HeyYou

Way to familiar with that concept. I don't remember the last time I owned a vehicle that was built in the same decade that I owned it. My current vehicle is 98.... It qualifies as an antique here now.

Still a bit pricey.... but, it's a laptop, with top of the line hardware. Screen is 2K native, so I don't think you will have an issue with graphical fidelity. Should run the game for ya just fine. Should run just about ANY game for ya just fine...... MSI quality/reliability is hit and miss though. We used to sell some MSI gaming laptops at work, but, we had too many of them come back with issues within the first year.... so, we quit stocking them.. Of course, there were also those that we sold, and never saw again. Lets hope yours lasts you a good long time.

I HAVE found some cool mods from playing other folks games. So, yeah. :D

add an exclusion for the game install directory as well, or, see if you can tell defender that SFSE is "OK".... (not sure if that's doable, or not.....)

I have to milk the job for play time. (the customer doesn't get charged for my milking though. :D)

Yep. I work at a small computer shop in town. We deal mostly with businesses, but, we do get the occasional gamer. Do a couple gaming builds every month, and see machines in for service on a regular basis. I just LOVE when someone brings in their gaming rig, and says something like "Fallout 4 doesn't run very well. Can you fix it?" My boss just rolls his eyes. :D

4700 bucks for a LAPTOP????? Holy smokes...... I could build two nice desktops for that kind of scratch...... I am going to vote for the bars and strip clubs. Probably be cheaper.

Vortex is looking in the wrong place for the game. Need to tell Vortex where it is.

I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't two separate systems...... one damages health, the other applies afflictions if exposed to specific conditions for X amount of time.

There is no mod support for consoles yet. You are gonna have to wait.

Basically, it's some writer filling space in a column. I agree with you on this, we don't have the CK yet, so, its no surprise (or, at least, it shouldn't be) that mods are rather limited at this point. There is still a fair bit of data to decode..... we simply don't know what it does. Once the CK drops, I expect to see some REALLY cools mods.

Thank You Roman. Happy to be able to help.

Sorry man. I don't understand french. :D

Corrupted or unreadable partition tables..... Some variety of recovery software *might* be able to get your data back, but, if it does work, I would back up the drive to something else, and then stop using it......

You could try removing the drive itself from the enclosure, install it into the computer, but, usually, when you see those kinds of errors, the drive itself has failed. Only way to get the data back, is send the drive out to a facility that has the tools and equipment for data recovery. As a "poke and hope", could try a different USB port, or even a different computer, but, I expect the results will be the same. And, as a REAL shot in the dark, try downloading 'recoverit' software, see if it can rebuild the partition tables and such on the drive. It *might* work, but, wouldn't hold my breath.

That's generally my approach as well. Give the game a year or three to mature before buying it. But, Starfiled looked like the game I have been waiting for since Privateer came out, way back when, and I simply couldn't resist. I pre-ordered, and got the early access package. For me, that game runs pretty good, and I haven't seen nearly as many bugs as some folks have. Of course, I have also gotten the modders fixes for a fair few that I DID see. (not to mention mods that alter the game to closer to my preferences....) I've been running steam in offline mode though, and NOT getting the updates as soon as they are available. I am still on 1.7.something..... the subsequent patches don't offer me anything I really need or want, so, I will let THOSE mature for a bit, and maybe another round or two of patches before updating. Hopefully, by then, the CK will be out, and the mods that I am using will be updated via the CK. At that point, I'll likely reinstall the game, and start another playthru. Think I am currently on NG+ 7 or 8.... and level 180something.

I expect that some of the first mods will be new POI's, or a mod that varies the number/locations of bad guys/loot within the existing ones. That will go a long way toward relieving some of the repetitiveness of the game.

Yeah, I recently had a customer that needed a couple 'new' machines, but, they had to run Windows 98..... as their truly ancient POS software was never updated, the company was gone, and replacing it would hit six figures...... I learned things about win 98 during that exercise that would NEVER have occurred back in the day..... Things like, having more than 512mb of ram would cause the installer to choke and die.... (or maybe it was one gig....) I still see XP machines every now and then, and some of my customers are truly reluctant to 'upgrade' from 7..... Most of 'em are forced to though, as none of the browsers support anything older than 10 any more. And 10 runs out of support in October next year.

It appears that I can actually assign A and B to a drive..... how much that offend windows though, I don't know. I suspect it is left a "C" being the O/S drive, simply because of "tradition", and don't wanna confuse folks by changing that now. Still, that leaves room for 24 drives.... (including the o/s) I don't know that I have ever had an instance where that wasn't enough...... Maybe in a corporate environment, with a LOT of network drives......

Your downloads folder can be anywhere, the folder where vortex actually extracts the mod, to link it to the game folder though, needs to be on the same physical drive. That's a windows limitation, not vortex.

Mod staging folder needs to be on the same physical drive as the game.

Technically, the authors still 'own' their work, and all the rights thereto, however, the EULA also states that beth essentially has a license to do whatever they want with your mod, without so much as a by your leave.....

Bethesda FREQUENTLY takes ideas that modders have come up with, and incorporates them as 'features' in their next game. That's where crafting came from, and why plants change when you 'harvest' them. They have even gone so far as to HIRE a few modders.....

MS owns RedHat Linux, so, no real surprise they have some other stuff to run on it.

As this is something beth wants to implement, I fully expect this to happen. For them, there really isn't a downside, they can make money from something they are already doing, without much more of an investment. Sure, the torch and pitchfork gang will be out in force initially, but, that will blow over in a couple weeks/months, and that will be the end of it. Then beth will just rake in the profits...