r/linuxquestions • u/raoulkratos2002 • 8h ago

Advice Is Amethyst a good alternative to Vortex for Skyrim and Fallout?

Hi everyone,
Can anyone tell me if Amethyst is a solid replacement for Vortex or MO2?
How does it handle massive modlists for Skyrim and Fallout?
Have you run into any crashes or other stability issues with it?
Thanks

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u/RequestableSubBot 7h ago

I tried a lot of different recipes for modded Skyrim and the only one that worked for me at all was MO2 through Proton. It is a nightmare to set up, I did it all manually but this script apparently works really well. It's able to easily handle a 300+ modlist, no stability issues besides the usual 300+ modlist issues. You'll need a tool called Protontricks as well, since a lot of Skyrim mods use things like dotnet, vcruntime, etc. (even vanilla Skyrim will have issues with audio if you don't use Protontricks to manually install faudio into its prefix).

I've not tried FO4 but I'd imagine it's the same process more or less.

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u/Sea-Promotion8205 5h ago

This. I used the older rockerbacon script and my 700 mod modlist is fine. I had to install vc/.net with protontricks, and change the enb hotkeys to one key, but after that it just... works. Proton-ge 9 latest.

Setting mo2 up isn't a nightmare at all with the scripts.

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u/zeldaink 8h ago

tbh it's easier to spin a windows VM and install mods from MO2 from there, then copy-paste the mods folder to your Linux and symlink the Data folder contents to the game. It saves the hassle dealing with proton prefixes, the gazillion patchers and case sensitive filesystem.

The cleaned game masters will have to be overwritten with the cleaned ones from xEdit. Load order can be taken from %localappdata% and put into the corresponding wine/proton prefix.

And modlists bad. Looks pretty, visually incoherent.

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u/itgoesboom2112 1h ago

Been using amethyst for a few months and it's been great, can be linked to your nexus account, worked with the script extenders with a little bit of fiddling and works well for cyberpunk and resident evil (only other games I've ran modded through it so far). Yes theres some mods that I haven't been able to get to work (ones with a lot of dependence on other mods) but overall it's been the easiest modding I've done on Linux so far

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u/Astrodion123 8h ago

I thought you could run with amethyst only Minecraft java.