
Click "Settings" on the left pane ( pic).Hover over the target game (in this case Fallout 4 VR, but Skyrim VR should show up too along with any other games that Vortex can manage) and click "Manage".
Click "Games" in the left pane ( pic), and click on the "Discovered" tab ( pic). exe download link, as of the writing of this guide, it's called vortex-setup-0.15.2.exe, but you may see a more updated version). Download and install: Link (Click the. Here's a video guide by Gopher if it helps. The following guide is very detailed to help everyone, and if you're well-versed in stuff like this I'll summarize: Download and install the latest version of Vortex (< Github release), open it, and activate Fallout 4 VR (& Skyrim VR if you want), have Vortex handle your downloads in Settings:Download ( pic), and then download your mods. That's it for enabling, now on to using Vortex. right under it add the line: bInvalidateOlderFiles=1 and below that: sResourceDataDirsFinal= then save. Go to the bottom of the document, and Add the heading. Navigate to: Documents>My Games>Fallout4VR and open Fallout4Custom.ini (You can get to this directory quickly by pasting this into the address bar in Windows Explorer: C:\Users\%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Fallout4VR ) NOTE: if you don't see this specific file here be sure you're in the right place, and you can always create it if you need to. Be sure you've launched the game for the first time, and it runs (then quit). Setting up Vortex for use with Fallout 4 VRĪctivating Mods: (If you have already activated mods with the ini tweak than you can skip to this section.) For everyone else I highly recommend Vortex, and it's more user friendly, and updated more often. Just like Vortex, MO2 is currently updated and does support FO4VR directly so if you already know MO, you may want to check that out instead. Here's what Vortex can do that NMM cannot: it directly supports FO4VR (& Skyrim VR), it deploys mods as a "hardlink" instead of directly copying them, it has LOOT integration and automatically runs it, you don't have to mess with your plugins.txt, it's new, it's alive, and it's supported.Ī note about Mod Organizer 2.
I fear that merely as a post this'll get drowned in a few days, so I propose it may be a good idea for moderators to make this more permanent/visible.įor those of you who don't know, Nexus Mod Manager (NMM) should not be used anymore. One thing if you want to just run off without the guide, be sure you have your mods and game on the same drive! I wrote a comprehensive guide to using Vortex Mod Manager over on r/skyrimvr, and I thought we could use it over here. And even though Vortex is really easy to install and use, I think some people will feel better if they can follow a guide. It seems like every week we have a new post here on getting mods to work. Intro (if you want to just start installing, skip this section)