One_Lunch_Man
Newcomer
Hey, I really screwed up and I'm hoping someone can help me figure out what I'm doing.
I recently had to move vortex and all the modded games I have with it to a second hard drive on my PC. Every other game works fine except Stardew. The problem is how SMAPI launches. In the past on my main in drive, I installed all my mods via Vortex, SMAPI included. It was super easy because it did everything automatically, and I could copy paste the launch options and I could toggle mods in vortex and smapi would recognize it.
The problem now is that SMAPI needs to be in the same folder as Stardew in order to launch and run mods. But vortex won't let a mod staging folder exist within the Stardew directory because its a "foreign software" and "can be changed" or something like that. So it forces me to use a different folder outside the game directory, which, of course, doesn't work. If I launch smapi in the game directory, it detects none of the vortex mods. If I move smapi back to the mods folder outside of the directory, it doesn't launch because Stardew's exe isn't there. I'm stuck in the endless circle of either not detecting the mods or not launching. I prefer using vortex because its super easy to install, update and disable mods, but I'm at a total loss of how it worked before, to how it doesn't work now.
If anyone knows whats going on and how to get it set up to work properly, I'd greatly appreciate the help.
I recently had to move vortex and all the modded games I have with it to a second hard drive on my PC. Every other game works fine except Stardew. The problem is how SMAPI launches. In the past on my main in drive, I installed all my mods via Vortex, SMAPI included. It was super easy because it did everything automatically, and I could copy paste the launch options and I could toggle mods in vortex and smapi would recognize it.
The problem now is that SMAPI needs to be in the same folder as Stardew in order to launch and run mods. But vortex won't let a mod staging folder exist within the Stardew directory because its a "foreign software" and "can be changed" or something like that. So it forces me to use a different folder outside the game directory, which, of course, doesn't work. If I launch smapi in the game directory, it detects none of the vortex mods. If I move smapi back to the mods folder outside of the directory, it doesn't launch because Stardew's exe isn't there. I'm stuck in the endless circle of either not detecting the mods or not launching. I prefer using vortex because its super easy to install, update and disable mods, but I'm at a total loss of how it worked before, to how it doesn't work now.
If anyone knows whats going on and how to get it set up to work properly, I'd greatly appreciate the help.