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How do you install mods for Skyrim Special Edition? (lemmynsfw.com)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Seriously. I don't know that it can be done on Linux. There was a user on protondb that claimed the game works "even with lots of mods" but there's no way to message people on there and ask them how the fuck they got something to work.

Every single mod requires "Unnoffical Skyrim Special Edition Patch" just about. That mod has esps in it. Esp mods cannot be installed without LOOT which can't run on Linux. Even if I add my mod load order in plugins.txt and write protect it, the game still somehow erases it and refused to load any mods.

Has anyone here got Skyrim special edition mods working on Linux? How did you hack the mod loading and the load order to work without LOOT?

WHY THE FUCK DO THEY HAVE TO MAKE THINGS MORE COMPLICATED THAN DRAGGING AND DROPPING SOME FUCKING FILES

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (12 children)

This is what I use: https://github.com/rockerbacon/modorganizer2-linux-installer

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

I really don't want to use a mod manager but I guess if no one posts a better fix I'll do it. The fix to get manually installed mods to work is likely going to be just 1 secret config file change, I just have to figure out what it is.

Edit: MO2 replaces the executable with an executable that I assume is the ui for MO2 which fails to run on my system. This doesn't patch out the Plugins.txt getting replaced either. I'm not sure that MO2 helps here. This is Skyrim special edition, not the original release. They made the mod situation shittier like they did in Starfield so not all of the same fixes and workarounds that have been working on Linux for the past decade still work.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I have the same setup with SE working. Why does it fail to run on your system? Did you install protontricks like it said in the MO2 installer readme?

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