i had played skyrim on my steamdeck an year ago… and put mo2 on, added some mods, played a bit and moved on to other stuff. now, i would like to start a serious playthrought, but mmh i can’t for the life of me get mod organizer 2 to open. if i try to open Skyrim script Extender, it says that i don’t have a licence for the game (wich is sort of true as i have the special edition -upgraded to anniversary, i think?-)

either way, i remember than mod organiser 2 used to open on its own whenever i would launch a game, but only with a specific proton. i cycled throught all of them, and with some there’s like a pop up showing on screen for few seconds, but then the game start normally… with other protons, the game just straight launches.

i don’t know what do to…

i’m considering uninstalling, wiping EVERYTHING skyrim related and re-do the whole process from scratch. any advice on what i could do to get mo2 to open and let me mod it again, like i used to?

  • Hyacathusarullistad@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I’ve been an MO2 user for years, and firmly believe that in a vacuum it’s the vastly more powerful program. That said, I gave up on it with the Steam Deck for a few reasons:

    • I couldn’t for the life of me get it to download more from the Nexus with the “mod manager” button. I had to download them manually, then drag them into MO2 myself.

    • The thirty second hangups I got in first load on my PC stretched to over a minute on the Deck. This made the already prolonged loading time for a heavily modded game to load all the way on the Deck.

    • I don’t know if it’s down to a cache issue or something, but after about two/three actions of any kind (download, rename, load order change, whatever) MO2 would become painfully slow to the point of being all but unresponsive. I got tired of having to reboot it so often.

    • It doesn’t seem physically possible to set things up so that hitting “Play” in Steam launches your modded profile. I managed to set things up so that hitting “Play” launched MO2, but I’d still have to hit the button in MO2 itself as well — when and if it finally loaded.

    For modding on the Steam Deck specifically, I’ve found that Vortex is a more streamlined and reliable experience. The “mod manager” button works flawlessly, it doesn’t freeze or hang after ten minutes’ work, and if you have Nexus Premium you can just download entire collections in one click.

    • Recks90@alien.topOPBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      your suggestion would then be to switch to (the more reliable) vortex?

      mmh, i definitly can try.

      as far as mo2 i can just delete the folder or is there an uninstallation process of some sort?

      • Hyacathusarullistad@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        It pains me, but yes. For any other device MO2 is still the king, but Vortex just runs better on this platform.

        Uninstalling MO2 might depend on how you installed it. I followed the walkthrough by rockerbacon, which I think was a simple “delete the folder” uninstall. But it’s been a few months so I could be misremembering.

        • Recks90@alien.topOPBEnglish
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          10 months ago

          lol i must have been damned, somwbody did me a hoax or something… so i followed a guide 100% throught and installed vortex on my sd. tried to download a few mods and the game recognises them qs in the mod menu, while in game, i can see the .esp for each mode i have installed and they can be activated/deactivated, but they just don’t work in game 😅