3. Installing a mod

Installing a mod

Theres a few ways to install a mod:

• Via the install button, This will open a file explorer where you can select the zip file
• The downloads tab, This will list all zip files in your downloads folder. From here you can press the install button. You can also have this tab scan another location with the locations button
• Via the nexus website. Some mods will have an install with mod manager button. Pressing this will install the mod into the current profile without having to download it manually first.
• Via the nexus window in the manager. This feature requires nexus premium. You can search for top downloaded mods, Trending, endoresed and tracked mods and install them directly.

In the very rare case where a game's mod needs to be in zip format (unextracted). You can right click the install mod button and disable extraction to add the zip file as a mod without extracting it

Mod not working or installing correctly?

Make sure both vcredist and d3dcompiler_47 are both installed into the prefix from the proton menu. If a Skyrim DLL fails to load, you may be missing one of these. Same is true for other games with similar errors.

Make sure to try both Hardlink and Symlink options Some mods don't work when symlinked and must be hardlinked, It's usually impossible to tell beforehand if this is the case but the mod will act as if it is not installed even if it is present in the target folder.

In rare cases the mod be just be not compatible with Linux. If the mod is being placed into the correct location, the issue is usually not with the manager

Removing a mod

• You can right click a mod and select "Remove mod" This will delete the mod and remove it from the deployed location if it is there
• You can also highlight multiple mods with shift+click and select remove selected
• Do not remove mods manually by going into the mods folder and deleting it. If the mod is currently deployed and hardlinked. Doing this will cause the hard link to collapse and the mods files may get stuck in the deployed location until you manually remove them from there. If you need to do this, Press restore first so the files are removed from the games location