Hi everyone.

First of all, i will tell you that that my native tongue is french ( from Quebec Canada), so, if i'm mispelling thing, please forgive me.

I try to uninstall elven map redux v. 2 : nexusmods dot com slash downloads slash file dot php?id=3002

I manually erased all of the information and the archive invalidation.txt.

Result? The world map is blank. AIl i can see is city and othe landmarks.

I try to restart my computer but nothing work.

I really apprciated any help.

Never manually modify that file, it causes problems. Your best bet now is to either do a fresh install or use a mod manager to try and rectify the situation. If you want the latter route, use Bash. Here's the thread for it for you to get information on it: http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1337478-relz-wrye-bash/

You can use http://tes.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=35969 which has a couple of map style included and all of them can be reinstalled in no time through the Install Missing files (Anneal the archive first) command in BAIN.

This is a good reason to use BAIN to install texture replacers. Uninstalling is so much easier. You've probably missed something. In the Data/Textures folder make sure to remove all these files;

..Menus/hud/hud_compass_goal.dds
..Menus/icon/map/map_icons_all.dds
..Menus/map/world_map_arrow_icon.dds
..Menus/map/world/cyrodiil_resized.dds

as well as the same files in Menus50 and Menus80.

Don't even bother with this ArchiveInvalidation.txt file anymore. This is from a far-too-outdated solution, which never really worked reliably to begin with, whether it was you manually adding files into this list or a mod tool doing this for you automatically, the game using the file itself is what never really worked reliably, no matter how it was created.

For Archive Invalidation nowadays we use the BSA Redirection approach, putting an empty dummy BSA file into your data folder and altering your Oblivion.ini to use this at the one place in "sArchiveList" the only BSA ever requiring invalidation is at. So now the empty dummy is the only BSA the contents of which ever need invalidation anymore, thus we technically eliminated the need for any Archive Invalidation at all now once and for all. This is a one-time-only step which only has to be repeated when your Oblivion.ini got modified and this entry from "sArchiveList" vanished for some cause.

BSA Redirection can be applied through OBMM's Utilities and sticking to the default settings (BSA Redirection has no options at all, touching any could only mess things up, likely won't though), Wrye Bash (don't remember how anymore though), or installing the famous mod "ArchiveInvalidationInvalidated!". All do the same, with only different filenames for the dummy.

Once BSA Redirection got applied though it is paramount to get rid of any left-over "ArchiveInvalidation.txt" files in your folders (yes, different tools can even have placed them into different subfolders, get rid of them "all"). A remaining "ArchiveInvalidation.txt" file will keep instructing the game to use external file X over its internal counterpart, which isn't inside the now-empty dummy BSA anymore to begin with, and this will cause multiple random issues.

Erroneous left-over instructions inside such a file can also be the cause for multiple weirdnesses, if you uninstalled a mod with its assets but didn't remove these entries from the file, as now this is telling the game the files you just removed were still to be used over the internal ones, and as it doesn't perform any checkups, this is like "forcing" a missing texture error ingame.

Furthermore, if you have Wrye Bash, just use it to do BSA redirection. I believe it's one of the options in BAIN, but I can't remember which context menu it's in... It's the main tab/header... I haven't seen that interface in almost half a year.


--Tomlong75210

it's in the right click menu on the Packages header in the Installers tab

As a side note, if you have only OBMM you can also do the whole archiveinvalidation thing.