FruitOfTheLum Posted October 14, 2020 Share Posted October 14, 2020 (edited) Hi guys, it's a Wednesday, which means it's time for stupid questions weekly! That's a thing, right? Anyway, this week I have two: 1. Bethesda.net mods - do they play nicely with normal Nexus mods? There are a handful of mods I used to use when I played on Xbox that I've had to do without since I switched to PC - Modular Kitchens, Do It Yourself, and such. I really don't want to have to go back to using Bethesda's mod solution, but I'm finding it increasingly difficult to live without them. I know they're on Bethesda.net, but I've got my game running really well with a lot of mods that I've downloaded from here and installed with NMM, and I don't want to risk upsetting that if possible. So like... how does it work? Do Beth.net mods appear in my mod manager, or do they take priority over others in the load order? Do I have any ability to manage mods from both sources, or do they fight each other? 2. Moving Fallout 4 and its mods from one hard drive to another within the same machine My new laptop came with a 500 GB SSD, which is great (I've never had an SSD on anything before), but after only a few months I'm down to my last 90 GB. Fallout 4 and the mods I've piled into it are by far the single largest offenders! Amazon just had that 'Prime Day' event thingy, and I was able to pick up a really good 1TB SSD at half price to install in my laptop's vacant 2.5" SATA bay. My plan is to do what I used to do in my old (we're talking Windows XP here) PC days - have the smaller drive remain as my 'main' drive, with Windows and other key stuff on there, then have the bigger drive be where I dump games and such. It used to be possible to move programs between drives, but when I used to do that, those were programs without prolific mods installed on them in a precariously-balanced house of cards that threatens to tumble down at any moment. Is it possible to move Fallout 4 - mods and all - from one drive to the other without risking breaking it all? If it is, how would I go about doing that? Much thanks! Edited October 14, 2020 by FruitOfTheLum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HadToRegister Posted October 14, 2020 Share Posted October 14, 2020 1. Yes2. Maybe if you copy the old drive to the new drive, then use the admin tools, and change the letter of the new drive to your old drive.Other wise, the registry entries of everything you copied to the new drive, aren't going to work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Handy6373 Posted October 14, 2020 Share Posted October 14, 2020 I have many mods from both sites and as far as I know have not had an issue. They do show up in the plug-ins list and you can sort them in the order they should go. I did read once that there was a way to do some magic with the files from Beth to make them more like the files from here but I have not been able to find that info again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HadToRegister Posted October 15, 2020 Share Posted October 15, 2020 I have many mods from both sites and as far as I know have not had an issue. They do show up in the plug-ins list and you can sort them in the order they should go. I did read once that there was a way to do some magic with the files from Beth to make them more like the files from here but I have not been able to find that info again. You install the mods from Beth net, then you zip them up like a proper nexusmod mod, that's its. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pra Posted October 21, 2020 Share Posted October 21, 2020 Can't answer #1, since I avoid bethnet like the pla... nevermind. But I did #2 myself recently. The short answer is yes, through Steam. The somewhat longer answer is: Go to Steam settings, downloads, steam library folders. There, you can make a new one, located on your new SSD. Then, in a game's properties, go to "local files" and select "move install folder". The main issue is that after that, you will have to update paths in any software (like your mod manager) so that it points to the new location, too. No idea how this works in Vortex. In MO2, I think I just went in and edited some config files by hand, but can't remember TBH. Maybe it worked from just updating it in the settings there... If you have some software in the F4 directory, and have set up files to open with that (like Nifskope), you will have to set these connections anew, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FruitOfTheLum Posted October 23, 2020 Author Share Posted October 23, 2020 (edited) Thanks everybody! I'll try that Steam 'move install folder' thingy over the weekend. I shall tentatively grab a simple mod from Bethesda.net and see what I can do. So long as it doesn't break my game just by doing it at all, I'm willing to experiment... I have many mods from both sites and as far as I know have not had an issue. They do show up in the plug-ins list and you can sort them in the order they should go. I did read once that there was a way to do some magic with the files from Beth to make them more like the files from here but I have not been able to find that info again. You install the mods from Beth net, then you zip them up like a proper nexusmod mod, that's its. This is interesting. I'm an idiot so please indulge me a couple of questions:Is it literally just as simple as "grab the files that the mod installed, put them in a .zip archive, then install them via the mod program as normal"?Are mods from Bethesda.net just .esp/.esl/.ba2 files in the Data folder, like the regular ones from here? Like, is it easy to tell which files are from which mod?If I were to attempt this, should I remove the mod via the Bethesda installer first, or just straight-up delete the files manually?Thanks! Edited October 23, 2020 by FruitOfTheLum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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