help :( my MO is messed :(

[sophiextime]

Hi. 

 

My MO is messing up and i am unsure whats going on.

 

My MO seems to have lost the main esm's, or so its saying Missing Master files, and its also ghosted a Gwenda outfit MOD and in its folder its placed a whole bunch of my mods, rendering them useless.

Its dont this further down with Realistic water and a Tats Mod. its like is compressed MODS into a mod. o.o

 

For example, headtracking. 

 

If i load a save my headtracking is not showing up in MCM or game ( player doesnt headtrack and no headtrack MCM menu)  and seems to be stuck in the ghosted Gwenda MOD with a bunch of others. all my priority list is messed about and i am getting CTD's when i try to lad a save, yet when i hover my mouse over a save in the MO tab its isnt giving me any message about missing files. 

 

And if i hit F4 to save a game while playing and then hit F9 it says it cant load the save as its corrupt

 

here is some screenshots of my MO.

 

Help!!!

 

 

[sophiextime]

i am so seriously think of ditching this stupid MO and going back to NMM as its een nothing but hell. 

 

ok so i got the random CTD before or maybe yeah, its not as 'efficient' but this MO has messed up and screwed with my PC and my Skyrim as i am not technically minded and always seem to F**K things up!

 

 

 

[randomtguy]

I don't know why it isn't finding your masters, are you sure they're in the main Skyrim directory? If not you may have to open Steam, right click on Skyrim, click on properties, choose the local files tab and select "verify integrity of game cache". That'll get Steam to redownload them, just be sure to back up your inis first as they may be overwritten. I didn't even know it was possible to nest mods like that, I can't figure out how you've done it, but you could try just selecting all the mods listed under riding hoods with shift click and dragging them up above that mod. You may also need to reinstall all the 'unmanaged' mods through MO. If they're unmanaged that means they're in the main directory, you should probably delete the files to prevent conflicts. It might be worth deleting everything from /skyrim/data except the vanilla files, and then reinstalling SKSE (and FNIS unless you have it installed as a mod through MO).

 

MO's a bit more complicated to use than NMM but it really is superior once you learn how to use it, IMO anyway.

[sophiextime]

well i have just spent probably 9 or 10 hours setting it up and then trying to work out why its totally screwed my skyrim to the point i cant even load a save.

 

So as much as this is the 'super duper' Organiser for Modded skyrim, in my opinion it totally sucks and unless you get it set up 100% flawlessly your in a world of hurt.

 

So i am gonna sart everything from complete scratch, delete everything and anything related to skyrim and then use NMM. At least with Nexus it made sense and i knew what was where and why it was there.

 

This is just a complete screw up and i havent got another 10 hours of my life to watse trying to even work out why it did this.

 

 

[Dinosaurus]

well i have just spent probably 9 or 10 hours setting it up and then trying to work out why its totally screwed my skyrim to the point i cant even load a save.

 

So as much as this is the 'super duper' Organiser for Modded skyrim, in my opinion it totally sucks and unless you get it set up 100% flawlessly your in a world of hurt.

 

So i am gonna sart everything from complete scratch, delete everything and anything related to skyrim and then use NMM. At least with Nexus it made sense and i knew what was where and why it was there.

 

This is just a complete screw up and i havent got another 10 hours of my life to watse trying to even work out why it did this.

 

As Lafayette in True Blood says "Don't blame the Ferrari just because your ass can't drive."

 

Sorry Mod Organizer is too complicated for you, but there is nothing "it" did wrong. You did something wrong as the user because you didn't understand how to use it. That's not Mod Organizer's fault, nor the creator of Mod Organizer's fault. Yes it has a steeper learning curve than Nexus Mod Manager, although i was able to understand Mod Organizer in less than 15 minutes of playing with it, but my mind might just work differently than yours. How MO worked made complete sense to me.. right away.

 

i'd love to help you, but i'm not the best teacher and not very patient. If NMM was easier for you and your frustrated with MO, ya, for your own sanity it could be best to go back to what is easier.

 

i just found it kind of "funny" that you seem to think something is wrong with MO simply because you can't figure it out. MO didn't work because you did something incorrectly. It's probably easier to be mad at the program than to be mad at yourself for not having the patience or whatever to figure the program out.

 

On a more sensitive note, having to fully start over from scratch with Skyrim sucks. BUT if you installed MO correctly you should *not* have to do that *ever*. There should be zero reason to have to "delete everything having to do with Skyrim", because *Nothing* that has to do with MO *ever* touches your real Skyrim files. Deleting the entire Mod Organizer directly will delete *everything* MO did/does/installs. It touches nothing else. If things are wrong with your actual real Skyrim directory then you had a problem already that has nothing to do with MO.

 

Still good luck, i hope you are able to get a stable game running and get a chance to relax and play.

[Jeffrey Lane]

did you run TES5edit thru MO? if you did your cleaned esm files should be in your overwrite folder (mine we're atleast) that would be why it says it cant find them. (i saw that message too after cleaning mine)

[gvman3670]

Most of your problem was you have tons of stuff in the Skyrim/data folder. Mod Organizer needs to be used with a clean Skyrim, not one you've already messed up with manual or NMM installs.

 

Fix your Skryim folder (Steam verify) and ONLY add mods through MO afterward. Remember, MO is simply a data folder outside the game. It's all it is. So anything you'd put in the Skyrim/data folder now goes in Mod Organizer. Simple as that.

[Saviorsrd]

Most of your problem was you have tons of stuff in the Skyrim/data folder. Mod Organizer needs to be used with a clean Skyrim, not one you've already messed up with manual or NMM installs.

 

Fix your Skryim folder (Steam verify) and ONLY add mods through MO afterward. Remember, MO is simply a data folder outside the game. It's all it is. So anything you'd put in the Skyrim/data folder now goes in Mod Organizer. Simple as that.

 

Agree with this - MO's strength, and the reason it's so beloved, is that it works in such a way that no files are ever actually overwritten.  I have tried various hybrid approaches with MO and manual installs and I've always regretted it.  Which doesn't seem to stop me...*keeps building STEP install files*

 

But yes.  Most important thing when switching to Mod Organizer is going back to one last vanilla Skyrim install, add SKSE, ENBoost, and any other tools that need to be in the \Skyrim directory, and stop.  From there on, use MO to handle your .inis, install mods, and so on.  Don't use Steam Workshop, don't use NMM (unless you really want its' download manager), PLEASE don't use Wyre Bash (other than for Bashed Patches, of course), just do it all through MO and about 70% of your modding headaches go away.

 

Hey, it's good, it's not the Second Coming.