hi all.

*reinstall*! I had to take out my entire folder and reinstall; I messed everything up, in the graphics department and I Shall Begin Again.

On a test coc run to weye, I was getting maybe 14 to 20 fps, with qarls texture mod, better cities, etc, but even away from weye I was getting only about 20fps. deep in the middle of weye there was that huge yellow sign, too.

reinstall.

it went well, after lathering and cleaning everything out.

the starter dungeon looked surprisingly well, even without qarls. the coc to weye. what!....60 fps !!

sixty fps with no mods and no graphics enhancers. what a difference. never went below 40 anywhere.

and I was surprised again that the graphics looked good as is.

but I have several Questions.

1...is the vanilla dirt really supposed to be a kind of dull yellow gray, inside of weye?

there was clover in the ground textures, I did not know this with vanilla graphics.

[freestone wonders if somehow there is an occult hidden file of texture mods somewhere that still appear in my new game even with a total reinstall, of oblivion and obmm?!]

2...can anyone recommend a texture replacer that is kind to my fps. and that ugly dirt texture, I was also surprised at just how "sharp" the cutoff is between the clover texture and the dirt. vivid seams.

can they be gotten rid of.

too..i suspect that for whatever landscape texture repacer I use, most mods will not use it. I wonder if just vanilla textures is really the way to go after all, for landscape and rocks and such?!

2..unique landscapes. I Believed.

then I saw just how many patches I installed just for these! 15 to 25 patches!

what I *want* to install is environmental npc enhancers like better cities and quest mods. I can add little texture mods.

how about lods? do I *really* need to generate a lod file and raevwd?! fps killers.

so I thought that I better ask you all before shortly beginning to add mods again.

thanks...freestone