Vortex constantly downloading useless extensions

[Wakaitsu]

As it says on the tin - Vortex constantly downloads extensions and updates extensions for Witcher 3, Bauldur's Gate and I think some else equally trashy game. I never played those, I never will be playing those, none of those were ever installed on my laptop, yet vortex somehow decided it absolutely needs to have these.

There are "remove" buttons on the extensions tab, but all clicking them does is ask you to reboot Vortex, after which it immediately redownloads them. It there is no way to permanently remove these extensions, why the buttons?

And why the heck does it needs them for without the games they are meant to work with?

[showler]

Try searching the forums for the word "extensions".  You can read one of the many, many explanations about how those extensions are not useless, are actually needed for the functioning of Vortex, are only designed as "extensions" so that they can be updated without having to update the entire program and are really tiny so they aren't taking up precious HD space.

[Wakaitsu]

First - I DID searched. Nothing regarding their actual usefulness OUTSIDE the games they are developed for came up

Second - why the heck do I need an extension for a game I don't play? How exactly a Witcher 3 extension affects Skyrim (the only game Vortex is useful for)?

Third - why give an option to delete them if all it does is causes Vortex to immediately redownload?

None of my questions were answered, so this "F OF" answer of yours is NOT a solution

[showler]

I've answered this question before so your search must not have been very thorough.

The extension for the Witcher 3 might also contain general functions for other games by CD Projekt Red.  They are contained in the extension for the Witcher 3 so that you don't have to update the entire program in order to get those updates.  They could make them a separate extension but what would that gain?  Also Vortex functionality is designed for a general audience, not just those who only use it for one game.

The option to delete extensions is mainly there for community made ones, which will never contain core functionality for Vortex.  It remains for ones that are important because occasionally deleting an extension and allowing Vortex to redownload it can fix a problem with a corrupted file.

Most importantly however is that all this occurs because absolutely none of it causes any problem for you whatsoever and it has several benefits for many other users.  

[Pickysaurus]

You just need to let Vortex do it's updates on not worry about it.

Vortex extensions aren't "siloed" so if there's an error in the code for Cyberpunk it could impact all other games. 

We send small updates out this way to prevent you from needing to redownload the entire app for tweaks to core functionality. If you keep deleting it, you make Vortex think it hasn't installed it and thus it will download again. These files are usually only a few KB so don't have any impact on storage and will improve your modding experience overall. 

 

TL:DR - Vortex needs them to function, just ignore them. 

[QuiteRight]

On 9/17/2024 at 4:07 PM, Pickysaurus said:

 

TL:DR - Vortex needs them to function, just ignore them. 

Have the same issue and concern Wakaitsu has, and also find this to be utterly unacceptable. No, I won't ignore anything super-lame like that.

There's a remove button, which removes BG3, Halo or Witcher3 extensions, followed by Vortex restart, after which they are installed anew with zero notice: at the very least that's confusing and irritating.

How come Vortex needs them to function if it doesn't manage any of those games? A rhetoric question.

Even if they don't cause any problems for me, and benefit other users, they take up space and clutter attention. Dipping a cheesburger into cola by default is not a feature — it's a bug.

[showler]

Okay, let's try a different tact.

Vortex was designed this way, on purpose, by the developers for reasons that make perfect sense to them and most other people.  They are not going to redesign the app to placate the one person in fifty thousand who dislikes it for "reasons" (while acknowledging that there isn't an actual problem caused by it).  They will not make the program objectively worse for everyone to ease your worries.

Do with that information what you will.

[ChemBoy1]

8 hours ago, QuiteRight said:

Have the same issue and concern Wakaitsu has, and also find this to be utterly unacceptable. No, I won't ignore anything super-lame like that.

There's a remove button, which removes BG3, Halo or Witcher3 extensions, followed by Vortex restart, after which they are installed anew with zero notice: at the very least that's confusing and irritating.

How come Vortex needs them to function if it doesn't manage any of those games? A rhetoric question.

Even if they don't cause any problems for me, and benefit other users, they take up space and clutter attention. Dipping a cheesburger into cola by default is not a feature — it's a bug.

Bro. What is the point of this comment? Go vent somewhere else. These extensions take up a few hundred KB of space. Pretend they don't exist if you want to. They are not going away.