Stardock announced today that Bethesda Softworks’® titles, which include the 2008 Game of the Year, Fallout ® 3, and the 2006 Game of the Year, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion® are now available on Impulse, the digital download platform for PC games.

“Bethesda Softworks’ catalogue represents some of the most beloved video games ever made,” said Brad Wardell, CEO and president of Stardock. “We’re thrilled to add these titles to our catalogue.”

“We are very excited to have our titles be available through Impulse,” said Vlatko Andonov, President of Bethesda Softworks. “We think Stardock’s digital download platform gives new and existing fans an easy way to download and play our games.”

To download Impulse visit: www.impulsedriven.com.


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on Jul 27, 2010

TroubledWaters
Well, someone had to bite the bullet and test it. Looks like OBSE does NOT work, making this a 25 dollar waste.

Before laying it to rest, you might want to contact support ...

Grats to the worldwide part, but i already own most of the games and also think that most of them suck .

But i like that you start getting worldwide deals.

on Jul 27, 2010

TroubledWaters
...OBSE does NOT work, making this a 25 dollar waste.

OBSE?

on Jul 27, 2010

Oblivion Script Extender. Necessary for just about any of the good mods to work. http://obse.silverlock.org/

Thanks Osiris, but I don't think they are going to be able to do anything about a mod not being compatible. Unfortunately, the game is seriously lacking without OBSE. I can't recommend buying this.

Ironically, Steam seems to support OBSE just fine.

on Jul 27, 2010

Awesome. When I finally whittle down my backlog a bit, I'd like to give Morrowind another go. I'll definitely be purchasing it off of Impulse.

on Jul 27, 2010

Any idea on whether or not Impulse will be fixed so it minimizes to my "Hidden Icons" instead of taking up room on the task bar? That would be real handy, especially since everything else I run minimizes there when I hit "x", like Yahoo, Skype, Viper, etc etc. When I hit "x" on Impulse it closes it off instead of minimizing to the hidden icons area.

on Jul 27, 2010

Raven, it's the Impulse Tray Application that sits in the system tray/hidden icons area. Impulse itself doesn't go there. You'll need to turn on the tray app (should be in the start menu) then tell it to stay on.

on Jul 27, 2010

Tridus
Raven, it's the Impulse Tray Application that sits in the system tray/hidden icons area. Impulse itself doesn't go there. You'll need to turn on the tray app (should be in the start menu) then tell it to stay on.

Wow...that's annoying. So either I have the tray icon on All the time, whether I'm running Impulse or not, or I have it minimize to the task bar? I think someone somewhere needs a pay cut...

Good looking out on the info though, Tridus , thanks my friend.

on Jul 27, 2010

Good work!

on Jul 27, 2010

Raven X

Wow...that's annoying. So either I have the tray icon on All the time, whether I'm running Impulse or not, or I have it minimize to the task bar? I think someone somewhere needs a pay cut...

Good looking out on the info though, Tridus , thanks my friend.

You shouldn't need to have the normal Impulse app open most of the time when the tray program is enabled. It notifies you of updates (except for Elemental for some reason, maybe due to beta?) and stuff like that. You can even launch games from it.

I rarely open the Impulse main app itself because the tray app does what I usually need and doesn't require waiting to start it.

on Jul 27, 2010

I looked and it doesn't list my games under the "My Games" tab from the Tray Icon. I tried adding Elemental and no dice.

on Jul 27, 2010

Elemental isn't showing up in there for some reason, it's never worked right with the tray app. My other games do though.

on Jul 27, 2010

TroubledWaters
Oblivion Script Extender. Necessary for just about any of the good mods to work. http://obse.silverlock.org/

Thanks Osiris, but I don't think they are going to be able to do anything about a mod not being compatible. Unfortunately, the game is seriously lacking without OBSE. I can't recommend buying this.

Ironically, Steam seems to support OBSE just fine.

I would do two things.

First, contact the OBSE team and see if they have any ideas.  Then also contact Stardock support or Zoomba on Twitter (he seems to be the one that packages these games I think).  Stardock will indeed look at it.

Could be something as simple as the Impulse install setting a file to read only by mistake which keeps OBSE from working.

 

on Jul 27, 2010

Oblivion uses GOO (see the product page). FO3 is still GFWL though so the script extender should work normally with it.

on Jul 27, 2010

That is great news about Fallout 3, it is a shame about Oblivion though. I assume this situation is permanent?

on Jul 27, 2010

Oblivion uses GOO (see the product page). FO3 is still GFWL though so the script extender should work normally with it.

 

So GOO prevents the use of mods?  If so that is a very bad thing since that's what makes these games so great and still played to this day, the extensive mods.  I would not be playing it again right now if not for mods (although I do have a couple dozen mods installed, none of them use the OBSE).

So no way to get the GOO version to accept mods?  Or is there a reason why particular mods don't work?

Hopefully you can work this out because it's not good.

 

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