Another Newbe Question

[wcurtin1962]

Should I have Vortex running underneath a game or not? Is there any advantage or disadvantage in doing so? I have been running FO4 in window mode to keep a eye on my video card, so I can easily grab my trackball and switch to anything underneath.

[HadToRegister]

You don't need to have Vortex running

[wcurtin1962]

Thanks

[rmm200]

I keep it running for convenience. Some people need to stop everything other than the game to have enough storage to run.

That includes Vortex and especially browsers. Vortex alone can take about 300 MB, depending on mods.

[wcurtin1962]

I stripped and reinstalled FO4. I found most of the mods I downloaded from Bethesda here and installed them with Vortex. I didn't install the mods till I was going to leave vault 111 at the beginning of the game. Unfortunately FO4 installed all the mods from before without permission. As soon as I saw the first quest notification from one of the mods I shut the game down and uninstalled all the mods using the Bethesda manager. Two mods I got from creation club can't be removed (as far as I know). All that being said the game is loading faster then before I started modding it. It has locked up only one time when I open the save menu while in build mode. This has happened before I started modding. It has crashed to desk top once when I selected a build item added by a mod. Other then that the game runs much better. I'm going to try to talk friends that don't mod to run Vortex and see if it makes a difference.