Vortex Premium Collection Install is Bugged, There's a Workaround That Shows it Can Improve

[z9r]

When you're installing any collection with premium, on the install side of things, there are constant stalls. Doesn't matter the size of the collection.

As an example, on the test version of my team's collection, which is ~500 megabytes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvsEh7MSsoc

The install process with premium takes 17 minutes.

If you close Vortex and restart it every time it pauses on a mod this is what happens:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYi-gpdp7uA

The install process takes ~6 minutes. This is a considerable difference and makes me think there's an issue on the Vortex side of things that could improve.

Here's the same with the closing and opening parts cut out for real install time in Vortex:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLxhamEJu3E

Approximately 4 minutes.

We're talking about 4 times less time to finish. Is this done purposefully or an issue in Vortex, and if it is an issue... can it be fixed? It seems to be a delay on the install side of things rather than downloading.

(Just as a fun comparison, it takes 30 seconds to download with premium on wabbajack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5OQW5kSjXQ)

[Pickysaurus]

Thanks for posting this here. I've shared this post with the Vortex team! 

[Needmecallme]

The perfect collection to put into practice what we've said in this thread is to test it with a collection that includes a lot of mods. A very popular collection including 3000 mods (probably the heaviest collection in Nexus) (here: https://next.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/collections/gnfjwh?tab=about) and you'll see that there are indeed a lot of problems with downloading and installation. The collection's creator has even given some advice on how to avoid Vortex problems when installing the collection, recommending a traffic limit of 20mo/s and a limit of 2 simultaneous downloads.

The collection weighs 250GB and 700GB approximately after installation. It lasts between 15hours and 24hours, and you can add extra hours if you take into account the various problems and bugs that Vortex generates. I've already downloaded between 300 and 500GB of mods on various games, and with a connection that can go up to 1000MB/s (the maximum in my country) (some countries like France can even go up to 10000MB/s with fiber optics) it would be possible to download the collection in just 2-3hours.

but vortex generates a lot of corrupted archives, failed downloads, and sometimes even indicates the wrong percentage of progress (once it indicated 100% download and 40% installation, it wasn't progressing so I quit the application and restarted it. it went from 100% to 30% download).

[Pizdecnahuyblyat]

Hello Vortex Team,

I have been wondering if anything ever is going to be done about the installer because frankly it has been having issues like this for a long time. I am pretty sure the exact same situation came up 3 years ago and Pickysaurus you were the modderator who responded to the topic. Fast forward 3 years later and it looks like this has been "rediscovered".

I find it ridiculous to continue paying premium subscribtion when frankly vortex barely works and constantly hangs.

[ZaneZag]

I really like the collections on vortex but this causes so many issues... I've switched to Wabbajack despite me liking the collections on vortex more since I can install ~300 GB of mods in only 1-2 hours rather than over a whole day. This is a big issue for the collections users and until this is resolved large collections will be terrible to install and Wabbajack will always be the superior option.