didnt do anything.
im gona try a clean install of morrowind. maybe its something to do with the vista registry structure?

Put the resolution in MGE and Morrowind back down it's lowest, make sure that the game launches then change it with MGE to whatever you want it.

clean instal worked. but thanks anyway

Been trying to run it with Morrowind Enhanced, but I keep getting the message "MGE\dinput.data appears to be out of date, please run MGEgui.exe at least once to update the save files".
I run it, doesn't work.

Make a thorough uninstall of MGE and install the most recent version should do the trick. It helped me once =)

Version updating (it is based on rev97):
- the "bug of one frame" after MenuMode is disabled
- variable WaterLevel() is changed (I hope in it a problem of CTD at Spiffyman)
- the statics visibility error in MenuMode is corrected
- some errors are corrected

krzymar
Thanks that has kept my comments. A source code I will upload later when I will correct FogStart\FogEnd (should depend from ViewDistance)

http://depositfiles.com/files/q67lvxqeu

Lol, nah, I'm the [censored] bag for not coming' over to your thread to tell you about the issue. Haha, thanks for fixing it so quickly =) And thanks for awesome rocks! It totally rocks!

Two things:

First the link to the static exceptions list is no longer working, at least for me. Adrive informs me that the file is no longer publicly available.

Secondly, I wanted to download it to see if the problem with the textures from the blightstorm being rendered by distant land northeast of Balmora was fixed in it. I recall that a fix was posted, involving just adding a line of text to the exception file, but I can't find it anywhere in this black hole of a forum anymore.

I have some update regarding Windows 7 and the latest MGE/DLL combo.

I recently installed W7 to my mainframe. After getting necessary stuff i tried running MGE, to my surprise it did not work (crash right after clicking the exe). mind you I used old install of Morrowind (I just can't throw away all the customizations and stuff that I've done).

Oh well.. After a while I tried to just run the game. And was I surprised when MGE works flawlessly while in game, but I can't start it up to change settings o_O Which is sad because I love to tinker with the settings.

I believe the newest beta build will add that line automatically when you export the statics list.

make sure you have .net 3.5 x64 or x32 and Visual C++ 2008 x64 or x32

I use my old install and it works here on XP64. also, try running MGE as admin

This problem appears not only after installing Windows 7, but after each reinstallation of any version of Windows. I've reinstalled WinXP SP2 some days ago and I also can't run the configuration, though MGE works in game perfectly...

When I first installed windows 7. I didn't reinstall Morrowind. Instead I used the preexisting installation. Running Morrowind.exe directly, I saw distant land is working perfectly. But the gui was crashing. I monitored the registry activities and found out it needed to access records like screen resolotion. Funny the game itself doesn't need registry settings to work but mgegui and FPSO needs those registry entries. (FPSO was giving an error about registry, mge was crashing instantly.) Installing the game fixed those stuff.

But the latest betas are not working now. I http://www.gamesas.com/bgsforums/index.php?s=&showtopic=960266&view=findpost&p=13875867 about this. Last time I checked I got an error something similar to "can't find configuration file" and my settings resetted.

MGE corrected itself(???) and works fine now... Running it as administrator and IIRC XP compability mode, dunno if that helped it. Mw must have written the registry stuff back for it.

Absolutely the same, but with WindowsXP SP2

@C_Mireneye

No, unfortunately. The first problem was with 3.7.x-3.8.0 which was caused by me not installing the game at the first place. After installation it was working.

Now, -after kryzmar's betas- mge is not working anymore. The first beta broke this. I since changed uac and created some fake registry entries which made mgegui work. (I copied the registry entries to the place mge was looking for them.) This prevented mgegui from crashing. I was able to change all settings except resolution. (I used fpso for this.) But with beta 96 my workaround is no more working. Yes mgegui is working but it gave an error about configuration file and reseted old settings. And my changes won't apply anymore. I don't know maybe it is because of the compile environment.

Edit: Sorry C_Mireneye. I misread your post. (I thought it was question. But above stuff is still true.) I will check if it will work with xp compatibility mode.

Ok, thanks!

But if somebody knows what I manually should add to the exception file, I would appreciate it, mainly because I'm not ready to muck around with the betas, since I just recently got everything to work like I want it.

I think the link was removed because the list was to old and using it with new MGE caused undesired effects.

In the latest betas you don't need to add it to exception list. It's an additional internal static override of MGEgui.
But if you want to add it to your exception list it's:

f\active_blight_large.nif=ignore

I always reinstall games after reinstalling Windows, and do the same for multiple Windows installations if games save their settings to registry.

I didn't change code responsible for this, so I haven't broke it. :meh:

I use MSVC# 2008 Express, MSVC++ 2008 Express, WindowsSDK v.6.1, and DXSDK_Nov2008 to build MGEgui and d3d8. (and I may use AMD TootleSoftware and niflib for building mgefuncs.dll if I change it)

How can it be that game doesn't read registry settings? Some settings aren't saved in Morrowind.ini (resolution, gamma, key bindings, sound volume). If they aren't read from registry, so from where? MGEgui tries to read settings where they supposed to be, but apparently the Windows does not allow this. I think MGE, as d3d8.dll is running with game privileges, because it's loaded and used by game, so it can read files in game folders. But MGEgui.exe is different program, and may not have the same privileges as game to read/write registry or files. These privileges must be set manually for it.

And don't create fake registry entries, instead make MGEgui read the same settings as the game, by changing MGEgui.exe file owner, privileges, UAC settings or run it as administrator.

If you think my builds are buggy for Windows 7, then you can compile it for yourself with different compile environment.

Just FYI: I have a small backlog of changes to make to the wiki and the OP (links, screenshots). I'm pretty busy at the moment, but hope I can get tha tdone by Sunday evening.

I wasn't accusing you. Don't feel like that. It is nothing, really. No need to bother. But since the code didn't change, I have no idea what is going on. And you don't have windows 7 so you can't help. I understand that.


Thanks for clearing that.


I don't think your builds are buggy for Windows 7, I am almost sure it is windows 7 which is buggy. (They changed some uac stuff via update lately. That could be the case here. And I didn't check the old mge 3.8.0 yet. I've just reported the current situation. (I will check 3.8.0 right now.) When you look to the timeline of events, you suspect it could be the new betas first. But...) And there was news about windows 7 rc1. Since that, I am not using W7 beta anymore. Waiting for official Windows 7 rc1 now. Times like this with a new os, everything is speculation.

And I don't think I can compile it. I remember after hours of trying I could compile it only once ages ago. My whole knowledge is C 101.


I'd already deleted the fake registry entries. I will try those suggestions now. Thanks for your attention on this and your time you put in. :goodjob:

ok, finally got a new pc and installed MGE 3.8, MW is installed with all my mods along with MWE, as soon as I attempt to launch MW via MWE an error comes up that MGE is still running and I need to shut it down. However it is not running, even checked the process and it's not running there, any idea how i can fix this?

Just wait for 2 minutes or so.

ok finally got that issue resolved, ended up having to reboot, but now MW just crashes when I attempt to start a new game, guess I'll head over to the troubleshooting thread.......thanks

Well not sure what the issue is, but I guess I can't run MW on this Vista Machine, I've tried everything they suggested in the other thread and nothing works, so it's uninstall time and forget playing this game I guess, too bad, I really loved this game too, but darn if I'm going out to buy another machine with XP on it just to play this.

Was nice being back on the site after my absence, but guess it was very short lived.

I have a quick question about MGE's distant land generator:

I use a terrain texture replacer, but when MGE is generating land it uses the old original Bethesda textures, can I change this or is it just how MGE works?

It should use the texture replacer's textures (a lower quality version of course, depending on the texture quality you picked) as long as you generate distant land AFTER installing the texture replacer. Otherwise you'll have to generate the distant land once more.

If you did do it right, I don't know what's wrong.