Oblivion General Technical Issues Thread, What’s buggin’ yas? Options

[TheCheshireKhajiit]

I didn’t see a thread for general issues with Oblivion that has been posted in in the last decade, so I decided to make a new one, because yesterday I ran into an issue that I think is pretty major.

I decided that I wanted to add the Wizard’s Tower DLC to Saryn’s game before she went up north to Bruma for her last recommendation. So I went to the Microsoft Store on the Xbox Series X and tried to purchase and download it. First of all, it’s weird that I needed to purchase it because I’m positive I had already done so many years ago before my Xbox360 died. Ok whatever, I thought it was probably just because it was so long ago and it was less than $2. It gave an error message saying something went wrong and to try again later. I stopped after that and forgot about it for a few days and tried again. Same error message. I looked it up to see if there were known issues with this, and sure enough, there were. I tried things people said worked for them but no dice. I tried about 20 times or so. This morning I looked at my bank account. It charged me each time I tried. I had to contact Microsoft support and now I have refunds pending, but still no Wizard Tower DLC. Frankly, I’m not sure if you can even get this DLC on Xbox anymore since they shut down the Xbox360 storefront like just last month. I don’t expect this to be resolved, but I thought I would make a post about my experience to serve as a warning for anyone else trying to get this DLC on Xbox Series X/S or XboxOne.

[Lena Wolf]

Sure. That's easy enough.

0. DISABLE JOYSTICK in Oblivion.ini!!! It's under [Controls], the line is:
bUse Joystick=0

Note the space in there.

1. Download JoyToKey from here. Install it.

2. Create a configuration file for Oblivion. The configuration files (profiles, if you like) are stored in Documents/JoyToKey. Below is my profile for Oblivion. You can copy that text and paste it as "Oblivion.cfg".



3. Start JoyToKey - it minimises itself into the system tray. You can open the main window by right-clicking the icon. The Oblivion profile should be shown in the right pane - click it.

4. Review the profile. I have all the basic movements and quick slots very similar to the Xbox layout, but I have also defined some keys according to the mods I use. These simply correspond to keyboard mappings, so start your Oblivion and review your keyboard profile.

There are help files and documentation for JoyToKey, and I found it really easy to use. If you have questions, let's hear it! But for me it worked straight away, and I just went fiddling with the settings.

Oh, the important bit. You need to start JoyToKey before you start Oblivion, and you need to switch to the correct profile. You can configure JoyToKey to automatically switch to the profile based on the EXE name or Window title. Works flawless for me, profiles switching automatically. Otherwise you can switch them by right-clicking the icon in the system tray.

JoyToKey must be running while Oblivion is running. Note that if you are running Oblivion as an administrator, then JoyToKey also must run as an administrator. But I run both as a regular user, even with OBSE.

This post has been edited by Lena Wolf: Sep 10 2024, 07:34 PM