Vortex Doesn't Respect Plugin Load Order Rules

[FishOnABicycle]

Heya - so I've recently installed a new mod for my Skyrim SE game via Vortex. The mod installs five esp plugins, and one of them (the main mod, let's call it MAIN) is supposed to be loaded before the others (patches of various sorts, let's call them PATCH A, PATCH B, PATCH C, and PATCH D).

By default, unfortunately, Vortex loads them in this order:

PATCH A

PATCH B

PATCH C

MAIN

PATCH D

I've gone and done the thing in the plugin view where I've dragged the dependencies icons to create rules.

My rules are

• PATCH A must be loaded after MAIN
• PATCH B must be loaded after MAIN
• PATCH C must be loaded after MAIN
• PATCH D must be loaded after MAIN

I've also tried the following set of rules:

• PATCH D must be loaded after PATCH C
• PATCH C must be loaded after PATCH B
• PATCH B must be loaded after PATCH A
• PATCH A must be loaded after MAIN

I've also tried having both sets of rules active at the same time.

No matter what I do, according to the load order information in the plugins pane, the plugins are loaded in the default order. This is corroborated by an in-game pop-up for the mod that says "the main mod must be loaded before the patches."

Is there some way I can force Vortex to respect my desired load order for the plugins for this mod?

Any help would be appreciated

[Guest deleted34304850]

i put this in your other post ;

 

those mods, are they all .esp files, or are there any .esm or .esl files in the order you're attempting to control?

[AugustaCalidia]

What is the mod?

[Zanderat]

.ESL can not be sorted and .ESM always sort before .ESP and .ESPFE.

 

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/articles/625

[HadToRegister]

We can't help until we know what the mod is, so we can look at the documentation, I mentioned that in your other thread as well.