Moving Skyrim + MO ect to an SSD?

[Photonix]

I recently purchased a new ssd to finally replace my long old hdd. I was wondering if there was an easy way to move Skyrim and my mod from MO to the SSD without breaking anything. Currently every mod I have "seems" to be working perfect and like I'm sure many of you have spent many hour / days getting and setting up all the mods for your game, so I'd really dislike having to reinstall everything if possible.

 

So I was wondering if anyone has had success doing this? I've moved other games to the ssd fine with no problems but I was concerned to move Skyrim with all the things like SKSE and the ENB's ect with all the other mods. Any advice or something would be really appreciated, I'd like to know if anyone has managed this successfully, thanks!

[Guest]

I just tested moving a Mod Organizer install by moving my Fallout New Vegas Mod Organizer to a different drive and it seems to be working fine. Just keep in mind that you'll probably have to add all of the .exes you are running through Mod Organizer because their directories will have changed.

 

If nothing else just move your Skyrim directory to the new location, reinstall Mod Organizer, and then copy your "mods" and "profile" folders from your old Mod Organizer install into the new one.

 

Edit: I've just remembered one problem I did have when I recently installed steam onto another drive and that was the Fallout New Vegas 4gb patch wouldn't run because there was a registry key with a directory that was inaccurate. Idk if SKSE or anything else behaves like that but NVSE worked fine for me after moving.

[Photonix]

Sorry to necro this but I've been away, I was wondering if anyone had success doing this? And would be so kind as to provide steps on how to move the game to SSD with all the mods enb's skse ect without breaking anything! Thanks again!

[Photonix]

No-one has tried / done this before feelsbadman!

[Photonix]

I just tested moving a Mod Organizer install by moving my Fallout New Vegas Mod Organizer to a different drive and it seems to be working fine. Just keep in mind that you'll probably have to add all of the .exes you are running through Mod Organizer because their directories will have changed.

 

If nothing else just move your Skyrim directory to the new location, reinstall Mod Organizer, and then copy your "mods" and "profile" folders from your old Mod Organizer install into the new one.

 

Edit: I've just remembered one problem I did have when I recently installed steam onto another drive and that was the Fallout New Vegas 4gb patch wouldn't run because there was a registry key with a directory that was inaccurate. Idk if SKSE or anything else behaves like that but NVSE worked fine for me after moving.

 

So if I were to re-install skyrim, skse and MO to another drive, would it be as simple as copying over all my mods from the old to the new MO folder? What about enbs and stuff? Would I need to do the whole TES5edit thing again?

[Sacremas]

This is actually the exact thing I did when I bougth my SSD. First open Mod Organizer, switch to a profile you don't mind losing as your profile will be destroyed when you open up MO again due to it not being able to find your mods. Now quit MO, then cut and paste it to the new drive. Go into steam and uninstall Skyrim, then redownload/reinstall it to the new SSD. When that is done, fire up MO again, go into settings, then change the downloads and mods directories to the folder they are in now, as well as make sure it  actually finds MO. Odds are it will believe you are installing MO for the first time and start the tutorial again, just skip it. Then change to the previous profile you had, and all your mods should still be in the right order and selected for you to just fire up the game again (once you've also reinstalled SKSE and your ENB and cleaned your masters at least).

[Photonix]

This is actually the exact thing I did when I bougth my SSD. First open Mod Organizer, switch to a profile you don't mind losing as your profile will be destroyed when you open up MO again due to it not being able to find your mods. Now quit MO, then cut and paste it to the new drive. Go into steam and uninstall Skyrim, then redownload/reinstall it to the new SSD. When that is done, fire up MO again, go into settings, then change the downloads and mods directories to the folder they are in now, as well as make sure it  actually finds MO. Odds are it will believe you are installing MO for the first time and start the tutorial again, just skip it. Then change to the previous profile you had, and all your mods should still be in the right order and selected for you to just fire up the game again (once you've also reinstalled SKSE and your ENB and cleaned your masters at least).

 

Legend!! Thank you will get working on this when I get home!

[hexenhaus]

I have my MO profiles, mods and download folder in the MO directory. So when i moved from one hdd to another i just had to move the MO directory. Worked fine for me For Skyrim itself i moved my whole Steam directory and revalidated the files via Steam.

[Photonix]

 

This is actually the exact thing I did when I bougth my SSD. First open Mod Organizer, switch to a profile you don't mind losing as your profile will be destroyed when you open up MO again due to it not being able to find your mods. Now quit MO, then cut and paste it to the new drive. Go into steam and uninstall Skyrim, then redownload/reinstall it to the new SSD. When that is done, fire up MO again, go into settings, then change the downloads and mods directories to the folder they are in now, as well as make sure it  actually finds MO. Odds are it will believe you are installing MO for the first time and start the tutorial again, just skip it. Then change to the previous profile you had, and all your mods should still be in the right order and selected for you to just fire up the game again (once you've also reinstalled SKSE and your ENB and cleaned your masters at least).

 

 

Damn so I did all this, and everyone seemed like it worked well, but when I try to re-install my ENB using the guide like I did last time following everything perfectly Skyrim no longer loads. I click run from MO it sort of loads the executable box loads for a split second like normal then closes. 

 

I uninstalled the ENB just to make sure Skyrim works and it loaded fine, any ideas? I've tried properly uninstalling and reinstalling the ENB to no avail!

[Photonix]

I think it has something to do with the d3d thingie file or the enbhost.exe that you have to put into your Skyrim folder!

[Sacremas]

I think it has something to do with the d3d thingie file or the enbhost.exe that you have to put into your Skyrim folder!

 

Did you make sure to run Skyrim the normal way, from steam and preferably unmodded before running it from MO? That can cause issues if you don't.

 

d3d9.dll is fine, dxgi.dll on the other hand can cause crashes on Windows 10 (it is trying to access a DX9 function that was not included in Win 10 for Gates knows why), so rename that file to d3d11.dll instead, or delete it if you already have one of those. In general SweetFx works very badly on Win10 so far.

[Photonix]

 

I think it has something to do with the d3d thingie file or the enbhost.exe that you have to put into your Skyrim folder!

 

Did you make sure to run Skyrim the normal way, from steam and preferably unmodded before running it from MO? That can cause issues if you don't.

 

d3d9.dll is fine, dxgi.dll on the other hand can cause crashes on Windows 10 (it is trying to access a DX9 function that was not included in Win 10 for Gates knows why), so rename that file to d3d11.dll instead, or delete it if you already have one of those. In general SweetFx works very badly on Win10 so far.

 

I think I fixed it, I just had to download dxbwebinstaller, everything seems to work fine now! Thanks again for all the help!