hcallesis Posted Sunday at 06:24 PM Share Posted Sunday at 06:24 PM I have Oblivion Remastered installed via Steam, and Vortex 1.13.7. I had previously installed UE4SS manually as recommended, and had 2 or 3 mods installed (map-oriented), none of which required OBSE64. It was fine at first, but the last couple of days or so Vortex suddenly on startup showed popups saying that I require OBSE64 and UE4SS to be installed. This happened every time I ran Vortex. It would also give me an error about "invalid primary tool", this started at the same time as the other two popups. So in case something was scrambled, I told Vortex to remove the mods and archives, and I had Steam uninstall and reinstall OR. Now whey I bring up Vortex it still gives me the OBES64 download required popup and the invalid primary tool message after I click "skip" on the popup. Apologies if this is a duplicate topic, I did do a search and didn't see anything related to this issue. There should be no reason for OBSE64 to be required, the current environment should be equivalent to a fresh install. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Community Manager Pickysaurus Posted yesterday at 06:51 AM Community Manager Share Posted yesterday at 06:51 AM OBSE64 isn't strictly required, but having it installed is not a problem either. You can install it but leave it disabled if you don't want to use it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mav99 Posted yesterday at 09:58 AM Share Posted yesterday at 09:58 AM I'm having the same issue and I don't want to use or download OBSE64 right now. I rather use manually configured ASI versions of the two mods that would otherwise need it, so none of the mods I use require it! The two ASI mods have NOT been downloaded or managed through Vortex. It also wasn't requested before but suddenly, a few days ago, Vortex started nagging with an annoying OBSE64 download request on every startup and many times more. I'd really like to know why!? This should really be optional! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Community Manager Pickysaurus Posted yesterday at 10:26 AM Community Manager Share Posted yesterday at 10:26 AM 27 minutes ago, Mav99 said: I'm having the same issue and I don't want to use or download OBSE64 right now. I rather use manually configured ASI versions of the two mods that would otherwise need it, so none of the mods I use require it! The two ASI mods have NOT been downloaded or managed through Vortex. It also wasn't requested before but suddenly, a few days ago, Vortex started nagging with an annoying OBSE64 download request on every startup and many times more. I'd really like to know why!? This should really be optional! If you read the comment immediately above yours, if you download it but disable it, Vortex won't remind you again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mav99 Posted yesterday at 10:31 AM Share Posted yesterday at 10:31 AM Thanks for the quick reply. I did read that. But the question remains why Vortex suddenly insists on downloading a mod that is NOT required by anything?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Community Manager Pickysaurus Posted yesterday at 10:45 AM Community Manager Share Posted yesterday at 10:45 AM I did say to our devs that at least one user would take issue with this - so we'll see if many others share your view and if so we can change it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mav99 Posted yesterday at 11:10 AM Share Posted yesterday at 11:10 AM Apparently you can't or don't want to answer why it suddenly became a "requirement" to begin with... Let's hope there will be an update that makes this optional again. Other than that, Vortex is still a great program, a very helpful tool. Feel free to pass that on the the devs as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zanderat Posted yesterday at 11:24 AM Share Posted yesterday at 11:24 AM @Mav99 Obviously, iIt was added as a convenience for most users. I see you aren't complaining about UE4SS being added by Vortex....... You were given a solution if you don't want to use it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hcallesis Posted 20 hours ago Author Share Posted 20 hours ago (edited) 12 hours ago, Zanderat said: @Mav99 Obviously, iIt was added as a convenience for most users. I see you aren't complaining about UE4SS being added by Vortex....... You were given a solution if you don't want to use it. Following up on my original post, I reinstalled UE4SS manually as recommended by the author, and let Vortex redownload and reinstall the one mod that uses it. Now I'm back to getting two popups, OBSE64 (which I don't need and don't want to install in case it messes up starting the game from Steam) and UE4SS which Vortex is saying I need but is already installed. And when I "skip" I get an "invalid primary tool" error that I don't know which incorrect popup it goes with. As a software developer myself I understand about adding things as a convenience for "most", but making it an annoyance for the rest (and from what Google/reddit says it's not just a few) doesn't seem like good business. Maybe add an option to disable the OBSE64 prompt if we don't plan on using it, and fix the UE4SS prompt to detect that it's already there even if installed manually as instructed by the author. Edited 19 hours ago by hcallesis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vortexposer Posted 20 hours ago Share Posted 20 hours ago Every other script extender has an option to ignore/suppress via its own prompt to download. I'd assume the same for obse64. If not, disable script extender extension itself in extension tab. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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