Hi all,
has anyone managed to get the Vortex Mod manager working. i’ve got it to a place where i’m looking for the game (fallout 4 downloaded with steam) but steam has put the game into a hidden folder in “/home/usr/.local”, when i try and locate the file using wine there seems to be no option to un-hide the folder “.local”.
If anyone has any wisdom and what i can do to resolve this or another way to get vortex installed please do share it with me :).
-Ash <3
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Hi all,
has anyone managed to get the Vortex Mod manager working. i’ve got it to a place where i’m looking for the game (fallout 4 downloaded with steam) but steam has put the game into a hidden folder in “/home/usr/.local”, when i try and locate the file using wine there seems to be no option to un-hide the folder “.local”.
If anyone has any wisdom and what i can do to resolve this or another way to get vortex installed please do share it with me :).
-Ash <3
Garuda Inixi -
bjongo@DCPC in ~
❯ garuda-inxi
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Moved your post to your already opened topic and removed the “solution” mark.
Next time you can just add additional information to your already opened topic; no need to make another.
LOL I was mid-typing when that topic got closed. I see you posted your garuda-inxi. Here’s what I was going to reply to you.
I’ll only say that I did get Vortex installed, and it even found the game I downloaded mods for, and did it work? Nope. Nothing worked. They CLAIM it works on linux, but… I’ve had my bro try, and I had 2 other friends try, they had the same experience. The software runs, but it’s not modding/patching anything.
That said:
a) you really should edit your original post and add the output of your garuda-inxi. Load up whatever terminal app you’re using, type garuda-inxi then copy the entire output, go back to your OP, edit it, then add three ``` and on a new line, paste the output, then on a new line close the block with another three ``` - this output provides us with the specs and hardware of your build to help best offer advice - it’s a “state of the field” so to speak.
b) steam has to create an artificial windows environment for the games it installs, like Fallout 4. As such, this artificial environment, aka the prefix is stored in /home/[username]/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/[GAME FOLDER]/
Note: replace [username] with your login username, and [GAME FOLDER] with whatever folder steam installed Fallout 4 in
Now, when you say you try to locate the file using wine, what does that mean? How are you doing that? Presumably, this “wine” you’re referring to is probably the wine prefix that Vortex is installed in. This means you will need to use the artificial windows environment to find this path. Turns out, these prefixes map the Z: drive (as appears to apps running in this prefix) to the / root of your machine. So, I would suggest you manually try to look into this path:
Z:\home\[usermame]\.local\share\Steam\steamapps\common\[GAME FOLDER]\ - if you’re doing this through windows explorer, just make sure the option to “view hidden folders” is enabled, and you’ll see the .local folder listed.
Hope this is helpful, but IMO, the only utility in doing all this is so you can learn how linux systems fundamentally work. I don’t have high confidence that Vortex actually works in Linux beyond just running the software - it doesn’t change anything in the game you’re hoping to apply changes to.
Easy way is to just make a symlink, make a folder like /home/$user/games/ and link it to the steamapps folder, something like:
ln -s /home/$user/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/ /home/$user/games/steam/
Thank you, ill give it a try
After more experimentation just doing a symlink causes permission issues and such due to steam installing games to the home directory. I ended having to add a new folder outside of home to my steam library, install the game you want to mod there. I made a folder of /media/games with sudo mkdir and then chown them to my user. When installing/moving the game the new storage location will likely show up as External (/) Then use NaK to install Vortex: GitHub - SulfurNitride/NaK: NaK, is a modding helper. It automatically sets up MO2 and Vortex to the best of my abilities for you.
Did the installation work? Did Vortex actually mod/patch the game you wanted to modify?
Yes, I used it for modding Skyrim SE and can even use Vortex to launch SKSE with reSahde enabled as well, if you don’t move the game out of the home directory it will likely throw errors when trying to deploy the mods.
Interesting… I didn’t have any permission issues when I installed Vortex previously, it just didn’t actually implement any of the mods. I’ll take a look at the link you provided. Thanks!
Hi.
Thank you all for the support, i tried your suggestions but didn’t seem to get anywhere, then i found a guy on youtube who managed it. ill post the link to his vid https://youtu.be/kpoHTvJmw-o?si=m2cPQgA37G0Hpt6N
Who’s to say this video won’t be deleted tomorrow?
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Steam Tinker Launch is how I get vortex working on Linux. It’s not hard, and Rani is even is set up to install it.