Vortex Not Working - Reinstall every time

[davidll]

For some reason, today, Vortex stopped working with Nexus Mods. I download a mod file from Nexus, a popup comes up and tells me to choose the application I want to open it. I choose Vortex. It then makes me reinstall vortex onto windows completely. Ok, so I do the reinstall. Then the mod I tried to download isn't even in Vortex. So I figure I have to redownload the mod into the new install of vortex. I go back to the mod file and download it again. I then get a pop up asking me to choose the application I want to open the mod. i choose Vortex. It then tells me to install vortex onto windows. lol. Round and round it goes.

 

Why would this be happening?

 

Thanks

[Pickysaurus]

This might be a silly question, but did you choose Vortex or the Vortex installer EXE?

[davidll]

This might be a silly question, but did you choose Vortex or the Vortex installer EXE?

There is only one choice, and it is the vortex.exe

[Pickysaurus]

It really sounds like you picked the wrong EXE. Try going to Settings -> Download and turning the option to handle downloads off and back on again.

 

If you're using Firefox it does things in a very awkward way, so you'll have to fix it here: https://modding.wiki/en/vortex/users/download-from-nexusmods#i-have-the-option-enabled-in-vortex-but-downloads-still-go-to-the-wrong-appdont-start

 

You need to make sure you're pointing to C:\Program Files\Black Tree Gaming Ltd\Vortex\Vortex.exe

[davidll]

It really sounds like you picked the wrong EXE. Try going to Settings -> Download and turning the option to handle downloads off and back on again.

 

If you're using Firefox it does things in a very awkward way, so you'll have to fix it here: https://modding.wiki/en/vortex/users/download-from-nexusmods#i-have-the-option-enabled-in-vortex-but-downloads-still-go-to-the-wrong-appdont-start

 

You need to make sure you're pointing to C:\Program Files\Black Tree Gaming Ltd\Vortex\Vortex.exe

It is working again. I don't know why it stopped before, but i went into settings as you suggested and set vortex to be the default handler. Thanks so much.