Is there any way around this bug, or an explanation?? Normally this just happens to me when playing MERP, but after getting my DVD drive fixed I decided to play a bit of oblivion, so I grabbed the latest updates, and sorted my load order out, and ran tes4lodgen, but now I have multi-coloured LOD, and I'd rather not have to have my textures as large because I prefer the FPS to the pretty textures

Thanks

Those textures lack mipmaps. You can resave each of the DDS files with Paint.NET or something, and say yes when prompted to generate mipmaps.

Do i have to do that with all the landscape textures? That could take a while , and will GIMP work??

Only with the ones that don't have mipmaps, which is much faster to figure out with Windows Texture Viewer - it will tell you on the display how many it has. As far as I know, Oblivion needs a minimum of 4. Unfortunately Paint.NET and GIMP don't seem to give you that much control and you'll end up with at least 9, possibly 11, depending on how large the original textures are.

Paint.NET is also the simpler choice to use. GIMP needs an extra plugin to handle .dds files.

Thanks, that's much easier. Will I need to run tes4lodgen again or will the mipmaps just make it work?

Shoudln't need to. Landscape LOD has nothing to do with what tes4lodgen does.

...and the latter takes five times as long to boot...