Oblivion Performance and Utility Mods Options

[SubRosa]

I did some tinkering with Oblivion and its array of helpful mods today, and thought I would share some of my discoveries.

All of these require OBSE

Oblivion Display Tweaks = this helps with microstutter and other things. It is compatible with OSR, but only if you Turn off bReplaceGetTickCount in Oblivion Stutter Remover's .ini file.

Oblivion Stutter Remover = of course.

OSR Optimized .Ini File = Is just the .ini for OSR, and has the bReplaceGetTickCount disables, among other tweaks.

Engine Bug Fixes = A bunch of bug fixes.

SkyBSA = Changes the way Oblivion puts BSA assets in your load order to act the same way Skyrim does, namely by no longer mucking with timestamps, and just going by your load order.

[Lena Wolf]

I asked in the other thread which version of Oblivion you were running - CDROM, GOG or Steam. The reason for asking is that they vary exactly in their performance - the things these mods aim to improve. I started out with a very vanilla Oblivion GOTY on CDROM, then I bought the GOG version. Boy, what a difference! The executable file had been rebuilt. The GOG version can actually take advantage of more modern hardware such as more RAM. It runs smoother and it doesn't stutter. It does not crash under a heavy mod load either.

Of course it will appear different on different hardware, but in my case those optimising mods either had no effect on GOG or in fact made it crash. So if you are running GOG, be careful with performance enhancing mods. The same is true for Steam - it too is optimised, and rather more than GOG.

The only enhancement mod that I run is the Engine Bug Fixes. I tried Stutter Removal but, firstly, I saw no difference (there's no stutter to begin with), and secondly, it was making the game crash. Must be my setup, but I'm just saying - these mods are not harmless, it's nothing like adding an extra sword, these can really mess things up.

This post has been edited by Lena Wolf: Nov 29 2021, 01:45 AM