I would recommend consulting the wiki that Nexus Mods has up for Vortex (it also appears inside of Vortex as "Knowledge Base"), before consulting tutorials that people have put up.Īs Vortex is in beta, there are things that are subject to change, and as such, the Wiki are usually the most up to date, with video tutorials coming up behind them.
Quickest way to learn how to use it, is take a few of the mods that you know you will use, and that you know will involve the user of the overwrite prompt, and screw around with the software (along with reading all of the tooltips that show up in the settings Section). Vortex can be a bit of a rocky start when first using it. All this means is that files of the size 10 kb/0 bytes (?) respectively are generated in the game folder with the appropriate file names (Windows says otherwise with hardlinks, but in reality in takes up 10 kb each). With Vortex, hardlinks or syslinks get deployed into the game folder (there is also an option called "Move experimental" or something, but both admins, and the software say to not use this option). With MO2, the program tells the game what files get loaded. Mods gets installed to a separate location, and you tell the program in what order you want the mods to load. If something breaks right at the end of the install of a mod that was installed halfway through the installation of all of your mods, you would be forced to uninstall everything and install them from the beginning to make sure everything is working.īoth MO2 and Vortex on the other hand, work off of the idea of "load order".
The reason why NMM was discontinued was because while it was "in-your-face" when it comes to installing mods, it also handled them really badly (which made it really easy to break things).īecause of how NMM works, mods are installed on the idea of "install order", which is really bad, because if you have 5 mods that overwrite each other, and you want to change which one has priority, you're going to need to uninstall and install all 5 of them to make sure as many files are used. If you're willing to deal with a buggy software, or having to press the "Deploy Mods" button after you've installed mod(s), use Vortex.
Software is in beta however and therefore buggy. The way Vortex handles mods is a lot better than NMM and safer.
0 kommentar(er)
