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

Do you play games with mods on Steam Deck? It can be messy installing and removing mods without a decent mod manager. Let's install Vortex Mod Manager on our Steam Deck to make things easier.

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[DanteCrossSt.Andrew]

So I needed to comment and support this guy, because the part of the video beginning at 10:45 actually allows you to download entire collections via Vortex on the Steam Deck through the URL method. Made installing Skyrim Immersive mods 10x easier.

[EternalSilver_]

2 things I'd like to add to this video

1: instead of moving the folder pick the create link option instead. It works just as well

2: On steam deck if you don't have a m&kb plugged in there's no way to get the context menu to open to allow you to paste links in vortex Just open the keyboard & near the bottom right there's a paste button. Use that.

[nvvv_]

I'm like 99% sure symlink is way smarter than copying the entire game folder. Especially because there's a "C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps" directory already inside Vortex's compatdata folder. If you just symlink the "common" directory from your actual steamapps folder, you get a C:\ file path for Nexus, and can also keep all your different games inside one folder and not have to do a ton of copying if you want to work on multiple games.

[louisestretch]

Thank you so much for this - I've been tearing my hair out trying to get Vortex to run on my Arch desktop. I tried your tutorial as all my desktop options - Lutris, Wine and SteamTinker had varying levels of success. This worked right out of the gate.

[Valcirin]

It's strange but I can't use Steam Deck's keyboard in Vortex and can't paste anything

[kickflipking]

Man this really helped me with my bannerlord mods thank you, I will be installing sim mods for my gfs deck. Appreciate this tutorial, it does take a lot of trial and error and patience but it all works if you just take your time. And I cannot stress enough that if you are on a steam deck first download all the mods and enable them when the game is on the c drive. Do not redownload the game like steam wants too, instead go in your c drive folder where your vortex lives and manually drag and drop your game back into your steam common library it will boot with everything you added, I know he mentioned it but it was a bit unclear and I thought you needed two copy’s and I’m sure people having an issue are doing the same thing I was. Happy modding.

[Milerzz]

So just in case anyone is as new as I am at navigating the steam deck, when you get to the part where you have to put quotes around the path in the ‘target’ field, to get the keyboard to pull up, just hit X. For some reason I’d got it in my head that I needed to hit the steam button and then X to open the keyboard, and was getting very frustrated when I was unsuccessful for an embarrassingly long time. Just hit X. That’s all.

If anyone needs me, I’ll be in the corner wearing a dunce cap. I’ll also be playing my newly modded save file for Baldur’s Gate 3, so at least there’s that.

[brianfrog]

This video is very well explained. I downloaded this on my steam deck before, but I couldn’t get Game on the manager, so I gave up and uninstalled the program, but if I can’t get mod to work this time, I’m not going to ever uninstall this program because it is difficult to get it to work again for me. I feel like I’m coding whenever he says change thedirectories and stuff around. I have never done anything like this so without this guide I wouldn’t know what to do. Thank you. You do a very good job on explaining stuff and your videos are very detailed. I appreciate that.

[MrRonzy]

Installing vortex directly in an existing game's prefix might work as well. Thanks for all your tutorials. They are really helpful.

[specrtre]

Thank you for the easy to follow tutorial. The only issues i had was lack of knowledge on my end on where to find things at lol.

[dylanjenks]

Great tutorial, thank you! Just a note for any other people thinking about this, cutting and pasting the Starfield folder is an INSTANT process so its not a big deal pasting it back and forth from the Vortex C Drive and the Steam "common" folder.

[Slimshadowful]

Sorry if this is a stupid question. If I'm using an SD card for game storage, would I need to download Vortex into the SD Card's storage?

[jalyson]

Awesome guide! For those of you who are exclusively using an sd card for your games, rather than moving your games to your hard drive logical thing is move vortex instead. You can use the same method of drag and drop to move the black tree game folder to your external drive if you already installed to your decks internal drive

[heruman]

Thank you for the video. Really great.
I'm curious about the long run of this. If Vortex requires an update, will this affect the app in the library? If so, what should I do?

[SwervingRain]

thank you for this video! I am able to download entire nexus collections using the URL method you showed around the 10min mark.

just make sure the url you paste into vortex isnt the webpage url, but the link address from the actual download button on the collection page.

[thatguy]

Worked perfectly when using the same steps for skyrim se. No issues with setting up and following your steps so thanks for the tutorial. Now the next step would be figuring out how to install games that require anti cheat (destiny/apex) and xbox for pc and you could run everything off steam os without having to install windows.

[marcolarrauri]

Are you doing everything from a PC? Is it necessary to have a windows PC?

[mai.mai]

So i literally followed everything to a T up until you launched Vortext. I copied EXACTLY what you typed and did and then i click launch and it says "launching" and then it says "running." And then nothing happens and it acts like i haven't launched it. I've been stuck at the library screen forever.

[FLYlas]

Holy shit, it Brother you are a life saver on this. Took me an hour and half at a snails pace to get it but it works for fallout 4. If I could shake your hand right now I would. U just won a sub!!!

[Djsanddy]

every steam deck owner needs to subscribe to your channel bro. Amazing content as always