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You may wonder, wait a second, where are the Last Modified values, they aren't being displayed.
#Oblivion goty bash installers filder missing Offline
Now, if I am installing Oblivion using the latest offline installer ( CS), this is how the Oblivion/Data directory looks like: If I run BOSS now, it will pick the Last Modified value of Oblivion.esm and then change the Last Modified values of every ESM/ESP that follows it (in the BOSS generated order) to be a minute apart. This is required in order for Oblivion to start and function properly. For example Knights.esp depends on Oblivion.esm which is older in terms of Last Modified times. What's more, if you sort by Last Modified time, the dependencies between the ESP/ESM files are correct (ie a file with a more recent Last Modified time only depends on files with older Last Modified times).
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When installing Oblivion from my disc GOTY version, here's how the Data directory looks, pay special attention to the Last Modified column: Īs you can see all BSA/ESM/ESP files have Last Modified times of sometime in 2006. They start with whatever Last Modified date Oblivion.esm has (since that file is ALWAYS loaded first and dependent on by every other ESP/ESM file) and then they add one minute to the last modified time of every ESM/ESP file following Oblivion.esm.
#Oblivion goty bash installers filder missing update
Tools that allow one to change ESP/ESM file order (Wrye Bash, BOSS, LOOT, OBMM) automatically update the Last Modified times of files to reflect the desired order. Tools that need to read the list of ESM/ESP files to process them in the order that Oblivion would, also rely on Last Modified ordering (obviously). Yes, this is a VERY DUMB thing to do but nobody is going to change Oblivion now to fix that, that ship has long sailed.
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Oblivion (and FO3 and FNV for that matter) relies on the Last Modified file dates in order to decide in which order to load ESP/ESM files (and I think the same happens for BSA files and unpacked resource files but the latter is easily fixed by using ArchiveInvalidated!.bsa solution employed automaticaly by tools like Wrye Bash). To workaround these issues search for "workaround" below.
#Oblivion goty bash installers filder missing mods
TL DR GOG version of Oblivion (offline installed and Galaxy installed) doesn't set proper Last Modified times for the ESM/ESP files which potentially results in all sorts of issues, from unmodded game not starting to strange errors using mods and modding tools.
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I've spent the better of the last week investigating these issues and learning more than I wanted to know about Oblivion modding so please if you reply to this thread, thouroughly read my post before doing that, thank you! While working on my Oblivion Modding Guide I've run into issues running TES4LODGen and some things. (UPDATE: when I originally posted this I thought here were some potential issues with vanilla Oblivion too but as it turns out the vanilla issues were some left over from previously modding the game, the updated post below now reflects this new information)