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

You might want to do this if, for example, you have multiple "drops" (folders) that represent standalone versions of a game. For instance, 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.

1. Find your Hub folder in Hub > Properties: it will be the Home Directory location
2. Open the Home Directory folder
3. Copy and paste the existing channel folder so that it creates a new folder
   1. Rename the folder to the channel name you would like
      • Ex. I copied "GTR2 Vanilla" to "GTR2 RTX Remix"
4. Edit the channel.omx file in the new folder
   1. Change the old name to the new name
      1. • Ex. I changed "GTR2 Vanilla" to "GTR2 RTX Remix"
   2. Change the old folder name to the new folder name
      1. • Ex. I changed "GTR2Vanilla" to "GTR2Vanilla"
5. Start OMM and the channel should show up
   1. 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 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!

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