NeoWesker Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 Hi, so the way I have my system setup (laptop) is I have two internal drives, and then an external drive for most of my games or my larger games. What I'm trying to do is have vortex download and install the mods for each individual game to the drive that each individual game is installed on through steam. Another option I'm looking at, but I don't want to screw anything up by trying, is would it be possible to install vortex as a separate instance on each drive, but I don't know how that will behave with user files (local/roaming apppdata, etc). If anyone has any ideas on how I could get this to work, I would greatly appreciate it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pickysaurus Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 You can manually change the mod staging folder on a per-game basis in Settings -> Mods -> Mod Staging folder. Just be aware that your external HDDs need to be using an NTFS file system to support hardlinks in Vortex. And starting Vortex with the drive disconnected would be bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeoWesker Posted June 12, 2020 Author Share Posted June 12, 2020 How bad would it be if I started vortex to use with Say a C drive game, but the S drive (Steam Drive - I thought it was clever and its about halfway between local drive and network drive in the alphbet) is disconnected. Would it try to create default paths for those games? Or just not show them or let them be usable until I restart vortex with the S drive attached? Thats how Steam treats the games on that drive; if it's not plugged in, it just greys out those games as "unistalled", but then when I plug the drive in and restart Steam, they're all good to go, pending updates. Would I have to reconfigure each game every time I started vortex between instances with the S drive disconnected then connected? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HadToRegister Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 How bad would it be if I started vortex to use with Say a C drive game, but the S drive (Steam Drive - I thought it was clever and its about halfway between local drive and network drive in the alphbet) is disconnected. Would it try to create default paths for those games? Or just not show them or let them be usable until I restart vortex with the S drive attached? Thats how Steam treats the games on that drive; if it's not plugged in, it just greys out those games as "unistalled", but then when I plug the drive in and restart Steam, they're all good to go, pending updates. Would I have to reconfigure each game every time I started vortex between instances with the S drive disconnected then connected? It would be looking for the S drive, and then probably tell you it can't find the drive, give you an error message and close down, at the BEST.Otherwise it would ruin everything you already have set up, by trying to change drives, paths etc, and probably automatically set up ANOTHER Mod Staging Folder in the Default location, which would completely overwrite your Config settings for the S drive. etc.He already said that starting Vortex with the drive disconnected would be bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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