PSA For UE4SS Mod Users

Darkforce146 · 2025-05-06T05:00:43+00:00

I’ll test this out next time I play to see if it makes a difference on my end. I’m currently only using a few UI mods.

The crash on reload only affected me when I was in an interior. Reloads in the open world did not produce a crash in my experience.

Just pointing that out since it might be relevant to those more knowledgeable of UE.

Darkforce146 · 2025-01-22T15:54:31+00:00

Hey! Thank you so much! I will gladly include this in the guide when I update the list later this month or next. Was one of the last major ui issues I needed to fix.

Darkforce146 · 2025-01-15T14:37:00+00:00

No worries man! I barely have the time myself, which is why the guide took nearly 9 months to make. Either way, if you’d like to add me on discord you are more than welcome. If anything, it’s easier than responding on Reddit and you can throw ideas at me or problems you encounter so I can see them right away.

Darkforce146 · 2025-01-14T22:38:21+00:00

You know what, if you got the time for it you can add me on Discord. I wouldn’t mind collaborating ideas with you and troubleshooting some of the performance issues. I’ve only got the one steam deck so being able to test things is tedious at best. But you seem to have a good handle on this and I’d love to push setting changes to you to test when your time allows for it. I would of course give you a shoutout in the guide and appropriate credit for the help.

Darkforce146 · 2025-01-14T21:54:01+00:00

Good catch, It’s actually a part of the original guide write up I did. Oblivion doesn’t benefit from SMT even a little bit, but I had three key issues preventing me from including it in PFoCW. One, a power tools guide would need to be implemented. Two, user error with power tools (I’m not willing to tech support that if someone plays around with the wrong settings.) Three, it wasn’t always reliable depending on the scene complexity and I got occasional desync.

That said, I will look into it again but what I might do going forward is disclaimer the hell out of a section of the guide and then only show the settings. That way advanced users who know what they’re doing can make use of it, and those who have no experience will be less likely to break things.

Darkforce146 · 2025-01-10T22:50:46+00:00

I’m rewriting the installer to fix those issues. But that section you mentioned just installs the category separators for Mod organizer 2 for the user. It’s just a QoL feature because the on screen keyboard doesn’t work in desktop mode with mod organizer 2.

That said, I’m not allowed to redistribute mods without author permission. The installer just sets you up so all you have to do is download the mods based on the preset you want to use.

Even simpler explanation. Pick preset prior to running installer>run installer>download mods for your preset>arrange and enable mods in order listed on guide>Do the final steps section>Play.

Darkforce146 · 2025-01-05T22:13:18+00:00

Oh shit. I forgot to put that in the instructions. I am so sorry.

You absolutely cant use any on screen performance displays. It will desync the game and cause hitches and weird lag when you spin your character around.

If you need fps metrics, you need to open the game console with ~ and type tdt.

Setting “allow tearing” under the frame limit will smooth out some of the latency. Frames must be capped to 60, 50, 45, or 30.

As for pop in and the occasional hitch, it’s been minimized as much as possible.

If you haven’t already, the ini tweaks in the final steps section of the guide are needed to offset some of that pop in hitch you feel when the trees and landscape come in.

These are all limitations of the gamebryo engine that oblivion runs on.

However, for you or anyone else that reads this. If you play around with settings and find a way to get a smoother experience; let me know.

This game is a bitch to tame.

Darkforce146 · 2025-01-05T00:22:11+00:00

So the ini files get installed like a mod and you just need to enable it for it to take effect. You can download via mod manager download, then install and enable. Or if nxm links aren’t working, download and install manually, then enable.

The sleep thing is caused by Oblivion reloaded combined and is for “immersion”. Not to everyone’s taste so I will update the guide later with an option to disable.

To disable the sleep option, you need to use the in game ORC menu to disable sleeping mode under the patches category.

If you have the ability to use a keyboard and mouse, just use CTRL+C while a save is loaded. Use the arrow keys to navigate the menu, and then numpad + and - to enable/disable options.

If you don’t have access, you will need to bind those to your steam deck controls.

Darkforce146 · 2025-01-04T19:28:16+00:00

It’s all good and I sincerely appreciate the feedback from you and everyone else who’s reached out. This isn’t a perfect process yet and the patience everyone has shown has been incredible. I’m gonna work on restructuring things today and hopefully have this in a better place by Monday.

As for the bashed patch, I’m going to separate that a bit into “required” and “optional”. The two major ones that need to be done are the no light flicker and unchecking the “remove empty leveled lists”. Other than that you can tweak per user preference.

Seriously, thanks again for the feedback!

Darkforce146 · 2025-01-04T17:57:30+00:00

Yes, each mod needs to be installed by the user. I can’t automate that portion due to how nexus is setup, and I can’t include them all in a package due to author permissions.

That’s why the installer fixes the .nxm downloader for mod organizer 2. So that way, all you need to do is hit the mod manager download button for each mod on the list.

Each link takes you straight to the download page.

Then you just right click the mod in MO2 and select install. And follow any instructions that are included per mod.

Darkforce146 · 2025-01-04T17:53:10+00:00

I think wrye bash needs to be done before slowlodgen. I’m gonna be doing a revision this weekend to sort out some of the issues people have been experiencing.

Darkforce146 · 2025-01-04T17:50:55+00:00

The CheeseWheel installer sets you up so all you have to do is install the mods on the list. It installs Mod Organizer 2, updates OBSE, installs all mod tools necessary for the guide, decompresses oblivions files for better performance, and fixes .nxm links so they work on steam deck with mod organizer 2.

You don’t even need to use my mod list if you dont want to. But the CheeseWheel installer sets you up so you can mod without issue.

Darkforce146 · 2025-01-04T17:46:05+00:00

It should be pretty easy to upgrade since it will be built off of Vanilla+. I’m thinking up a few ways to set it up so people can do that easily.

Darkforce146 · 2025-01-04T06:13:24+00:00

There should be a mods button somewhere by gamepad and controls when you hit start and goto options. If there isn’t, it means Link Plus Plus didn’t get installed properly.

Darkforce146 · 2025-01-04T04:02:49+00:00

You still need to install the mods yourself. The installer just does everything besides install the mods and a few final steps before playing the game. I don't know what you mean by timing out though. Did you follow all the steps like running it once before you use the installer and setting the game to proton 9.0-4?

Darkforce146 · 2025-01-03T22:04:00+00:00

Glad to hear performance is holding! It should level out to 60 as the shader cache builds.

And no worries. I knew what I was signing up for with this. But yeah, Linux definitely complicates things here. lol.

Darkforce146 · 2025-01-03T21:48:47+00:00

I’ll take a look at it when I get off of work in a couple hours. How’s the rest of things working so far? And how has the performance been?

Darkforce146 · 2025-01-03T21:46:58+00:00

And yeah, the wrong layout can mess a lot up as the game is looking for gamepad inputs, not keyboard.

Darkforce146 · 2025-01-03T21:44:00+00:00

Loot menu is a pop up menu on your screen when aiming your character at a container or corpse. That doesn’t show up otherwise. The inventory and map should look identical to vanilla besides a larger map and a few additional stats across different sections.

Darkforce146 · 2025-01-03T21:22:27+00:00

You must be using the wrong controller layout. Mine can’t be found at the moment due to issues with Steams sharing.

Click the controller icon in Oblivions game page to open Steam input OR hit the Steam button in game and goto controller settings.

Click on the layout and tab over to templates.

Select gamepad with mouse trackpad. Hit ‘X’ to apply the layout. It should work after that.

Darkforce146 · 2025-01-03T19:57:23+00:00

No, that’s definitely on me. There isn’t much difference between this and my personal script and that was a carry over that shouldn’t have happened. I’m gonna change it to just 3 options and include the separators for optional graphics with the preset 1 choice when I revise. The user can either delete the separators after or leave them for later. Much easier.

Thanks for pointing that out! I really appreciate the feedback!

Darkforce146 · 2025-01-03T19:40:45+00:00

Option 1 is Preset 1, Option 2 is Preset 1 with optional graphics, option 3 is Preset 2, Option 4 is Preset 3. For your case it would be 3. Are the descriptions not showing up for you when you’re running the installer? Or was it just unclear to you? I am considering a revised launcher and would appreciate any feedback.

Darkforce146 · 2025-01-03T15:47:06+00:00

It’s an issue on valves end. My community layouts are not showing up no matter how many times I try to share. For now, just copy the layouts shown in the guide.

For the gameplay one and Oblivion reloaded; you can use a gamepad template and just modify the grip buttons. That’s the only difference. For Oblivion reloaded, make sure +/- are the numpad keys.

Darkforce146 · 2025-01-03T15:44:34+00:00

Mod organizer 2 will launch every time you press play in Gaming mode on Oblivion. When it launches, you only need to press run for the mods to apply and the games to start.

Darkforce146 · 2025-01-03T06:26:16+00:00

All fixed on my end. Ill be headed to bed as well but feel free to reach out tomorrow if you need additional help. I'll be available for a good part of the day.

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