i've just restarted playing Oblivion after a couple of years away from the game. I have installed the latest patch and the only mods I am using are Obscuros and DarNified UI. In the starter dungeon before Septim is killed, there were various obkects that showed up as large yellow polygon shapes. You could walk inside the glitches and they would disappear and you could see the normal graphic displayed.

The second glitch involves some NOC character models. The only parts of their body that displays are their head and weapons. Everything else is missing. if I load the game with no mods installed, the guards bodies will now display,however their armor and weapons are not displayed.

I just restarted and don't want to continue playing if the saved game is somehow glitched. Anyone have a recommendation on how to resolve the problem?

My video card is a GTX 560i and I run Windows 7.

Sounds like your mods did not install correctly.

since you are running windows 7, did you install to the default folder (Program files). If so you should reinstall the game somewhere else (eg. c:\Games\Oblivion)

Yes it installed by default to Program Files (x86). How exactly does that matter? The game recognizes that Obscuros is installed when you select the Data Files option when the game launches.

The game may be recognising the plugin file but it is not recognising the meshes and textures also added by the mods.

It is a UAC issue. Since the game was developed before vista which introduced UAC for windows.

I just reinstalled to c:\Oblivion and now the game crashes as soon as the first Bethesda splashscreen displays

I figured out why the game was not launching. I deleted the .ini file in the my documents/my games folder and it launched just fine.

Still have the glitch though. Installed in c:\oblivion and with oscuro's as the only mod installed, captain Renault at the beginning of the game is still missing all her body parts except for her bald head and weapon.

I should also point out that when the wierd yellow polygon shapes were displayed, there was also an exclamation point displayed within the glitch.