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 ====BSA-alteration====
-BSA-alteration requires [[Wrye Bash]] (as of version 0.60) or one of Timeslip's excellent utility programs: [[Oblivion Mod Manager]] (OBMM version 0.7.10 or later) or [http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=4352 BSA Patcher]. What Wrye Bash, OBMM and BSA Patcher do is to sidestep the ArchiveInvalidation problem by making Oblivion think it never had a copy of the textures you are replacing.
+BSA-alteration requires one of these tools:
-In other words, these utilities edit your Textures BSA so that Oblivion cannot find the original version of texture files you have replaced, thus forcing the game to load the replacements instead of the originals.
+* Timeslip's excellent utility programs, [[Oblivion Mod Manager]] (OBMM version 0.7.10 or later) or [http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=4352 BSA Patcher].
+* [[Wrye Bash]] (version 060; deprecated after version 245).
-=====Wrye Bash=====
+What OBMM, BSA Patcher and Wrye Bash do is to sidestep the ArchiveInvalidation problem by making Oblivion think it never had a copy of the textures you are replacing.
-''Note: Wrye Bash's Replacers tab and BSA-Alteration technique have both been superceeded by its Installers tab and BSA-redirection technique respectively. (See above.)''
-Download [http://wrye.ufrealms.net/ Wrye Bash].
+In other words, these utilities edit your Textures BSA so that Oblivion cannot find the original version of texture files you have replaced, thus forcing the game to load the replacements instead of the originals.
-Wrye Bash provides a [http://wrye.ufrealms.net/Wrye%20Bash.html#ReplacersTab Replacers Tab] that lets you easily add/remove texture replacement mods. It keeps track of which files have been renamed in your Textures BSA and provides a ''Restore'' button to rollback any changes it has made to your BSA (if you don't like the results for some reason). You can use the Replacers tab in several different ways:
-* Manual update: Click the ''Update'' button after adding/removing replacers. This also works on any replacers you already have installed manually or via another program (like OBMM).
-* Automatic update: Check the ''Automatic'' checkbox. The Textures BSA will be automatically updated whenever you add or remove a Replacer. Only works for texture mods installed/removed using the Replacers tab.
-You should probably make a backup of your BSA files if you have the space (or a DVD-burner) just in case, but so far nobody has reported any corruption issues.
-Wrye Bash requires Python 2.5 and wxPython 2.8.0.1 ANSI to work.
-Assuming you have Wrye Bash 0.61 or later installed already, and have already installed a one or more texture replacement mods, the steps you need to take are as follows:
-# Start Wrye Bash.
-# Click ''Replacers'' tab.
-# Click the ''Update'' button under ''Archive invalidation''.
-# Quit Wrye Bash
-Note that Wrye Bash checks to make sure you don't already have any active BSA alterations from OBMM or BSA Patcher before allowing you to use this feature.
 =====Oblivion Mod Manager=====
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 For more detail on the BSA-alteration method of invalidation, please see [http://devnull.devakm.googlepages.com/archiveinvalidation#AIExplained ArchiveInvalidation Explained].
+=====Wrye Bash=====
+Download [http://wrye.ufrealms.net/ Wrye Bash].
+The Wrye Bash Replacers Tab and its BSA-Alteration technique are officially deprecated as of Wrye Bash version 245, having both been superceeded by the newer Installers Tab and BSA-redirection technique, respectively. See the section on BSA-redirection above. However, if you have an old version of Wrye Bash, or still need BSA-Alteration for some reason, then read on!
+Wrye Bash provides a [http://wrye.ufrealms.net/Wrye%20Bash.html#ReplacersTab Replacers Tab] that lets you easily add/remove texture replacement mods. It keeps track of which files have been renamed in your Textures BSA and provides a ''Restore'' button to rollback any changes it has made to your BSA (if you don't like the results for some reason). You can use the Replacers tab in several different ways:
+* Manual update: Click the ''Update'' button after adding/removing replacers. This also works on any replacers you already have installed manually or via another program (like OBMM).
+* Automatic update: Check the ''Automatic'' checkbox. The Textures BSA will be automatically updated whenever you add or remove a Replacer. Only works for texture mods installed/removed using the Replacers tab.
+You should probably make a backup of your BSA files if you have the space (or a DVD-burner) just in case, but so far nobody has reported any corruption issues.
+Wrye Bash requires Python 2.5 and wxPython 2.8.0.1 ANSI to work.
+Assuming you have Wrye Bash 0.61 or later installed already, and have already installed a one or more texture replacement mods, the steps you need to take are as follows:
+# Start Wrye Bash.
+# Click ''Replacers'' tab.
+# Click the ''Update'' button under ''Archive invalidation''.
+# Quit Wrye Bash
+Note that Wrye Bash checks to make sure you don't already have any active BSA alterations from OBMM or BSA Patcher before allowing you to use this feature.
 =====BSA Patcher=====