Morrowind Code Patch Download manually, then unpack into the Morrowind game folder and overwrite.This mod has already been installed by MGSO 3, but this version is newer. Run 'Morrowind Code Patch.exe' and choose any options you like.I recommend these choices When done selecting, press 'Apply chosen patches', and close the program.
Continued from orSo, we’re at high(er) resolution and widescreen now; what’s next? TheThe MCP includes both fixes to problems with the game’s base code (things hardcoded into the.exe that can’t be fixed by simple addons) and additional features to alter or improve gameplay.
I recommend you read through the entire description you will find at the above link, as well as the Readme that comes with the download.To install, download it and extract the.zip into your Morrowind folder (or just drag and drop its contents. Remember, you are NOT putting it in Data Files, you are putting it in the main Morrowind folder). Open up Morrowind Code Patch.exe (remember to run as administrator.
I will keep reminding you to do that).You will be presented with a list of patches you can apply by checking their boxes. Don’t worry about getting everything right the first time. You can change your choices whenever you like simply by running the patch again. It will load up with your previous selections intact so you can work from there.
Clicking on the name in the list will tell you what that particular patch does, and I’ll add some of my own comments below on patches that I feel are particularly notable.Note that some of these fixes remove some well-known exploits from the game. Trust me, you will enjoy it MUCH more without them, especially since you’re on PC and can use the construction set and the console instead if you really do desire to cheat! Game MechanicsThese are optional features that alter things about the game that technically aren’t bugs.
Some of them are quality of life improvements, and others affect gameplay. Many of them come down to personal preference. There are a few I’d like to point out, however.– Toggle sneak. Usually the sneak key must be held down.
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If you’d prefer to toggle it, use this. This is one that comes down to personal choice.
I’m only mentioning it because I got used to a toggle while on the XBox (since it was annoying to both hold down AND move the left thumbstick, I’d just double-tap it to toggle sneak on or off) so if your playstyle was similar to mine this will probably work better with your muscle memory than having to hold down the key.– Swift casting. This is a BIG one. In normal Morrowind you must press the “Ready Magic” key to get into “magic stance” (like having your weapon out, but for spells) and then fire your spell like swinging your weapon.
In Oblivion, Bethesda reworked this system so that you can use spells seamlessly while in any stance, without having to “ready magic.” This option changes the spellcasting system to be similar to Oblivion’s. The key that formerly put you in “magic stance” will now actually cast your selected spell regardless of the stance you are in.
I find this to be a huge improvement, and it makes the game a lot smoother for anyone coming to Morrowind for the first time after playing Oblivion or (to a slightly lesser extent) Skyrim. You can still enter “magic stance” with the M key, if you want to.– Pickpocket overhaul.
Recommended.– Slowfall overhaul. I haven’t played with this one much as of yet.
Click the name in the MCP and read the description, and decide from there whether you prefer this functionality over the default. It DOES seem more balanced to me, and does include a bugfix.– Two-handed weapon removes shield. I recommend this because it gets rid of an exploit, and really, it makes sense.– Item recharging rebalance. Makes it much more reliable to recharge an enchanted item using a soul gem.– On-use ring extra slot.
Gives you an extra slot for a cast-on-use ring so you can keep two constant effect rings equipped. Is it a cheat, or simply convenience? It’s up to you.– Fortify maximum health. ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY unless you like dying when your buffs wear off. This includes spells and potions that fortify health and also the Orcish racial Berserk power. Without this checked, your regular health is lost FIRST and then the fortified health afterward, so when the fortify effect disappears, your health can drop below zero and leave you eating the floor.
You have no idea how embarrassing it was the first time this happened to me. You might think it’s intended to work that way and you’re supposed to heal yourself super quickly when the effect wears off, but there’s isn’t time; it doesn’t drain away slowly, it just disappears all at once. This is a design oversight that renders all fortify health effects useless including the source of Orcs’ much-vaunted combat prowess. Checking this box ensures that the extra health is lost FIRST, so when it wears off it won’t take the rest of your health bar with it.– Racial variation in speed fix. Depends on whether you prefer characters’ height to affect their movement speed, or you want it to rely purely on their stats.
I left it unchecked because it’s natural for taller people with a longer stride to be able to run faster, but it’s completely up to you and isn’t intended in Morrowind’s design.– Argonian clothing choice. Recommended unless you like your female Argonians to look rather more mammalian.– Allow stealing from KOed NPCs. Necessary bugfix. As an alternative to pickpocketing or killing, you are supposed to be able to punch someone till they fall on the floor and then loot their items, but it didn’t work.
This fixes it.– Exhaust NPCs with damage fatigue. Combining this with the one above means you can knock someone out with magic and then steal everything off their unconscious body, and who doesn’t want to do that?– Detect life spell variant. Highly recommended. The vanilla Morrowind spell only detects animals and not NPCs (because NPCs don’t have a trappable soul). This makes it much more useful, and more in line with the later games. Visuals– Rain/snow collision.
Use this if you don’t want to see the rain coming through awnings and overhanging roofs and such. I consider it a must-have.
You can change some settings in a file called Morrowind.ini in order to see this at full effect, but it’s not required. Take note of the.ini changes anyway, as I’ll discuss this more in-depth later.– Bump/reflect map local lighting. Turn this on, it’s a graphical improvement that works with some of the mods we’re going to use.– Over-the-shoulder third person camera. I tried this because I’d gotten used to this perspective while playing Skyrim and The Elder Scrolls Online beta, but it’s not the same; you can’t zoom in or out. I like the angle, but the fixed zoom distance is kind of annoying. It’s possible to accomplish this instead with MGE XE, and you’ll still be able to zoom; more on this later. Just leave this turned off unless it doesn’t bother you that you can’t zoom.– Reduce camera clipping.
In almost 100% of cases you will want this turned on. Mod SpecificThese are changes that may be required by certain mods. They are safe to ignore for now, but you might want to look them over anyway just to familiarize yourself with them. There is one I do like to check, regardless of mod use.– NPC AI casts zero cost powers.
This does make the game harder, but I find it very interesting to have to adjust my fighting strategy for the enemy NPC’s race. For example, I need to get in as many weapon hits as possible before that Dunmer fires off his Ancestral Guardian power. Sometimes I actually have to run away and wait a bit for things to wear off. It makes fights much more strategic, and planning more valuable. Interface Changes– Map expansion for Tamriel Rebuilt. You may need this in the future but you don’t right now. Save it for later when or if you actually install TR.
Note: I’m pretty sure that once the map is expanded, you can’t get it back how it was before, so don’t use this before it’s required. I’ll let you know when, I promise.– UI display quality fix. To quote the readme: “Seriously improves UI clarity, by fixing the code for aligning UI drawing to the screen. Text, icons and frames should appear as sharp as the source textures are, no longer blurring by up to half a pixel radius. Warning: Currently causes problems with MGE shaders (but not MGE XE), that appear as shaders applied on top of the UI.
MGE expects an unaligned UI when detecting when to apply shaders, and so fails to detect the change, instead drawing shaders on top of everything.” Since MGE XE does not have this problem, this is a definite recommend if you’re using XE.– Convenient defaults. This one is automatically checked, but I find it more of a personal preference.– Don’t loot on dispose. This gives you the option of disposing of a corpse without looting all the items from it, by holding Ctrl as you click the “Dispose of Corpse” button. Technically you may not want every tiny little object an NPC was carrying when you, erm, stuck a sword full of justice through their face, so this gives you the option of “disappearing” the items you leave behind along with the body.
Erasing items from the world does have its benefits. Just don’t hold down Ctrl while looting, unless you mean to.– Shortcut key improvements. I love this; it feels much more intuitive.– Ownership tooltip. Can be extremely helpful.– Vanity camera lock. This is fun to play with if you like to take lots of screenshots of yourself. InternationalThese are options to help customize the game for non-English localizations.
Leave these unchecked unless your language needs them. Bug FixesMake sure ALL these boxes are checked. Again, some of these remove exploits, but you don’t need them anymore! Hey there, thanks for your input. I did check out the EXE optimizer and I had decided against including it because I couldn’t find a good explanation of what it actually did (well, not good enough of an explanation that I could explain informatively enough on this blog!) and I had no reason to try it as I have very few CTDs, so I didn’t really see it making much of a difference that I would be able to explain. However, you’re right, I should mention it here, even if I don’t have that much info about it, because it MAY help someone.
I’ll edit it into the entry.Thanks again for your comment!.
I've never had much success with getting mods to work on games. I tried to get three mods working on Morrowind, but I ran into two problems.The mods in question are code patch, MGE XE, and Morrowind Rebirth.I thought I had things squared away, but I went to play through. And the game never started. I figure maybe I deleted something while I was adding files, so I verified.
After that, every time I would click Data Files (in order to see if my mods were there), the launcher would crash.Now, I have uninstalled and cleared out the mods from the folder. I want to go through and try it again, so can anyone give me some pointers? Did I do the right thing when copying the items in the mod Data Files into the main Data Files folder? Mysticbassist: snip After executing the program, did you actually tell it to patch your game?
0Grapher: If I were you, I would reinstall the game just to be safe and test it with Morrowind Rebirth and the Code Patch but without MGE XE.It would be a good idea if you posted your load order here, that is the name of all the mods activated in your launcher in the same order they are listed there. Thanks for your help.I reinstalled and it worked fine. It did crash when I went to exit the first time, but that didn't happen again.However, I went back to check my load order, and I noticed the Rebirth main file (the first one) was not checked. I can still play the game fine, but now when I click Data Files the launcher crashes.EDIT: The load order for the main files was: Morrowind Rebirth. (cuts off), Bloodmoon, Tribunal, and then Morrowind Rebirth. I could not get a good enough look at the other files, because the launcher still crashes.
Mysticbassist: snip You can also see and alter your load order in your Morrowind.ini file. To the bottom of the file there are the names of all plug-ins (ESMs and ESPs) and you can add a new plugin by inserting its exact file name.I don't know why your launcher crashes but something that can cause the game to crash and all sorts of other problems is that your expansions are listed after the ESM of a mod.Your official content should in almost all circumstances be loaded before anything else, so everything else should be further to the bottom of the Morrowind.ini file. 0Grapher: Your official content should in almost all circumstances be loaded before anything else, so everything else should be further to the bottom of the Morrowind.ini file. Find this in the ini. Should I change the order manually?Game FilesGameFile0=Bloodmoon.esmGameFile1=Morrowind Rebirth 3.7 - Racial Diversity 1.5 Addon.esmGameFile2=Morrowind.esmGameFile3=Tribunal.esmGameFile4=adamantiumarmor.espGameFile5=bcsounds.espGameFile6=masterindex.espGameFile7=Morrowind Code Patch Showcase.espGameFile8=Morrowind Rebirth 3.7 - Balmoras Underworld 1.0 Addon.ESPGameFile9=Morrowind Rebirth 3.7.ESPGameFile10=Siege at Firemoth.espGameFile11=Morrowind Rebirth 3.7 - Morrowind Patch 1.6.5 Beta Rebirth Edit.esm. Mysticbassist: Find this in the ini. Should I change the order manually?
There are some things extremely wrong with it. Maybe your launcher crashes because of your last file. 0Grapher: Always read the installation instructions of your mods as a beginner, I can see that you didn't because the Showcase file is active. It crashed once and was slow to start, but it seems to be working now.
I did notice that some of my Data Files were not active, so I am not sure if that needs to be changed.I didn't tamper with it yet because last time I couldn't get back into Data Files after I changed things.Not to sound defensive, but I couldn't have made it as far as I did without following instructions. The only mention of Showcase in the instructions was that it was optional. I often find the directions in these readmes to be vague, so I appreciate the help all the more.Do you have any idea on how I got my order mixed up so bad? Is there a certain step (perhaps the load order in MGE XE) that I might have blundered to cause that? For future reference, of course.Thanks again.
Mysticbassist: Do you have any idea on how I got my order mixed up so bad? Is there a certain step (perhaps the load order in MGE XE) that I might have blundered to cause that? For future reference, of course. I don't have any good explanation for it. There are a few other things that I don't understand either. For example why the Morrowind Rebirth ESMs (Master Files) are deactivated in your launcher if they were listed in your.ini file.What do you mean by load order in MGE XE?
Do you mean the distant land creation? No, the only difference that would make is that objects would look differently in the distance than they do when you're near them.A few hints:Keep in mind that the.ini file can get overwritten, so make a backup of it before and after you've made changes.I think Gopher from Gophersvids on Youtube has enjoyable instruction videos regarding load order and the basics of modding Bethesda games.