Messy data directory NO MORE!

[Galacticat42]

Aright so I'm noticing a large pattern that everyone uses NMM and gets angry at it. Or TESMM and gets angry at that... Well I'm just letting yall know that you don't have to put up with the mess that NMM or TESMM or Wrye Bash leaves you. I use Mod Organizer and it's been a god-send for me. I load up as many mods as I want and I NEVER have to do a clean-install of Skyrim ever again. If I see 2+ mods that do the same thing with loose files and I want to try them all out one at a time? No problem! If I install one mod that has similar files to an existing mod, start up Skyrim and get an error because the mods conflict? I don't have to reinstall both, just disable one and it's like it never existed (except with save data).

 

If you think this is a large no-no of a mod advert, you're damn right it is. I'm personally tired of seeing rants of mod installs/uninstalls going wrong and so I thought I'd lend a hand to everyone and get this mod promoted as it deserves.

 

If you think this thread should instead go into the non-adult section, you're right again, but not everyone checks that forum. SO I thought I'd post it here.

 

Anyway, it's good for both consumers and mod makers. If you want to both play and isolate your mod as you make it, simply put YOUR mod into the skyrim directory and launch the game without MO and it's like a seperate game install.

[Dreamer102]

Awesome!! I didn't know about this one!

[visby]

I also love Mod Organizer. Another cool thing about it is that you can start Skyrim normally and run a completely vanilla game which is very nice for those of us whom have a spouse that likes to play as well.

 

One note if you want to run a FNIS 3.0 mod then you need to install it into the FNIS directory in order to get the FNIS generator to see it. Older 2.x FNIS mods can stay in there own directory.

[algarvian2001]

My main concern with these managers is not messy files, but with load orders.

 

Wrye Bash and NMM sometimes ignore the specified load order that I placed, causing mods to work incorrectly. NMM even goes as far as changing my load order on occasions.

 

Does this tool have this problem?

 

Edit:

Just tried this out, it seems this tool uses its own list of load order, so that might solve my issue.

It can't select multiple items in the list, so that makes changing stuffs a bit awkward.