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Get notifications on updates for this project. Get the SourceForge newsletter. JavaScript is required for this form. No, thanks. Project Activity. Categories Role-Playing. Mit einem Experten sprechen. User Ratings 5. User Reviews Filter Reviews: All. Best mod manager anywhere. The profile system for virtual installs is a must have.

Best Mod manager for Skyrim. It has steadilly improved with each release and is now widely accepted as the best Mod Manager for Skyrim. Mod Organizer is the best utility to happen to game modding since the pencil and paper was invented!

No more will you have to struggle with overwriting files as you incorrectly install mods. MO uses a 'virtual file system' that generates your modded game each time you load it. Simply download and install a mod, itself a painless operation with Nexus integration, then rearrange the order of each mod in the left hand pane until any potential conflicts are removed. Skyrim, Oblivion, Fallout New Vegas or Fallout 3 Add to that the ability to have 'Profiles' and your gaming just became a whole lot easier, and better.

Simply brilliant. Report inappropriate content. Thanks for helping keep SourceForge clean. X You seem to have CSS turned off. The Information dialog box for any mod may be accessed by either double-clicking the mod or via the context menu. Back then, anafuineluva, on 09 February asked this question, "Does ini tweaks apply over skyrim.

Is there a way to apply them to skyrimprefs. To which Tannin replied, "ini tweaks do not change skyrim. This means that if a setting exists in ini tweaks, that setting is used over any other ini. In fact, as it stands right now, ini tweaks should even overwrite settings from other ini files, i. I have made use the ini tweaks for the settings that S.

I set up a mod with them and installed it, this way when I switch profiles, I just enable it and do not have to worry about editing the ini itself. Nice feature. To set up a new custom tweak you can do a couple of things. MO will now show the new folder as a greyed out mos. An easier way to do this in the current version of MO, is if you have an empty overwrite folder to double click on it open it up and right click and create a new folder, you do not need to rename it. Click close to exit the overwrite folder dialog.

Give it a name that reflects what you want, something like Custom ini Tweaks and press OK. You now have a new mod named Custom ini Tweaks. In either case double click on the new mod to open the information pane and select the INI-Files tab.

Enter the name of the tweak in the dialog that pops up and click OK. Say you want to do the fonts from Darnified UI. Name the tweak Darn fonts and click OK. Click on the new entry and in the big box on the right copy and paste the whole section from the readme starting with the [Fonts] header. The save button will become active, click it to save the tweak and close the information pane. Re-open the information pane and the new tweak will now have a check box next to it, click it to put a check in the box to activate it.

Another option is if a mod needs a certain entry for the mod to function right you can just open the mod and create the tweak for it there. This way the tweak will be enabled when the mod is.

A condensed version of the above is:. Mod Filtering. Mod Organizer MO allows multiple ways to find and view mods through grouping, searching, and filtering.

Currently you can group mods together two different ways via the drop-down menu at the bottom center of the left pane.

You can group by categories or Nexus IDs. As a visual hint, the modlist will be placed inside a green box when mod grouping is active. If you wish to turn off mod grouping, select No Grouping from the drop-down menu. Along with the icons in the flag column showing conflicts, there is also a colour-highlighting applied to mods that are either 'winning' or 'losing' a conflict with the selected mod.

Mod Organizer has an advanced filtering system, making mod organization easy. To access it, click the Filter button at the left, bottom corner of the Left Pane. This will pop out a sidebar of different filters in it, which are discussed below. Filters may be combined by using the And or Or commands at the bottom of the sidebar. Using the And command will filter through and only show mods that meet all selected filter criteria.

Conversely, the Or command will show all mods that meet at least one of the filter's criteria. As a visual hint, the modlist will be placed inside a red box when filters are active. Here you can quickly find your mods by simply typing in parts of their name. Right Pane. Load order can easily be modified by dragging and dropping into the correct position. For more information, see Priorities. If you right-click inside the Plugins tab, you will find you have three options:.

Selecting multiple plugins by Ctrl-clicking allows you to toggle the selection with the 'Spacebar'. The Lock load order button can be useful if you want certain plugins to be in a specific order. If you select a bunch of mods and lock them in this order, those mods will always end up in that order, although other plugins may slip in between them. If a mod contains assets in a BSA file, it will appear in the Archives tab under the mod's name.

This will extract the BSA's contents to any folder you choose. That means their priority depends solely on the mod priority order and not the plugin priority order load order. If you decide to do this, please note that you will have to load BSAs through dummy plugins. The Data tab provides an overview of how the Skyrim Data directory is seen when a program is launched through Mod Organizer.

The File column tells the name of the file and the Mod column tells us the source of the file. If the name reported in the Mod column is colored red, another mod is active that would have provided the same file, but the mod reported in red is currently overwriting that file. If you hover over the red mod name, it will tell you where the conflicting file is located.

Ticking Show only conflicts at the bottom of this tab will cause it to only display files that have conflicts between mods. The context menu in the Data tab accessed by right-clicking provides several useful options.

The Add as Executable option is useful to add applications installed to the data directory quickly to Mod Organizer's list of executables. The Hide option will add a. The Write to file option will create a text file listing every single file in your virtual data directory and its source. It will present you with a Save As dialog box, to which you can type whatever name you want for the filename.

It is suggested to add a. The Refresh option, as well as the big refresh button at the top of the tab, will check for any changes and make sure what you are seeing is current and accurate. The Saves tab displays your saved games. Hovering the mouse over a save brings up information about that save, including which ESPs used in the save are missing from the current profile. The image at the right shows a save with no missing plugins, the text: Missing ESPs , is just the header, not a statement of the save condition.

Right-clicking and selecting Fix Mods This provides a simple way to put all your mods for any particular save back into their original configuration. The Downloads tab is where all mods downloaded through Mod Organizer are stored. To learn more, visit the Downloading Mods tab. General Settings. To configure new categories, go to Settings and click Configure Mod Categories button across the bottom of the General tab.

You will get a new window with the existing categories listed. If you cannot see all of the information in this window stretch it by dragging the right or left edge out a bit. You can do the following in this window:. Single-click on a category to select it. The entire row will become highlighted. To add a missing category, right-click on any of the existing categories to get a little pop-up that will let you add or remove a category. Click the Add entry.

A new blank category will be created above the highlighted category. MO will assign a new ID to the category with "new" as the name for it. To add the missing Nexus category, go to the Nexus main page , hover over the Files button at the top of the page, and then select Categories to open the Categories page. To get Nexus IDs, hover over one of the categories and somewhere in your browser you should see the link preview. Go back to MO and highlight your new category.

Double-click on the Nexus IDs field and enter the number you got in the previous step. Double-click on the name field to rename from "new" to the category name you want to use. You may have noticed that some categories have nested sub-categories. You can do this from the same dialog as above. To nest a category you have to specify its Parent ID, the last column to the right of the window. If at any time you want to remove a category, highlight it, right-click and select remove. Various settings for some Mod Organizer plugins can be set in the Plugins tab in Settings.

To learn more, see the MO Plugin Extensibility section. Mod Organizer MO can be extended in a few ways through plugins.

There are currently three kinds of plugins: extensions, installers, and tools. Extensions add to the capabilities of Mod Organizer by adding support for other coding languages. Mods are packaged in many different ways. Installers allow MO to handle these different types of archives. These plugins usually work similar to stand-alone tools, but they can interfere with the main MO application e. Here are any plugins that have been blacklisted so that they are not enabled.

Plugins may become blacklisted if MO detects that they might have caused a crash. Use the delete key to remove any entries. Third Party Programs. When you use Mod Organizer MO , all other programs that work with mods i. The same is true for all launchers you may use e. Some of the well-known tools for the games supported by MO are automatically detected and added to your list of executables.

Other tools must be added manually. A list of automatically detected tools are shown at the end of this page. To launch a game after it has been added to MO's list of executables, select the application from the drop-down list on the top right and click Run. When you open the Modify Executables dialog by clicking the gears button, several fields present themselves:. Some executables are added to your list of executables if they are installed at their default location.

MO does not search the filing system for them. All of them need to be in the game's base directory i. Originally BOSS was supposed to be installed inside the data folder. Later that was changed so BOSS got its own directory; therefore, there are two locations MO looks in currently: the BOSS folder inside the game's base directory and the data folder inside the base directory.

Problem: An error occurs launching the application saying, "This application could not be started. Do you want to view information about this issue? General Solution: Check the application's mod in the Left Pane modlist. Problem: Launching an application fails.

Mod Organizer locks for a few seconds, but then simply unlocks and does nothing. Probable cause: The application is installed as a mod in Mod Organizer, but is unchecked in the Left Pane modlist.

Problem: Launching an application produces an "Elevation required" message. Probable cause: The application being launched requires administrative permissions. General Solution: Click the Yes button if you trust the application to have administrative privileges. Problem: The application launches correctly, but fails to use the custom argument s entered in the Modify Executables dialog.

Probable Cause: You are launching the application from a shortcut that was created before the custom argument s were added. General Solution:. BodySlide 2 and Outfit Studio. The Creation Kit should be automatically detected and added to the executables list upon first startup, so there is no setup necessary.

Using the Creation Kit with MO is a bit complicated currently, however, for the following reasons:. If for whatever reason the Creation Kit is not in your list of applications, you may add it manually by doing the following:. What you see here is what MO exposes to all programs started from inside MO, including Skyrim itself. The same is true for the other three non-free DLC's. When you navigate to the directory where the regular skyrim.

Its also possible to edit both ini files. Now each time you want to run LOOT, simply select it from the drop-down menu at top right and click Run. Skyrim Script Extender should automatically be detected and added to executables.

If for whatever reason it is not detected, it may be added by doing the following:. To add any SkyProc program to executables:. Problem: Patcher failing due to esps sorted incorrectly throws an error saying something akin to missing master. Probable Cause: You have an esp in your load order which requires a master which currently is lower in your load order than the esp requiring the master.

Problem: Patcher failing, throwing an error saying it cannot find something, or some other random error. Probable Cause: Java is out of date. Problem: Patcher failing, throwing an error related to memory. Probable Cause: Java is running out of memory to perform the operation. Possible Solution:. To add xEdit to executables:. Wrye Bash comes in two variants: standalone and Python. The standalone version may be added to MO like any other program, however you have to set python. Mod Organizer MO allows the user to create shortcuts to launch applications through it.

To place a shortcut on the Toolbar or to remove it if it is there already :. By default, Start Menu and Desktop shortcuts created through Mod Organizer display its icon and not the icon of the application to be launched. This can be changed by altering the shortcut's icon settings. To do so:. It is possible to make a shortcut profile-specific. This only works for Desktop and Start Menu shortcuts. If this is done, it will only run in the profile specified.

To create a profile-specific shortcut:. To go to your newly created profile s , simply select it from the drop-down list at top left. Alternatively, you can access the Profile drop-down list by pressing F4 currently only works when you first activate the MO window. The Local Saves option allows you to keep saves separate from other profiles, rather than all mixed together. Checking Local Saves will make the game look for saves in your profile's save folder instead of the default location.

Clicking the Transfer Saves button will allow you to copy or move characters into the profile. MO takes copy of the game INI files upon first launch. Mod Organizer allows you to backup your profile's modlist in the Left Pane and restore it if the need arises. To backup your profile's modlist , click the Create Backup button to the right of the profile drop-down menu.

You can, however, backup your profile's plugin list in the Plugins tab in the Right Pane. To restore a previous modlist , click the Restore Backup Upon restoring a backup, any mods not active at time of backup will be unchecked, and all priority changes since the backup will be reverted.

Also, any new mods since the backup will be unticked and in alphabetical order at the bottom of your modlist. Mods may be downloaded via Mod Organizer MO by clicking the Download with Manager buttons on the Nexus mod sites once set up to do so see step 5 in the Initial Setup section under the Installation tab. Mods can also be downloaded manually and subsequently installed to MO using the Archive button in the toolbar.

MO collects meta information after the download has completed, including the mod's name, version, and Nexus ID. When a downloaded mod is installed, the meta information determines the name that MO suggests for the mod. Once installed, the Nexus ID and version number is imprinted on the installed mod's information. If meta information has not been collected for a downloaded mod, a warning icon will appear in front of the mod in the Downloads tab.

To attempt to retrieve the information:. In many cases the meta information collection will fail despite following these steps. This is caused by one of the three following problems:. Using any text editor, like Notepad , simply fill in the details as you would with any other ini file. This information has no bearing on the functionality of Mod Organizer, other than telling it where the mod came from. Check the Settings section for more details.

Possible solutions: There are many reasons why this may happen. Please try these possible fixes:. Problem: Attempting to install a downloaded mod file produces a "None of the available installer plugins were able to handle that archive. Probable Cause 1: The downloaded file is corrupt. General Solution 1: Re-download the file. General Solution 2: Unfortunately there is a problem with the 7Zip library supplied by 7Zip and it refuses to manage that compression method.

The only recourse is to manually unpack the archive, the 7Zip Manager does handle this archive properly, and repack it using another compression method. This association, unfortunately, is all encompassing and steals the association from Nexus Mod Manager. If you are using Nexus Mod Manager to manage other games that MO does not support you cannot use the download with manager button as it is associated with MO. The solution to this problem is provided in the ModOrganizer folder in the form of a program called nxmhandler.

This little program will allow you to associate another application to handle nxm links alongside MO. To set up an association to another game and another MO do the following:. The Mod Exists dialog box appears whenever you try to install a mod with the same name as an existing mod.

This normally occurs when installing optional files for mods or updating a mod. The Merge button typically should be chosen when installing optional files that are add-ons to the mod. This simply adds the files to the existing mod, overwriting any existing files. The Replace button generally should be chosen when upgrading a mod to a new version containing all required assets.

This deletes all files in the mod and installs the new files in its place. The Rename button allows you to install the mod under a different name , allowing you to keep the file contents separate from the main mod, or enabling you to install different versions of the same mod.

The Cancel button stops installation. Ticking the Keep Backup checkmark in combination with either the Merge or Replace options will create a backup of the mod before installing the file.

To restore the backup:. When you open most archives, the Name box will show you the name of the mod as parsed from the meta info collected when it was downloaded. If no meta info was collected, it will display the filename of the archive minus the appended Nexus ID and version number. You can rename the mod to anything you desire or keep the name. To speed up the naming process, you can click the down arrow which will present a drop-down box with suggestions of other names based on other mods you've installed sharing the same Nexus ID, the name of the mod archive itself, the name of the mod archive with the Nexus ID and version number attached, and the actual name of the mod from the Nexus.

Mod archives are packaged in three different ways that MO currently supports:. If the archive is not packaged in any of the first three ways, it will open the manual installation dialog.

Please note:. Any mod can be installed manually; it just takes a lot of work. You must read the mod's installation instructions to determine what files you need to put where. Most of the time, however, manual installation within MO's manual installation dialog is quite simple.

When the manual installation dialog comes up, the first thing you should notice is the red text in the bottom left corner that says No game data at top level. The first time this happens, a little tutorial should appear and guide you through the manual installation workflow.

Once the message at the bottom corner turns to a green Looks good , pressing OK will install the mod. Most of the time when the manual installation dialog comes up, you'll see a data folder and a readme. In these cases, most of the time you can simply right-click the data folder, select Set data directory and install.

If you set the wrong directory, simply right-click and select the Unset data directory option. Some archives may be more complex, and you may have to move files around into a common data directory to correctly install. Read the installation section and readmes to find out what goes where. You can open an included readme by right-clicking and selecting Open. You can create new folders within the manual installation dialog by right-clicking the directory level you want to place the folder and selecting Create directory.

Some mods may require many directories to be created to place the file in the correct path. If you mess up, you can always modify it in the installed mod's Filetree tab. You can move files around within the manual installation dialog by dragging and dropping them within the appropriate directory.

The simple archive is naturally the easiest to install and thankfully is the most common. It presents you with a Quick Install window with only three options. The Manual button will open up the manual installation dialog. The OK button will install the mod.