Ely's Silent Voice DLL issues Options

[Lena Wolf]

Hi, I imagine a lot of you are using Ely's Silent Voice mod for Oblivion. It comes as a DLL, there is no ESP - or at least this was the version I downloaded from Nexus two days ago. The problem is, it crashes Oblivion... Well, my Oblivion, obviously, but I also tried without any of the other mods. Oblivion crashes on wait, but also randomly after you've played it for about 3 in-game hours... which is not very extensive, to put it mildly.

I was wondering if anyone else ran into this? I suspect it has to do with Windows security, rather than with any bugs in the mod itself. I have Windows 10 which is constantly updating (as they do), and I run GOG Oblivion with OBSE, but I don't run it as administrator because that doesn't work with with my Xbox360 controller.

Does anyone know if administrator rights are required to run Ely's Silent Voice? I have other OBSE plugins in DLL form, and they don't cause crashes.

Any pointers would be appreciated! Alternatively, is there Ely's Silent Voice as an ESP? That might solve the problem.

[Lena Wolf]

Thanks for trying to help! I only installed Ely's Silent Voice because one of the city expansion mods recommended it, and I didn't see any reason not to. Until the crashes started, that is. No, it has nothing to do with me changing dialogue around and copying over voice files. The reason I thought it had to do with security is that Windows 10 has many fancy new shiny hard [censored] rules that would just kill an application for no good reason (because it could be "malicious"). So I did have to fudge them a bit, because of this:

- Windows 10 prevents properly installed Oblivion from running batch files with BAT command from the console (security risk - could introduce Dark Brotherhood assassins, or worse - Morag Tong).

- Windows 10 prevents running Construction Set Extended with OBSE because it is capable of changing other programs (err... yeah? It makes mods!!). So it must run with administrator privileges.

- This does not extend to Oblivion itself, although the same OBSE DLLs are used. However, the latest OBSE versions (xOBSE) all recommend to run Oblivion with administrator privileges, presumably to avoid crashes.

- I cannot run Oblivion with administrator privileges because that kills my Xbox360 controller which Windows 10 refuses to run with administrator privileges.

- None of this nonsense existed in Windows 7!! But I haven't got it, I've got 10.

Anyway, let this notice stand in case someone else has similar issues, then they can read it and feel less alone. I'll post something if I find a solution.