What Does Purge Mods Do In Vortex (2024)

FAQs

What Does Purge Mods Do In Vortex? ›

Purge is a cleanup process. If files are installed, then they will get deployed again on Vortex restart. It is meant to clear obsolete links from Data folder, if any are left behind.

If you want to take your game back to a default, unmodded state, you can use Vortex's Purge feature. Click the Purge Mods button from the Mods list and Vortex will undeploy all your enabled mods, leaving your game directory essentially unmodded.

You open your mod manager and then on the left side, click on "Switches the Mod Manager views", then select the mods you want to delete at once by either holding "CTRL" or if you want to delete all mods then click "CTRL + A" and once the mods you want to delete are selected, press "Delete".

Vortex is designed to seamlessly interact with Nexus Mods allowing you to easily find, install, and play mods from our site, learn about new files and catch the latest news.

Start Vortex using Steam Collection

Vortex will start, with the selected game preconfigured and ready to mod. When you exit Vortex the selected game will start normally (with your mods).

Vortex adds your mods to the mod install path, then makes a hard link to your mod install location when deployed. Each deployment will check and rebuild all Hard links.

Each game will have an independant staging folder, by default these are stored at %AppData%\Vortex\{GAMEID}\mods . You can check the location of the staging folder for each game by heading to Settings -> Mods -> Mod Staging folder. Ensure you collect all folders and files here and move them to the new PC.

All mod files shared on our website must pass through several security checks before they can be downloaded by the community. If any of these checks fail during the upload process, the file will be quarantined and will be unavailable until it has been reviewed by a moderator.

incredibly outdated and no longer supported by anyone. If you're using another mod manager then just try NMM CE if you don't like the current one, or maybe if NMM CE supports a game the other manager doesn't.

Vortex uses LOOT to sort. The reason you are seeing a difference is that some mods can be placed just about anywhere and still work.

What does it mean to deploy mods in Vortex? ›

A deployment method refers to how Vortex installs your mods so they load when the game is launched. When adding a supported game to Vortex, it will automatically choose the best deployment method for your game and system.

Vortex Mod Manger (VMM) supports "ghosting" files, which essentially means renaming them, but it didn't work very well in my testing. As a result, deleting the files is the best option. However, keep the following in mind: Steam will attempt to download those files again.

Removing mods from the Collection Workshop

Each mod entry includes a "Remove" button on the right side of table to remove the mod from the Collection.