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> Say, Look What I Found, Keeping up to date with mods for Oblivion
Lena Wolf
post Sep 9 2022, 05:13 PM
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Here is a mod with new and exciting creatures: wasps! This is a modders' resource really, the author made us some new creatures to play with! It is the same author who also made carnivorous plants and monster trees, and I just thought that Valenwood might get a slight insect and vegetation problem in the next instalment of my TWMP Valenwood Cities. ohmy.gif I think those three monster types just beg to go together. Also may be with snails (by the same author).


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post Sep 30 2022, 11:30 AM
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Ok, this isn't exactly a new mod... But it's a new release and it's new to me, so here it goes. Oblivion Reloaded. What?! blink.gif

I always thought that OR would require bigger and better hardware than the standard Oblivion, and for that reason I never even tried it. That and the bugs and incompatibilities that you read about. But yesterday someone told me that the latest release 10.0.1 slashed Oblivion memory usage by 40% and improved FPS by half... Wow! That really warranted an investigation.

Turns out, starting with version 9 OR is becoming very modular and everything can be turned on and off. Plus, it has a very significant memory management and FPS management. Plus, in the latest version 10.0.1 they've finally solved the disappearing water bug!

The write-up says that you are required to use HDR and to set everything to maximum in your Oblivion.ini, or as good as. Well, I found that not to be true. Indeed, if I enable HDR and set everything to maximum, performance suffers. So I restored all values to what they were before and switched back to Bloom, and lo and behold, OR is still working just fine. May be because I disabled almost everything in it except for the memory and FPS management. wink.gif

It still needs tweaking and tuning, but I'm very pleasantly surprised: much reduced memory usage, better FPS and better graphics? Yes, please! biggrin.gif


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post Sep 30 2022, 07:21 PM
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I use Oblivion Reloaded, version 6.2 from 2017. It does make the game look real good.
I did have to tinker with the shaders fix the missing water. Something to do with reflections and shadows on the water surface, if I remember correctly. aA clue to the solution was a night time storm. As the clouds rolled in the water underneath the clouds disappeared. The water under the clear sky remained. Wish I had written down exactly what I did. If they got it fixed that's a plus.
3rd person combat is a mess, barrel rolls everywhere. I turned off everything that had to do with combat and I still don't like it.


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post Sep 30 2022, 08:44 PM
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I too have all combat, equipment, horse riding, and other aspects turned off, as well as most shaders. With this version, I don't see a difference from vanilla so far, but will test more and report back.

When you install OR, you can skip the Meshes folder - this contains the altered animations. Just don't copy it to your Data folder, that's all. Perhaps that's why your movements get overwritten? If you look in the file list of the latest version, you see exactly which files to delete from your Data folder to restore vanilla animations.


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Lena Wolf
post Oct 14 2022, 11:58 AM
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QUOTE(macole @ Sep 30 2022, 07:21 PM) *

I use Oblivion Reloaded, version 6.2 from 2017. It does make the game look real good.
3rd person combat is a mess, barrel rolls everywhere. I turned off everything that had to do with combat and I still don't like it.

By "barrel rolls" do you mean that the character performs a roll every so often (too often)? I had the same issue. You need to disable dodge - that's what's doing it. And if you can't disable it in your version, you might have to upgrade... whistling.gif

I have been playing with it for a while now and I can confirm that when you disable enough things, all animations remain completely vanilla.

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post Oct 14 2022, 03:01 PM
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PIZZAAAAAAAAAAA!
And I'll have your credit card details, thanks. tongue.gif


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post Oct 14 2022, 04:12 PM
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Well, pizza IS one of the three basic food groups. The other two of course being chocolate and coffee. wink.gif


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post Oct 14 2022, 06:58 PM
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I like pizza but I'm not that desperate. Pretty innovative concept for a mod though, hats off to the originator.


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post Nov 5 2022, 10:48 AM
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The Lost Spires website apparently went down. So if you were planning to get that mod, that's a problem. However, some kind soul re-uploaded version 14 to Nexus. Don't know how long it will stay there since it was originally not allowed. I myself grabbed it while I could. biggrin.gif Just an FYI. smile.gif


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post Nov 7 2022, 05:17 AM
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It didn't last on Nexus very long at all. Truly sad to hear about The Lost Spires portal. Lost Spires is a top 5 if not #1 quest mod, IMO.


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