Mod Organizer drive location Q

[Sakiri]

This is probably a stupid question, but...

 

Would the reason my load times are trash be related to the fact I have MO located on a different drive?

 

I have Skyrim installed on my 256GB SSD and space on it is precious.

 

Mod Organizer, along with every other non gaming program, is on an older Western Digital 512GB HDD.

 

I don't offhand remember how much space I have remaining on the solid state but I remember it being quite full, which is why I didn't put MO there.

 

If this *is* the case (I just now thought of it, yay 03:14 revelations), how would I go about moving it without having to reinstall?

 

My ISP will kick my rear if I redownload all near 13GB of STEP...

 

Thanks.

Edited April 12, 2016 by Sakiri

[Greg]

Perhaps the best way to think about this is that Skyrim is loading 10% of its assets from a shiny SSD and the remaining 90% of its assets from a rusty HDD. You will see some performance improvements if you move Mod Organizer to the SSD, but don't expect this to be a miracle cure that magically solves all performance issues. There are two possible solutions to get the assets onto the SSD:

• Copy the entire Mod Organizer folder to the SSD. This is by far the simplest solution but you really don't need the files in the downloads folder on your SSD. In fact, I think this is just wasting SSD space.
• Copy the entire Mod Organizer folder except the downloads folder to the SSD. This is relative easy and it moves primarily just the files that are needed in the game. When you run Mod Organizer from the SSD the first time, click the wrench to open the Settings dialog and go to the General tab. Click Advanced to enable the advanced options. Change the Download Directory to point to the old download directory on your rusty HDD, and click OK.

There is a possible third solution that involves moving only the mods folder to the SSD, but this one can be a bit more risky and Mod Organizer doesn't take up much space at all so I tend to avoid this.

 

This should go without saying... but make sure you backup your existing Mod Organizer folder before doing anything. Both alternative solutions above are fairly simple, and you really don't need to do anything other than what I've outlined above.

[compleCCity]

Have you MO "installed" in Q:\, via its installer?

Or simply extracted the whole thing to a folder there?

If the latter is the case, you simply can copy the whole MO directory into your Skyrim folder and start it from there. Should work.

[Sakiri]

Perhaps the best way to think about this is that Skyrim is loading 10% of its assets from a shiny SSD and the remaining 90% of its assets from a rusty HDD. You will see some performance improvements if you move Mod Organizer to the SSD, but don't expect this to be a miracle cure that magically solves all performance issues. There are two possible solutions to get the assets onto the SSD:

• Copy the entire Mod Organizer folder to the SSD. This is by far the simplest solution but you really don't need the files in the downloads folder on your SSD. In fact, I think this is just wasting SSD space.
• Copy the entire Mod Organizer folder except the downloads folder to the SSD. This is relative easy and it moves primarily just the files that are needed in the game. When you run Mod Organizer from the SSD the first time, click the wrench to open the Settings dialog and go to the General tab. Click Advanced to enable the advanced options. Change the Download Directory to point to the old download directory on your rusty HDD, and click OK.

There is a possible third solution that involves moving only the mods folder to the SSD, but this one can be a bit more risky and Mod Organizer doesn't take up much space at all so I tend to avoid this.

 

This should go without saying... but make sure you backup your existing Mod Organizer folder before doing anything. Both alternative solutions above are fairly simple, and you really don't need to do anything other than what I've outlined above.

I'll probably do the second one. I just wasn't sure if there was a really complicated way of doing it or not(used to be a real pain in the butt to change install directories.... /flashbacks).

 

 

Have you MO "installed" in Q:\, via its installer?

Or simply extracted the whole thing to a folder there?

If the latter is the case, you simply can copy the whole MO directory into your Skyrim folder and start it from there. Should work.

The "Q" was for "question" because I didn't want a super huge long probably truncated title.

 

When I installed MO using the installer, I installed it on D:\Mod Organizer, like I do with everything else. Skyrim is in C:\SteamLibrary. Steam itself is installed on D:\ as well. 

 

I want to get another SSD so I can keep my games OFF my system drive, but it wasn't in the budget when I built. I do plan on getting a second solid state and a new mechanical drive for storage as well as another 8 GB RAM stick as soon as I get my finances figured out. I'll need a new case too next year but that's a different story. 

 

I'll just copy MO over and leave the original on D:\, it should serve as a backup.

[Sakiri]

Solved my load screen issues.

 

Not a single CTD in the couple hours I was playing either. Now if only I could boost my framerate a bit I'd be golden. Normally in the 55-60 range, drops to 35-45 in cities occasionally or when there's a lot going on. I'll figure it out elsewhere. 

 

Thanks :D