modslave Posted November 20, 2020 Posted November 20, 2020 Seriously how the hell are people managing mod installs now? NMM Community Edition is constantly throwing errors trying to install literally anything. And even when installs say they've completed, there are files not being installed from the archive. Â So I figured maybe I'd try out Vortex and I've been sitting here all day long waiting for it to import mods from NMM....and that failed....and now I'm individually adding file archives from my VInstall folder and every one of them takes half an hour to install and deploy. Â What happened to the good old days of things like mod managers actually being functional?
woodsman30 Posted November 20, 2020 Posted November 20, 2020 Not sure what is going on but even mods I have installed that are 2 GB take only a few minutes to import and install/deploy with Vortex. Rule one... manual download only add archive and enable to any mod manager.....\ Rule two... see rule one
modslave Posted November 20, 2020 Author Posted November 20, 2020 15 minutes ago, woodsman30 said: Not sure what is going on but even mods I have installed that are 2 GB take only a few minutes to import and install/deploy with Vortex. Rule one... manual download only add archive and enable to any mod manager.....\ Rule two... see rule one Yeah thats what I'm doing I'm pulling and installing direct archives from my NMM VInstall folder on the very same drive and its just taking ages.
majormagers Posted November 20, 2020 Posted November 20, 2020 I still use MO2 because 'it just works'. Got fed up with trying to get Vortex to run right and it messed up my SSE install before I gave up.
Guest Posted November 20, 2020 Posted November 20, 2020 27 minutes ago, majormagers said: I still use MO2 because 'it just works'. Got fed up with trying to get Vortex to run right and it messed up my SSE install before I gave up. Yea MO2 from my experience is way better than NMM/Vortex. Never looked back when I switched to it, and the merge option gets rid of a lot of "overwriting" headaches
fred200 Posted November 20, 2020 Posted November 20, 2020 Tip: Don't copy anything from NMM. You will regret it. And don't import from NMM either. Archives from a download directory are fine. And Vortex works just fine, thank you much.
woodsman30 Posted November 20, 2020 Posted November 20, 2020 16 minutes ago, fred200 said: Tip: Don't copy anything from NMM. You will regret it. And don't import from NMM either. Archives from a download directory are fine. And Vortex works just fine, thank you much. This is spot on.... Â 48 minutes ago, CyanBunnye said: Yea MO2 from my experience is way better than NMM/Vortex and people do understand that Vortex was developed the same person who made MO.... right?
fred200 Posted November 20, 2020 Posted November 20, 2020 Another little bit or three people miss: MO2 uses a Virtual File System, and has to be running when your game is running. Vorttex uses Hard Links and writes nothing to the game directory (unlike NMM), other than those links, and does not have to be running when you play. Want a squeeky clean game directory for testing? Just Purge in Vortex. All those links are removed. Deploy puts them back. Quickly.
Guest Posted November 20, 2020 Posted November 20, 2020 10 minutes ago, woodsman30 said: and people do understand that Vortex was developed the same person who made MO.... right? Nope, was not aware of that. Didn't mean to bash Vortex anyway, I just didn't find it very intuitive when I tried it, hence the "from my experience" Spoiler Â
modslave Posted November 21, 2020 Author Posted November 21, 2020 Well not to just complain I will say that Vortex has done a much better job natively of sorting out installation after I've gotten it done, just seems like some archives take longer than others to install. But that aside everything is functionally sorted and installed correctly without half the headache of using NMM.
Distortedrealms Posted November 21, 2020 Posted November 21, 2020 1 hour ago, woodsman30 said: This is spot on.... Â and people do understand that Vortex was developed the same person who made MO.... right? And Ford made the Pinto, and the GT500. Same company, vastly different cars. Analogies aside, two programs that do the same job but different in many ways. Also, MO2 is now run by someone else who continues to improve it when needs be. Glad you love Vortex, but I also tried it and it just doesn't do it for me like MO2.
Grey Cloud Posted November 21, 2020 Posted November 21, 2020 There are two different things being posted here: 1. I prefer this or that mod manager which is irrelevant and 2. The OPs complaints about Vortex taking forever to do things etc. I've been using Vortex for several months now and while I'm not a great fan I don't have any trouble with it installing anything. There's a learning curve with any of the managers. 2 hours ago, fred200 said: Tip: Don't copy anything from NMM. You will regret it. And don't import from NMM either. Archives from a download directory are fine. And Vortex works just fine, thank you much. Just so.
SmedleyDButler Posted November 21, 2020 Posted November 21, 2020 Manual download also addresses the "Never trust anything to stay up online - back up EVERYTHING" problem.
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