Vortex Starfield Load Order - option to turn off Alphabet sorting

[ghostmaker00]

This has continued to cause issues which I have to continually reorder after every restart of Vortex. If we do not have actual record/edit based sorting then could we also have an option to turn off alphabetical sorting? Hell could there be an option to save load orders; which would make troubleshooting less of a chore?

[AugustaCalidia]

To avoid reordering, turn on plugin management, order your mods, and then turn off plugin management in the Vortex settings for Starfield.  When next you load your game, the mods retain the preferred load order.  You can verify that by clicking on "View Plugins File."

The reordering issue is probably a bug, as showler notes in the following post.  My solution is a workaround that I am using until the problem is properly rectified in Vortex.

Edited December 19, 2023 by AugustaCalidia

[showler]

I think they said this was a bug in Vortex itself and would have to be sorted in an update of the main program.

[Nagev]

Hi there!

The load order definitely should NOT reset on every Vortex restart! it's saved persistently in Vortex's state and should remain exactly as you left it. Unless ofc you purge and re-deploy in succession which will indeed reset the LO (this is indeed a bug which we aim to resolve soon)

@ghostmaker00 did you perhaps purge and re-deploy your mods or clicked the reset plugins button?

[ghostmaker00]

I did not purge or reset. Sometimes it will just reorder on its own. there are times I will start a game (without checking Vortex),  I get either a crash and/or infinite save loading and then I will see that my load order has gone into alphabetical order with no input from me. I am assuming that sometimes the load order on startup will be reordered. A notification of this event somewhere in the interface would at least help with troubleshooting issues. 

[bcote25]

On 12/20/2023 at 12:56 AM, Nagev said:

The program will purge on it's own sometimes after clicking "Deploy Mods" from the Mods tab or the notification popup after installing a mod or updating a mod.

@ghostmaker00 did you perhaps purge and re-deploy your mods or clicked the reset plugins button?

(after which, it reverts to alphabetical order and you loose any saved load order previously set)

This is still happening (just did to me) on v1.11.3 released today