Hi,

Just had a quick question as the title and description says.

I unpacked Oblivion - Meshes.BSA and Shivering Isles - Meshes.BSA. I used the PYFFI Automator Program to PYFFI all of the meshes. I now have the Oblivion - Meshes.BSA optimized w/ PYFFI (unpacked) and the Shivering Isles - Meshes.BSA optimized w/ PYFFI (unpacked) in separate folders. My question is, do I now re-pack the optimized meshes back into a BSA... or do I just place the optimized meshes in Oblivion/Data?

Little confused here so any clarification would be great.

-J

Repack them into BSAs using no compression.

How exactly do I do this?

I'm trying to use BSA Commander to do this. I clicked pack, under archive I just put Shivering Isles - Meshes and for the subdir I located the optimized "meshes" folder. Clicked the two question marks, clicked apply, made sure compression was NOT checked and clicked OK and it says incorrect params.

EDIT: Nevermind, DLCShiveringIsles - Meshes

TY

Use OBMM. Under Utilities there is an option to create a BSA. Make a backup of your old BSAs first and the save the new ones directly into the Data folder, overwriting the old ones.

TY this is much easier.

My PYFFI'ed Oblivion - Meshes.BSA turned out to be over 100mb bigger than the non PYFFI'ed version... what the heck?

Is this because it was not compressed?

Aye.
Although in my case the BSA went from 675 MB to 1.2 GB.

What the.... I get a WTF missing mesh on the loading screen now =/ . I used the PYFFI Automation Utility to automatically run on EVERYTHING inside the Oblivion - Meshes.BSA. Including the distantlod and trees folder. These probably shouldn't/couldn't be PYFFI'ed so the utility probably skipped them.

I see some files in the original unpacked Oblivion - Meshes.BSA that are not included in the optimized file output that the automator utility created with all of the optimized meshes. I assumed it automatically added the skipped files as well. I suppose my problem is that I did not overwrite the original meshes w/ the optimized meshes... and THEN repack.

Like PetrusOctavianus said, an uncompressed Oblivion - Meshes.bsa should be ~1.2GB and Shivering Isles - Meshes.bsa should be ~200MB. If they are smaller than that you may not have included all the meshes in the bsa.

EDIT:


You are correct.. overwrite the unoptimized with the optimized

Just out of curiosity, why is it recommended not to compress the BSA when the original is?

Because then the game need to (waste) cpu time uncompressing it.

Best bet; follow these instructions (I did, works fine): http://sites.google.com/site/oblivionpoinfo/optimization/pyffi

And as said; Bethesda chose to compress it, probably to fit on the disc, to minimize the installation size. Also, of course, most computers had less memory space as most of us have now.
But it does run better if uncompressed.

Accordingly to Tomlong "The latest versions of PyFFI make the automated tool obsolete. They can even hinder PyFFI's functionality because of the size limitation criterion. The skip list and the automatic skipping of .egm files make those extra tools unnecessary"

To properly optimize Vanilla Oblvion Meshes I suggest to look at http://tesivpositive.animolious.com/?page=pyffi , while for any other Meshes folders just right-click them and select "optimize with Pyffi".

And btw, be sure to use the latest release (2.1.5)