seeing all of what MGE has added to morrowind,i am just wondering if ever in the future the morrowind code patch will have the capability to add multiprocessor/64bit compatibility to morrowind

i'm a little fuzzy on this, but the OS should handle multiprocessor things, and there exists a http://www.ntcore.com/4gb_patch.php to allow 64-bit systems to use more than 2GB RAM

I don't think multiprocessor stuff is something that can easily be coded in.

IIRC that 4GB patch conflicts with MCP... am I right? :shrug:

I don't know, I think it's possible to install the 4GB patch after the MCP? I haven't tried it. But Morrowind never takes up more than 1.2 GB of RAM for me so I don't really need it.

(Vanilla recommended RAM: 256 MB )

I installed the 4GB patch after the MCP, and have since upgrade MCP without any issues; I don't think they're incompatible in anyway... does installing one overwrite the other?

i have the mcp and a 2GB+ patch in place using cff explorer and no conflicts that i can see. Anyway would multicore - multiprocessor support be something accomplishible with an external program such as mge?

From what I've understood, whenever you apply the MCP it restores a backup of the original Morrowind.exe first, so if you'd apply MCP last then it would probably overwrite anything else done to the .exe before. But the exe optimizer and 4 GB patch don't, so they should work if installed after the MCP.

That would require something like an engine rewrite, I think. TheCrystalScrolls, OpenMW, or Project Aedra.

now that i think about it, your probably right. Even if you could somehow patch in the ability to recognize additional cores, the morrowind engine probably lacks the ability to make effective use of them

Multithreaded programming is not a trivial matter. Even if the Morrowind source code was available, it would take a lot of time from a knowledgeable programmer to rewrite the appropriate areas. I can't even imagine the difficulty of doing so in the way that the MCP is developed, from the compiled binary.

Yeah, multithreading would be difficult or impossible in a binary patch and take a good bit of time with code. I don't even want to know how many bugs it would introduce.

As far as the "4 gig patch", that's just a flag in the PE header, so I'd assume making the Code Patch work with it (if it doesn't at the moment) would be relatively trivial.

would it be possible for an external program working similarly to mge to accomplish this?