Haunter16 Posted January 29, 2021 Share Posted January 29, 2021 I'm trying to help my friend get into modding skyrim and we already have vortex and Skyrim Special Edition downloaded. Both are clean installs. My issue comes into when I went into the settings under "mods" in vortex I can't change the deployment method. The only one listed is "move deployment (experimental)". My friend is using a removable SSD that you just plug into his laptop could this be why I'm not getting the other options? In comparison I have a actual tower PC and I've always had the option of "hardlink". This normally wouldn't be an issue but none of the mods that I have downloaded seem to work even with this "move deployment (experimental)" setting. Can anybody help me? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HadToRegister Posted January 29, 2021 Share Posted January 29, 2021 The Mod Staging FOlder needs to be on the same drive as the game in order to switch the Deployment method to Hardlink Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haunter16 Posted January 29, 2021 Author Share Posted January 29, 2021 The Mod Staging FOlder needs to be on the same drive as the game in order to switch the Deployment method to HardlinkIt is Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haunter16 Posted January 29, 2021 Author Share Posted January 29, 2021 UPDATE: So apparently the reason my mods weren't working was because I did not enable the plugins. Normally these are automatically turned on with a hardlink but with the experimental one I had to manually turn them all on. So my mods do work I just wish I could change the deployment method to something more reliable Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution Pickysaurus Posted January 29, 2021 Solution Share Posted January 29, 2021 You can't use Hardlinks because the SSD the game is on is using a FAT or ExFAT file system. Your friend would need to reformat the drive as NTFS in order for it support the links. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haunter16 Posted January 29, 2021 Author Share Posted January 29, 2021 You can't use Hardlinks because the SSD the game is on is using a FAT or ExFAT file system. Your friend would need to reformat the drive as NTFS in order for it support the links. I've never heard of "FAT" before is that just a type of file system that some removable SSDs have? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HadToRegister Posted January 29, 2021 Share Posted January 29, 2021 You can't use Hardlinks because the SSD the game is on is using a FAT or ExFAT file system. Your friend would need to reformat the drive as NTFS in order for it support the links. I've never heard of "FAT" before is that just a type of file system that some removable SSDs have? Nope, that's the default File System on hard drives back in the olden days of DOS 6.22, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows XP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pickysaurus Posted January 29, 2021 Share Posted January 29, 2021 So FAT and ExFAT are generally the File Systems of removable drives because the offer the most parity across Linux/Mac/Windows. NTFS is only Windows (and maybe Linux) friendly, but Apple's gotta Apple and be awkward xD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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