand to hand animations instead of the dagger animations. But I am not sure that is even possible.

I also created a shield the same way, but have not tested it yet to see how it works.


And now Morroblivion CTDs every time I try to load a save again.

Ah Ha! I got it working. The problem - somehow - was that after my initial install I added the Morroblivion files into OMOD files for OBMM. For some reason those files coming out of an OMOD broke the game. I deleted the OMODs, and copied the files over directly. Viola! It works again.

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I mostly have Oblivion and Morroblivion going. I spent most of today and yesterday just working on faces for January. I forgot how hard it was to make a decent face in Oblivion. So many of them come out like potatoes! I ended up with one that was ok, but I still wish I could do better.

I played a bit with January in Morrowind. It is a really pleasant feeling of nostalgia, both for Oblivion and for Morrowind. The game engine is Oblivion of course. But they really did a fine job of using Morrowind textures and usually meshes to recreate the original Morrowind. It does look just like Morrowind. The original music is there as well. So far it all seems exactly the same. I found the same dungeons around Seyda Neen. Tarhiel fell from the sky with his scrolls of Icarian Flight. My new Martial Arts mod is working fine too. Though I might still take some time to work on the icon, maybe make the outline transparent.

One mod for Morroblivion I have found to be extremely helpful is the Portal to Vvardenfell. It gives you a spell that creates a portal between Vvardenfell and Cyrodiil. I used that to travel to the Imperial City to get some modded items whose containers I had placed in the IC. I also bought some spells there, and used my Mystic Emporium Enchanting mod to create some new spells. Then I used the portal to return to Morrowind and get back going.

The only thing I am really having problems with is the Morrowind map, which is kind of missing. I am going to have to look into that tomorrow.