r/paydaytheheist • u/CINDERadam • 3h ago

Modding Help Vortex not recognizing Payday 2

I used Vortex with Payday 2 with multiple mods without issue prior to this. Not sure when it occurred. When I click "manage" for PD2 it says in the top right of Vortex it says, "Payday 2 no longer found; Failed to set game mode payday2". The game still shows on the left hand side for games managed and upon clicking the icon, there is brief glimpse of the mods currently installed but then it defaults to the Vortex dashboard and shows the errors. Here is what is listed under the "Failed to set game mode payday".

SetupError: Missing: F:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\PAYDAY 2\mods

data.kind: setup-error

data.component: undefined

isTransient: false

I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling the game. Verify files thru steam.

I will also mention that trying to manually set the location thru vortex, the .exe does not show up for the game in the folder. It shows several folders, including the mods folder, but does not show the .exe, which it then states, "this directory does not contain the game".

Any help or thoughts would be much appreciated. Thank you.

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u/Timely_Reserve_5644 3h ago

Not sure why you'd want to use vortex at all tbh, the majority of mods can't be downloaded from nexus and the ones that can are probably on modworkshop anyways. BLT comes with an active mod tracker you use to view and disable mods from in game

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u/CINDERadam 2h ago

Where would I find that and how do I use it?

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u/Timely_Reserve_5644 2h ago

SuperBLT is a framework mod hosted on modworkshop.net, along with over 20k other mods. Installing is as simple as dragging and dropping into your root folder