Mod Managers
Overview
Mod managers, or mod enablers, give you a GUI and organized way to manage your mods and easy install and uninstall with just a click.
OMM - Open Mod Manager
- The most modern and advanced mod manager out of the popular ones
- Advanced mod management, new features, increased stability, and ongoing development
- Recommended
- Download: https://github.com/iquercorb/OpenModMan
Backup and Restore OMM Data
Backup:
- You want to backup the Hubs: You can find the folder location by opening the Hub and then clicking Hub > Properties, it will be the Home Directory location
- Backup by copying or zipping the Home Directory folder
Restore:
- Restore by copying or extracting your backup and then using File > Open, navigating to your restored folder, and selecting the Hub's OMX file
Backup and Restore Individual Channels
Backup:
- Find your Hub folder in Hub > Properties: it will be the Home Directory location
- Open the Home Directory folder
- Copy or zip the Channel folder
Restore:
- Close OMM if it is running
- Copy or extract your backup into the Hub's Home Directory
- Start OMM, open your Hub if not already open, and your Channel should come back automatically
This allows you to archive old, unused game folders/drops, backup and remove OMM Channels so they're not cluttering your Channel list, and still have a recovery path if you want to go back.
Duplicate Existing Channel To New Channel
Context:
- You might want to do this if, for example, you have multiple "drops" (folders) that represent standalone versions of a game and you want to copy the folder to create a new drop but also need the OMM Channel copied too.
- I have a GTR2Vanilla, GTR2Plus, and GTR2RTXRemix drops of GTR2 and each is a standalone folder that can run GTR2 on its own and so they have separate OMM Channels to manage their own mods.
- Recently, I had a GTR2Vanilla drop and OMM channel I wanted to duplicate to GTR2CCGEP and these steps are how I did it.
Steps:
- Find your Hub folder in Hub > Properties: it will be the Home Directory location
- Open the Home Directory folder
- Copy and paste the existing channel folder so that it creates a new folder
- Rename the folder to the channel name you would like
- Ex. I copied "GTR2 Vanilla" to "GTR2 RTX Remix"
- Rename the folder to the channel name you would like
- Edit the channel.omx file in the new folder
- Change the old name to the new name
- Ex. I changed "GTR2 Vanilla" to "GTR2 RTX Remix"
- Change the old folder name to the new folder name
- Ex. I changed "GTR2Vanilla" to "GTR2Vanilla"
- Change the old name to the new name
- Start OMM and the channel should show up
- Click the channel and it should refresh the Local Library pane and your enabled mods should still be enabled
OVGME - Open Generic Mod Enabler
- Takes JSGME and adds great new features
- One excellent feature is the ability to store mods compressed in zips
- Download: https://github.com/jweisner/ovgme - Download link under "Releases"
How To Backup or Recover OVGME Configs
- Backup C:\ProgramData\OvGME by copying or zipping the folder. This is the location on Windows 7, other Windows versions may have a different location.
- Restore your backup to the same folder
- Start a new OvGME (for example, after installing a new windows) and all your Configs should be back
After upgrading to Windows 10 I thought I had lost all my OVGME Configs and that meant I didn't know which mods were installed anymore and reinstalling them would lose the ability to uninstall back to a clean slate.
After reading the source code over at Github I got the hint that Configs are stored here as just a bunch of files that you can copy:
C:\ProgramData\OvGME
At least on Win7, the folder location might be different on Vista, XP, etc.
Anyway, all I had to do was copy that from my backup to my Windows 10, start OVGME, and all my Configs were back and it still knew which mods I had enabled or not!
I'm so happy I found that as it was a major annoyance and I was almost going to go back to JSGME (which stores all config in the same directory as the exe) but now I don't mind this as long as I know I can simply copy the ProgramData\OvGME folder and I'll still have all my configs!
Edit: I now use #OMM - Open Mod Manager which is the best of all mod managers for features.
JSGME - JoneSoft Generic Mod Enabler
- The original mod manager that inspired the others
- Great features for the time but others do it better now
- Download: https://www.moddb.com/downloads/5-jsgme-modenabler