If running through MO2, click on the gear icon (Green & Blue) at the top.

Make sure "Force Load Libraries" is toggled on, then click on "Configure Libraries".

At the bottom, you should see "Add Row", click that.

For the bar on the left, click the three dots "..." and select your Oblivion.exe as the option.

For the bar on the right, select the other three dots "..." and navigate to your Steam installation directory. You want to select "GameOverlayRenderer.dll".

Make sure the small box to the left of those bars is ticked, then run the game through MO2.

Thanks for the reply, I've installed every mod via Wrye Bash and sorted it with BOSS, I dont open these programs when I play Oblivion, just using my obse_launcher.exe

Can I install MO2 alongside w/o any problems? If it does no harm then i just install MO2 too, just for the overlay lol

Going to be honest, I've no idea as I've never used WyreBash before.

I have time with MO2, Vortex, Thunderstore and other game-specific launchers, but I've never touched WB.

For Bethesda games, I tend to just stick to MO2.

Sorry I cannot be of more use, but if you ever were to use MO2, I hope the above advice in my previous post does help you.

Ok I've installed MO2 alongside, made a backup before to be sure and your advice worked for me... kinda. I can now see the small box which pops to inform that the overlay is active and I also can take screenshots but still cant open the overlay, maybe there are some more dll files which needed to be load? Anyway thank you!

You could try with this mod, it worked for me https://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/52779

Originally posted by Akko:

You could try with this mod, it worked for me https://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/52779

I get the same result as with Sledge's method. Also tried to add the 2 .dll files into the OBSE plugin folder but this doesnt work at all. Going with windowed mode now, thx for mentioning the mod though

I use xOBSE and I can have the Steam overlay show up just fine by launching Oblivion directly from the client

which version of xOBSE are you using?

Originally posted by FYNE>:

which version of xOBSE are you using?

i think version 22.9; i'm too lazy to get a newer version from NexusMods, unless xOBSE breaks on me or i install a mod requiring newer