You also NEED to get Oblivion Mod Manager, partly for OMODs (basically a way to organize your mods in a simple. Blade9722 2048 LOD textures+Blade9722 Border Region LOD textures (fixes the ugly long distance textures because QTP3 doesn't touch those)Īll of these can be D/L:d at Planet Elder Scrolls.

Low-Poly grass (for better FPS, you may not need this depending on your rig) Darnified UI 1.3.2 (an absolute must, makes the interface worthy of the PC) Bomret's Texture Pack Shivering Isles (basically SI version of QTP3) Qarl's Texture Pack Redimized+patch (this is a version of QTP3 that is reduced+optimized for equally good visuals but much lower memory hit, get this instead of the basic QTP3) Skip Introduction Dungeon 1.0 (obviously you don't need this) Aside from OOO (which is a given IMO but it is a huge, dramatic change), these are the mods I started out with as a base and I recommend you get all of them:

I've been into Elder Scrolls modding since 2005 so I have some experience with it.

I just D/L:d Oblivion from Steam yesterday and modded it today with the barebones.