About using Vortex on Oblivion...

[Megumeme]

So I'm kinda sad that apparently Vortex doesn't really work on Oblivion. I liked Vortex for skyrim since it had profiles, sort orders, etc, already in it. But apparently most mods for Oblivion don't work with it?

[CHASE6]

Correct

I use OBMM

Many use Wrye Bash

Try those and see what you like

[Megumeme]

Do both of them have profiles?

[CHASE6]

If you mean like NNM and Vortext, no to OBMM. I don’t know about WB, but I don’t believe so.

[Cerbzzz]

Wrye Bash doesn't have profiles

[Art In Pinkerton]

Mod organizer does, and once you work it out, is easy to deal with too. I have thousands of hours of modding time and have used all three and MO is my preference (for whatever that's worth)

[Megumeme]

Thank you, I'll check out mod organizer. Does LOOT work for Oblivion?

[CHASE6]

Loot works but I hear Boss is more ideal for Oblivion, with load order and master index.

[dcitrigno]

Small heads up if you have the steam version of Oblivion and are using OBSE you'll need to run Steam under Mod Organizer.

[Legion]

Why doesn't Vortex work with Oblivion? I use it just fine and I have all my armor, weapon, lighting, and dungeon mods working perfectly fine. Even Blockhead and OCO.

[Legion]

The only thing I cannot get working, even via manual install, are animation replacers (One Hand Idle Replacer) and Room207's Iron Armor Replacer.

[Johnny Casey]

Originally posted by Nomadic:

Why doesn't Vortex work with Oblivion?

Well Vortex came out in only about a year ago, while Oblivion came out more than 10 years ago. It's like trying to play a very old video game on a new system. Compatibility issue and stuff.

[Tona Sarrin]

Originally posted by Johnny Casey:

Originally posted by Nomadic:

Why doesn't Vortex work with Oblivion?

Well Vortex came out in only about a year ago, while Oblivion came out more than 10 years ago. It's like trying to play a very old video game on a new system. Compatibility issue and stuff.

To make things worse morrowind works perfectly on vortex last I tried modding….just oblivion being the nightmare it is to all pc gamers since it came out it seems

[slayor3000]

Originally posted by Tona Sarrin:

Originally posted by Johnny Casey:

Well Vortex came out in only about a year ago, while Oblivion came out more than 10 years ago. It's like trying to play a very old video game on a new system. Compatibility issue and stuff.

To make things worse morrowind works perfectly on vortex last I tried modding….just oblivion being the nightmare it is to all pc gamers since it came out it seems

Oblivion works perfect with Wrye Bash and tools, maybe its just people want an easier way to do things.
I had to reinstall Oblivion 3 days ago because of corrupted h/d. It took 4 or so hours to reinstall Oblivion, 60+ plugins, including OOO, MOO etc. Have played a few "sandbox" builds and everything is perfect.
Morrowind has always been easier to mod as far as I am concerned. The only bad modding experience I ever had was Skyrim, but I did try the "newer" ways to mod - wrong. Went back to Wrye Bash and no problems.
I suppose it depends on what you get used to. Also Wrye Bash and the "tools", xEdit etc are oldish but they are "mature" products. That means they work. Newer apps get updated quite often, which leads to things getting broken.
What I use, used to be the same, it must have took almost 10 years of developers hard work to get them as good as they are. Hopefully the "newer" ways gamers prefer will get to the same point at some time.

[theo]

Originally posted by Tona Sarrin:

Originally posted by Johnny Casey:

Well Vortex came out in only about a year ago, while Oblivion came out more than 10 years ago. It's like trying to play a very old video game on a new system. Compatibility issue and stuff.

To make things worse morrowind works perfectly on vortex last I tried modding….just oblivion being the nightmare it is to all pc gamers since it came out it seems

It works with mods that use standard installation methods (unpacking into Data folder). That is, 99% of Morrowind mods.
Oblivion mods is a different story. They often were made to work with now outdated mod managers like OBMM that used their own packing methods incompatible with Vortex, and those appeared because Oblivion mods tend to be overly complicated and have customization options and, on the other hand, because people at the time started to become too dumb to install things manually. It isn't directly the game's fault.

[Garce]

OBMM - Oblivion Mod Manager
BOSS - For sorting load order. Good for a quick arrangement of mods before wrye bash
OBSE - Oblivion Script Extender. Yeah. Needed for pretty much any mod beyond armour etc
WRYE BASH - Combines redundant and minor mods into a "Bashed Patch". It can greatly increase the number of mods you can use, and gets rid of reduncacies and repitition.

Then when you get into mods...

TES4Edit - Bathesda's Oblivion Editor. Gives access to every single thing in this game. Everything.
Blender - Its blender
NifSkope - Not needed but GREATLY helps when downloading armours and weapons and 3rd party 3D models with 20 million extra bones and polygons.

Those last three are to fix all the mods you downloaded. But its worth the work.

Yes, I own three copies of this game but not on Steam, which leads me to my next question...