Vortex not working on new computer

[Hagatha]

I have a brand new gaming win 10 64 laptop and I was hoping to download all of the Fallout 4 mods I had installed on my old computer.

 

Also, I wanted to download a mod for Enderal.

 

Nothing is working the way it did previously. I have selected Enderal as a game to manage, but when I try to click on it to install a mod that I downloaded, nothing happens. Although Enderal shows as a managed game, I can't do anything with it. Clicking on the game picture does nothing.

 

As for Fallout 4, before I can install anything, it wants a file that I easily installed from Nexus via Vortex previously, but will not install now. It wants me to manually install it and honestly I have no idea how to do that.

 

It seems as though Vortex just isn't working properly on this computer and I can't figure out why. It was dead easy to manage my games before, but now I'm not able to do anything at all.

[Pickysaurus]

If you PC is brand new, make sure you've done all required Windows Updates. Vortex relies on some Windows files that may need updating.

[rmm200]

Well you don't actually tell us anything that would let us help you.

Start here:

https://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/7332636-how-to-post-request-support-for-vortex/

 

Specifically, we need to know what version Vortex, how much memory, what disk drives, what type of drives are they, what anti-virus,

and install paths for Vortex, Downloads, and Mod Staging Directory. And full path to game.

What is this file you say Fallout 4 wants? How did you install Enderal? Dis you follow the install instructions for Enderal? It is not really a game; just a super mod with requirements.

And anything else that comes to mind.

[Hagatha]

The version of Vortex is the latest one from this site. I downloaded it today.

 

This computer has a 1 TB hard drive, so tons of memory.

 

I don't really know what you mean by type of disk drives. This is a 15" Razer Blade gaming computer,. If you could be more specific I could post that information.

 

I'm just using Windows Defender.

 

The games are in the usual location for Steam Games, steamapps/common. The default location, in other words.

 

I've been playing both Enderal and Fallout 4 for months using mods downloaded from Vortex on my old computer, so I'm not a complete noob. On this computer I did exactly the same thing; I downloaded Vortex. and installed it to its default location.

 

Now, after uninstalling and reinstalling Vortex, can manage Enderal just fine. However, Vortex can't even see Fallout 4 at all; not on my computer, not in the list of games Vortex can manage, and if I search for it manually, Vortex only comes up with Fallout 4 VR.

[rmm200]

Asking about drive types to see if an SSD was in the mix. NTFS works fine - not sure about other formats.

So you have one big C: drive with everything on it.

When you say Steam standard location - I hope it is not under Program Files.

I would still like to know the paths you specified for Vortex, Vortex Downloads, and Mod Staging Directory. Suspecting some problem with permissions.

Did you tell Vortex what drives / directories to search for games? What executable is in the Fallout 4 game directory?

[HadToRegister]

YOu said you use Windows Defender, turn off "Controlled Folder Access" in Windows Defender.

[Hagatha]

Thanks for the responses. I think Defender might have been the issue, although I I was pretty sure I'd given permission for Vortex to make changes on the computer.

 

I had specified the correct path for the games, and any program I download goes straight to Programs/86.

 

 

I uninstalled Vortex again, reinstalled it, and things seem to be normal. Part of this was operator error (naturally). I have no idea why or how, but somehow Fallout 4 had become unchecked in Vortex's list of games, which I didn't even know was a thing. I found this when I started looking in all of the different parts of Vortex I've never looked at before.

 

Now I can get back to compulsive settlement building.

 

 

Cheers.