Oblivion not recognizing new BSA

[bleeargh]

I use BSA Commander to create and unpack BSA files. I recently, (kicking and screaming) rebuilt my PC and installed windows 7 professional 64 bit. When I would repack a BSA file using BSA Commander on windows XP I never had a problem with Oblivion not recognizing the modified BSA. However, with the new OS, Oblivion isn't recognizing any of the modified BSA's that I have created using the new OS. It still recognizes the ones I created on my the old OS just not any of the new ones.

I don't have a steam version of Oblivion. Mine is the Game of the Year addition.

Not sure if it matters but here's the hardware specs:

Intel quad core i7-2600k CPU @ 3.4 GHz

8.00 GB RAM

Two(2) NVIDIA Geforce GTX 670 on SLI

I like my newly built comp, but so far I'm not to thrilled with the new OS.

Lastly, I didn't install Oblivion in the default directory. I installed it on c:\Bethesda Softworks\Oblivion....yada,yada.

Any ideas regarding the BSA issue?

[gregathit]

BSA commander is a very old plugin. I recommend using FOMM (v13.21) to do this as it is the most up to date version to mess with BSA files that I am aware of. It doesn't matter that you are making the BSA for Oblivion as FOMM will still work just fine for this. Once you have FOMM open just hit the tools menu at the top left and go from there.

[bleeargh]

Thanks Greg!

What compression percentage do you recommend when packing up the BSA?

Edit: Nevermind. 100% compression gets it pretty close to the size of the original BSA. Thanks for your help!

[gregathit]

That is a function of how fast or slow you want oblivion to use the resources inside it and how much HD space you have. The more you pack it the slower oblivion will be to pull it out, but the less HD space it will take up. Uncompressed is the absolute fastest but that could be a problem if you are low on HD space.

 

Sorry this seems like a non-answer. but it kinda depends on how much you are packing away, how often oblivion will need to access it and of course your processor speed.