Even the music conversions are awesome

Big fan preview showing lots of cool footage (Commentary not in English so I have no idea what's being said)

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One of the important points about this tutorial and this forum entry is it highlights the fact that I'm using a WINE Bottle, Winetricks, and Protontricks to accomplish using Mod Organizer 2 in Linux, and nothing else. And so far, I have succeeded. In short, all you need is WINE Staging, Winetricks, and Protontricks. That's it!

By "nothing else" I mean just that. I am not using Lutris in combination with WINE, which is cumbersome and has its own problems. Nor am I using a script to download and install old software that may or may not still function due to being outdated.

My tutorial aims to inform in clear language how to use WINE to install MO2 in any Linux distro and have it run like it is in Windows. And, because it is a WINE Bottle, WINE (along with Winetricks and Protontricks) will always be kept up-to-date. This means keeping MO2 up and running in Linux does not depend on outside sources for updates. All you have to do is keep YOUR system updated, and MO2 will always work. This makes this tutorial a fire-and-forget solution!

For the record, I am running Fedora 34, and I'm using the latest MO2, the latest LOOT, the latest Proton GE (via Steam), and so on.

Here is the link to the original post about me hacking out MO2 running in Linux. No more finagling with Lutris or bad tutorials! It works!

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Mod Organizer 2 in Linux - What does and doesn't work
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I have tested the functions of MO2 and their results in a WINE Bottle for each game listed below. Note that the MO2 Functions category includes such things as Steam Login (via API is the most dependable), editors for INI files, theme selection, MO2 updating, BSA unpacking, and all of the other functions. The only exception is for for downloading directly from Nexus (the NXM Linker). If there is a problem, It will be described in the appropriate category.



Oblivion
MO2 Launches Yes
MO2 Loads .dlls Yes - since installing Pythin in the Bottle, no .dll fails at MO2 startup.

MO2 Functions Yes

OMOD NO - OMOD functions problematic, may or may not work. When fails, breaks WINE Bottle and requires reinstall. OMM alone or run through MO2 not tested. Suspect MO2 omod.dll.

MO2 NXM Linker No - I have yet to implement a fix for Nexus download function.
MO2 VFS Yes
Script Extender Not yet tested.
LOOT via MO2 Not yet tested.
XEdit Not yet tested.
zEdit No - fails to load a specific .dll. This is a zEdit dev problem.
WryeBash Not yet tested.
Java 8 Not yet tested.
Python 10 Yes - Critical to MO2 function and stability.
ENBoost Not yet tested.
ENB Not yet tested.
ReShade Not yet tested.


Skyrim LE
MO2 Launches Yes
MO2 Loads .dlls Yes - since installing Python in the Bottle, no .dll fails at MO2 startup.
MO2 Functions Yes
MO2 NXM Linker No - I have yet to implement a fix for the Nexus download function.
MO2 VFS Yes
Script Extender Yes
LOOT via MO2 Yes
XEdit Yes
zEdit No - Fails to load a specific .dll. This is a zEdit dev problem.
WryeBash Not yet tested
Java 8 Yes - Patchers and other Java-based tools work.
Python 10 Yes - Critical to MO2 function and stability.
DXVK Yes - Can use in place of DirectX.
Sound Problematical - must use WINE override for Character voice and music. See NOTE 1.
ENBoost Not yet tested
ENB Not yet tested
ReShade Not yet tested


Skyrim SE/Aniversary
MO2 Launches Yes
MO2 Loads .dlls Yes - Since installing Python in the Bottle, no .dll fails at MO2 startup.
MO2 Functions Yes
MO2 NXM Linker No - I have yet to implement a fix for the Nexus download function
MO2 VFS Yes
Script Extender Yes (use Anniversary edition of SKSE64, regular version outdated)
LOOT via MO2 Yes
SSEEdit Yes (v4.0.4+)
zEdit No - Fails to load specific .dll. This is a zEdit dev problem.
WryeBash Yes (v309.1+)
Java 8 Yes - patchers and other Java-based tools work.
Python 10 Yes - Critical to MO2 functions and stability.
DXVK Yes - Can use in place of DirectX
Sound Yes - must use WINE override for Character voice and music
ENBoost Not yet tested
ENB Not yet tested
ReShade Not yet tested

Fallout 3
MO2 Launches Yes
MO2 Loads .dlls Yes
MO2 Functions Yes
MO2 NXM Linker No - I have yet to implement a fix for the Nexus download function
MO2 VFS Yes
Script Extender Yes, but! See NOTE 2.
LOOT via MO2 Not tested - See NOTE 2.
XEdit Not tested - See NOTE 2.
zEdit No - Fails to load a specific .dll. This is a zEdit dev problem.
WryeBash Not tested - See NOTE 2.
Java 8 Not tested - See NOTE 2.
Python 10 Not tested - See NOTE 2.
DXVK Yes - Can use in place of DirectX
Sound Problematical - must use WINE override for Character voice and music. See NOTE 1.
ENBoost Not yet tested - See NOTE 2.
ENB Not yet tested - See NOTE 2.
ReShade Not yet tested - See NOTE 2.

Fallout 4
MO2 Launches Yes
MO2 Loads .dlls Yes
MO2 Functions Yes (See screengrabs at ImageBox)
MO2 NXM Linker No - I have yet to implement a fix for the Nexus download function.
MO2 VFS Yes
Script Extender Yes
LOOT via MO2 Yes (See screengrabs at ImageBox)
FO4Edit Yes (See screengrabs at ImageBox)
zEdit No - Fails to load specific .dll. This is a zEdit dev problem.
WryeBash Yes
Java 8 Yes - patchers and other Java-based tools work.
Python 10 Yes - Critical to MO2 functions and stability.
DXVK Yes - Can use in place of DirectX
Sound Problematical - must use WINE override for Character voice and music. See NOTE 1.
ENBoost Not yet tested
ENB Does not work. See NOTE 3.
ReShade Yes


NOTE 1: With the correct .dll override, Character voice and music works as it should in Fallout 4 and Skyrim SE/AE. The difference between Fallout 4 and Fallout 3 is, the former is a 64-bit game, and the latter is 32-bit game. The same is true for Skyrim SE/AE and Skyrim LE, respectively. MO2 is generally set up in a 64-bit prefix, so the WINE .dll override is correctly implemented. Conversely, WINE does not yet fully support WMA, and I think this is a contributing factor to Character voice and music not working in 32-bit games. Perhaps an older, 32-bit version of MO2 is key in solving this issue - it is probably the reason why the Lutris installer for MO2 (last I checked) uses an older (and outdated) 32-bit version of MO2 for its install - as do most tutorials and installation scripts found here and there on the Web. Regardless, the WINE devs are working on this issue, so it should not be long before WMA support is fully integrated, and the problematic sound fix goes away.

NOTE2: Since the GFW update, FOSE can not be used because the game launcher version has changed. Also, regardless of the operating system being Windows or Linux using WINE, some DLCs will not load. For example, Anchorage DLC doesn't load on my Steam edition of Fallout 3 GOTY at all, and The Pitt DLC may or may not load depending on which phase the Moon is in at the moment. These issues need to be resolved by Bethesda and the Silverlock team, and the Silverlock team can't do anything until Bethesda fixes Fallout 3.

NOTE 3: ENB does not work in some games, such as Fallout 4, and I suspect this is so because it requires an older binary version that just isn't available for download anymore. Perhaps if Boris reads this he'll make a small repo for downloading older versions of ENB. I'll reach out to Boris and update this section when I get a response.

I was following the tutorial from "MO2 Linux Installer" I was able to install MO2 for both FO4 and FNV with out any problems but I'm having a bit of an issue installing MO2 for FO3.

I get an error saying,

Downloads: install.sh - Konsole
New Tab, I Split View ~
L Copy
Paste
Q Find :
INFO: all dependencies met
INFO: selected game 'fallout3_goty'
INFO: found Steam in •/home/deck/. local/share/Steam'
INFO: game not found in '/home/deck/. local/share/Steam•
INFO: game not found in '/run/media/deck/Itb CF Drive'
INFO: steam not found in •/home/deck/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/. local/share/Steam
ERROR: could not find any Steam library containing a game with appid '22370'. If you known exactly where the l ibrary is, you can specify it using the environment variable STEAM_LIBRARY

The game is installed on my internal SSD and not on the 1TB CF drive. I don't have a clue on this part "If you known exactly where the l ibrary is, you can specify it using the environment variable STEAM_LIBRARY"

I do know where the game is installed.

I did do some Googling on the interwebs and one suggestion was to check that "Protontricks" could see the game and it did.

I'm at a loss of where to go from here and I do hope someone here can point me in the right direction or lend a helping hand.

thanks in advance

chuck

i started playing game s att he age of 6, 11 years of exp. under my belt.

best game ever Final Fantasy 7

TES5Edit is also having issues. I can't set the theme, and the 'referenced by' tab displays nothing. I also can't drag-and-drop records. Someone asked about this on github, but elminster decided to be a bigot and refused to fix this issue. How can I use this program if the 'referenced by' tab does not work? What, must I search through thousands of records by hand to find every record that references the record I want? How am I supposed to make patches if none of these features work?

I thought I had everything working once I got TES5Edit and the CreationKit to run. Turns out, they're unusable. TES5Edit will run scripts yes and show me conflicts, but that's it. I can't look up where actors are placed or what calls various leveled lists. Also, since I can't drag and drop, I have to just manually enter in a copy of every record I want. That's obviously really tedious. Why bother making a version of xEdit for linux when half its features don't work and the bigotted maker refuses to fix them? Are we not allowed to mod Skyrim on linux? Or make mods on the OS that the steamdeck runs? Or 20% of game developers on steam? Does Elminster not run linux himself? That would be rather surprising for a programmer honestly.

Of course, the laptop obviously can't run either version of Skyrim, but I wouldn't technically need to run the game to run these programs. As long as it can handle mod organizer and the programs in question, I should be able to still use them.

Of course, this means I would have to transfer my load order to the laptop, but that wouldn't be too big a deal.

I'm just getting sick of not having my normal modding programs. I don't even have any way to see if I have leveled list conflicts or not. More embarrasingly, I've forgotten how to install TES5Edit on this machine its been so long. I have the download from github, I've just never bothered to fuss with it, after spending weeks getting things running on this machine. My game runs better than ever and I don't regret a thing, but I'm just sick of having to jump through hoops to get even the simplest thing to run. Besides, fnis is abandoned, so I probably couldn't get it to install on this thing anyway. Yes, I still use fnis, because its necessary for a lot of older creature mods. Besides, I've never had much luck with nemesis anyway.

Could this idea work and greatly simplify things for me?

edit: Well, turns out all I had to do for TES5Edit is to place it in my skyrim folder. I can't drag and drop records though, so I have to just manually enter them. Can't figure out how to install wryebash though. Still, at least now I can see conflicts, and at least now I have my main modding tool up and running. Guess I'll be relying on DAR for animations for a while. Oh well.

Are snap items like walls not as easy to position with the rug glitch?

I’ve been trying to cover the legs of a wooden shack foundation build with a metal wall. I thought if I used the rug glitch with the wall I could place it into the legs but I can’t get it to position the way I want.

At the moment I'm using the Bethesda mods but there are a some mods from here that I miss... and that solution won't work for Morrowind and Oblivion. I also play Baldur's Gate I & II via Steam but I'm happy to manually mod those... always have.

Any Linux gamers here who've recently tried Vortex , MO or Wrye Bash?

That said, it didn't go to well. Once I got the enb installed (which I did carefully btw, setting up all the files in a temporary folder before I copied them to my skyrim folder), my game refused to run. It would open a black box a quarter of the size of my screen then never proceed. This fixed itself after I removed the ENB.

Thinking about it, I realized one of the files I need is a freaking .exe! Could that be why my game refuses to work when I have enb installed? How do you then properly install enb on linux? I can find no mention of it anywhere.

I couldn't run an enb before when I had windows 10, so I got used to modifying my graphics without it. I long used Vivid Weathers to get a similar look. I later found I could also use Imaginator to also accomplish this, which is actually the main reason I was using Vivid Weathers. It even lets me change what my game looks like for each save file, meaning I could switch out the look of my game far easier with it than I could an enb. Point is, am I going to just have to go without enb and stick to my old methods of modding my graphics?

I would like to tweak my save of my game using a hex editor because it's softlocked now & I don't want to start over.

A bit of context first :

• The game in question is Legend of Kay Anniversary
• In this game, the player has a inventory of 5 items
• I need to tweak the save as a important item (bomb) aren't present in store due to a game bug
• I would like to replace the fourth & fifth items by bombs
• User safe is stored within a SVDAT00.BIN file

Thus I created several saves to get input on the structure itself :

• The "x object(s).BIN" saves were done on the softlocked save where I drop each time a single item (to know the location of each item in the BIN file)
• The "5 objects - all bombs.BIN" was done on a fresh start where I put 5 times the bomb object

Please find them in attached zip file :

I am not against some help in my quest as I am a bit lost.

Thanks in advance,

https://mods.bethesda.net/en/fallout4/mod-detail/1975490

This mod only has 2 sets that you are able to obtain, Lonely Chapel and Kellogs House - even thou it claims in info that one is in Commonwealth Bank vault. Nope, there isnt.

Unofficial skyrim special Edition

Cheat Room (XB1) - i use it for gold and carry weight ring :D

skyland AIO -which doesn't SEEM to be working, but could just be me not realizing how it works.

Immersive Movement - 99% sure this is in the wrong spot

Caliente's Beautiful Bodies Enhancer (CBBE SE)

The Amazing World of Bikini Armor -- CBBE -- Nephilim shape - it looked fun :D

The Expanded World of bikini Armor

TAWOBA Rebalanced Armors/Weapons

TAWOBA Leveled list enchanted armors/weapons -think i'm missing a mod for this one

Unofficial TAWOBA add on for TAWOBA

Hair request - redgaurd picks

KS Hairs - short and sweet

Definitive Beauty Pack: Male addon -bc the dudes need to match the women ascetically :D

sporty sexy map - atheltic muscles

Eos female skin textures (CBBE

Graphics pack -like 100% sure this is in the wrong spot

XP32 maximum skeleton special extended -dunno where this goes either.

so i know its asking a lot, but can someone please tell me the proper order of these T_T i hate load order, is working, but stuff doesn't mesh properly and i dont' even have the skeleton or animation movement working right now, or the graphics.

Thank you in advance for your response!

I really don't understand what your malfunction is. Bringing that stuff into a legit, friendly online game and ruining everyone's experience. Do you not know you're being an a-hole? Because if you don't, you're either slow or so self centered you can't see it. Not only have you ruined matches every single day for me and many others, but now my system can barely run the game without getting an error report and crashing. So thanks for that. But really, what's the payoff? You're not "winning" even if it says you did because you didn't earn it. You cheated. Not just the game but yourself. Relying on the mods to win keeps you from losing, then having to replay it over and over until you have finally conquered your goal. Is that it, are you afraid of losing? Because it's too late, you're a loser. You have broken the unspoken code of gaming. "DON'T CHEAT!"

Remember "Cheating is for B*tches! Don't be a B*tch!"

-increase sky ceiling

-build anywhere

-ability to trash anything

-use any building material in the game

-no weight limit

-always clear weather

-infinite resources

-unlock all decorations for building

-better looking and more unique settlers

-ability to start wars/invasions

thanks.

Basically I am in semi-rant mode: once what was working perfectly, now is just stupidly on non-obvious way won’t work.

I used to use mono to install Unity Mod Manager on my macOS to be able to install mods in Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous... Until recently.

Instaling mono on 64bit went fine, I compiled some small stuff just to prove myself it works, but once I hit that part where you choose Console.exe (instead UUM.exe on 32bit systems), and it gave me option to show the path to the .app – it just says “no path“.

That simple. Made me insane. Tried every possible thing I could think of, consulted all search engines, and... NOTHING.

So, well, maybe people lurk here, who knows, maybe I find my luck if someone know what is this all about.

Thanks for bearing w/ me through this... Rant, me guess.
Cheers to all! All help welcome (much so!),

– Axie