I want to follow and complete the STEP guide without having to uninstall a Vortex mod collection

[Dedalo]

Hello,

Is that possible? I mean, I have the game on Steam with the Anniversary Upgrade. in the recent days, I've installed Vortex and the Gate To Sovngarde collection with it. It is all installed in the same filepath recommended in the STEP guide, by the way (C:\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\Skyrim Special Edition)

I've been the last few years far from the game. Now I want to follow and complete the STEP guide for Skyrim SE. I've read elsewhere that apparently it's possible to have Vortex and Mod Organizer on the same system without interfering between them, but I don't know the details. Since SSD capacity is not an issue in my case, I wonder if there's an easy way for me to follow and complete a STEP setup while keeping my Gate To Sovngarde install separate.

[z929669]

3 hours ago, Dedalo said:

Hello,

Is that possible? I mean, I have the game on Steam with the Anniversary Upgrade. in the recent days, I've installed Vortex and the Gate To Sovngarde collection with it. It is all installed in the same filepath recommended in the STEP guide, by the way (C:\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\Skyrim Special Edition)

I've been the last few years far from the game. Now I want to follow and complete the STEP guide for Skyrim SE. I've read elsewhere that apparently it's possible to have Vortex and Mod Organizer on the same system without interfering between them, but I don't know the details. Since SSD capacity is not an issue in my case, I wonder if there's an easy way for me to follow and complete a STEP setup while keeping my Gate To Sovngarde install separate.

Yes, they can coexist, but you will need to install MO and integrate MO with Nexus, disabling the Vortex integration. I forget how to do that off the top of my head, but it's fairly simple. It's possibly not necessary if you follow our guide, installing MO as instructed after configuring your modding environment as instructed. The only caveat is that you will have two mod repositories that can eat up a lot of disk space with redundancy (downloaded mods and installed mods). 

I posted about this on these forums a while back, but I can't find it, and I forgot to sticky it, I think. 

All that said, once you get to know MO, you will probably prefer it. It's much better than Vortex, IMO (I tested Vortex quite a bit for our guide as a Collection a couple years ago ... I stopped wasting my time  ).

@GSDFan may know more in this regard (or where I left my post! ...it was fairly detailed in describing the path equivalents).

[GSDFan]

MO2s Associate with "Download with manager" link is in settings, Nexus tab and in the middle right of the page. This will then direct the Nexus download with manager link to use MO2. 

This may cause a bit of frustration if you actively use both mod managers as it is there can be only one at a time. 

[Dedalo]

I see. Thanks to you both.

Considering that I haven't played the game in the last few years and that I only installed Vortex on my PC because that was a requirement for installing the GTS mod collection, which I'm not even sure if I'm going to start playing at any moment (it touches too many things in the game IMHO), I guess that my best bet then is to uninstall it together with Vortex and stick to only MO2 and the STEP guide, which I followed and completed at least twice in the past.

I predict it will take me some days ahead to follow the guide from start to finish. If I encounter any issues during the process, I'm in the right place to seek help. 

By the way, I wanted to thank your post, z929669,  the same way I've thanked GSDFan's, but I don't see any button for it. I suppose it has to do with the fact that you're an Admin.

Kind regards.

[z929669]

11 hours ago, Dedalo said:

I see. Thanks to you both.

Considering that I haven't played the game in the last few years and that I only installed Vortex on my PC because that was a requirement for installing the GTS mod collection, which I'm not even sure if I'm going to start playing at any moment (it touches too many things in the game IMHO), I guess that my best bet then is to uninstall it together with Vortex and stick to only MO2 and the STEP guide, which I followed and completed at least twice in the past.

I predict it will take me some days ahead to follow the guide from start to finish. If I encounter any issues during the process, I'm in the right place to seek help. 

By the way, I wanted to thank your post, z929669,  the same way I've thanked GSDFan's, but I don't see any button for it. I suppose it has to do with the fact that you're an Admin.

Kind regards.

Yeah, we disable all that for admin/staff, since we would have crazy numbers if we didn't. This way, the Leaderboard is more meaningful to Members.

PS: Good choice. I was going to recommend you make the switch to MO and install the Step build. Once you have that up and running, you can copy it all into a new MO instance and customize it if you like. This way you will always have a fallback if your customized Step-based build doesn't work out.

[Dedalo]

15 hours ago, z929669 said:

PS: Good choice. I was going to recommend you make the switch to MO and install the Step build. Once you have that up and running, you can copy it all into a new MO instance and customize it if you like. This way you will always have a fallback if your customized Step-based build doesn't work out.

I'll do exactly that in the probable scenario where I add some mod(s) to the complete STEP build. Thanks for the advice.