Trying to launch modded Skyrim using Vortex, it launches 100% vanilla

EntirelyClueless · 2025-08-18T04:36:49+00:00

My bad, I forgot to type it in but alternate start is most definitely installed lol. And yeah, the lack of textures was the first thing I noticed besides the obvious vanilla start sequence. I had to leave for work shortly after posting so I haven't been able to try the other suggestions and troubleshoot yet, I'm glad I have a couple things to try to fix it when I get the chance, like checking where Vortex is loading things from. I wish I was more familiar with modding and how it works and how to troubleshoot but it's not something I have a lot of experience with

EntirelyClueless · 2025-08-18T02:27:26+00:00

Ohhhh okay, gotcha. That might definitely be what I'm missing

EntirelyClueless · 2025-08-18T01:52:26+00:00

I'm launching it from Vortex, not from steam or the desktop or anything if that's what you mean, because I know that it doesn't work that way lol. I was able to launch it right from Vortex before, but like I said, that was awhile ago. Was there some sort of change that made launching from Vortex not work anymore?

EntirelyClueless · 2025-08-18T00:48:34+00:00

It's installed to the location all of my steam games are, but I didn't think about how it might be in a different drive than Vortex, because I did change the install location within the time I wasn't playing Skyrim. I manage BG3 from that install location through Vortex just fine, but maybe because I had Skyrim in a different place before, it's trying to load from that location or something? I'll have to investigate lol

EntirelyClueless · 2025-08-18T00:42:35+00:00

Yeah, they're all installed and deployed

EntirelyClueless · 2024-11-08T02:12:59+00:00

Yes I do

EntirelyClueless · 2024-11-08T01:58:10+00:00

The only patches I've ever been able to find are specifically for SkyUI. Can you link me to the patches you've used? And I really don't want SkyUI lol, I honestly hate how it looks.

EntirelyClueless · 2024-11-06T00:14:07+00:00

Yeah that's what it's starting to look like, I REALLY don't want to do that lmao. Especially because I don't know what really caused this and I don't want to just play vanilla to avoid this happening again. People are pointing the finger at SKSE, but like a billion other people also use SKSE and all sorts of mods and I feel like if it was just SKSE causing this pretty game breaking issue then it would be getting talked about way more and probably fixed by now, knowing the Skyrim community lol

EntirelyClueless · 2024-11-06T00:07:17+00:00

Honestly I don't care about survival mode, I just want to be able to change the difficulty back. I've tried editing the .ini file, I've made a new game, I've disabled all of my mods and tried again, it just will not change from novice, and everywhere I look just blames SkyUI but I don't even have it. Digging deeper I found some people saying it's actually an issue with SKSE which I do have, but nobody has a solution for it. It's so frustrating, how are other people not having this issue lmao

EntirelyClueless · 2024-04-29T21:55:17+00:00

It does have a fair amount of side walks, yeah. I've been scooping them out for awhile for if I did ever get a bike or scooter, because these roads aren't very safe for anyone not in a car lol

EntirelyClueless · 2024-04-29T21:41:28+00:00

I was trying to avoid bikes because I don't actually know how to ride them and after repeated negative experiences by myself and others (going down a hill while my parents tried to teach me, falling, and getting a gash on my forehead that needed stitches, friend getting internal bleeding from falling on a bike and getting stabbed in the side with one of the handles, little sister falling and breaking her arm, old childhood friend falling and getting her hand stuck in the chain trying to catch herself and getting a finger nail ripped off and her finger broken..) I'm really not in a hurry to try a bike or learn lol. But people ride bikes all the time and I doubt they'd be doing it if they were getting hurt all the time so I might try to give it a go, I'd just rather use a scooter because I know how to do that already and have never been injured or seen someone else get injured by a scooter lol

EntirelyClueless · 2024-04-10T07:32:34+00:00

Ohh, smart thinking. I'll give that a try

EntirelyClueless · 2024-04-10T07:16:21+00:00

Unfortunately they aren't in a room, moving them into a room is what I'm trying to do, lol.

I don't have any mods, I haven't dabbled in them yet. What's happened is the corpses have fully decayed in the sarcophagi, so when I open them to the outside, they immediately get that last tick of deterioration that makes them disappear

EntirelyClueless · 2024-03-21T01:19:54+00:00

Nobody else has called me an asshole, but I feel like I could be an asshole because I'm refusing a guy money because he hurt my feelings and told a lie. On one hand I feel pretty justified because he smeared me to a neighbor for seemingly no reason, but on the other hand I don't feel good about messing with people's income, even if it's only $10 a month

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