What's New
This one's been cooking! We're excited to bring you speed and reliability improvements across the board, a new way to browse Collections, and important security and platform updates under the hood.
🚀 Speed & Efficiency
We've overhauled the installation pipeline. Collection installs are around 50% faster, turning what used to take 15 minutes into 5-6 minutes. Downloads are faster too, with up to 10 mods downloading simultaneously and installation happening in the background while your remaining downloads finish. Failed downloads now automatically retry, meaning fewer manual restarts. All users will notice a significant increase in speed and reliability with fewer stalls and errors.
⚡ Integrated Collection Browsing
You can now browse collections directly in Vortex, with Premium users being able to take advantage of our single click install, installing 100’s of curated mods faster than ever before.
🛠️ Quality of Life
We've tidied up the notification system with new Toast-style notifications that stay out of your way, meaning less distractions while you mod. Under the hood, we've upgraded to Electron 37 and .NET 9, bringing massive improvements to the stability of the core of Vortex, as well as specific improvements for some of our most popular games like Fallout New Vegas and Stardew Valley.
Take a look below for the technical details. We hope you enjoy and let us know what you think with the new feedback form which can be found in the top nav menu.
Full Changelog
Stable release based on 1.16.0-beta.5
Major Features
- Complete Download/Install Pipeline Refactor - Decoupled downloads from installations, raised concurrency limits, improved phase gating for collections (#18211)
- Phase deployments are no longer required at the end of each phase for mods where the curator has pre-defined the fomod installer choices (#18467)
- Complete FOMOD Installer Native Port - Split FOMOD installer into shared logic and native implementation modules for better performance, reliability, and maintainability (#18465)
- Added Collection Browsing feature - Browse and install collections directly in Vortex (#18596, #18563)
- Upgraded to Electron 37 with Node.js 22 (#18221, #18311)
- Migrated to .NET 9 runtime (#18220)
Collections Improvements
- Added fully automated/headless installation to FOMOD installer module (#18466)
- Fixed collection install hanging forever when installs are deferred (#19477)
- Fixed collection instructions data being lost on cloning (#19476)
- Fixed Collection Workshop visually defaulting to "Exact Only" but setting "Prefer Exact" (#19469)
- Improved tool comparison when installing collections (#19370)
- Fixed several issues causing collection installations to stall (#19319)
- Fixed UI slowdown when installing recommended/optional mods (#19318)
- Fixed failed download installation lookup for bundled mods (#19315)
- Fixed downloads getting erased incorrectly on rename failure during collection installation (#19313)
- Fixed skipped/ignored mods being downloaded/installed (#19248)
- Fixed bundled mods causing collection installation to hang (#19217)
- Fixed optional mods failing to install due to incorrect dependency reference check (#19183)
- Fixed bundled mods not applying collection mod rules (#18977)
- Fixed critical TypeError crash when resuming collection installation from previous version (#19125)
- Fixed potential crash when collection becomes unavailable during installation (#19063)
- Fixed collection progress tracking bugs (#18503, #18520)
- Fixed collection tracking not highlighting collection as complete (#18652)
- Fixed various collection bugs (#18651)
- "Exact" matching now defaults when creating collections (#18214)
- Added indication of total mod count during collection installs (#18217)
- De-duplicated collection notifications (#18306)
- Improved free user journey with new download/install workflow (#18215)
- Allow users with correct permissions to edit collections (#18453)
- Fixed installation skip of manually downloaded mods that are missing the referenceTag when installing a collection (#18736)
- Fixed ability to export "dead" collection rules when uploading a new revision (#18709)
- Updated to collectionsV2 API for collection browsing (#18817)
- Fixed optional mods not installing correctly for FO4 Anniversary collection (#18864)
- Fixed stalled collection installation when mod archives are present (#18889)
- Fixed race condition causing mods to lack metadata during installation (#18930)
- Added adult content preferences support for collection downloading (#18777)
- Fixed collection conflict check incorrectly blocking new revision uploads (#18980)
- Fixed Install as Variant not being prompted when installing a collection where mods already exist with different FOMOD options (#18979)
- Fixed Mod Configuration Menu (MCM) for Fallout New Vegas failing to install during collection installation (#18975)
Bug Fixes
- Fixed Dashboard Tools not refreshing on deployment (#19479)
- Fixed crash when path argument is null (#17771)
- Fixed spawn EFTYPE error on Linux (#19127)
- Removed error codes and messages from Mixpanel events (#19437)
- Fixed mod variants not being created for binary patched mods when mod already exists (#19184)
- Fixed installation error when invalid override instructions present (#19143)
- Fixed download failure with "Cannot convert undefined to a BigInt" error (#19144)
- Fixed crash when no groups are available for FOMOD installation (#19209)
- Fixed crash when reading undefined 'data' property (#18910)
- Suppress user-cancelled error reporting during dependency installation (#19174)
- Fixed downgrade dialog text grammar (#18727)
- Fixed master groups showing reversed arrows in plugins view (#19072)
- Fixed stack overflow when resolving external changes during deployment (#19048)
- Fixed extraction failures when archive files are temporarily locked (#19049)
- Fixed conflicting LOOT sort notifications appearing simultaneously (#18985)
- Fixed user cancellation error in Kingdom Come: Deliverance (#19043)
- Fixed master groups showing reversed arrows in groups graph view
- Fixed event listeners executing for unrelated games (#19043)
- Fixed error when updating mods from 'site' domain (#19011)
- Added proper IPC chunking to loot forks (#19014)
- Fixed error handling of 40x errors on free user skip (#19012, #19009)
- Fixed loss of error stack information on dep install failure (#19007)
- Fixed binary patched mod differences not detected correctly (#18998)
- Fixed download failure due to undefined 'id' property when handling download completion (#18967)
- Fixed path argument type error when cleaning up downloads directory (#18853)
- Fixed infinite metadata loop causing "Creating Snapshots" to never complete (#18811)
- Fixed plugins page panel rendering wrong dropdown control (#18944)
- Re-added download stall restart functionality (#18933)
- Fixed mod files query to only use domain name (#18939)
- Fixed storeHelper clone returning same array instead of cloning (#18955)
- Fixed crash on startup when no game is active (#18898)
- Fixed installer issue where certain files are not linked correctly (#18927)
- FOMOD installer now lazy loads for faster startup (#18868)
- Fixed handling of undefined game stores (#18924)
- Fixed incorrect offset for small chunk retry (#18865)
- Fixed crash: reduce is not a function in FOMOD choices (#18735)
- Fixed "Do this for all remaining installs" button not working when reinstalling (#18752)
- Fixed preset re-application on reinstall/variant install (#18846)
- Fixed curated renamed mods not renamed for end-user (#18824)
- Fixed mod types not applying correctly when installing a collection (#18822)
- Fixed mod category info lost during collection download (#18790)
- Fixed downloads folder cleanup (#18720)
- Fixed download reference false positives for fuzzy/bundled mods (#18719)
- Fixed confirmedOffset + confirmedReceived for stalled/slow download workers (#18827)
- Fixed self copy check error on mod extraction (#18810)
- Fixed Game Not Supported Error when downloading a requirement from another game domain (#18738)
- Fixed text in dialogue not displaying properly (#18768)
- Fixed crash: HTTP (403) - Forbidden (#18764)
- Fixed YouTube embedded player sometimes not working (#18707)
- Fixed i18 functionality for string resources (#18641)
- Fixed speedometer displaying incorrect download speeds (#18213)
- Fixed inconsistent installation keys when initially queueing installations (#18545)
- Fixed plugins not sorting properly without restart (#18486)
- Fixed unhandled exception when clicking starter dashlet items (#18410)
- Fixed Electron Redux duplicate action dispatch (#18507)
- Fixed potential race condition if update is running but mod was removed (#18246)
- Fixed objdiff potentially attempting to loop over null and arrays (#18243)
- Fixed nullish checks in mod reference match tests (#18252)
- Fixed crashpad error detail sanitization (#18251)
- Fixed user cancellation errors in Halo MCC (#18257)
- Fixed stop patterns interfering with instruction overrides (#18593)
- Fixed modType conflict functionality raising errors during collection installation when replacing mods (#18653)
UI/UX Improvements
- Notifications automatically clear on game change (#18399)
- Converted appropriate notifications to toast format (#18307)
- Feedback button now links to Google Form (#18446)
- Various UI/UX fixes for Collections (#18686)
- Removed "Loose Files May Not Get Loaded" notification for Skyrim SE (#18381)
- Fallout New Vegas modding user journey improvements (#18586)
- Allow "Check for Updates" functionality for disabled mods (#19250)
- Improved INI Tweaks help message clarity (#18729)
- Added dialog multi-dismiss for instructions (#19001)
Plugin Management
- Fixed GraphDialog not updating correctly upon user change (#18411)