With Vortex, hardlinks or syslinks get deployed into the game folder (there is also an option called 'Move experimental' or something, but both admins, and the software say to not use this option). With MO2, the program tells the game what files get loaded. Mods gets installed to a separate location, and you tell the program in what order you want the mods to load. If something breaks right at the end of the install of a mod that was installed halfway through the installation of all of your mods, you would be forced to uninstall everything and install them from the beginning to make sure everything is working.īoth MO2 and Vortex on the other hand, work off of the idea of 'load order'. The reason why NMM was discontinued was because while it was 'in-your-face' when it comes to installing mods, it also handled them really badly (which made it really easy to break things).īecause of how NMM works, mods are installed on the idea of 'install order', which is really bad, because if you have 5 mods that overwrite each other, and you want to change which one has priority, you're going to need to uninstall and install all 5 of them to make sure as many files are used. If you're willing to deal with a buggy software, or having to press the 'Deploy Mods' button after you've installed mod(s), use Vortex. Software is in beta however and therefore buggy.

The way Vortex handles mods is a lot better than NMM and safer.

Transfer nexus mods to vortex