Having multiple installs.

[Guest]

Hi, I have a question relating to having multiple Skyrim installs.

 

I noticed that Skyrim has some files outside its folder (Such as all that My games\Skyrim things). Knowing this, is it still possible to have two copies of Skyrim in your hard drive with widely different mods? I noticed that for example MO makes its own setting files different profiles, including the .ini files, but there are still things like SKSE that also store stuff outside Skyrim folder.

[bjornk]

Well, technically you can have two or more different Skyrim installations on the same computer, but it would be very inconvenient to use them both as it'll require folder renaming and registry tweaks etc.

 

Instead, you can have two different MO installations sharing the same Skyrim installation folder, but completely isolated from each other. This is practically the same thing as having two different Skyrim installations with completely different mods and it also means saving disk space. Game logs inside the My Games folder and some executables such as SKSE, ENB etc. would have to be shared though. That's not a problem unless you want to use two different SKSE or ENB versions with these.

[Akzyra]

If you know your Stuff you could do some trickery to switch out folders when starting one of the Mod Organizer installs. (Batch file renames folders then starts MO)

There are ENB managers.

SKSE: Use latest!

 

That leaves Stuff from other things in the Skyrim folder. Some mods have logs there.