Nexus Mods new app gets more UI improvements, performance upgrades and a Linux fix

Nice to see the new cross-platform Nexus Mods app coming along. This latest update doesn’t add new games but does making using it better.

They’ve done another big pass over the interface to make everything clearer. Each page now has a proper distinct header, distinct icon and a little bit of flavour text to help you easily know which area of the app you are in and what you can do there.

Toolbars are smarter with this release too as they’ve been made context aware, showing options that are actually relevant.

More from the changelog:

More Features

• Reworked file trees in the app to be more performant. This includes the “View Mods Files” and “External Changes” pages.

Technical Changes

• Added translations submitted by the community: Russian, Ukrainian, Portuguese (Brazil).
• Updated the “Missing Game” flow to try and prevent duplicate reports of missing, unsupported games.
• Added the correct headers to API requests for Nexus Mods.
• Further developed the backend systems required to create and export collections.
• Further developed the backend system to make a game-agnostic load order system.
• General performance optimisations.

Bug Fixes

• Improved the way the app registers to handle Nexus Mods downloads on Linux.
• Fixed a bug where FOMODs would incorrectly report issues with some asset paths.

Nice to see the app register fix for Linux too!

Towards the end of May they also had a blog post up giving some background on the work being done, with Baldur’s Gate 3 work picking up again to get it properly into their supported games list. Currently only Stardew Valley and Cyberpunk 2077 have full support.

We’re still a long way off it replacing Vortex but it’s getting there little by little. Having it open source and cross-platform is a nice boost for it.

More on the website.

Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.