Installed with MO2 (yes skyBSA is properly installed)
The UI and any menu is completely unresponsive to the mouse, I have to use the arrow keys to navigate through any of the UI functions. The text in the menus is out of place, cluttered, and overlapping each other.
Dont really know what else to do at this point, will probably just remove, which is unfortunate because this mod looked cool.
Having the same problem with overlapping text. It's as if the custom one I selected isn't showing.
Edit - forgot I messed with my ini file and overwrote it. I needed to reinstall this mod since it overwrites and adds the text changes to the ini also.
Some day I hope we can get to a point where I can install a UI mod without having to spend hours doing a bunch of other stuff, I know this engine is a mess hence all these steps, but holy shit.
It used to be easy. I don't know what the f*#@ happened but modding Oblivion GOTY in 2025 is f*#@ing tedious, since it keeps crashing randomly no matter how many mods you have installed. I've NEVER had this many problems modding the game with MO2 before.
if the dude hasnt been active for 10 years do what people on steam workshop do, and update it with credit to the author. if they want it taken down from there its not that hard to have the creator fix it
if the dude hasnt been active for 10 years do what people on steam workshop do, and update it with credit to the author. if they want it taken down from there its not that hard to have the creator fix it - dono why it double posted lmao
Upon my first attempt at installing this mod, I found that only the title screen was different.
After many hours of headaches and being told that I have to use OBMM or Wrye Bash, I found an obscure steam community post that basically said that because of the way Oblivion loads things regarding the UI, if the date of the folder is newer than the vanilla game files, it will not load them. If you download the game via steam, the folder date will be set to the minute you finished downloading the game. Since the folders for this mod are from 2009, it will not load them. In order to fix this you have to change the date and the best way I found was a power shell command that goes as follows.
foreach($file in Get-ChildItem "YOURFOLDERPATH" -recurse) {$(Get-Item $file.Fullname).lastwritetime=$(Get-Date)}
ONLY DO THIS AFTER THE GAME HAS FINISHED INSTALLING
I did that and lo and behold I now have an excellent Dark Red DarNified UI. You will need to extract the files and drop them into a folder, but it will work if you just use your downloads folder. You can then recompress the files into a new archive and install them with your preferred method. This, as I can confirm, includes Vortex.
I don't know if anyone has posted something like this on here before, but I am not going through 13 years worth of forum posts and questions to locate it.
Thanks for doing the massive legwork on this and I thank you for all the information you provided. Now, I'm someone who just installs mods through mainly Vortex and an occasional drag-n-drop if it's easy enough, but I have no clue what or how to use Power Shell. I did manage to bring it up (views like CMD prompt) but what the hell do I do from there? Do I just type the line you showed or do I need to somehow navigate to the game folder and type this? How do I exactly enter this into the prompt to make this work?
A little tedious but essentially you follow these steps: 1. Download and Extract the manual version of this mod, it can be anywhere on your computer, I just did it in downloads. 2. Open the start menu and search "powershell" and open it. 3. Edit this line of code: foreach($file in Get-ChildItem "YOURFOLDERPATH" -recurse) {$(Get-Item $file.Fullname).lastwritetime=$(Get-Date)}
?It should say something like: foreach($file in Get-ChildItem "C:/Users/Eric/Downloads/DarkUid DarN 16 Manual Version-11280" -recurse) {$(Get-Item $file.Fullname).lastwritetime=$(Get-Date)}
4. Paste the new line with your file path inputted, and press enter. 5. Put the file back into an archive using 7z or whatever you use, and drop it into vortex to load the mod.
SkyBSAMod notes: "An OBSE DLL that forces Oblivion to handle BSAs and loose files the same way that Skyrim does. No more mucking around with file timestamps!" You may want to check out https://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/49898 for more installation help.
This. Use SkyBSA. No need for all the powershell jiggery pokery. If you are finding answers in 13yr old forum posts, consider that the information might be out of date and that the community may have come up with a better solution in the interim. Plenty of modders are still actively modding this game. You don't need to use OBMM or Wrye Bash (except for the Bashed Patch). Just use a modern mod manager like Mod Organizer 2.
hi, I manually installed this mod and followed all the mandatory steps, unfortunately it doesn't work, I don't understand where I'm wrong, I have the gog version 1.2.0416, can anyone help me?
I have the Heartland modpack installed and Ultimate Levelling Vanilla Style Loading Screens Addon. I didn't follow the installation instructions and installed with Mod Organizer 2 instead. With the mod activated in MO2 the game quits to MO2 when I load a game or start a new game.
How can I make this mod to work? Fortunately deactivating the mod in MO2 removes its nefarious effect.
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The UI and any menu is completely unresponsive to the mouse, I have to use the arrow keys to navigate through any of the UI functions. The text in the menus is out of place, cluttered, and overlapping each other.
Dont really know what else to do at this point, will probably just remove, which is unfortunate because this mod looked cool.
Edit - forgot I messed with my ini file and overwrote it. I needed to reinstall this mod since it overwrites and adds the text changes to the ini also.
I don't know what the f*#@ happened but modding Oblivion GOTY in 2025 is f*#@ing tedious, since it keeps crashing randomly no matter how many mods you have installed.
I've NEVER had this many problems modding the game with MO2 before.
Hate getting flashbanged by by loot screen in dark dungeons.
This was always my go to mod for the UI in Oblivion.
author hasnt been active since 2015 and perms are sem-closed.. (Need to ask)
Someone could probably basically remake it though.
Upon my first attempt at installing this mod, I found that only the title screen was different.
After many hours of headaches and being told that I have to use OBMM or Wrye Bash, I found an obscure steam community post that basically said that because of the way Oblivion loads things regarding the UI, if the date of the folder is newer than the vanilla game files, it will not load them. If you download the game via steam, the folder date will be set to the minute you finished downloading the game. Since the folders for this mod are from 2009, it will not load them. In order to fix this you have to change the date and the best way I found was a power shell command that goes as follows.
foreach($file in Get-ChildItem "YOURFOLDERPATH" -recurse) {$(Get-Item $file.Fullname).lastwritetime=$(Get-Date)}
ONLY DO THIS AFTER THE GAME HAS FINISHED INSTALLING
I did that and lo and behold I now have an excellent Dark Red DarNified UI. You will need to extract the files and drop them into a folder, but it will work if you just use your downloads folder. You can then recompress the files into a new archive and install them with your preferred method. This, as I can confirm, includes Vortex.
I don't know if anyone has posted something like this on here before, but I am not going through 13 years worth of forum posts and questions to locate it.
A little tedious but essentially you follow these steps:
1. Download and Extract the manual version of this mod, it can be anywhere on your computer, I just did it in downloads.
2. Open the start menu and search "powershell" and open it.
3. Edit this line of code: foreach($file in Get-ChildItem "YOURFOLDERPATH" -recurse) {$(Get-Item $file.Fullname).lastwritetime=$(Get-Date)}
?It should say something like: foreach($file in Get-ChildItem "C:/Users/Eric/Downloads/DarkUid DarN 16 Manual Version-11280" -recurse) {$(Get-Item $file.Fullname).lastwritetime=$(Get-Date)}
4. Paste the new line with your file path inputted, and press enter.
5. Put the file back into an archive using 7z or whatever you use, and drop it into vortex to load the mod.
Works just like that!
If only i had come here early, it would have saved me alot of time and frustration.
SkyBSA Mod notes: "An OBSE DLL that forces Oblivion to handle BSAs and loose files the same way that Skyrim does. No more mucking around with file timestamps!"
You may want to check out https://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/49898 for more installation help.
If you are finding answers in 13yr old forum posts, consider that the information might be out of date and that the community may have come up with a better solution in the interim.
Plenty of modders are still actively modding this game. You don't need to use OBMM or Wrye Bash (except for the Bashed Patch). Just use a modern mod manager like Mod Organizer 2.
I have the Heartland modpack installed and Ultimate Levelling Vanilla Style Loading Screens Addon. I didn't follow the installation instructions and installed with Mod Organizer 2 instead. With the mod activated in MO2 the game quits to MO2 when I load a game or start a new game.
How can I make this mod to work? Fortunately deactivating the mod in MO2 removes its nefarious effect.