I am trying to get my mods working on my New Oblivion - I have the ESP in the correct location, but it does not recognize any of the ESP except for the official mods. even the OMM cannot see them? what did I do wrong?
I have the Steam version and have never encountered this issue. One thing I will ask is have you started up a Vanilla or Vanilla+DLCs on their own game first? You may have to do this so Steam can configure Oblivion first. Also it would be a good idea to make sure you have the Steam version of Obse in your Oblivion folder (the extra steam dll file in addition to the others), also make sure that Enable Steam Community in Game is ticked (if you've just come from playing Morrowind you would have had this unchecked, this caught me out when I first played Oblivion).
Artorius.
Edit:
Aha, it is under C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\oblivion\Data and not under Beth... :brokencomputer:
Ah yes that is always good to get right as well, but the other advise regarding Obse and Steam still stands.