I Do Not Like The New Dashboard

[showler]

i hate the new dashboard too. I dont see the button to launch my games anymore.

Is it possible they are trying to make people understand that Vortex doesn't need to be running to launch your game?

 

It's not MO2.

[Tannin42]

 

The button is where it has always been, in the top-left. There's a play button on the game artwork.

 

In the past the "starter" dashlet contained a big button to start the game itself, that has indeed been removed in the new design . The tools dashlet contains only the buttons for the additional tools, not for the game.

I assume that's where the confusion stems from.

[Pickysaurus]

 

 

The button is where it has always been, in the top-left. There's a play button on the game artwork.

 

In the past the "starter" dashlet contained a big button to start the game itself, that has indeed been removed in the new design . The tools dashlet contains only the buttons for the additional tools, not for the game.

I assume that's where the confusion stems from.

 

 

Yes, I get that, I'm just pointing out there's another button that has always been there which offers basically the same functionality :thumbsup:

[AbsynthMinded]

 

I seriously just dont see the button ive looked everwhere

 

The button is where it has always been, in the top-left. There's a play button on the game artwork.

 

To Clarify then, we don't like that button, we liked the Dashboard Profile layout of the game where we could hit play from there, before. We can not do that at all anymore, it was removed with apparently no option to facilitate that view back the way it was.

 

As a side point. I used the Dashboard for nothing else. I do not know why the Dashboard is even there. I do not want or care about Vortex Add On's or Updates. As an alternative, I would like to eliminate the Dashboard completely if I can not use it to launch games from. It serves no practical purpose for my interest anymore.

Edited August 21, 2022 by AbsynthMinded

[opal407]

 

 

I seriously just dont see the button ive looked everwhere

 

The button is where it has always been, in the top-left. There's a play button on the game artwork.

 

To Clarify then, we don't like that button, we liked the Dashboard Profile layout of the game where we could hit play from there, before. We can not do that at all anymore, it was removed with apparently no option to facilitate that view back the way it was.

 

As a side point. I used the Dashboard for nothing else. I do not know why the Dashboard is even there. I do not want or care about Vortex Add On's or Updates. As an alternative, I would like to eliminate the Dashboard completely if I can not use it to launch games from. It serves no practical purpose for my interest anymore.

 

Just another user input, I also hate the new look of the Dashboard. I much prefer when we had the old layout that had compact tool bars, and a thumbnail of the game with how many mods were currently loaded. I refuse to ever look at the dumb thing at the top of the window and have never used it. Coming back to modding was pretty jarring trying to...basically, relearn where things were in Vortex and I still refuse to use the thing at the top of the window just on pure principal. I want the Starter Dashlet back.

 

Because this new one is massive, gives no "at a glance" look into the game currently being modded at all, and is MASSIVE for no reason. Why all the space? Why such small "launch" icons, which are also right on the icon you might be looking for? And that bar at the top of the screen is such an eyesore. If you use the Dashboard at all you're purposely taking your attention away from where everything was before. What kind of "streamline" is that? Was this update to the Dashboard tested at all before being pushed out? Why not give users the ability to turn off the Starter dashlet if they wanted to use the thing at the top rather than force everyone to use this new way of modding that is, objectively, worse?

[rmm200]

Counter-point.

I am quite happy with the current layout.

It is both flexible and effective. Everything I need is conveniently at hand.

Well done.