tolerance Posted December 2, 2013 Posted December 2, 2013 My disc is cracking, and I am hard pressed to find a replacement, so I'd love it if someone with some insight could shed some light on my queries. How difficult would it be to transition from disc to a copy on steam? Could I just buy the game on steam download the new exe. to my normal directory and be done with it? How much will steam running in the background affect my performance?
shane4244 Posted December 2, 2013 Posted December 2, 2013 My disc is cracking, and I am hard pressed to find a replacement, so I'd love it if someone with some insight could shed some light on my queries. How difficult would it be to transition from disc to a copy on steam? Could I just buy the game on steam download the new exe. to my normal directory and be done with it? How much will steam running in the background affect my performance? I have bought a few games on disc that used steam like skyrim and once there in your account you can just download them right from you steam account without the disc like I did recently when I built a new PC and forgot I had the disc. I don't have a disc copy of skyrim but I'm assuming if it is currently in your list of games in your steam library you don't need the disc ever again steam should also have a record of your cd key. Edit: sorry thought this was skyrim I'm an idiot ignore my post I have no idea. Edit 2: as far as performance goes opinions will vary but for me I see a few hundred MB's of ram increase with steam it doesn't seem to make a significant difference on my main PC however if you have an older PC like one of the PC's I use for a LAN when friends are over it is a noticeble difference when I have to turn on steam for a game (by older I mean a single core proc with 2gb of ram and a ATI 3870 and windows XP)
gregathit Posted December 2, 2013 Posted December 2, 2013 Performance wise it should make no difference. However you can't take the exe file and move it to your old game directory as steam won't allow that. You'll need to download and install the game through steam. You will need to reinstall all your mods after that.
Ark of Truth Posted December 2, 2013 Posted December 2, 2013 Not entirely correct Grega He can upgrade this disc version in a Steam version as long as he has the app_manifest file for Oblivion. I have seen a certain user on here do it loads of times. I just don't know how she did it precisely
gregathit Posted December 3, 2013 Posted December 3, 2013 What you are talking about is registering the disc version with steam. That is entirely a different matter and not what the OP was asking. It can certainly be done but it will still end up using a steam exe and requiring you to use OBSE the "steam way". Any other method is hacking and we don't want to go there.
tolerance Posted December 3, 2013 Author Posted December 3, 2013 hold on let me ask a slightly better question. Can I make the steam exe use the old directory for its assets so I don't have to move anything? and if I can't, will I lose my load order moving the .esp's to the new location?
FallenWarrior Posted December 3, 2013 Posted December 3, 2013 I think that you would have to move over everything, and most likely you'll have to redo your load order. But I'll let the more experienced ones confirm that.
Guest Spikes Posted December 3, 2013 Posted December 3, 2013 I would make a backup copy of my game (and my inis on my Documents!!!!!) in the hd, then remove/uninstall Oblivion from pc then install Obl from Steam to wanted file, which as you probs know should NOT be the My Programs file, (i would install the whole steam file on my main disc on a file named MYSTEAMGAMES or somehting like that, instead of deafault Steam place). Then i would move all the mods and stuff from my backup to my Steam folder/Oblivion w/e and try it, they should work, provided you transfered everything right. I would install OBSE for Steam too, different from disc version and have Steam NEVER to update Oblivion(sometimes it mekas a check and replaces the 4GB patch, biggest reason i went and bought the disc one) To be honest though, i would personally try to make a backup of the discs with some image program w/e and keep playing the disc version. I can not be absolutely sure but from my tests and some other posts in forums, the disc version is more sturdy for mods than the Steam one. Steam can play all mods etc well but i feel my disc version handles the loads better. It might be placebo ofc who knows, it does work for me though.
gregathit Posted December 4, 2013 Posted December 4, 2013 Copy your game directory from your disc version into your steam game version and overwrite as needed. Then use steam to validate the game and let it download what it thinks it needs. Set up OBSE per the instructions in the OBSE archive for steam versions and play the game through steam. All your mods "should" work just fine. If things go sideways on you then you have lost nothing at all since you just copied stuff from your disc version folder to your steam game folder.
tolerance Posted December 9, 2013 Author Posted December 9, 2013 edit 1 -problems were had- *edit 2* just replaced steams mesh bsa with the disk's bsa and that got the mesh replacers working..... except the skeleton Any Ideas on why the skeleton wouldn't work or a way to fix it?
Irishredneck Posted December 9, 2013 Posted December 9, 2013 Why not just get a No-DVD patch? I've been using one for years. The only time I use the Oblivion DVD is for new installs.. then I just put on a no DVD patch and put the disk away. Use your Google-Fu to find one.
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