#VORTEX OR MOD ORGANIZER 2 MODS#
It is well connected to the Nexus and it takes care of installing mods through hardlinks (a "dirty" way of virtualizing folders), it is also heavily integrated with LOOT and it has its benefits for beginners, and its shortcomings for advanced users (as someone once stated, Vortex's based on the principle that Loot is infallible, which is not). It's far from being perfect but it is aimed mostly to beginners or people with a light load of mods and it works quite well. What a time to be a videogamer and thanks Bethesda for the new updated version.įirst of all, it's not as bad as most people think it is. Memory limitations gone, Open Cities Skyrim and no more CTD, no matter how many mods you had at once, granted you knew what you were doing. I remember the frustration of being able to play for 30 minutes before being forcefully sent to desktop. Boxed cities, few NPCs, memory limitations all of it translated in frequent crash to desktop if you were running several mods at the same time.
#VORTEX OR MOD ORGANIZER 2 PC#
I have been playing and loving Skyrim when it came out, but it was a complete mess, the game was fantastic and there were hundreds of mods to fix its shortcomings but I remember the rage of playing Skyrim on a PC which was basically a game aimed and designed with console limitations all over the place. Fast forward to present day and I decided to test both Vortex and MO2, I knew the community was leaning heavily towards MO2 and considered Vortex a glorified noob tool, still I wanted to try them both, that is what I did. Then FOMOD came, along with Wrye Bash and for some reasons I was totally hostile to these programs, I felt they were killing the modding magic and I sticked to complicated instructions, such as "Install this here, copy that folder there, overwrite here etc.", then I took a pause from these but, as always, I came back and this time I tried my hand at NMM, I got used to it and its shortcomings but I didn't realli like it, and another pause came. You had to do everything manually, overwrite files here and there, hope and pray it wouldn't CTD. When I was young modding was a serious business, hell, even installing mods was complicated. I am a long time TES modder/player, we're talking 25 years in the "business", since Morrowind. Skyrim SE is fantastic and so is this community.įirst a little background on the experimenter, that is myself. TL DR Vortex is more noob friendly but MO2 is better, if you survive the steep learning curve.