New Updated Breaking Mods - I fixed Mine w/ a backup

[Dreven7]

Short story: I accidentally clicked on the normal Skyrim shortcut this morning. That immediately started a game update (Steam) which I could not stop (I pooped myself watching it happen).

 

My current play through started on on 08/10. I installed Skyrim fresh on 08/01, then spent about 10 days installing 110 mods, and getting them sorted out and tested well. Around 08/10 I started. But, on 08/01, I made a copy of the entire (installed and patched) Skyrim game folder, that was clean and before I had installed any mods.

 

This morning, I renamed the current install folder as "...._old", and copied the backup game folder in. Then I copied the missing files, like SKSE and all the mod files.

 

To my complete shock, this actually worked and Skyrim is playable for me again (launching it from Vortex I mean, of course - all mods working again). I really thought I had lost the play through and was going to have to take a break and wait for a SKSE update.

I am super happy I backed up the whole game folder, before starting the play through.

[7531Leonidas]

There is a method that needs you to set the appmanifest file (in the base steamapps folder?) to read-only. That way, it won't update even if you click accidentally on the Steam launcher for Skyrim. Look it up, just to be sure exactly where the file is found.

[dicere]

Glad it worked out OP. I also reverted to the old version using a backup. Wish we could simply rely on Steam to respect our choices regarding game updates, but unfortunately that's unlikely to happen.

[lightning667]

 

The video that shows how to stop the updates. I'm new to modding my game but I had over 300 mods running stable and wasn't even done yet and the update came and destroyed days of testing and work. You can only imagine how depressed that made me. Never again