I finally got a desktop for gaming, and I bought Oblivion for it. The computer is not hooked up to the internet at this time, and it probably won't be for a while. Is it possible to download mods for the game on my laptop and install them onto the desktop somehow? For example, could I put them on a flash drive and upload them into my game?

Yes. That would work quite well, as long as the flash drive is big enough. Copy the downloaded mods to the desktop and then do all of the extracting and installing on it.

I sense the eagerness in your post and the incipient Mod Frenzy about to take hold. Let me offer some advice.

Do not install OB to the C:/Program Files/ folder or any of the My games or My anything folder (although the install will put some files in the My Games folder—nothing you can do about that.) Don't even put it on drive C: if you can help it. This will prevent any User Account Control issues.

After installing OB and SI (if you have it) and possibly Knights of the Nine if you got that too, go online and get the official patches for everything you have and install them. Then go to TESSNexus and get all the Unofficial Patches and install them.

Once you have a pristine and updated version working. Copy your install folder and the Data sub-folder to another location. This will allow you to copy back if something should go terribly wrong.

Then get yourself the latest version of Wrye Bash and Oblivion Mod Manager and learn how to use them. then use them to instal and manage your mods.

Since your game computer won't have the internet, I hope you have one that does handy, because you will be back here tot he forum—a lot. :wavey: happy modding!

I have a laptop and my desktop I am using right now, but I play Oblivion on my laptop. I run BOSS on my desktop two or three times a week just to keep the masterlist on my laptop current. I download and install mods on to my desktop and let my anti-virus software give them a once over before I install the archives onto a remote hard drive and transfer them to my laptop. I am doing exactly what you are going to do and I have had no issues at all with not having an antivirus program on my laptop. You could turn off UAC on your new desktop if Windows 7 will let you, as long as you are careful in what you install on your new PC.

Good advice from Edouard. I will, however, amend one suggestion. If you bought PC-Oblivion GOTY edition and install both disks in their entirety (the base game, KotN, SI) you will be totally up-to-date "officially" and NOT need to go online and grab the Bethesda official patches. This of course doesn't negate the need for the "unofficial" patches and supplementals. NOTE that I'm not familiar with any download version of Oblivion (Steam, D2D (which I personally don't recommend since it doesn't work with OBSE), etc.) The same patching rule might or might not apply for those.