any good mod organizers for skyrim?

[Deleted59537951User]

Hi, i was wondering if there are other mod organizers besides vortex and mod organizer 2?

 

Also, if not how do i put them manually in the data folder for mods if done without the organizer?

 

thank you.

[ShayVizla]

Hi, i was wondering if there are other mod organizers besides vortex and mod organizer 2?

 

Also, if not how do i put them manually in the data folder for mods if done without the organizer?

 

thank you.

There's Nexus Mod Manager which can be found at the bottom of https://www.nexusmods.com/about/vortex/.

 

I'm not familiar with manually putting mods in the Skyrim folder as i only use NMM for installing mods.

[Kraggy]

There are others but I'd ask why you're looking beyond Vortex and MO2 which, with the demise of NMM as the preferred tool here at Nexus, are likely the most widely used.

 

If Vortex and MO2 are more technical than you like then the other one sometimes used, Wrye Bash, certainly won't appeal to you being a lot more arcane than even MO.

[Deleted59537951User]

 

Hi, i was wondering if there are other mod organizers besides vortex and mod organizer 2?

 

Also, if not how do i put them manually in the data folder for mods if done without the organizer?

 

thank you.

There's Nexus Mod Manager which can be found at the bottom of https://www.nexusmods.com/about/vortex/.

 

I'm not familiar with manually putting mods in the Skyrim folder as i only use NMM for installing mods.

 

Thanks, i give this a shot to try this one.

 

thank you.

[Deleted59537951User]

There are others but I'd ask why you're looking beyond Vortex and MO2 which, with the demise of NMM as the preferred tool here at Nexus, are likely the most widely used.

 

If Vortex and MO2 are more technical than you like then the other one sometimes used, Wrye Bash, certainly won't appeal to you being a lot more arcane than even MO.

 

The reason im looking for others is because i want to see what the difference between each one and if they are better than doing it manually.

 

i thought about it doing it manually, but doesn't seem to work very well at least to my understanding of it.

 

plus, i want see how many managers that are still being updated tell today.

 

how is wryte bash, is that any good?

[Zebsi]

Wrye bash has its uses, but not really as a mod manager.

 

Learn to use MO2 or the legacy version. If you install mods manually or use pretty much any other mod manager, you'll inevitably screw something up and it'll be harder to fix it.

Edited December 19, 2018 by Zebsi

[WakahisaSensei]

I would highly recommend MO2. If I can learn it than anybody can, and the benefits have far outweighed the challenge of learning it. Most of the trouble I ran into was also easily fixed with a quick google search of the problem.

 

Also, and I could be wrong, I think it's possible to run other mod oranization programs through MO2 if you really wanted to. Why you would, I don't know. But I did that with Wyre Bash once to take advantage of some of its features. But MO2 is my go to these days.

Edited December 19, 2018 by WakahisaSensei

[Kraggy]

 

There are others but I'd ask why you're looking beyond Vortex and MO2 which, with the demise of NMM as the preferred tool here at Nexus, are likely the most widely used.

 

If Vortex and MO2 are more technical than you like then the other one sometimes used, Wrye Bash, certainly won't appeal to you being a lot more arcane than even MO.

 

The reason im looking for others is because i want to see what the difference between each one and if they are better than doing it manually.

 

i thought about it doing it manually, but doesn't seem to work very well at least to my understanding of it.

 

plus, i want see how many managers that are still being updated tell today.

 

how is wryte bash, is that any good?

 

 

I'd describe it as a half-way house between manual modding and managed modding .. I've used it from within MO like WakahisaSensei mentioned from time to time but mostly I've used MO1 and now MO2 and to be honest even though it has problems with my A/V package from time to time I much prefer it over Vortex.

 

As I see it there are really only two choices, the two you already know about, from my perspective Tannin's leaving the MO2 dev team to join Nexus to develop Vortex was bad for players really as MO2 is simply easy and more powerful as far as I'm concerned with one weakness, being the Virtual File System it uses and which is problematic with some A/V packages like the one I use.

 

I've thought about trying to hack out the VFS, there's no need to use such an arcane architecture in Windows 7+ (as Vortex shows) but MO uses an esoteric UI library developed for cross-platform development (which MO has never and will never need) rather than the Windows standard one and one which I can't be bothered trying to install and figure out, so I'll likely never do it but for me that would be the best mod manager solution: MO2's powerful management with a simple mod deployment.