Have you installed the Unofficial Skyrim Patch and Skyrim Script Extender? SkyUI can't run without SKSE64 and the patch has been known to fix problems like this.

Never mind, I misread the post.

You know what that sentence means, it doesn't have the Bethesda mod server but 99% of mods are on Nexus and other sites. That's what it means.

At the end of the day mod compatibility rests in one group's hands: modders. GOG has zero to do with it.

Fallout 4 runs like a cart with 3 squeaky wheels, Missing one wheel.

Fallout 3 runs like a cart with no wheels.

Thank you, but that's not what I mean. These two menus do not come from any modification but are vanilla menus. I currently have only SKSE64 installed and SkyUI. Without SkyUI the menus are visible With SkyUI installed the menu "Installed Content" are gone just the menu "Mods" are visible. But the menu "Mods" dosn't work.

I tried with the unofficial patch, nothing changed.

Do you have AE or SE? If you have AE, is it possible to load the game without the AE content?

I have the AE but at this time i have not installed the Creation Club Content. It is just the SE with the 4 Freebies (fishing, survival mode, ...).

i would ask: Works the Menu "Mods" for you?

Yes, but I have the SE and installed mods that tried to replicate the AE content through the Nexus Mods Manager.

I know that this is me asking 'Have you tried unplugging it and plugging it back in?' but have you verified the game's files? Have you tried reinstalling the game?

I actually ended up doing that the other day, even though I very much dislike Steam and DRM in general, and I haven't bought anything on there in over a decade, before I bought Skyrim the other day, after and because my immense frustration at the nightmare I experienced trying to use mods with the GOG version and being unable to do so.

So I agree with the gist of that quoted statement.

However, I don't think the phrase "be honest with themselves" is entirely accurate, for the reason that I didn't know that thousands or tens of thousands of good mods for Skyrim would be incompatible with the GOG version until after I had bought the game on GOG, and then had a horrible experience trying & failing to make mods work with the GOG version.

But if I had known that was going to happen prior to going through that experience, then I would have did as that quoted statement says right off the bat, without having purchased the GOG version first and then having buyer's remorse over it afterwards because I didn't actually get the mod compatibility that I had reasonably thought I'd be getting from the GOG version.

I was misled by the trailer on the GOG page which presents the statement in an epic way "Experience a decade's worth of content" (by which they clearly mean mods, thus directly asserting & strongly implying that most or all mods will work fine with this GOG version), and likewise the OP of this thread which states: "The GOG version is compatible out of the box with most modifications mods via Nexus Mods Vortex v1.6.12 and newer. "

It seems those statements are not very accurate, are they? Thus it can hardly be a customer's fault for not understanding the situation that they are getting into with the GOG version.

And I also saw another GOG customer post in another Skyrim thread earlier tonight wherein he said mods that use the SKSE will not work with the GOG version unless and until each of those mods is individually updated by the authors with a GOG-specific variant.

If that is true, then it is very dire, as most likely, many/most mod makers are never going to do that, and thus those mods will forever be inaccessbile to GOG users (unless Bethesda and GOG fix the situation so that GOG-specific variants of SKSE mods will no longer become required).

I disagree. GOG knows that people have been making mods for the Steam version of the game for a decade before it came out on GOG. Therefore, GOG should ensure that the GOG version will automatically be compatible with those mods (or at least the majority of them), without the mod makers having to program GOG-specific variants for their mods, which realistically, is not something that is likely to happen very often...especially since the majority of players use the Steam version.

Too bad my english is so bad so I can't explain it better.

My modifications work in the game, that's not the point. I am interested in the two menu items "Installed Content" and "Mods" (the menu item). It is a vanilla menu. I mean not the MCM from SkyiUI.

What happens to you when you click on this entry "Mods" in the menu? What opens then? At me it loads and loads only.

Reinstalling brings nothing. Verified the game's files - Mean you under Steam? I have here the GOG Version and don' find the option.

Thanks for your help.

I'm sorry to spam this quote (again), but IMHO it's the most important task ATM.

While I believe GOG knows the issues and is probably working toward some "fix" (hopefully), a thread listing all working, GOG-compatible Skyrim mods would be invaluable. Such a list would help potential buyers, players not wanting to waste time sorting through non-working mods, and GOG's work toward making their version more mod-friendly (potentially).

If you are using GOG Galaxy, click on 'Installed,' and click on Skyrim. Next to the 'Play' button is a settings button. Click that, then, under 'Manage installation,' click on 'Verify / Repair.' A new download should begin if any of your files are corrupted; GOG will install the 'repaired' files over the corrupted ones.

Very strange that Skyrim works fine except when you try to use the 'Mods' menu from in-game. I'm no coder so my advice would be that if the game works without using that particular feature, don't try to access the in-game mod manager. If anyone else is reading these posts and can lend a hand, please do so.

Sorry I couldn't be of more help.

Ah, thanks description. No, i don't use Galaxy. I have installed from the Offline-Installer.

No problem, thank you very much for your help. Otherwise my GOG Skyrim works great, my installed mods all work too (manually installed). I do not necessarily need the mod manager now just the behavior had me wondering.

In any case, many greetings to Canada! ^_^

GOG has everything to do with it when they claim that the game works with most mods right out of the box. I"m not sure why they'd make a harebrained claim like that but they did.

I bought Skyrim SE here yesterday, and SKSE and many important SKSE based mods like SkyUI work fine for me. It was SKSE itself that needed a "special GOG version" and that was uploaded from day one. I don't doubt there are a few mods that don't work but people are blowing this way out of proportion by claiming "every mod needs to be rewritten just for GOG". That just isn't true.