jhondidfool Posted February 25, 2018 Share Posted February 25, 2018 I thought I'd share some musings after a couple days using Vortex Wow is it slow! I'm not talking just the speed of the GUI (which, for me, is atrocious) but also the click economy is terrifying! If I had to install one mod, would not mind much, but I find myself installing 150 and I want to kill myself because of how many nested drop-downs I have to use, and how many options are hidden behind a coloured square that is completely unassuming, making every movement tedious. It's made to take mods one by one... Where are the options to "install everything", "Activate/Deactivate everything", and others? All of it is made to take mods one by one, but anyone who has modded Skyrim or FO for a while knows every so often you need to work with a batch of mods, not two or three... Seems web-based, but... The whole thing seems to be a very web-integrated program... so why can't we surf the Nexus from Vortex? Perhaps further ahead, but thought I'd mention it. It eats broadband. Can't even use Discord reliably, since even limiting threads to 1 it will eat-up my broadband like it's nothing. My ISP has mistaken it for a torrent client several times already... Worst part, downloading mods seems to be rather unreliable at best. Ctrl+W is a problem... If I press Ctrl+W Vortex closes. That is a problem to anyone surfing the web while installing/downloading mods! On the bright side... It's clean, it's neat, it's relatively easy and feels like quality software (even if it's clearly VERY rough around the edges!). With some elbow grease and a few months of brain-wrecking developement it will be able to displace NMM and MO2 after the comunity stops clinging to their corpses. But boy is it slow! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonTodd1976 Posted February 25, 2018 Share Posted February 25, 2018 Pretty much what I am experiencing, only explained so much better. The only point I would add is a better interface with the installation progress would be nice, as I had vortex trying to install a 2.4gb zip and I had no idea how fast (or slow) it was completing the task.But yea it is really slow Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rattledagger Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 It's made to take mods one by one... At least on the Mods-tab, select first mod you want to do anything with, scroll up/down with your mouse until you find the last mod you want to do something with. While holding-in Shift, click on the last mod. At the bottom a dialogue will now show-up and you can example select to "Enable" the 100+ mods you just selected. You can also select/deselect mods while holding-in ctrl. Now sure getting ctrl + a to work to select everything would be nice, but selecting lots of mods to install/uninstall/disable is fairly fast. Vortex managing to install the 100+ mods without crashing is on the other hand less likely at the current point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tannin42 Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 I thought I'd share some musings after a couple days using Vortex Wow is it slow! I'm not talking just the speed of the GUI (which, for me, is atrocious) but also the click economy is terrifying! If I had to install one mod, would not mind much, but I find myself installing 150 and I want to kill myself because of how many nested drop-downs I have to use, and how many options are hidden behind a coloured square that is completely unassuming, making every movement tedious. The GUI performance is certainly something that could use some improvement but the priority was to first get it to be reliable.Now click economy I can't really relate to. You can ctrl-click or shift-click to select multiple items in all tables (downloads, mods, plugins) and then do operations on all selected items so installing multiple downloads would be- click first- shift-click last- click "install" That's three clicks, no matter if you install 5 mods or 500. It's made to take mods one by one... Where are the options to "install everything", "Activate/Deactivate everything", and others? All of it is made to take mods one by one, but anyone who has modded Skyrim or FO for a while knows every so often you need to work with a batch of mods, not two or three...see above Seems web-based, but... The whole thing seems to be a very web-integrated program... so why can't we surf the Nexus from Vortex? Perhaps further ahead, but thought I'd mention it.There isn't really anything stopping us from giving you an integrated browser but then you'd have to log-in with username+password in another browser and you wouldn't have your bookmarks from your browser and extensions you may want to use in your browser wouldn't be available.And if Vortex crashed it would take your open tabs with it.Plus: while an integrated browser would be easy we'd still have to implement tabs, history, bookmarks, ... ourselves, essentially everything "around" the main browser panel. So it's a substantial amount of work we could be investing elsewhere for a feature that would still be inferior to what you get from a "proper" browser that is specialised to do only that. It eats broadband. Can't even use Discord reliably, since even limiting threads to 1 it will eat-up my broadband like it's nothing. My ISP has mistaken it for a torrent client several times already... Worst part, downloading mods seems to be rather unreliable at best.Vortex doesn't produce more overhead than any other downloading tool.If you want to request bandwidth throttling as a feature you should do that through the feedback form inside Vortex. Ctrl+W is a problem... If I press Ctrl+W Vortex closes. That is a problem to anyone surfing the web while installing/downloading mods!Hrmm, I'm tempted to call that a bug. Would you mind reporting this through feedback as well? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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