For example if I want to play Fallout New Vegas with DUST and switch to Nuclear Sunset.
I feel like having multiple installations of the same game is the easiest way if I have the space for it. They would both share the same FalloutNV folder for the INI files and save games and I'm wondering would this cause issues?
It would be easy enough to basically copy files back and forth when I want to play one version versus the other. Maybe a simple batch script that moves a FalloutNV folder into the My Games folder before running the game and, when the game is exited, moves the FalloutNV into the same directory as the game's executables.
I feel like the modding scene for Bethesda games is big enough that there must be an easy, more polished, solution to this.
I tried looking up solutions online but a lot of forums posts get wrapped up in Steam not easily allowing you to have two installs of the same game.
Some older posts recommend applications such as Skyrim Installation Swapper but it seems like people may have moved past them. There hasn't been a new comment in the post tab or update for years.
I imagine profiles and instances provided by managers could help but I don't know how well they do with hundreds of mods. Nuclear Sunset for example uses Tale of Two Wastelands as its base which I feel like could cause issues.
4 Comments
aceslip@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 156d
I believe you should be able to do this with Mod Organizer. It should have instances of different mod collections or mods enabled/disabled.
Maiq@piefed.social · 4 pts · 156d
It does and works well. You can even have different game.ini files. You can copy profiles with or without saves making it easy to start a fresh game with mods that have update incompatibilities.
speedythefirst@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 156d
Having separate installs of MO2 for each mod list. Make sure you're using rootbuilder to you keep your game file folder clean and you'll be golden
CorrodedCranium@leminal.space · 2 pts · 141d
Thanks for the comments @aceslip@lemmy.zip @Maiq@piefed.social and @speedythefirst@lemmy.zip. It seems like MO2 with instances would be the best approach.
I do wonder if there would be any way to accomplish this with Vortex. It would be nice to be able to have multiple mod collections installed but the only recommendation I have seen to accomplish this is through creating multiple user accounts on a PC.
I have read a bit about tools that convert Nexus Mods collections to work with MO2. (ex. Mod Manager Migrator) but haven't tried them myself. Maybe I will do that this month or the next.
Sorry for tagging all of you by the way but I thought it would be better than responding to the individual comments with more or less the same response.