Profiles VS Instances | Mod Organizer Guide Skyrim

What are Profiles & Instances? How Are They Different? Let's Look At Which YOU Should Be Using

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00:00 Profiles Vs Instances
00:50 What Are Profiles?
02:18 What Are Instances?
03:13 Which To Choose
03:48 Next Episode
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Guiding You To Understanding The Difference Between Profiles & Instances And Which You Should Choose. What are the Pros & Cons for both Instances & Profiles? Mod Organizer allows you to separate your Mod List's. Let's look at how to do this

New To MO2? Moving from Vortex? Or simply looking to make the most out of the application. This video series starts with the Basics and moves on to all aspects of this mod manager allowing you to enhance your Skyrim SE/AE Modding Experience
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[cookieface]

Rare these days to see a video that's short and gets to the point like this. Thanks.

[zachnightingale]

clear and concise, and explained so much without waffling on. perfect video.

[sam-lucas]

Hello mate just wanted to say these MO2 guides are fantastic. I haven't modded Skyrim properly since using NMM almost ten years ago and these vids you're making are putting me right as ease.

[cliff]

Great video! You mentioned compatibility patches. I was a little nervous about this issue, because I recall merging certain mods during install on main profile, and I have no idea how that may affect certain mods during a new profile. As far as I know, you can't unselect merged items easily. You spoke about the problem of certain tools modifying the main mod too. Anyway thanks for the helpful lesson!

[seekingfinding]

Besides all the good points made on other comments, I liked that you spoke slowly and clearly. Definitely worth watching and liking!

[FuarkAestheticBrah]

The video that nobody asked for but that we all needed

[TheBitt]

Great work on these videos! Thank you!

[anthonygregory]

Thanks for that explanation, now I understand 👍

[Paradox]

Really nice video, great pacing, and good descriptions with enough info not to be overwhelming.

[cliff]

Question: when using either instances or profiles, have you run into problems with the core Skyrim game files? Or put another way, do any common modding apps alter Steam's install folder in a way that will mess with a new profile?

[tonebonetones]

I am getting a slightly bizarre error message on my 2nd MO2 profile, having come back to Skyrim after a year plus.
On my main MO2 profile, I successfully updated all the main mods and skse64, and can play the game no problem. However, when trying to do so with the second profile, I am getting a "REL/Relocation.h(718)" error, upon loading through skse in MO2 as per the usual routine. The error message specifies Data/SKSE/Plugins/version.lib - 1-6-640--0.bin not being able to find the address library for this version.
However, the path in the executables appears to show the main skyrim se game folder where, indeed, the latest skse64 is installed, just like my main profile does. A lot of the mods I have updated stipulate downloading the latest AE versions, even though I am playing Skyrim SE, because thats now the version SE is at.
In theory, as per your video, this second profile looks in exactly the same places for required information that my main profile does? Clearly, however, I am missing something, so I'm having a day off, as it was making my head spin checking addresses, game versions, updated mods, etc for an hour last night and getting nowhere. Any suggestions would be apprciated.

[Stanbacchus]

your videos deserve more views, as they are excellent at clearly outlining potentially intimidating or complex aspects of modding in a way that nearly all new and old alike will be able to understand. Modding involves more than just getting a list of cool looking mods and throwing them together and this kind of information is vital in the journey to the 'perfect' game ;). Your tips on naming conventions and when to use Instances v profiles is spot-on. I commented in another of your videos but will say it again- cheers for taking time to go over some of the basic but critical aspects in such a methodical way- I wish I had access to these vids earlier!

[abilawaandamari]

Is it safe to move a global instance to a different drive and then just change the path in MO2?

[galimirnund]

So, I'm no programmer at all lol. But, all that needs to be done is put in a few folder paths that will put loadorder and plugins in the appdata GoG folder? I confuse myself... can you do that within MO2? I chose instance and portable, then I could decide where the files were stored. I'm so new to this lol

[Phoenix]

Would a new instance also be used if you want to start a different game (like say F:NV or Fallout 4) or do you have download MO2 again and put it into a different folder separate from your current MO2 in order to mod a different game?

[wonderlandsgamezone]

stil forces it to instal it on my C drive.
even when i instal MO2 on my game drive and press advinced instalation and set all to my game drive, it stil force it on my C drive

[anterasosuke]

So I want to start a new game with some of the mods I have in my first playthrough but delete some that i like using on the other plqthrough while keeping that playtrhough intact, how is this achieved via profile r instances?

[Mabra]

I've watched this like three times but am still confused about instances.
Does every game need to be its separate instance ? What's the difference between portable and global ?

[Senator-Wary]

I made a new instance and It copied all of my mods over to the new one is that normal?

[AK_-xnfm]

Will these concepts work basically the same as if I am installing mods for like FO3 or FNV? Came here to figure out instances to get Tale of Two Wastelands working.