Vortex can't add collections

[bearskiy]

- Which version of Vortex are you using? 1.9.3

- Which game are you modding and which game store did you purchase it from? Steam SkyrimSE+AE

- Which mods are you trying to use? Immersive & Pure collection

- What steps did you take before you encountered the error? Clicked Add to Vortex

- What is the specific error message you received? No error message

 

Vortex doesn't seem to be able to add collections.

 

This is what happens:

- I open Vortex

- I go to Collections

- I click Discover more collections

- nexusmods opens showing a table of collections

- I open one of the collections

- I click Add to Vortex

- The button animates and Vortex takes focus

- Nothing else happens

 

What I expect to happen:

- Vortex takes focus

- Vortex starts adding the mods from the collection and downloads them

 

How I prepared:

I installed Vortex

I bought Premium for collections

I added Skyrim SE

I made sure the mod staging folder i on the same drive and selected hardlinked

I set download folder to be on the same drive too

Allow symlinks without elevation is set - Actually this is already allowed globally on my system as I'm a dev and need it

 

I tried adding images to this report to be more informative, but it's not allowed to show an image in an error report here for some incomprehensible reason. It would help a lot in most cases.

 

I'm really starting to regret buying premium, unless there are some actual support for Vortex which I couldn't find on the page.

 

 

[Pickysaurus]

Can you download any mod directly into Vortex?

 

The most common cause of this issue is a badly configured browser that isn't sending the information to Vortex properly.

 

You can try and fix this in Vortex's Settings -> Download section by turning the "Handle Mod Manager downloads" setting off and back on.

 

Failing that, try a different browser. Chrome works well. Firefox (and it's variants) is a nightmare.

[bearskiy]

Yes I use Firefox, naturally. But I'm also accustomed to using custom protocols like nxm, it works for every custom protocol handle I create. The only thing it does is opening an app with the URI as a parameter, Firefox does that quite well without flaws.

When I open Vortex manually through terminal with the nxm link it doesn't work either, which it should no matter what browsers you have installed.

 

Conclusion is that it is a problem with Vortex as it doesn't work without browser either.

 

Edit: I did find what was wrong, btw. It's that Vortex requires an argument switch '-d', that makes it incompatible with most browsers usage of automatic protocol handling, unless it's installer automatically adds those commands to each.

You can find the command that is registered with Windows at `Computer\HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-277564299-4129582652-396546724-1000\Software\Classes\nxm\shell\open\command`.

 

Vortex can easily fix this bug by checking if the first parameter starts with `nxm:`

[bearskiy]

As additional feedback, with this forum as the only support, and the support employees not knowing anything about the app or computers/Windows in general, I wouldn't recommend anyone to buy or donate to this organisation.

 

Fixing the bugs for the seller is not what a customer should have to do. Especially not easily fixable ones that are obvious, not edge cases and affects almost everyone in one way or another.

 

0/10 / Can I get refund?

[Hopefullsoul]

I'm having the same issue using opera GX

 

Also i have add some games as favorite on the homepage but it shows othergame.

[Zanderat]

FWIW. I use Firefox with no issues.

[showler]

I'm confused about this "obvious, not edge cases and affects almost everyone in one way or another" comment when millions of users are unaffected in any way. You'd think the forums would be flooded by people unable to download Collections.

[Guest deleted34304850]

Yes I use Firefox, naturally. But I'm also accustomed to using custom protocols like nxm, it works for every custom protocol handle I create. The only thing it does is opening an app with the URI as a parameter, Firefox does that quite well without flaws.

 

When I open Vortex manually through terminal with the nxm link it doesn't work either, which it should no matter what browsers you have installed.

 

Conclusion is that it is a problem with Vortex as it doesn't work without browser either.

 

Edit: I did find what was wrong, btw. It's that Vortex requires an argument switch '-d', that makes it incompatible with most browsers usage of automatic protocol handling, unless it's installer automatically adds those commands to each.

You can find the command that is registered with Windows at `Computer\HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-277564299-4129582652-396546724-1000\Software\Classes\nxm\shell\open\command`.

 

Vortex can easily fix this bug by checking if the first parameter starts with `nxm:`

that post smells of "i've got my stuff downloaded now i'm grifting for a refund", because your analysis of the issue and your conclusions are not at all backed up by any hard evidence. you're just passing off opinion based on (nothing substantial) as fact.

[bearskiy]

that post smells of "i've got my stuff downloaded now i'm grifting for a refund", because your analysis of the issue and your conclusions are not at all backed up by any hard evidence. you're just passing off opinion based on (nothing substantial) as fact.

 

I understand, but the last part was a joke. I posted the complaint about 10 minutes after I realized that Vortex didn't work, and I'm not using Vortex at all because it's not very good and doesn't really work fully with any recent games. I fixed it myself because of that guy that said that only Chrome works for Vortex, which I naturally can't use because of reasons that most people know by now, and this is not the place to start a discussion about company vs company.

 

Ofcourse I don't expect to actually get a refund. Noone gets refunds and that's what this site makes it living from. I cancelled the subscription immediately though.

 

This is not the first time I've subscribed here, I've had premium before to download big files faster.

 

This time I didn't get anything out of it because of the bug and that the necessity to fix it myself took away any joy, but I still can if I want to, my payment lasts like 30 days or something.

 

I did try to download part of collection to see that my solution worked, so I've used data, it would've taken like an hour for about a 5 minute download so I gave that up of course.

 

I've also looked for configurations to tweak starfield FOV and such, maybe I downloaded a couple 0.1kb files there if I couldn't just copy the config variables directly from the description.

 

That's all from me,

 

I'm sorry if you feel depressed in any way because of my words about this product, it's not about you, I promise, and I will not buy premium again no matter how much hate I get for that.

[bearskiy]

I'm having the same issue using opera GX

 

Also i have add some games as favorite on the homepage but it shows othergame.

I have the solution for the last part. The list on the page is stored in the browser for some reason, so you really have to empty all cache, cookies and localstorage for nexusmods.com . To make sure, you can close and open the browser again after, and when you login again at nexus it should read in the games you actually stored there.

 

The fix for this for nexusmods is to always empty the list and then load the list from the server when logging, being away for a time, or adding/removing a favourite. It's also a very quick fix for a problem that affects most people at some point if they add and remove favourites.