Vortex fixed SkyUI mod load problems!

[ltorg]

Just a note to Nexus and the community - I have a 3440x1440 widescreen monitor, and even with fixing the resolution in the skyrim .ini file, the menus were partly off the bottom of the screen and it was frustrating to play. So I found the SkyUI mod and decided to try that. What a horror trying to install that! I finally solved it and I thought I'd pass the info along

 

I spent DAYS fooling around with NMM and trying manual installs to get SkyUI 5.2 working on my Skyrim SE, and no matter what I did, it would never work. Very frustrating. So finally, I found out about Vortex (alpha version) - I installed it, and since I have my games on D: drive, I had to configure it to use a directory on D: to store mods (which breaks automatic updating of Vortex apparently - but it is alpha testing stage after all).

 

After getting Vortex to work and telling it to manage Skyrim SE, I manually downloaded mods and dragged them into the "drop file" section of Vortex under the Mods section. Each mod installed and worked perfectly!

 

The order I installed was

- SKSE64 (check

for special instructions - basically unzip, put some items in the SSE game directory, zip up the data directory in the SKSE64 folder and drag that zip file into Vortex to install as a mod.) Then run game and console command to make sure SKSE is installed OK.

- SkyUI_5_2_SE - just downloaded the manual install file, dragged it in to Vortex, enabled it and hooray it worked in the game!

- Unofficial Skyrim Special Edition Patch - tried this next, and other than disabling achievements, it seems to work fine.

- Finally, because the SkyUI menus were scaled off the screen at the bottom, and no matter how much fiddling with the monitor settings I couldn't fix it - so I then found Complete Widescreen Fix for SkyUI 5.3 SE Alpha - 2560x1080 (works fine at 3440x1440 if you have that set in the skyrinprefs.ini file) and Vortex also added that flawlessly.

 

Now maybe I can go back to playing SkyRim (which I'm new to) -- I know I'm living dangerously using an alpha version of a mod manager and both an unofficial bug patch and another alpha test mod for the UI, but at least for now I can see all the menus and play the game without thinking I'm on an Xbox!

 

Hope this helps someone else out!