Hi all! Well seeing that Steam's special today was Oblivion, I'm thinking about gifting it to a few friends, then hooking them up with the community here and on TESNexus.

Now before I do this, I have a few questions.

I remember when I was actively playing the game that people said some mods weren't working with the D2D, or steam version of the game.

Is this still the case? I know Steam's good about helping out the modding community for other games, so I wasn't sure.

I'm also wondering if anyone's been able to install things like Ivellon, or OOO/FCOM using the steam client? Since I really would feel bad if I said all this stuff would work and it didn't (not that I have yet, mind you).

Finally, can you use programs like OBMM and the most excellent Wrye Bash with the Steam version of the game?

Thanks in advance and I hope you all continue to have a great holiday season.

As far as I know mods work fine with the steam version, even obse dependant mods, however I think you need to have the steam community/overlay enabled to allow the hook. The D2D version is not obse friendly.

Steam works fine with OBSE and mods. Easy.

You cannot install OBSE with the D2D version.

The folks at Valve worked directly with the OBSE team to make sure it was compatible. All good on that front.

Other utilities (OBMM, Bash, etc.) should work, you just have to relocate them to wherever Steam puts Oblivion. If you're on Vista or newer, it's strongly recommended that you set this location somewhere outside your Program Files to avoid nasty issues with User Account Control. Unfortunately this can't be done on a per-game basis, you have to move the entire Steam cache. As far as I can tell this can only be done when you're actually installing the Steam client, which is rather annoying. (Possible I've just missed the option, though.)

Hey Tejon. Good to see yah still here.

You assign the folder at Steam install. I'll have to check with my buds and make sure none of them have UAC active (I doubt it, since they're gamers). Personally, I have my Steam game on another drive.

If not, the good thing is you can transport your games into a new folder, reinstall steam and all is fine there.

Thanks for the answers and have a great holiday everyone!