How large is your Oblivion folder?

[Poontank]

someone beat that LOL

Looks like Kaiser is king . 250 gigs is not possible to top I guess. These must be quite a few very large textures you are having installed.

You could make a custom user title with that. "I've got the BIGGEST... Oblivion folder" or something.

[Mephisto_VI]

20.2 GB, will shrink some once I compile the list of files no longer needed and remove them.

[New User]

60.7GB.

 

I should probably reinstall Oblivion with only the main mods at this point... guess I'm just too lazy to do that(but anyways I'm playing mostly New Vegas now).

[Guest ThatOne]

57.8 GB at the moment, cleaned recently.

[galhound]

112 GB 160,528 Files, 21,738 Folders; tons of mods and textures, plus i extracted most of the oblivion bsa's and placed them in the same folder.

[demongoat]

someone beat that LOL

Looks like Kaiser is king . 250 gigs is not possible to top I guess. These must be quite a few very large textures you are having installed.

You could make a custom user title with that. "I've got the BIGGEST... Oblivion folder" or something.

 

well i'm glad i'm not the biggest, i could try i guess but i have a bunch of other games and stuff laying around lol

yeah a lot of mods have huge textures for no reason.

[gregathit]

I am guessing that Kaiser's game doesn't have the greatest of frame rates.....

 

I think it is also safe to guess that most of the data is not being used as it is made up of left over stuff from things he has uninstalled/disabled.

 

Kaiser buddy ... time to do some house cleaning! Think of all the hard drive space you are wasting and the potential porn that you could have in its place.....

[deathparade]

Yes listen to Gregathit potential porn!

[demongoat]

Yes listen to Gregathit potential porn!

 

never a bad day with porn!

[Poontank]

Aside from framerate issues, a data folder unavoidably cluttered with lots of subfolders is difficult to navigate when editing files. Folder chaos makes it hard to actually find the right nif or dds, especially thanks to sloppy modders with their weird habits of setting up rather creative folder structures... Sometimes I have to look inside a mod's original archive to learn the location of a specific file whenever I can't remember an exotic folder structure for the love of Dibella. That's why I like 'RefScope' so much, it lists the complete file path in-game in case resources are missing.

[perfectioncat]

A Japanese environment is 2 pieces, English-language environments are 1 pieces, and when all of the one Nehrim includes it, 108Gigs.

[New User]

Wow... I've finally reinstalled Oblivion with only the essential mods and it's very stable. I mean, I had crashes very often before... but now it simply doesn't crash anymore and the FPS is almost always at 30(even with a mod that enhances graphics and video settings on high).

 

Current Oblivion folder size: 15.6 GB.

 

 

The small, uncluttered Oblivion folder plus the partially unedited Oblivion.ini file are probably responsible for such stability. Oblivion is enjoyable again...

[Ghoulz]

Wow... I've finally reinstalled Oblivion with only the essential mods and it's very stable. I mean' date=' I had crashes very often before... but now it simply doesn't crash anymore and the FPS is almost always at 30(even with a mod that enhances graphics and video settings on high).

 

Current Oblivion folder size: 15.6 GB.

 

 

The small, uncluttered Oblivion folder plus the partially unedited Oblivion.ini file are probably responsible for such stability. Oblivion is enjoyable again...

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Will a less cluttered folder make a huge difference? I got folders and sub-folders, and sub-folders for sub-folders for sub-folders.

[vashar]

Jesus, people. Mine's 8.2 GB, how do you get all the way up to 20, let alone 250? O.o

And that's including Wrye Bash and OBMM.

 

/necro thread

[gregathit]

It is pretty easy when you start adding tons of armors (there is not a vanilla clothing or armor left in my game), higher rez textures for trees, rocks and pretty much everything else. It will actually shock you how fast it can add up.

[deathparade]

I don't have any custom clothing... i don't like most (hate me )

Just 11.8 GB data folder (no not gonna count the .exe and all quite useless)

 

Edit: it does appear that Steam is 102 GB

[PCGameFanatic]

43.9 GB (47,161,815,040 bytes)

[The DarkSlayer]

Mines at 30GB.

[vashar]

Ah, high res images. Nothing my computer would run easily anyway, heh.

[Shiloh2012]

Time to trim back some fat I think:

 

43.6 GB

76,944 Files

8,615 Folder

[Sessharrhim]

43.5 GB of mods alone, most of which are still compressed and in their original archives, and not counting the crap I'm currently using for testing shit which is another few GB.

[cartixio]

largest ive gotten was roughly 32 gb

[Captain Cobra]

13 Gigs. Was more, but that was due to .bmp ScreenShotz.

[Nepro]

Right now it is 28 GB, but with all those mods I don't use sitting in Bain Installers folder the game 'runs with lighter weight'. Maybe 14 GB.

 

Back in the day my record was over 48 GB.

[gregathit]

I absolutely refuse to answer this question' date=' so as to avoid the painful and embarrassing truth: I need to do some serious housecleaning!!!!!!

 

My oblivion install is now going on 6th year and I have yet to delete anything at all from it with the exception of a couple of esp/esm/bsa files that were horribly out dated.

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Soooo.... You installed 6 years ago, and didn't ever clean or had to reinstall your oblivion folder for a clean install...

 

cool story bro...

 

 

I have purged things out of the game folder (as I stated above) but never uninstalled\reinstalled the game. I install all my mods manually, so I know exactly where files are going and what they do. It isn't all that hard. If you carelessly dump stuff in via Omod's or even bain then you risk stuff screwing up. Sure, sometimes it is faster to just wipe things and restore, but I won't do it, as I want to know "what" broke things and "why". Until I know that, I risk breaking my game over, and over, and over, and over, and over. Another plus is by finding what broke things I can better help others in the tech help section.

 

Of course something else I do is I make my own armor\clothes\weapons esp. I never add any of those things via the esp it comes with. Most contain dirty edits that can screw things up. My custom esp allows me to keep those armors\clothes\weapons that I think are cool from a mod and throw the rest away. That holds down a lot of the "clutter" that just installing mods "as is" brings.

 

So yes, my game is in fact that old. I have updated, added, removed plugins, but never touched the original game files. I don't ever modify them and I don't allow anything else to either, so what is the point of uninstalling?

 

EDIT: Just to be clear, my rig is 2 and a half years old but my game is installed on a second hard drive that I simply moved to my new rig. Since it is via steam I did not have to reinstall the game when I moved the drive, I just reinstalled steam.