
While you can keep them there, since you are using a manager to mod your game, it makes more sense to install ALL mods via MO2 and then let it directly manage those mods. On another note the screenshot shows some mods installed directly into the game folder, those marked as "Unmanaged". When you run MO2 again, if the registry settings are there, you should be presented with an option choose which game to manage. While, if you lack time - there are some.
#Fresh download steam mods still there how to#
I have all my MO related stuff in a simple folder structure on another drive, the extra drive isn't important, just that it is nowhere near my game installs. Not a huge mod list, filled with subjective choices, yet a roadmap showing you how to build your own dream setup.

In your Steam library, click on Wrack and then browse the workshop for a mod that interests you. so i had installed some mods and i they where still there after a reinstall of the game. Vortex SkyrimSkyrim Special Edition Install hundreds of mods with the click of a button, so you can spend less time finding mods and more time playing. Downloading mods - Steam workshop & elsewhere. MO/MO2 could, and I would argue should, be installed somewhere completely removed from the game installation and it will recognise all games that have the correct registry settings.Įasiest steps here is to purge your system of MO2 again and run SSE from the launcher and then install MO2 somewhere in its own folder. mods are still installed even after reinstall.

It is these settings that MO/MO2 uses to 'see' what games you have installed.

You must have, at least once, run the game's launcher to correctly set all the game's registry settings. The installation location of MO/MO2 has NO BEARING on how it manages your games.
