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.

[macole]

Let me say first of all I’m just a user not the expert and if STEAM and GOG are involved call me John Snow for I know nothing. I have no experience with using SkyBSA. I read up on it last year and decided replacing my current method of validating BSAs was not worth the learning curve. I also have a bias against the way Skyrim does things.

End of disclaimer.

Sounds like SkyBSA is not applying the timestamp properly to the BSA. Is there any way to alter the timestamp manually so that yours loads last? Normally I would try using WBash for this.

My method of installing mods uses a combination of OBMM, WBash, and BOSS.

OBMM (once used to install everything):
1. BSA Archive Invalidation,
2. BSA browsing,
3. installing a few mods that are better done (IMO) with OBMM; MMO, DarkUld_DarN_16, RealisticLevelingv1.14,
4. To install a couple other OMOD scripted mods that I’m too lazy to break down and reformat.

BOSS: To sort the load order (don’t know if it is still being maintained, I’ve made manual edits for some newer mods).

WBash to:
1. install all packages other than those done with OBMM,
2. to make adjustments to package install order and to .esp load orders
3. to lock the load order,
4. to merge mergeable .esps (bash patch),
5. And to (very rarely) alter timestamps to fine tune install/load orders.