I recently got a new rig without a DVD drive. Since I've bought an external DVD drive it would have been possible to use that for playing Oblivion. But I just didn't like that. I wanted to buy Oblivion again on GOG but the game wasn't available there and using something like a crack version is no option for me. Steam would have been another option .. but for a modder Steam is also no real option. I also dislike Steams constant updates and the necessity of being online.

So here is one solution I discovered: Using a bootable USB stick with the image of the original Oblivion DVD and a DVD emulator.

• What you need is a USB stick with at least 5GB capacity.
• Make the stick bootable. You should find some useful guide on the web how to do it.
• Make an image (.iso) of the original Oblivion DVD with eg. ImgBurn
• Copy the image file of Oblivon onto the stick.
• I recommend using the portable version of WinCDEmu. Install it directly on the stick.
• Start WinCDEmu on the stick and mount the image file on the stick. Now you should be ready to play the game without DVD or DVD drive.

In case you edit the landscape textures manually it can be handy having a clue about the coordinates. Let's take the texture 60.00.00.32. Important are the two numbers in the center.
60.(- West <Horizontal> East +).(- South <Vertical> North +).32

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