Vortex... cloud? Question if possible or not~

[HadToRegister]

Cuz it'd be way easier to just transfer it. Cuz they don't know the first thing about modding. And cuz it'd take a long time for me to do it for them. We're both in the same house btw.

 

You could've added that detail at the beginning.

 

Just stick it on a thumb drive and carry it to his room then

 

If your friend is that much a newb, just do it for him.

 

 

[GSmog]

Well, I sorta did, I said they saw my skyrim and wanted to try it. But my question was mostly, if I did do what you just suggested, would it work or would I need to do something else in addition to make it work? Anyone ever tried to move their skyrim to another computer?

 

My main worry is I have more drives than them, so my steam games are on drive G while theirs is on drive D.

[rmm200]

Your friend also needs a legal copy of Skyrim. He can't just copy yours.

Have him look at the current Steam sale.

[HadToRegister]

Well, I sorta did, I said they saw my skyrim and wanted to try it. But my question was mostly, if I did do what you just suggested, would it work or would I need to do something else in addition to make it work? Anyone ever tried to move their skyrim to another computer?

 

My main worry is I have more drives than them, so my steam games are on drive G while theirs is on drive D.

 

 

I had Oblivion almost fully modded on Steam with Vortex.

I found out ONE mod I wanted to use, required Steam to be set to run as Administrator.

Rather than go through that, I decided to install my GOG version of Oblivion.

 

I PURGED all my Steam Oblivion Mods with Vortex.

Changed the Game Directory in Vortex to point to my GOG Oblivion installation, and ReDeployed my Mod list.

And everything was in place.

 

​The thing is, especially since you LIVE IN THE SAME HOUSE, the amount of trouble and gymnastics you're trying to go through, to do a very simple thing, that has now stretched out to an entire day, rather than a few minutes, such as...

 

1. Just mod your friend's game for him/her

2. Give him/her a list of the mods you have installed and let him/her install them

3. Copy your mods to a thumbdrive and physically walk into his/her room and let them copy the mods from the thumbdrive.

 

Makes this whole thing sound more and more suspicious of your true intent, and from rmm200's post, I think I'm not the only one suspecting this

[GSmog]

Your friend also needs a legal copy of Skyrim. He can't just copy yours.

Have him look at the current Steam sale.

Yea, they have their own skyrim. Though what you said isn't exactly true since steam has an option for sharing your library.

 

 

​The thing is, especially since you LIVE IN THE SAME HOUSE, the amount of trouble and gymnastics you're trying to go through, to do a very simple thing, that has now stretched out to an entire day, rather than a few minutes, such as...

 

1. Just mod your friend's game for him/her

2. Give him/her a list of the mods you have installed and let him/her install them

3. Copy your mods to a thumbdrive and physically walk into his/her room and let them copy the mods from the thumbdrive.

 

Makes this whole thing sound more and more suspicious of your true intent, and from rmm200's post, I think I'm not the only one suspecting this

1= Its not a few minutes, I have a bunch of mods. It'd take a long time to download and set up for them and since SE has issues with mods when you update it may or may not even be possible currently, and not all mods are even on Nexus. SE is much more complicated than LE, I'd hope you knew about this if you were offering advice.

 

2= Look at number one, and the earlier mention that they've never modded before.

 

3= That's what I've been looking into. Though I dont currently have a thumb drive big enough for it all so I'd have to go out and get one. Id just like to know if its possible before I go out and waste money if it might not work, and if so, some more detailed instructions than what's been given so far. Money doesn't grow on trees ya know?

 

And lastly, I'm not here to prove myself to you. It's offensive you'd even think that, but if I wanted to pirate the game I wouldn't have bought it myself to begin with. I have almost 300 hours on skyrim SE, and almost 1400 on LE. Plus it doesnt even make logical sense if you took a moment to even think about it. I'm asking about a way to bypass needing to download over a hundred mods and spend ALL DAY, possibly more than one even considering how long and arduous it was to mod my own skyrim. It has nothing to do with pirating a game, frankly pirating the game would be easier, and most mods I use require an up to date version of Skyrim to begin with.

 

The reason Im asking has more to do with me being new to SE since it seems more problematic to modding than the original, which is why I'm trying to bypass all the headaches Id have to go through, "again". Heck, I had to disable updates to my own game just to keep Bethesda from breaking my game, found out that the hard way a couple weeks ago. To make things worse, some mods like the Unofficial Skyrim Patch don't keep backups of different versions even tho Bethesda seems to be updating the game quite often. So its entirely normal for some mods to be broken, like the Immersive First Person mod currently is.

 

I could b-tch all day about how complicated, if im/possible, it would be to get my current set up of mods on a brand new downloaded copy of Skyrim for a friend, but that's not why I'm here. So if you plan to help, then maybe you could actually use a thumb drive like your suggesting and tell me how it goes. If all you got is a vague "maybe it will work" idea tho what I'm asking for is actual experience transferring a mod folder in vortex on Skyrim SE and getting it to work on a, yes, second completely legit copy of SE through steam on a different computer.

 

And why? Because it'd be a giant pain in the ass otherwise and I'm trying to make my life easier, plain and simple. Heck I'm not even sure I could do it again, from scratch, and get exactly again to where I am now. I'd most definitely forget something and the game could crash on the title screen, or find out some of the mods Im currently using are out of date and dont work anymore after an update.

 

Simply put, I'd figure vortex would have a feature to let a friend try out their game with your mod library if they wanted. But I'd also figure Bethesda would care about their modders enough to avoid breaking everything anytime they add something to their own paid mods. Ya know, those modders who made their games as popular as it is to begin with? But this is the world we live in, and everyone sucks.

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[GSmog]

its your problem, you don't like the help on offer, you figure it out with your own thumb drive.

 

btw - in the time since you opened this thread you could have completed your task.

 

no.

you must install mods on a different system, there's no way around it.

its like asking if you need to install a game on a different computer so you can play it on that computer. unless you're adept at removing and installing hard drives, you have no choice but to install the game and then the mods you have in order to play it on a different machine.

Yea thats not what you said before. You've been entirely unhelpful so I don't really care what you think or not~ the issue isn't time sensitive regardless. Its sanity sensitive.

 

In fact, from most of your other posts that seems par for the course, which makes me think you just hang around these forums to troll people. Modding is all about community after all, and maybe someone else will come across this post later wanting to do the same thing I do and it could help them. I'd hope you would understand the importance of that.

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[GSmog]

That was the plan, duh, but I don't see why you'd care. After all its just my problem like you said. If you paid attention tho, you'd remember I was asking if anyone else had a thumb drive big enough to give it attempt before I have to go out and physically get one. Tho you added the shining wisdom of, it could have been done by now. So I'm surprised you havent already, very strange you are.

 

It's a good thing this isn't time sensitive, and I'm just doing some research about it before making an attempt.

 

Anyway, for reference, my Skyrim folder is about 33gb. Anyone know what the best compression type is to get it smaller? I've never had to look into it before, guessing ZIP or RAR wouldn't be good enough. Someone also mentioned a vortex specific file, not sure where that would be at. If someone has a file address I can try transferring that instead of the whole Skyrim folder. Not my whole vortex folder right?

[HadToRegister]

That was the plan, duh, but I don't see why you'd care. After all its just my problem like you said. If you paid attention tho, you'd remember I was asking if anyone else had a thumb drive big enough to give it attempt before I have to go out and physically get one. Tho you added the shining wisdom of, it could have been done by now. So I'm surprised you havent already, very strange you are.

 

It's a good thing this isn't time sensitive, and I'm just doing some research about it before making an attempt.

 

Anyway, for reference, my Skyrim folder is about 33gb. Anyone know what the best compression type is to get it smaller? I've never had to look into it before, guessing ZIP or RAR wouldn't be good enough. Someone also mentioned a vortex specific file, not sure where that would be at. If someone has a file address I can try transferring that instead of the whole Skyrim folder. Not my whole vortex folder right?

 

 

So you want to copy the ENTIRE Skyrim folder to his computer?

 

You could've downloaded and installed all of the mods on his computer by now, instead of spending a day and a half trying to find an 'easy' way, because what you're talking about doing is borderline

 

Also, that will take SEVERAL HOURS to zip up 33 GIGS, and I mean SEVERAL.

 

While you're waiting for your entire Skyrim folder to zip up, you can download and install the same mods on your friends computer

 

It can take me 30 minutes to zip up my savegame folder

 

Every suggestion that's been made to you, you have found some reason to not do it.

 

Like when I suggested that you just download and install the same mods YOU have into his game.

 

Instead it was "Nah, it would be way easier to just copy over my stuff", yet here we are in Day two, without you having any results, when by now, you could've already had everything installed on his system.