DerellLicht

Well, as I stated originally, in the past two play-throughs, I did *not* need to run Vortex in order to run the game... Vortex installed the mods and they loaded when I ran the game from the game icon... this has been true in the past for all other Vortex-supported games as well... It is only in the new run, that I am having to run Vortex first, before running the game; it's not the end of the world, but it certainly isn't of any advantage to run two programs for one game...

A few months ago, when I previously played Elex II, I used Vortex to install several mods into it... it installed them with no issues, and everything ran fine. The first time I installed a mod, I would run the game from Vortex, but after that I would run from the game's desktop icon. This all worked fine. However, I went back a couple of days ago to start a new game. I ran Vortex first, and installed updated versions of my mods as required. However, behavior has changed a bit... when I run the game from Vortex, all my mods load, and everything is fine. However, if I run the game from desktop icon (installed via GOG), my mods are ignored, though the game runs fine... This is different from previous plays... what do I have to do, to be able to run the game *with mods* from the desktop icon??

It'd be nice if you did a step by step of what you did when other people search for this topic. IF you're going to spend the time coming back and typing "Nevermind I figured it out", you could instead type out what you did, as to help other people. Pay it forward Oh!! Okay, good idea, and I'm happy to do so!! 1. Open Vortex; select Games menu item on the left. That will list all of your managed games, and then below that is a list called 'Unmanaged', (131 in my case)... I'm guessing (but am not certain) that this list contains all games that Vortex knows about. (NOTE: if your game is *not* in the Unmanaged list, you are back to 'I don't know what to do') 2. Find your game in the Unmanaged list, point the cursor in the box, and click the 'Manage' button. Vortex will say "This game hasn't been discovered, please set the game folder manually"; click Continue and it will open an Explorer dialog; point to your game folder, then open it. If you select the wrong folder, Vortex will present an error message, and will tell you exactly which file it is looking for, which helps you select the correct directory. 3. You will now have your new game as the active 'managed' game. Select 'Dashboard', then MODS. 4. Now you are on the empty MODS page for your new game. You *can* click 'But don't worry, I know a place' to jump to Nexus and search for new mods, if you don't already have any. However *this* guide is for adding existing mods (in my case, from previous NMM installation)... so continue to item 5 ! 5. Find the directory where your existing mods are located. This may be in the existing NMM mods directory; in my case, this was: F:\Games\Nexus Mod Manager\<target_game>\Mods then select all the mod files in this directory, then go to the Vortex MODS window, and drop these all in the 'Drop File(s)' section at the bottom. 6. At this point, I don't exactly recall what I had to do to actually activate them, but they were all there. I *think* I had to switch to the PLUGINS menu entry, select all the mods, right-click, select 'Enable' ... I'm pretty sure that after enabling the mods, I had to switch back to MODS, and follow the various instructions there, to resolve anomalies among mods. Fortunately, Vortex's instructions for resolving conflicts are pretty detailed and understandable. Hopefully this will be helpful to others!!

No, nevermind, I figured it out...

This may be tricky... I have Fallout New Vegas installed on my computer, installed from CDROM, years ago. I was managing its mods via Nexus Mod Manager, all was fine. However, I recently replaced most of my hardware (motherboard, etc), then re-installed Windows on a new SSD drive. My original drive is still present in my system, as G: So I ran the game, and it runs, but some of my mods appear to be no longer present. Nexus Mod Manager is not installed, though I still have its mod directory on F: (my traditional games directory). So I want to manage the game from Vortex, but it doesn't actually see the game!! I had Vortex do a detailed scan of F:\Games, but it doesn't see FNV (or anything else), though they are there... Is there some way to get FNV recognized by Vortex, without having to actually do a full re-install and re-add all my countless mods??

Hopefully you Manually deleted the Folder and still have it in your recycle bin where you can restore it? ummm... no, I'm currently running with the site directory from my original installation. However, I'm not getting any errors now when I run Vortex, and it seems to be functioning properly. Is that just an illusion?? If necessary, I can just delete the site directory, then re-install over the top of it??

Huzzah!! That worked... after a bit... Deleting the downloads folder, unfortunately, eliminated all of my installed mods!! Definitely not what I wanted to do... However, after trying a couple of other things, I deleted the contents of downloads, then copied them back over from my previous installation, and now everything works fine, and that error message is gone... Thank you very much! You didn't follow his instructions, you weren't supposed to delete the whole Downloads folder, He said DELETE the DOWNLOADS\SITE subfolder, not the entire contents of the Downloads folder Oh My... yes, I completely mis-read that message... and I realize now that he made it *very* clear, too!!! I guess I'm lucky anything worked at all... Thank you for this update message!!

Huzzah!! That worked... after a bit... Deleting the downloads folder, unfortunately, eliminated all of my installed mods!! Definitely not what I wanted to do... However, after trying a couple of other things, I deleted the contents of downloads, then copied them back over from my previous installation, and now everything works fine, and that error message is gone... Thank you very much!

First, let me clarify things... I recently did a new install of Windows 10 on my machine, and installed Vortex. Then I copied *all* the files from the original appdata\roaming\Vortex (which I still had, on another drive), to that directory in the current location... that was to restore all of my previously-installed mods for all my games. That works, and everything appears to be functioning properly, except that I get an error each time I run Vortex (see attached image). It doesn't seem to affect functionality of the program, but it *is* disturbing!! What does this error mean? And should I worry about it, since the program otherwise seems to be functioning? I'm thinking of just re-running the Vortex installer...

Thank you both, very much!! I've never even looked at the plugins tab before; it seemed like it had the same contents as the MODs tab, but the latter let me do more... now I think I understand!! And yes, all my games now work...

I re-installed Vortex on a new motherboard/drive yesterday. After getting advice on this, I copied all data from the old drive (in appdata\roaming\vortex) to the new drive, then ran Vortex again. Indeed, all my games are there again!! However, something still isn't quite correct... although Vortex shows all the mods as being enabled in various games (I've only tested fallout3 and fallout4 so far), they don't appear to actually be enabled in the games... With fallout4, I had to go into fallout4's MODS menu to enable all the mods; vortex didn't actually enable them. With fallout3, There isn't any MODS menu for me to do this, and the mods do not seem to be enabled in-game... Is there something that I can do in Vortex, to get it to re-connect with the various games and get mods enabled again??

Hah!! Yes, I had... fortunately, I still have the original drive... However, no, no guides warned me about preserving the original Appdata... However, now I have a separate functional issue, but I'll post that in a separate thread... Thank you!!

I had a *ton* of mods installed, in several dozen games, via Vortex. All was working wonderfully. But today I upgraded my computer; replaced motherboard/cpu/memory/cooler, and installed a new PCIe4 disk drive that works with my new system. All was good... Then I installed Vortex, and I'm logged in using the same account as always, but it simply cannot find *any* games at all; I've told it to search the game directories as well as the vortex directories, but it always comes up with "thousands of directories scanned, 0 games found"... What is going on here?? Why can't it find any of the still-installed games?? The game drive even came up with the same drive letter as it had originally...

nevermind, I figured it out; conflict with Windowblinds... excluding Vortex from skinning, solved this problem...

Okay, completely uninstalled Geforce Experience (Share was *not* enabled before that). Then did a clean uninstall and re-install of current Geforce drivers. Skyrim SE still has the pause, about once per second.