BG3 mod manager and Vortex together?

[R3bourn3]

Relatively new to modding. Are you able to use Vortex and BG mod Manager together? I started using Vortex before i learned that BG3MM may be better plus some mods only work with MM i guess? now i don't want to uninstall vortex and switch mid playthrough.

[Mr.8_Bit_Ghost]

Any update on this?

[Lani]

I recommend using one or the other unless you know what you're doing. And when you do know what you're doing you'll have made a choice for one or the other and know how to safely make sure removing one won't ♥♥♥♥ up your game :-)

I haven't heard of mods being manager exclusive, except for the "Native Mod" stuff which are basically introducing .dlls to the game binaries which I'm not really a fan of, but those can be installed through both managers.

[ProestUnicorn]

You generally shouldn't use two mod managers at once. There is not much reason to do that either if You're just looking to download and play. There are also no mond manager exclusive mods, or at least I have not heard of it in my modding career.

[Orni16]

Hi there. I hope you can help me with my issue with Vortex and BG3 Mod Manager.

I found some mods that require BG3 Mod Manager, when downloading from the Nexus website. Do I need to install it or is Vortex going to be enough?

Because of this, I've been running both and it's really cumbersome. While Vortex uses individual mod folders inside the "Mods" folder, BG3MM uses .pak files directly inside the "Mods" folder. It can get very annoying updating each new mod.

Any help would be appreciated!

[Lani]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Orni16:

Hi there. I hope you can help me with my issue with Vortex and BG3 Mod Manager.

I found some mods that require BG3 Mod Manager, when downloading from the Nexus website. Do I need to install it or is Vortex going to be enough?

Because of this, I've been running both and it's really cumbersome. While Vortex uses individual mod folders inside the "Mods" folder, BG3MM uses .pak files directly inside the "Mods" folder. It can get very annoying updating each new mod.

Any help would be appreciated!

I use Vortex and the BG3 mod manager is not required then.
The author tagged the mod manager as required at a time before BG3 was adopted into Vortex or they prefer the non branded version. I.e. worry that Vortex collects data, it does, a bit. Not to qn extend that worries me personally.
Lots of mods on Nexus also pint to a release fix mod. That's also deprecated.
Not sure if the authors can't easily update the requirements or never bother.

Vortex generally does the exact same things as a game's given mod manager but in a uniform ui layout. If you play multiple games with mods it can be preferable to learning to work with yet another coder's idea of good UI design :-)

[アンジェル]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Lani:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Orni16:

Hi there. I hope you can help me with my issue with Vortex and BG3 Mod Manager.

I found some mods that require BG3 Mod Manager, when downloading from the Nexus website. Do I need to install it or is Vortex going to be enough?

Because of this, I've been running both and it's really cumbersome. While Vortex uses individual mod folders inside the "Mods" folder, BG3MM uses .pak files directly inside the "Mods" folder. It can get very annoying updating each new mod.

Any help would be appreciated!

I use Vortex and the BG3 mod manager is not required then.
The author tagged the mod manager as required at a time before BG3 was adopted into Vortex or they prefer the non branded version. I.e. worry that Vortex collects data, it does, a bit. Not to qn extend that worries me personally.
Lots of mods on Nexus also pint to a release fix mod. That's also deprecated.
Not sure if the authors can't easily update the requirements or never bother.

Vortex generally does the exact same things as a game's given mod manager but in a uniform ui layout. If you play multiple games with mods it can be preferable to learning to work with yet another coder's idea of good UI design :-)

Requirements can be changed anytime for Nexus mods page.

As a mod creator and mod user I recommend not using Vortex. It might be good with mods which are compatible to updates, but from what I have seen is that the majority of mod creators do not bother with compatibility like that. It is better to install mods manually to learn the ropes. A mod manager is comfortable, but you should not use it either unless you understand the basics.

[id795078477]

Yes, you can use them together. I've described how to here:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1086940/discussions/0/4032472803474330717/#c4032472803474522610