Why is Vortex so popular?

[RebelJack]

Seriously?
I never had any problems with Nexus Mod Manager. Why is it suddenly so damn popular?
I understand the interface is nice and all but i just dont get it. Why there are so many fricking mod managers anyway?
LOOT and Nexus Mod Manager is fine by me. I just want to know your thoughts thats all.

[lakupupu]

frick
i've always manually installed mods, so i dont know
why'd they even roll out vortex? they had nmm

[RebelJack]

Originally posted by falout 76 sucks hurr durr!!!:

frick
i've always manually installed mods, so i dont know
why'd they even roll out vortex? they had nmm

Exactly

[bunny de fluff]

Dlclist and plugins for the win

[kdodds]

Because NMM was terrible for large mod lists. Vortex is worlds better. Still not as good as MO2. When you have larger mod lists, manual installation just isn't going to cut it. You have no choice of overwrites, no way resolve conflicts, no means of uninstalling or disabling unless you're meticulously recording every single file added. No, sorry, for anything more than maybe a dozen mods, you're really far better off with a Mod Manager of some sort. Even NMM is better than manual.

[Eminem]

Vortex pwns. I used to have same stance. Why the need to switch from NMM after all these years......until

[Solomon Hawk]

On an educated guess, Vortex is a distinct improvement.
You might want to consider that.

Going on that thought, if Vortex can install mods AND be able to restore the game to it's original "pristine" state as if no mods were ever installed, that would be the one thing that can convince me to try mods.

[Chef]

Yes, Vortex has a "Purge" function that can return your game to vanilla with the push of a button. NMM has well known issues with loosing tract of files added by mods. You will see this if you ever try to uninstall mods, you will find left over mod files in your data folder. Sometimes it can install files to incorrect folders. It's just not reliable as a mod manager. And even if a particular person has not experienced this, many many people have. It's part of the reason that Nexus abandoned it and wrote something new from the ground up.

That being said, MO2 will handle things just fine too and is my mod manager of choice.

[Ilja]

Yep. NMM is especially troublesome for Fallout 4. As Chef said, it's issues are well documented. It can leave out assets from installing and uninstalling files.

Game bakes script data to save files. You can imagine what sort of mess your save files are, if and when NMM fails to install or uninstall scripts correctly.

Vortex or MO2. Latter is my choice as well.

[Zappieroth]

Still using NMM's final release, Nexus can't stop me

[ChickenBalls]

just get the latest NMM from GitHub
it supports ESL plugins and they also added quite a few new functions and fixed some bugs

For simple modding and solving conflicts FO4Edit and the Creation Kit are usually adequate

[Futa Fanatic]

is it? i dont use it :/ tried it once awhile ago and it was way to overcomplicated.

[Ilja]

xEdit is actually quite simple tool for both modding and conflict solving. Like each tool, it requires some patience to learn, but it is very straightforward. It loads records and compares them each other, when several plugins are loaded.

Creating record based mods is also very easy with it. Just create a new module, copy records you want to edit and start to edit them.

I have made several mods with xEdit for my own use, but only released one for 32bit Skyrim. It was a patch for two mods, which took couple of minutes to create in xEdit.

[Simple Man]

Also use NMM latest from github.

Don't tend to worry about fixing what isn't broken. Heard all about how the others are superior and amazing, i launched vortex and closed it again. MO2 same thing, feels like you need a degree in rocket science. I just wanna stick mods in and go, don't care much beyond that i.e. spend more time "modding" aka lookin at files than playing the video game.

My current FO4 is at 174 mods and i have yet to CTD or have any issue, playing on survival, so no issues is good. Thanks NMM

[Langkard]

I was a die hard NMM fan until I finally tried Vortex. Initially, it seemed to be too complicated; but after getting used to it, I find it much easier to use and prefer it to NMM. Downloading, installing, enabling, and updating mods just seems easier with Vortex now.

[FedEx Noelle]

Used NMM for years, no reason to stop imo. It works just fine for me.