I love this mod so much, and despite the instability of the town itself, I always include it in my modlist (mostly due to the cool retexture of frostmourne and the tower :P). eventually I will upload a playthrough of coldstone and its quests, If I ever get it to play nicely lol.
get the optimized dark tower coldstone meshes at http://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/45800 install and let them overwrite install the 4GB patch if you do not already have it (the GOG version comes with this already patched)
Thanks I had no idea that existed after all these years. yes I have the 4gb patcher with about 200 other mods that overhauls the game in just about every area and yes I have a 5800x3D with a 4080. cant get much more powerful than that unless I'm running zen4 with a 4090 lol
5800X, RX 6900 XT, maybe 20% less oomph than you have, and I had to go to a scalper to get the video card in 2021. Mostly smooth in Coldstone, occasional CTD after changing/entering a lot of cell/interiors. You should do fine after installing the optimized textures. If you need yet more tweak, optimize the mod's textures yourself. The speed of the 5800 should be plenty to handle the AI load of the open city.
I'm glad modders were able to get coldstone in a playable state after all these years. 1st time I ran the mod was probably 10yrs ago on a much weaker and outdated pentium laptop. boy was that fun lol. tried again on a ryzen 5 3600 with 2060. framerate was fine at 1080p. may have tried 4k as well. until it started crashing lol. so yep, seems like the mod got much needed attention since then. eager to test it out now in the optimized state.
Thnx. I'll write that down in my notes. also, I recall last time using the mod there was some landtear issues and some parts of the town covered in snow. I remember fixing it, possibly by going into the cs or there was a compatibility patch somewhere on my drive lol.
If you are wondering what is missing from around the Mountain Pass Door by Aerin's Camp, in version 9, there is supposed to be a CEntrantanceMtnSnowSm02 there. I am guessing that Reaper accidentally removed it when cleaning the mod; this is right at a cell boundary and the door is is in cell 32,33 while the static rock/cave entrance mesh was all alone in cell 33/33 which made have made it look like a wild edit in TES4edit.
Anyway if you can use the CS, you can place a CEntrantanceMtnSnowSm02 in cell 33,33 with coordinates x: 125215.1563 y: 125645.5781 z: 20812.8379 rotation angle x: 0 y: 0 z: 320
This will also partially cover up the land tear at that boundary near the door
I really wanna explore this mod, but there's a lot of land tearing occuring between the mod and the mods that I have and I can't get to the bottom as to what is causing it. It's such a shame. I might try to fix the tears myself but it's probably gonna be a lot of work.
I wonder if anyone else using this mod knows any useful patches. The issue that I have mostly is with the Coldstone city located up the mountain and the landtears that appear on the side of the mountain, painful to work around.
This might be a little bit late, but what mods do you have that affect the area?
Currently, for me, I've got just Unique Landscapes that affect that area, and I'm not noticing any major land tearing at all. There is the HESU series but there are no known patches for that area.
It should be noted that Reaper's The Dark Tower is completely incompatible with HESU Dive Rock and can not be fixed with a patch. You must choose one or the other........
I have the same problem. There's what looks like snowy mountains or hills right in the middle of the city, and npc's pass right through it. I first thought they were designed to be there, since the city is in a snowy region, but now I think it's probably a conflict with UL. When my character walks through it, there's ugly glitches like the doors of the chapel floating in mid-air. I'm using UL and the PYFFI optimized meshes.
EDIT: Here's what I did to fix it for the most part: 1) reinstalled the mod & made sure no files from it are overwritten except the optimized meshes. 2) Moved the "ULM ReapersTheDarkTower-BravilBarrowfields.esp" patch down to the very bottom of the UL patch load order. BOSS apparently places it too high. 3) Ran LODgen. 4) Redid the bashed patch. Chapel doors & some other things are now fixed, but the mounds of snow are still there. It's just something that has to be dealt with; you can walk right through them & they disappear on the other side.
Need some help, I have this retarded collisionless terrain formation infront of the church, when you walk into it you cant see it anymore but as long as your are out of it its a huge eye sore. Here is a picture, any help would be appreciated https://imgur.com/a/9gR7X
If you could please upload ALL the meshes for this mod it’ll be a HUGE lifesaver. Thanks :) Edit: Sorry, i'm an idiot, i found all the files hiding in one of the archives. Thanks for the mod, i love it!
ok, i redownloaded everything and there's still no meshes in the files. Edit: and yes I downloaded Maese’s meshes pack but I still crash whenever I travel to Coldstone. Edit again: and now my save mysteriously corrupted since installing this mod. I started a new game and there’s still too many missing meshes to visit Coldstone.
Now I've got a shitty computer(Boat Anchor Acer)... but I did find a way to enter and move freely around town and kill any lag/crashing apoun a stroll in, true... you get the rainbow loaded distant textures(some people whine and cry)... put your textures from high to med or low.
this mod is broken most every texture/mesh has a yellow escalation mark Reapers The Dark Tower for oblivion is worthless and broken but Reapers The Dark Tower for skyrim is perfect.
I really like the design, but.....it crashes all the time, and missing meshes are everywhere...some status and tombstones are just purple....and some npcs' body are missing as well. what a pity here.
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http://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/45800
install and let them overwrite
install the 4GB patch if you do not already have it (the GOG version comes with this already patched)
maybe get a more powerful computer
yes I have the 4gb patcher with about 200 other mods that overhauls the game in just about every area
and yes I have a 5800x3D with a 4080. cant get much more powerful than that unless I'm running zen4 with a 4090 lol
thanks alot though :)
CEntrantanceMtnSnowSm02
there. I am guessing that Reaper accidentally removed it when cleaning the mod; this is right at a cell boundary and the door is is in cell 32,33 while the static rock/cave entrance mesh was all alone in cell 33/33 which made have made it look like a wild edit in TES4edit.
Anyway if you can use the CS, you can place a CEntrantanceMtnSnowSm02 in cell 33,33 with coordinates
x: 125215.1563
y: 125645.5781
z: 20812.8379
rotation angle
x: 0
y: 0
z: 320
This will also partially cover up the land tear at that boundary near the door
I wonder if anyone else using this mod knows any useful patches. The issue that I have mostly is with the Coldstone city located up the mountain and the landtears that appear on the side of the mountain, painful to work around.
Currently, for me, I've got just Unique Landscapes that affect that area, and I'm not noticing any major land tearing at all. There is the HESU series but there are no known patches for that area.
http://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/45800/?
EDIT: Here's what I did to fix it for the most part: 1) reinstalled the mod & made sure no files from it are overwritten except the optimized meshes. 2) Moved the "ULM ReapersTheDarkTower-BravilBarrowfields.esp" patch down to the very bottom of the UL patch load order. BOSS apparently places it too high. 3) Ran LODgen. 4) Redid the bashed patch. Chapel doors & some other things are now fixed, but the mounds of snow are still there. It's just something that has to be dealt with; you can walk right through them & they disappear on the other side.
Solved for me when a) installing Unique Landscape LOD (obviously I have UL) and b) running LodGen...
Edit: Sorry, i'm an idiot, i found all the files hiding in one of the archives. Thanks for the mod, i love it!
Edit: and yes I downloaded Maese’s meshes pack but I still crash whenever I travel to Coldstone.
Edit again: and now my save mysteriously corrupted since installing this mod. I started a new game and there’s still too many missing meshes to visit Coldstone.
PYFFI Optimized Reapers The Dark Tower Meshes
http://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/45800/?