how to add already-installed game?

[DerellLicht]

This may be tricky... I have Fallout New Vegas installed on my computer, installed from CDROM, years ago.

I was managing its mods via Nexus Mod Manager, all was fine.

However, I recently replaced most of my hardware (motherboard, etc), then re-installed Windows on a new SSD drive.
My original drive is still present in my system, as G:

So I ran the game, and it runs, but some of my mods appear to be no longer present.
Nexus Mod Manager is not installed, though I still have its mod directory on F: (my traditional games directory).

So I want to manage the game from Vortex, but it doesn't actually see the game!!
I had Vortex do a detailed scan of F:\Games, but it doesn't see FNV (or anything else), though they are there...

Is there some way to get FNV recognized by Vortex, without having to actually do a full re-install and re-add all my countless mods??

[DerellLicht]

No, nevermind, I figured it out...

Edited February 14, 2021 by DerellLicht

[HadToRegister]

No, nevermind, I figured it out...

 

 

It'd be nice if you did a step by step of what you did when other people search for this topic.

IF you're going to spend the time coming back and typing "Nevermind I figured it out", you could instead type out what you did, as to help other people.

 

Pay it forward

[DerellLicht]

 

It'd be nice if you did a step by step of what you did when other people search for this topic.

IF you're going to spend the time coming back and typing "Nevermind I figured it out", you could instead type out what you did, as to help other people.

 

Pay it forward

 

Oh!! Okay, good idea, and I'm happy to do so!!

 

1. Open Vortex; select Games menu item on the left.

That will list all of your managed games, and then below that is a list called 'Unmanaged', (131 in my case)... I'm guessing (but am not certain) that this list contains all games that Vortex knows about.

(NOTE: if your game is *not* in the Unmanaged list, you are back to 'I don't know what to do')

 

2. Find your game in the Unmanaged list, point the cursor in the box, and click the 'Manage' button.

Vortex will say "This game hasn't been discovered, please set the game folder manually"; click Continue and it will open an Explorer dialog; point to your game folder, then open it. If you select the wrong folder, Vortex will present an error message, and will tell you exactly which file it is looking for, which helps you select the correct directory.

 

3. You will now have your new game as the active 'managed' game.

Select 'Dashboard', then MODS.

 

4. Now you are on the empty MODS page for your new game.

You *can* click 'But don't worry, I know a place' to jump to Nexus and search for new mods, if you don't already have any.

 

However *this* guide is for adding existing mods (in my case, from previous NMM installation)... so continue to item 5 !

 

5. Find the directory where your existing mods are located. This may be in the existing NMM mods directory; in my case, this was:

F:\Games\Nexus Mod Manager\<target_game>\Mods

then select all the mod files in this directory, then go to the Vortex MODS window, and drop these all in the 'Drop File(s)' section at the bottom.

 

6. At this point, I don't exactly recall what I had to do to actually activate them, but they were all there.

I *think* I had to switch to the PLUGINS menu entry, select all the mods, right-click, select 'Enable' ...

I'm pretty sure that after enabling the mods, I had to switch back to MODS, and follow the various instructions there, to resolve anomalies among mods.

Fortunately, Vortex's instructions for resolving conflicts are pretty detailed and understandable.

 

Hopefully this will be helpful to others!!

 

Edited February 16, 2021 by DerellLicht

[HadToRegister]

^ THANK YOU!! :)