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| ArtemisNoir2 |
Mar 18 2015, 02:34 AM
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After quietly squirrelling away cash, where possible, over the last year or so I'm finally in the position where I'm able to replace my aged machine. I have run this thing for around 8 years, and while it has been great.. it is time to put it out to pasture. So... within the next few days I am going to be ordering shiny, new, modern components, including a 980 card, an SSD for my OS and 16 GB RAM.....  This should be quite the experience.. right now I have a "whopping" 2 GB RAM and a 550 TI on a dual core (actually the 550 extended this computer's lifespan by a good 2 or so years, it's been excellent). Anyway... please excuse the blather... I'm just kind of excited. The actual point of this thread is that I plan to do a substantial modding job on Oblivion in terms of visuals; I don't typically focus on eye candy all that much when I play games, but since I will be able to, hey.. why not? So.. I'm hoping people might be able to make some recommendations in terms of texture packs, ENBs and all those tasty items. I have browsed through Nexus to a fair degree, but personal suggestions are always great. Note, I already do use Unique Landscapes and a reduced version of Qarl's pack, but that is about as much as my poor beast can handle on top of OOO and a large number of other mods. I'm sort of amazed it is as stable as it is... Also, while I wouldn't describe myself as being extremely hardcore about lore, I do generally prefer mods that feel as though they could have been packaged with the vanilla game. Cheers for any advice! This post has been edited by ArtemisNoir2: Mar 18 2015, 02:50 AM
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| mALX |
Mar 18 2015, 03:19 AM
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From: Cyrodiil, the Wastelands, and BFE TN

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QUOTE(ArtemisNoir2 @ Mar 17 2015, 09:34 PM)  After quietly squirrelling away cash, where possible, over the last year or so I'm finally in the position where I'm able to replace my aged machine. I have run this thing for around 8 years, and while it has been great.. it is time to put it out to pasture. So... within the next few days I am going to be ordering shiny, new, modern components, including a 980 card, an SSD for my OS and 16 GB RAM.....  This should be quite the experience.. right now I have a "whopping" 2 GB RAM and a 550 TI on a dual core (actually the 550 extended this computer's lifespan by a good 2 or so years, it's been excellent). Anyway... please excuse the blather... I'm just kind of excited. The actual point of this thread is that I plan to do a substantial modding job on Oblivion in terms of visuals; I don't typically focus on eye candy all that much when I play games, but since I will be able to, hey.. why not? So.. I'm hoping people might be able to make some recommendations in terms of texture packs, ENBs and all those tasty items. I have browsed through Nexus to a fair degree, but personal suggestions are always great. Note, I already do use Unique Landscapes and a reduced version of Qarl's pack, but that is about as much as my poor beast can handle on top of OOO and a large number of other mods. I'm sort of amazed it is as stable as it is... Also, while I wouldn't describe myself as being extremely hardcore about lore, I do generally prefer mods that feel as though they could have been packaged with the vanilla game. Cheers for any advice!  Congrats! Sounds like an awesome rig!
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| ArtemisNoir2 |
Mar 18 2015, 03:35 AM
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Cheers Acadian, I realised the minute after posting that I'd put the original in the wrong place... d'ooh. It's not as though I haven't been around forums before, either. Oh well, I'm chalking this up to excitement.  And no worries if you don't know of any graphics mods. As I said, I have never really placed a huge emphasis on eye candy, I'm generally more interested in mods that improve game-play, story, and so on. But.. I figure I may as well take advantage. I'm actually speccing this computer for Witcher 3, which has brutal requirements (just glad my upgrading coincides with the game's upcoming release). @mALX, Thank you! It is weird... on the one hand, it feels sort of anticlimactic, since it's taken a pretty long time, probably closer to 3 years, now I think of it, yet on the other hand, I'm incredibly excited. In addition to remodding Oblivion, it will be so nice to try out Dragon Age: Inquisition as well... and it will be great to (hopefully) play Skyrim without it continually crashing due to memory issues, or seeing plasticy, pink spiders because of texture rendering problems. 
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| ArtemisNoir2 |
Mar 21 2015, 09:51 PM
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Thanks all  @Subrosa, I tend to use OCO2 for a face replacer, but if I hadn't already grown accustomed to it, I'd certainly install HD faces, they look really good. The only downside to OCO2 is that, as far as I know, it only really works with Robert's, Exnem and vanilla. I don't mind Robert's, but I'd much prefer being able to use BAB, because, for one, there are a ton of excellent clothing and armour designs for it. If I recall correctly, BAB itself even includes a great shop in the Blackwood area. *sigh* It all feels pretty weird, to be honest. I typically get an upper mid range machine.. and then run it as long as I possibly can, with the only replacement generally being a new card at some point, since cards can add several years of life to an ageing system. Sooo... as I mentioned in my original post, it has been quite some time since I've fully upgraded, and limping along with a whopping 2 GB of RAM has been rather challenging on occasion. I could have bought more I suppose, but this old system is a 32 bit and uses DDR2, by the time I figured out I needed more RAM DDR3 was already well in place.. so replacing it was actually kind of expensive, and just didn't seem worth it. I have found some graphics-related mods that look intriguing... Discovery1's modsOblivion ReloadedImperial City Reloaded V2Hi-Res Road TextureThis post has been edited by ArtemisNoir2: Mar 22 2015, 06:08 PM
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