Grestorn

Yes, tell Vortex to load it after CBBE.

Of course, if your own internet connection is limited, then you'll never be able to exceed that. I thought that the OP is not limited by his own connection. 2MBit/s isn't much at all...

If you download a mod manually from the site, you get to select a premium server. Try a different server. Maybe the one that's assigned to you is just overloaded.

But them together in one group if that's so important to you. Then they'll be kept together. Even though this doesn't make a difference at all. Work WITH the system, not against it! Managing the load order manually is just error prone. It's just not a good idea. No matter how experienced and informed you are.

Sorry, I guess you have to talk with the guys from New California. I'm out of ideas. I think this is not Vortex related.

Have your tried to activate all the DLCs? They shouldn't be needed, but who knows... Do you have all 7 NewCalifornia .bsa files in your Data directory? Are you using NVSE

Did you install the 4GB patch? When and how exactly is FONV crashing? Does it start if you disable NC?

For what it's worth, I don't think it'll make a difference. Other than having to fight against the mod managing tool, the outcome is most likely exactly the same.

Well, I don't think that New California needs to be loaded after the DLCs. Could you link where you've read that? I don't remember reading that.

Which mods and plugins are you talking about? (Don't worry, no one will judge you, even if those mods are from LL or other sources :) )

Unless you tell us an example where a dependency rule would make a wrong decision, it's hard to answer that. The rules used by LOOT are created by the community (and the mod authors). If there's an error in the masterlist, you should discuss that with the people responsible for it. On this site you can go to their discord server: https://loot.github.io/ Cyclic rules are not only caused by masterlist rules. Sometimes you've just added a erroneous rule yourself which causes a cycle.

Furrnado, you still didn't answer WHY you would want to do that. The dependency rules are there for a reason. Did it make a change you're not happy with? If so, what change would that be?

No, and that's a good thing. What exactly are you trying to achieve? There's a very long thread here about auto-sorting and the lack of manual sorting. All the arguments are in there.

USERDATA doesn't refer to Votrex' installation path. It's somewhere in the user's profile directory.

You proably put the download and/or mod-staging directory inside Vortex' own installation directory. This is *NOT* the default. You had to put it there yourself, so there's noone else to be blamed for this than you. As a matter of fact there are multiple warnings here in the forum, NOT to put ANY data inside Vortex' installation directory. And, I'm sorry, but there's no way to recover your mods. They're still injected in your games, but you cannot deactivate or uninstall them anymore. So best is to start from scratch and follow the best practices this time (i.e. using the default installation directory in c:\Program Files, and either leave the downloads and mod staging folder at their default - if your games are installed on C: as well - or use some custom location OUTSIDE of Vortex' installation).