Oblivion Mod Manager

What works

Installing mods in OMOD format, changing load order, archive invalidation, and most major features worked.

What does not

Any OMOD installers that have screenshots will have issues. A message will appear stating that OBMM crashed. In most cases, you will be able to continue installing the mod, but you will not be able to view the screenshots.

Workarounds

Oblivion Mod Manager has issues with Mono which makes changing mod load order impossible. This is fixed by creating a clean 32-bit Wine prefix and installing .NET 2.0.

What was not tested

Most of the options under 'Utilities' and 'Settings' were not tested. However, they are not required for installing most mods.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU: Nvidia
• Driver: proprietary

Additional Comments

Mod authors for Oblivion do not have a standard for capitalization with mod asset files. This means that while Windows would just overwrite the files as a result of its case insensitivity, this does not happen on Linux. There are two solutions to this:

1. Convert the mods to an OMOD using Oblivion Mod Manager.
2. Put your Wine prefix on a partition with a case insensitive file system such as JFS (with OS/2 compatibility mode for case insensitivity). Make sure to mount it with user ownership.

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Admin note "the third way!":

3. Use the Windows version of 7-Zip to extract archives under Wine - this will workaround filesystem case sensitivity issues.