Shivering Isles dependency issues

[Wolf64]

Hey there,

I actually wanted to make my mod dependent on Shivering Isles for at least the additional objects. Now loading Oblivion.esm together with DLCShiveringIsles.esp throws a lot of errors upon loading a SI cell in the CS. Apparently the CS doesn't find any models or textures, as everything is purple and I only see missing mesh markers. Is this a known problem? All the bsa files for SI are there since it's a fresh install. This happens with the other official esps, too.

On the other hand, it might be the fact that I'm running Oblivion on the CS on Linux using Wine. But ingame everything just works like a charm, so I don't really get it.

[oldladyonthemoon]

You definitively have a problem there. I just loaded SEDementiaGarden and SEDeepwallowBeeleisHouse in the CS and got zero error message; all the models are there. It all looks like an installation problem.

[Wolf64]

12 hours ago, ladyonthemoon said:

It all looks like an installation problem.

You think so? I mean, again, in-game it just works perfectly fine. Only the CS doesn't seem to load those other BSAs. It's also a clean and fresh install. 

Is there a config file of some sort that lists or scans for Archives on a given folder? Or registry entry?

[oldladyonthemoon]

4 hours ago, Wolf64 said:

You think so? I mean, again, in-game it just works perfectly fine. Only the CS doesn't seem to load those other BSAs. It's also a clean and fresh install. 

Is there a config file of some sort that lists or scans for Archives on a given folder? Or registry entry?

I meant about the CS not the game in itself. What version of Morrowind are you playing, CD or Steam? Where did you find the CS?

The only config file that applies seems to be the Morrowind.ini you'll fin in the main installation directory.

[Wolf64]

Not Morrowind, Oblivion.  It's GOG's version where everything is already included in one installation. 

Edited September 5, 2018 by Wolf64

[oldladyonthemoon]

19 minutes ago, Wolf64 said:

Not Morrowind, Oblivion.  It's GOG's version where everything is already included in one installation. 

I wouldn't trust that Try installing this one instead: https://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/11367/

[Wolf64]

That did the trick, now it works just fine. Thank you!

[oldladyonthemoon]

38 minutes ago, Wolf64 said:

That did the trick, now it works just fine. Thank you!

You're welcome!

By the way, you need to go to GOG and inform them that the CS they provide with the game doesn't work.

Edited September 5, 2018 by ladyonthemoon

[Wolf64]

12 hours ago, ladyonthemoon said:

By the way, you need to go to GOG and inform them that the CS they provide with the game doesn't work.

Great idea, but I really doubt that they'd care. Thing is, I got to test it all on Windows and there it works without any issues, so the CS that comes with GOG's package isn't broken. Seems like it's just a quirk on Linux systems or how Wine handles the registry. Since the game is not supported on Linux anyway and the CS works fine on Windows systems, there ain't much to complaint about. 

Nevertheless I posted your solution in their forums, so anybody who wants to try using the CS on Linux and has my same or similar problems can revert to that.