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Optimising Oblivion

By Ashton Mills
15:57 Mar 27, 2006
Tags: oblivion | game | pc | elder | scrolls | morrowind | wow | world | of | warcraft
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Optimising Oblivion

Mods
Mods are the golden heart of Bethesda games. Morrowind had thousands of community-made mods. Not all great, of course, and most are to taste, but there were those that became essential for a more enjoyable or balanced gameplay experience.

Oblivion is no different. There are already a swag of excellent mods available, and Atomic recommends the following:

  

TOP: Original murky water. ABOVE: New improved modded water!


We don’t want to favour any particular mod mirror, they all do a good job, so we’ll link the original threads.

Remove the ‘Loading..’ and other annoying text prompts
http://www.elderscrolls.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=296108

Enable a PC-centric UI over the Xbox 360 designed UI
http://www.elderscrolls.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=300177

Much better water
http://www.tessource.net/files/file.php?id=1830

Combined Sneak-Eye Mover & Cross-hair size reducer
http://www.elderscrolls.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=291984

Vagabond's Better Gold v1.0
http://www.elderscrolls.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=289942&hl

TextureFreak's timemod v1.1
http://www.elderscrolls.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=285644

Tandem's slower leveling 1.1
http://www.elderscrolls.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=289263

Brighter torches
http://www.elderscrolls.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=295952

Arrow velocity 1.0
http://www.elderscrolls.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=280550

Arcane velocity 1.0
http://www.elderscrolls.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=288962

Passive beasts
http://www.elderscrolls.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=296125

Portable bedroll 1.1
http://www.elderscrolls.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=284956

Improved hunting
http://www.elderscrolls.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=301008

Better chase camera
http://www.elderscrolls.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=295459

Spookier dungeon music
http://www.elderscrolls.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=299901

Better Beast Tongue
A Wood Elf natural ability that works as expected – made by Atomic’s Editor!
http://www.elderscrolls.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=289133

Place all mod .esp files into your Games\Oblivion\Data directory and then select ‘Data Files’ from the Oblivion launcher to enable them.

Be aware as you explore the modding community that some mods may change game data in a way that breaks your saves, so always play with them in a sandbox first.

 
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