Managing Mods for Steam Games with Vortex Mod Manager on Steam Deck SteamOS #steamdeck #nexusmods

In this video I will show you how to manage Mods for Steam Games with Vortex Mod Manager on Steam Deck SteamOS. The process is a little different to Non-Steam Games as those can be moved to the C Drive of the Vortex Prefix Folder and can be played there. For Steam Games, you need to move them back to the original location to play.

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[christop]

Hey man. Here is an update on this video (you helped me out on another regarding installing Vortex via Lutris). Got it all to work almost flawlessly for Skyrim AE edition on steam. only one mod from what i can see is not working properly (the UI mod), but I will figuere that out. Thank you so much for the help.

[starlightpastel]

Hey so, just so you know a lot of this is unnecessary. You shouldn't move any of the files you should create sim links between them, it will act as though the file has moved without actually moving it. You can do this by dragging and dropping but clicking link here instead of move or by copying a file's location and then right clicking somewhere clicking create new and clicking link then adding in the file path. Doing it this way also lets it be seen by vortex and steam at the same time since the file essentially exists in 2 places at once despite there only being 1 copy of it

[xkaosdark]

Thank you for this. Recently bought an OLED and i wanted to start modding. You made this simple for someone who isn't tech savy 😊

[TheNathanlockhart]

As you say, you can't run the steam game in the vortex prefix.
In your other video, Vortex throws up an error that you must start a game once to create a profile.
So if you need to start the game, but you can't do it in the Vortex prefix, what do you do? In your other video (with BG3) you run the game in Lutris using a wine runner. That seems to work for you with the non-steam version of BG3, but it doesn't seem to work for Steam games. (I'm actually curious why Vortex needed you to to start up BG3, but for Monster Hunter it didn't)
This video seems to at least confirm I'm putting all the right things in the right places, even if I still can't get it to work.
Thanks for your efforts on these videos regardless. Amazing somebody hasn't come up with an easier way to do this yet for Steam Deck

[axolotlcomic]

Coming here from a different video 👋
This helped a HUGE deal!

Edit: spoke too soon. Devil May Cry 5 mods aren't working for some reason, but I'll look into it

[MonomaniacalTV]

Hey bro, you probably wanna blur out that nudy mod that pops up on the Nexus page about halfway through the vid. Great tutorial though! honest to goodness this was super helpful.

[BebopBooper]

Fantastic video, sometimes the simplest solutions work the best

I went from downloading steam tinker launch to mod manager 2, than i saw this video...Thanks for the info!

[derbar]

Hey, would you recommend using Vortex instead of mod manager for the steam deck? Trying to get mods to work for skyrim SE.
New sub btw.

[squidge]

You are a beautiful beautiful man who saved my sanity and my soul.
A thousand thank yous 🙏🏼

[probablynotme]

Thank you for the guide, so if i want to install new mod i have to move the game folder to the vortex folder again ?

[正那]

Thanks very much, this video help me a lot, but I have a question.So after I've done that, when I want to manage mods again I need to drag the game folder in again, right？

[trentdpt]

I'm trying to do the BG3 modification, and I don't seem to be able to get it to work. I tried the method of putting Vortex in the normal C:drive area, and moving the BG3 folder in and out of the common section. But that didnt work. So tried the other solution of finding the pfx folder in the appropriate game location, but I can't get the Vortex Mod Manager to find the game in that drive_c folder

[WilliamMelton]

hmm have you attempted to use a symlink to avoid having to move the game folder back and forth? we may can optimize this some

[Shimbir-zfhz]

I knw this is prolly a late response love the guide vids btw since I’m not a tech savvy person I was hoping if you can do a Darktide mod guide I’ve been struggling I know your probably busy with other projects but thanks in advance

[felicia]

Heyy thank you so much for the video, worked for me with the steam version of Cyberpunk very well! One question: Do I have to drag my game folder to drive c and back to the common folder again every time I want to download a new mod? Thanks again!!

[justchuy]

So I followed your vid to install vortex and this vid is confusing because lutris wasn’t mentioned? Do I need to use lutris or can this video work with your previous instruction video for downloading vortex?

[Alex-P-]

I don't get this. If you move the game folder back to its original place, then Vortex Mod Manager will no longer be able to manage said game and apply the mods. Because the game folder is no longer in C drive. You moved it back.

So when you boot up the game, the mods shouldn't apply. Which is exactly what happened to me. Am I missing something here?

EDIT - Yeah, I am missing something. The mods apply even after moving said folder. Everything works. My man, I can't thank you enough. I've been trying to mods Dying Light for two days. Watched almost 10 vids, tried Bottles, Steam Tinker, Lutris, nothing worked.

This works. You got one massive like from me!

[justchuy]

Hey, thanks for the video. I have a few questions about vortex mod profiles. For instance, on skyrim I have a few vortex profiles with different mods enabled for different play throughs. Does this method support switching between profiles? Like after I’ve downloaded all my mods and moved the folder back to common will I be able to decide which mods will be active or inactive by switching the enabled profile in vortex before I start skyrim? I appreciate all your vids about steam deck modding.

[williamperry]

This may be a very stupid question but I’ve tried looking it up and can’t find a straight forward answer. I’m new the the whole steam/pc gaming and still figuring things out and not buying my deck until next week or I would have just already tested it myself. BUT if I have my modded games on nexus/vortex on my pc. Will those games be modded when I play them on my deck? Like can I mod the from my pc instead of using the steam deck?

[Ragiroth]

So I'm trying to mod the STEAM version of Kingdom Hearts 3. So moving KH3 to Vortex drive C didn't work. I tried moving Vortex inside KH3's folder and that still didn't work. Really not sure what to do. How do I know if I'm moving the right part of Vortex into the right part of KH3's folder? That's the only other thing I can think of.