Windows XP - Vortex Vista 3G RED Edition.rar
Vanina Mazzillo
So a little background before I start, I used NMM a few years ago and when I rebuilt a new pc and went to download skyrim mods, I noticed NMM changed to Vortex. All well and good, Vortex is superior to NMM. I used Vortex for the passed week. Worked fine, was easy to use, all well.
I bought a new SSD for windows, hoping to only put things such as Windows itself, drivers, other applications like system applications and files on it explicitly. I knew that Vortex installed mods to my C:Drive appdata and so I changed the directory in Vortex's settings to my D:Drive. Keep in mind that Steam, Skyrim, and Vortex are all on my D:Drive, not my C:Drive. (Will post images).
Again, I changed the directories of both the download folder, and the mod folder to my D:Drive, which Steam, Vortex, and Skyrim are all on, why is it still saving mods to my C:Drive? I would love to be able to play Skyrim modded, as the vanilla game is unplayable to me. Please help, because right now I do not see a way to play Skyrim, Oblivion, or any games I usually modded.
Alternatively, if I just manually install all my mods I can bypass this right? I know how, and am not daunted by doing it, as I did it before NMM. It is just a few more key strokes and takes a tad bit longer.
Couldn't I just manually install all my mods and it would work the same way? I feel more comfortable doing that then having some stuff from vortex taking up my C:Drive data as it is very limited. If I manually install mods then they only get saved to my D:Drive, right?
With your settings, the mods should be installed on D. Further, hardlink deployment would not even make it possible to have the mods (staging folder) on C, while the game is on D. So, in your case D should be the only option in the first place.
You REALLY shouldn't put your DOWNLOAD folder INSIDE your Mod Staging Folder, like you currently have it.
You need to move your DOWNLOAD folder (using Vortex) OUTSIDE of the Mod Staging Folder such as D:\Vortex Downloads\
I miss NMM, I just installed them manually. The way I knew the mods were still being installed to my C:Drive after doing all of that is the fact that after I did what you guys told me to do and then looked in my APPDATA there were like 12 gigabytes of mods in my User/Appdata folder. I uninstalled Vortex and am just going to manually install mods for now on I guess.
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