Ghostwalker71 Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 I'm going to add my name to the list of people that will not be using vortex due to the forced c install. I was willing to deal with it for the alpha test as it does make bug mashing easier without having to deal with path finding, But I do not accept non essential programs as a permanent part of my programs folder. I only leave critical core programs there and all others are placed in folders according to their usage.Also the entire reason listed in the known issues post about why he intends to keep it that way is nonsense, Vortex must read the registry to find the game locations so there is no reason the patching software can't read the registry to find the vortex location. Another option is to have a settings data file that stores the install path so updates and patches can be easily applied. another option is to have the user direct the patch to the specific folder of the vortex install. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirTwist Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 I moved my Vortex from where it was installed to another drive, completely. Took all of a couple minutes, maybe. You can move it after it is installed. I am checking, right now, how badly it infects my data folder. I decided to try Fallout 3, and see what happens when I use it with that game. Well, I am putting myself down, also, for not using this thing, until it can get things right, and NOT place anything in my data folders I, and the game itself, places there. Until this is fixed, I am NOT recommending, or using this thing. I had problems before with mods going in my Data folder, and I refuse to have it happen again. So, this is also a no go for me. And force installing to C:\Program Files? Screw that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shurtugal08 Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 I moved my Vortex from where it was installed to another drive, completely. Took all of a couple minutes, maybe. You can move it after it is installed. I am checking, right now, how badly it infects my data folder. I decided to try Fallout 3, and see what happens when I use it with that game. Well, I am putting myself down, also, for not using this thing, until it can get things right, and NOT place anything in my data folders I, and the game itself, places there. Until this is fixed, I am NOT recommending, or using this thing. I had problems before with mods going in my Data folder, and I refuse to have it happen again. So, this is also a no go for me. And force installing to C:\Program Files? Screw that.I too moved Vortex completely off of my C drive including the data folder. I just symlinked the data folder to my secondary drive and works just fine as is.https://i.imgur.com/kw3XLqD.png Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shabdez Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 Sorry to hear this and quite shocked about the poor reasoning for this decision. I really hope this will be changed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldsledneck Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 While it's interesting to try out this mgr, I have to add myself to the list of "non user" until more bugs get worked out. I never could get it to simply add all of my mods in my NMM folder. I think I'll try the install and then move it idea to get it on my D: drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tannin42 Posted February 2, 2018 Share Posted February 2, 2018 An update on this: Due to popular demand we have decided we will probably provide an installer in the future that allows setting the target directory after all. We still think it's a bad idea and people should go with the times but since the damage is mostly yours, why not... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shurtugal08 Posted February 2, 2018 Share Posted February 2, 2018 An update on this: Due to popular demand we have decided we will probably provide an installer in the future that allows setting the target directory after all.We still think it's a bad idea and people should go with the times but since the damage is mostly yours, why not...The times? Forcing an install to C is archaic. We live in an age where people are installing things to separate drives, mostly because people are buying small SSDs for an OS and hdds for storage, etc, since SSDs are still pretty pricey. On top of that the only "modern" apps I see forcing a C install are electron apps. Which there are even exceptions to that. Sure 200mb is inconsequential by itself but the more apps that start doing it then it just starts to add up and before we know it our drives are full and we cant specify a different drive to install to. As for keeping stuff in AppData like profiles and themes, while we can just manually copy the files ourselves to use across multiple pcs, I would rather themes and profiles not be kept there unless you are planning to have Nexus backup our themes and profiles to allow us to basically sync across devices. Whether that be limited to premium members or not. It is a hidden folder and the average user is not gonna know about it but still want their profiles to be available on another pc, Like Vortex is pretty much completely portable if you weren't enforcing stuff to be on C, then I could keep Steam+Vortex+Profiles+Mods+Games on a portable drive and use it on the go and stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeyYou Posted February 2, 2018 Share Posted February 2, 2018 I would much rather see it be configurable where Vortex stores its various files. I would just as soon that it be 'self-contained' and keep all its various config files within it's own directory structure, and not force me to put anything someplace I don't want it. (like, anywhere on my C: drive.......) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kamikatze13 Posted February 2, 2018 Share Posted February 2, 2018 Count me in for portability. I'm all for standalone apps. 128 GB SSD. Windows plus Skyrim results in less than 10 GB being free, which are also needed by driver for wear leveling. This combined with me wiping the drive and reinstalling a windows image from scrach every now and then (monthly, pretty much), I'd like to keep moving my entire skyrim folder with all the tools, mods, basically everything skyrim-related to another drive and put it back on the SSD after reformat. No-brainer with standalone applications: Local savegames, profiles and configs are a godsend. Writing even more post-windows-install scripts for symlinking out-of-root-folder configuration files... Yay i guess Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inkwhiz888 Posted December 20, 2018 Share Posted December 20, 2018 This is weird. I could have sworn this was installed to my E drive because of the bethesda games that require hard linking and needed to be on the same drive as those games.Adding to that, it is not launching anything either. so it looks like a pretty big screw up, subnautica was launching through vortex just fine only two days ago. Now it is some how on my C drive? WTF is happening here? is it due to vortex or windows 10? going to re- install and see what occurs. Being self contained would make this able to run from a portable SSD or hardrive. Could well end up going back to Mod Organizer 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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