Moving the Window?

Post » Thu May 03, 2012 9:25 pm

Hi,
does anybody know how to move the windowed-mode window? i want to have it in the lower right corner of my screen!
I already tried modifying the oblivion.ini (iLocation Y= | iLocation X=) but that didn't work...
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Flutterby
 
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Post » Thu May 03, 2012 9:29 pm

Did you tinker with the right ini. file? The one in My Games is the one you should target. I can′t be of more help unfortunately as I only play in full window mode and wouldn′t dream of playing in a small window :D
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Stephanie Kemp
 
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Post » Thu May 03, 2012 2:47 pm

I don't have a my games folder!
the .ini I edited is in the Oblivion folder...
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Post » Thu May 03, 2012 2:31 pm

Do not touch that file, unless you are absolutely sure what you are doing! That is the copy of your .ini Oblivion uses to generate a new .ini in case of proiblems. I do made two changes to mine (enabling screenshots, disabling dialog zoom) that I know I will always want, so that when I need to generate a new .ini file I won't have to make those changes again. But generally you do not want to touch that file.

You do have a My Games folder somewhere. Oblivion won't load a save without it. Search your C: drive and, if you don't find it on your C: drive, search your other drives. Before I switched to Window 7 my My Games folder was located on one of my secondary drives. Windows 7 placed it on my C: drive. So it might be almost anywhere on your computer.

The .ini file is not going to help much with windowed mode anyway. I don't have Oblivion installed at the moment so I can't check, but offhand I don't recall any lines controlling the size or position of windowed mode. At any rate, Oblivion does not like windowed mode. Those of us who have tried to run Oblivion regularly in windowed mode have usually run into problems eventually.
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Toby Green
 
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Post » Thu May 03, 2012 10:01 pm

Thank you! I found the My Games folder and it works now!
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Roy Harris
 
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Post » Thu May 03, 2012 12:28 pm

But why would you want to give Oblivion anything but your full attention? :ooo:

Just be aware of what Pseron said about Oblivion not liking to be in a small window. When I had the PC version I remember it was full screen or nothing, windowed mode was very crash-prone.
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Amelia Pritchard
 
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Post » Thu May 03, 2012 9:04 am

But why would you want to give Oblivion anything but your full attention? :ooo:
A very good question indeed ;)
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