Vortex Doesn't Respect Plugin Load Order Rules

[FishOnABicycle]

EDIT: Just realized I posted this in the wrong forum. This should be in the support forum. My apologies.

 

Heya - so I've recently installed a new mod for my Skyrim SE game via Vortex. The mod installs five esp plugins, and one of them (the main mod, let's call it MAIN) is supposed to be loaded before the others (patches of various sorts, let's call them PATCH A, PATCH B, PATCH C, and PATCH D).

By default, unfortunately, Vortex loads them in this order:

 

PATCH A

PATCH B

PATCH C

MAIN

PATCH D

 

I've gone and done the thing in the plugin view where I've dragged the dependencies icons to create rules.

 

My rules are

• PATCH A must be loaded after MAIN
• PATCH B must be loaded after MAIN
• PATCH C must be loaded after MAIN
• PATCH D must be loaded after MAIN

I've also tried the following set of rules:

• PATCH D must be loaded after PATCH C
• PATCH C must be loaded after PATCH B
• PATCH B must be loaded after PATCH A
• PATCH A must be loaded after MAIN

I've also tried having both sets of rules active at the same time.

 

No matter what I do, according to the load order information in the plugins pane, the plugins are loaded in the default order. This is corroborated by an in-game pop-up for the mod that says "the main mod must be loaded before the patches."

 

Is there some way I can force Vortex to respect my desired load order for the plugins for this mod?

 

Any help would be appreciated

Edited February 13, 2021 by FishOnABicycle

[Guest deleted34304850]

those mods, are they all .esp files, or are there any .esm or esl files in your order?

Edited February 13, 2021 by 1ae0bfb8

[HadToRegister]

Well, it'd help to know what the mod IS.

[Zanderat]

I answered you on the OTHER post you made on the same subject.