VORTEX Mod Manager Steam Deck Tutorial | How to Install Guide #steamdeck #vortex

[Music] hello everybody Welcome to the channel today I'm going to talk about Vortex mod manager and I'm going to install it onto the steam deck natively so you can easily install and remove mods so if you really like modding games and playing on the steam deck this is the video for you if you're new to the channel you like this kind of stuff gaming gaming handheld emulation modding that's basically all we talk about so please consider subscribing so here you can see I've got Vortex mod manager on my steam deck running natively and I'm going to show you how to do it alright so without further Ado let's get started okay so we're on our steam deck desktop mode so the first thing you need to do is go to Nexus mod and download Vortex the mod manager I already have it I'll leave a link in the description so I already have already downloaded it so it's here in my downloads see here Vortex this one okay so what we need to do go to our Steam and then I'm gonna add a game add a non-steam game browse and then I'm going to locate my downloads folder and then select the full text installer that exe that we downloaded So Okay add selected programs um and then we've got it on the left hand side we're going to look for it so it's here four texts and then a whole heap of numbers go to its properties compatibility and then we're going to select proton experimental so faucet to use a specific compatibility tool proton experimental okay play so we're gonna run the installer now that's the first part we're going to install it so I'm just going to keep it in C drive program files so install so it's got to create it as a non-steam game so it's going to create the prefix folders it's going to be inside there okay so you need to know that it's a contained environment it creates a pro a prefix folder it runs everything in that folder because we're steam that Steam OS is a Linux version and we're running a windows program okay so we don't need to run it now so finish thank you okay so it's installed and we need to locate it so there's a few ways to do it or maybe two two main ways that I do it first way is just go to um home on your dolphin or file manager and make sure the three lines here you click it and show hidden files it's checked because we're going to a hidden folder.steam Steam steam apps compact data and then if you just sort by modified just now so this is the folder that it just created so I'm pretty sure this is the prefix folder just because I just installed it okay so here's the prefix and then C drive so if you remember we installed in C drive program files so here black tree gaming Vortex here this is where we installed it so that's one way another way is if you have proton tricks open proton tricks and then locate um Vortex you can see there's a number here 28892 this is a random number it generates every time you create a non-steam game so you can see it matches with the the folder here 2889 yeah so there's two ways to locate so I'm going to copy this directory just going to copy the path of it because I'm going to change the the executable I'm going to change it to run instead of running the installer I'm going to run the installed installed Vortex so I'm going to paste it here and then click the tick mark and then I'm going to select vortex.exe and then I'm going to put the you need to put quotation marks on the front at the at the front and at the end of this so make sure you put the quotation marks and then start in I'm just going to paste that directory so I don't need the exe starting is just the do it right yeah I think I did it right okay so instead of running the installer I'm going to run the program that I installed okay so compatibility is still on proton experimental okay so I'm going to run it now so hopefully it launches vortex the program this time all right looking good we've got the splash screen okay okay so it says it requires.net okay so if you click fix it should download.nic.net6 and install it okay so I'm going to click fix and just let it download okay and then the splash screen for the installer for net is doing its thing and then it should have just installed no issues so click ok so it's installed all right now I'm going to locate my game so star field I'm going to do Starfield okay that manage and it says it doesn't it needs a to download an extension for it and it needs to restart full text so just click download and okay we need to log in so just log in it'll bring out a browser so make sure you have the Nexus mods account it's free okay I'm going to click authorize and I'm going to click login to vortex and it's successful all right and then I just close the browser and normally you get stuck here it doesn't install the game if you do it this way so normally what I do is I cancel it and then I do it again since I'm logged in all right and this time it should just install it'll like it'll download and it'll restart full text by itself yeah see that it just restarted close the program but if you just logged in and then you go back to it and it just Loops forever I think it just it stopped because it was waiting for you to log in so just cancel it and do it again okay so now it's connected but it says it can't find Starfield automatically so I need to set the game folder manually so continue and then it brings up the the file selector but you have to make sure that vortex and the game needs to be on the same Drive which is a problem because if you remember I created Vortex into this uh this direct this prefix folder 288 and this is like a contained Windows environment where your C drive is and all that right so you have to put your Starfield game in this in this directory see here the this is the prefix folder for your Vortex and then drive C so I need to put it inside Drive C here I need to put my Starfield game here this is very important because Vortex can't manage anything outside of this so what I'm going to do I'm going to look for my Starfield game okay let's look for it Starfield I've been playing it so I've already installed it so my star field is actually here all right so I'm going to copy this location and then I'm going to open a new tab I've got so many tabs okay I'm going to close one of these okay so this is my 288 so double check it to uh the vortex one here two eight eight nine two four one zero nine one this one is my vortex star field is three six four eight zero okay so I'm gonna go there oh shoot okay I'm gonna go back and then I'm gonna open a new tab okay and then I just copied the location so I'm just going to paste it paste it oh okay it doesn't exist doesn't exist three six okay maybe I got the wrong folder okay so it should be here three six four eight okay so let's look for it three six four eight yeah should be this one okay so this is my star field prefix folder okay so start field should be inside here okay see it's here this is my Starfield game folder this is where I installed it I need to move this so just click on that folder and just move it just drag it over to here and then click move here so that's very fast it doesn't doesn't if you copy it's gonna copy another version and it's gonna take some time just move it here okay so I've moved my star field game folder to my Vortex prefix folder okay now back into the selector I'm going to go to my computer C drive and now you can see Starfield the folder is here okay so I'm just going to select it here okay okay that's done okay and then if you want to go to mods there's two ways to add mods you could um you could actually go here games and then click on it and then open Nexus page so bring it will bring you to the Nexus mods page for Star field and you can find the mods you want okay so I'm just going to all right and let's let's say I want to install star UI inventory this like makes your inventory look a lot better easier to look there's a few ways you can do it you could manual download you can manual download and then in the mods just drag that zip file to here to install or the way I prefer to do it is I prefer to copy the location and then inside the vortex go to downloads and then open the URL so let's just go paste it okay bit of download uh okay go to files and then just mod manager download and it will just oh then we need to log in so log into your log into your Nexus you only have to log in the first time like one time and then it just remembers you okay okay mod manager download slow download this just makes it easier you don't have to like manage so many things you just click and it will download see in the background it's downloading see in the background yeah it's downloaded and it's already installed so if you go to mods okay it's going to install here so yeah main file style UI readme yeah finish and it's installing by itself okay so that's easy okay let's do another one downloads okay let's go back to that that page continue okay this time let's look for another another mod let's do the scanner to remove the scanner Circle these are easier to see I'm doing some visual mods so files and then mod manager download slow download okay I think I did the wrong one 120 it is not good I should put this my esteem that doesn't go to 120 frames per second I think I should download the vanilla one uh which one is that vanilla yeah this one vanilla okay mod manager download slow download okay so cancel and then let's go back to our mods I think I'm going to remove this one I want to remove yeah this one I'm going to yeah move and delete archive all right so I've got two mods on okay okay so it should be done okay we can quit this quit this and then um now since we moved the Starfield game folder there's two ways to go about it one way is I'm just going to modify my target to the new location that's one way to do it another way to do is just move the staff field game folder back so I think if you're using the steam version I don't think you could like change location you probably have to move it back so move it back to the original location so it should be in like steam apps common but these are where your Steam games are I think but that's the good way to do it but I'm using non-steam version so I think for me I'm just going to change the location totally so I'm gonna I'm gonna run the game in my vortex idea [Music] uh yeah I think that's a good idea so I'm just going to locate the game here okay I'm gonna change the start in directory and then I'm going to change the location of my game star field no okay stuff.exe okay should be fine okay I need to add the quotation marks so don't forget the quotation marks it might not run without the quotation marks okay all right so let's test it out starts let's play the game see if the mods worked and then if if they do I'm going to go back into Vortex and then I'm going to disable some mods to see if it can really manage it okay continue so this not only works for Starfield it works for any other game that Vortex can manage just make sure that they're in the same directory that's the key like if if you if your vortex on one place and then your game is not on that C drive on that prefix for the C drive it can't manage it I've tried that out so that's the key but I can like anticipate a lot of people in the comments saying yeah they they followed the instructions to the T but it didn't work and all that yeah I'm just heads up you guys make sure you do that part make sure you put your game folder inside the C drive of the prefix of your Vortex all right that makes sense to you that's what you need to do all right let's load the game let's go take a bit this game does take a bit to load okay so let's check out the check out the inventory mod first the UI so weapons all right so you can see here see that the table this is the mod by default it doesn't have this okay so it works that mod works okay let's try the scanner all right yeah see the scanner it doesn't have the big circle yeah that's it's also working so okay let's go back let's go back and let's disable the mods see if it works okay let's go back to the desktop just wait for it okay let's open Vortex again see all right mod manager working thank you okay let's go to mods okay I'm gonna disable them disable disable all right so if it works it should if I load the game again though mods should be not working okay star field let's try it again foreign so this is very helpful if you're using a lot of mods like if you if you trying out mods you want to disable mods because if you're installing them like individually you would have to manage the game files and all that and you might get lost and you might like if you uninstall mods uh you might like not delete them cleanly that makes sense too so this mod manager helps we have a lot of mods and you don't want to like install it on your PC and then transfer the whole game folder back to your steam deck yeah that's a pain too so having Vortex mod manager natively on your steam deck really helps okay so we're hoping that the mods don't work now if they work it means it didn't like this process didn't work so fingers crossed hope the mods are gone all right taking its time to load as usual all right so let's check out the inventory again all right so you can see that table is gone yeah so that mod is disabled definitely and let's check the all right see the scanner the big circle is still there now all right so yeah everything worked out fine so I hope this video helped you out if it did please leave a like And subscribe it really helps out the channel and I'll see you guys in the next one later

Channel: Grown Up Gaming

Views: 45,762

Keywords: steam deck, vortex, vortex mod manager, nexusmods, nexus mods, starfield, game mods, gaming modding, modding, mods, mod, game mod

Id: 7KNSMsPBqlo

Length: 20min 26sec (1226 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 26 2023