BeowulfSchmidt

Has anyone tried to manage the same game on two separate drives? I ask this because I have various locations my Steam Deck mapped as drive letters on my PC. I'm aware that Vortex isn't supported on Steam Deck, and I'm not trying to run it there, I want to try referencing the Steam Deck location for deployment in Vortex. I have not yet tried this myself, just wondering about others' experience as to whether or not it's worth it. At the moment, I'm maintaining two different profiles in Vortex, and switching between them when I need to update the Steam Deck, then just copying the files to the Steam Deck game location.

Glad to hear it.

It looks like youre not installing Vortex in the recommended default location? Vortex had had problems when not installed in the default location.

Its not.

Youll probably need to add the game manually. If Vortex doesnt support it natively, I dont think it will find it.

Black Tree Gaming is the directory under which Vortex is installed. It might be worth it to try to uninstall and reinstall.

Im not at my PC, but if its not directly supported by Vortex, there might be a community authored extension to handle it. You might try searching. I believe there is a function for doing so in vortex itself.

Disable your mods one at a time in reverse install order to see which one is causing it. Or, disable *all* mods and try to start it. If it starts, add one at a time until it stops working.

So, in settings for each game, are you setting different values for the Download tab => Downloads folder and mods tab => Mod Staging Folder, and Vortex is moving your mods from one to the other?

Is there Whenever I've tried to run it without admin access I get this message: "Launching N:\....\steamapps\common\Skyrim Special Edition\\SkyrimSE.exe failed (740). Please try running skse64_loader as an administrator." Is there are reason there are two slash, "\\" characters in your path right before the executable name?

I have never had to run SKSE as admin. For any version of Skyrim, including Skyrim VR. Nor for Fallout New Vegas.

So are you saying that if this mod doesnt load last, and theres no conflicts with other mods, then you dont see its effects?

I gotta say, the ability to even partially manage all those mods that say "can't be managed with Vortex" by using "unpack in place" and then setting the mod type, even if some minor repackaging is required, is a real boon. Thanks for that.

You might try to see if theres an extension for your game that will do some or all of the mid installation.

If the mod doesnt require a lot of set up that you dont remember all the choices for, disabling, uninstalling, removing the archive, re-downloading and reinstalling should reset everything. Simply uninstalling and reinstalling might do it as well, though that wont reset the flag in Nexus.

Where would one look for information about how to at least start writing such an extension? After my last machine took a powder from a lightning strike that took out almost the whole house, including most of the surge suppressors, I was left trying to reinstall my mods from memory. It would be nice to be able to save the set of mods that were installed, with annotations as to which were enabled or something, out to a NAS. I understand that there's no way to do it now, but if it's at all possible, I'd like to try to at least help to work towards a solution, even if it's not feasible in the near term and can't be completed without other features being implemented. Could the "Collections" functionality be leveraged at all to accomplish some of this?

My guess is youre not going to find this response particularly helpful, but as Microsoft, in their infinite wisdom, has decided that things you buy from their store should be installed to a place that is not alway easily accessible to other apps, Im gonna suggest it anyway, just in case nobody responds with something ACTUALLY helpful. And I hope they do, for your sake. Get a refund and go buy the game from Steam or GOG. Vortex works fine with both of those. There are a couple of advantages with the GOG version, but not big enough to worry about if, for instance, Steam has it on significant discount, which they often do.

Hah! Wish Iâd seen that earlier. I had to go and disable my SKSE dependent mods one by one last week to find the one causing my error. I knew it had to be one of the most recent, but this would have helped immensely. Note to self: Pay attention to the change log and screen changes!

Define "reset". What are you trying to accomplish?

Rattledagger's response should be pinned. With the exception of the purge step, this is what I arrived at after much trial and error. I suggest backing up all existing vortex directories (program and data) as step 0 in this list. That saved my ass a couple of times.

Outside of utilities purpose built to detect and/or fix disk (and âfixâ usually means âmark those sectors as bad so the operating system doesnât use them), almost no application actually tests your disk. They, as tannin points out, just parrot the operating systemâs message back to you after trying something. You canât rule out a disk going bad just because other files On that disk are ok. Hard drives often donât crap out completely, they often go bad a few, or many, sectors at a time. Or something happened to those specific bad sectors (like jarring the computer or something), and the rest of the drive will still be fine. Open up a command shell and run âchkdiskâ or maybe âchkdskâ. Itâs been a while, I donât remember which. If it reports bad sectors, rerun with the /f flag. Youâll need to reboot your machine at that point so the program can run at startup before Windows starts. It will mark any bad sectors as bad so the OS wonât try to write to them. Be prepared for files that occupy those bad sectors to be inaccessible afterwards.

Um, the default installation folder for Vortex is a sub folder of â\Program Filesâ, so Iâm not sure why installing there would be an issue. Mine is âC:\Program Files\Black Tree Gaming Ltd\Vortexâ. When I first installed the app, I chose the default installation folder, against my preference, because of warnings about alleged issues with installing it elsewhere. I havenât had a problem yet.

The only way Iâve seen to do that is to make the desired game active when I shut down.

That'll be cool. When I was noob at modding, "manually" installing SKSE made me a little nervous. :)

Gopher has also done a very good set of Vortex tutorials, albeit for Windows and focusing on Bethesda games. Highly recommend. Search youtube for "Gopher vortex".