This is my experience also. MCP first, then exe opt.

I can't give a real answer on stability as I started using it a looong time ago so I can't remember, I too have been curious as to whether it's still necessary. Suffice to say I currently use MCP and the exe opt (along with MWE, MGE, FPS Opt) and my game is the most stable it's ever been and that's with ~250 mods installed.



-kwm

I can confirm this, since i use FPS Optimizer all the time.

I used it too and the program seems a bit less twichy in adjusting the framerates, I wouldnt say it′s more stable because it generaly was pretty stable only had problems duirng reloads but Id say that any little bit helps

Great too hear from your again Timeslip. Thanks too this thread I have now updated my bookmarks with the new site address.

I have a wieird problem timeslip I had previosly used the optimizer with no problem, but yesterday I installed the new Code patch 1.7 instead of my older 1.6.5 version, the program restored a backup cody of the EXE and added some of the fixes from 1.7 version. After it was done I used the exe optimizer and the process starts but after a bit a message come sup that the file couldnt be patched becase it was beign accessed by another aplication, and when I rebooted I tried it again only this time it told me that the sse file was beign accesed. I usually try to reinstall Morrowind each year to get rid of older mods I dont longer use, and I got a pretty fast system for doing it so it was kind of the perfect excuse to do so again, and I tried again, but a my game of the year installation is showing the same messages when I try to reinstall, what can I do?

Since this thread is up.

Does EXE optimizer (1.8.3108.32382) patch only English Morrowind.exe?

I installed my old Polish GOTY (Morrowind.exe 1.6.0.1820) to test some patches of MCP, and to test how MGE performs there, and either before applying MCP or after it, I get 0 patches applied from EXE optimizer. The Morrowind.exe is not read-only. The log.txt says:

Errors:------------------------------------------------0 patches were applied

I have it on the mod list on my site... though I forget which version it is.

I fixed my problem by disblaing the damn antivirus software, its working like a charm now

According to the thread-title, this seems to be the appropriate thread for asking questions related to the exe-optimizer(even if this counts as thread necromancy )
I got the problem, that the exe optimizer crashes during the patching process. I tried it several times with different settings and different Morrowind.exes but at exactly block 8925, the message appears "sse.exe stopped working". I have Win7 x64, but I already tried running the exe optimizer as administrator in xp compatibility mode. I am fairly sure my cpu can handle sse (its an intel i5).
Is it perhaps possible to copy the Morrowind.exe to an older PC, patch it and copy it back to my new PC? Or would that provoke CtDs?

Thats actually normal, just continue to hit cancel, and you should see that the patch count keeps counting up untill eventually it will just finish and ask if you wish to view the log file.

Go to "Benchmarker" tab and disable "Benchmark patches" option. The optimizer will not stop working again, and some redundant patches will be applied too. Normally, the benchmarking process helps the program to see which patches are really required and which are not. By eliminating benchmarking, you're telling the program to apply all available patchesi whether it would be useful or not. I always use Exe Optimizer this way (mine is also crashing during the process otherwise) and I've never encountered any problems.

Edit: Darn, ninja'd. That doesn't alway work though. I tried canceling and restarting the process many times, as you said, but it would always stop at a random number, sometimes smaller than the number it gave an error about in the last try.

Ok, if that's "normal" and everything runs smooth despite those evil messages, I'll try it, too. But I remember times on an older win XP where none such messages popped up. Anyway, thanks both of you! Now, its Morrowind-time on my new PC (YAY )!

I suppose this won't work with the steam version of morrowind, yes?

On my PC, setting affinity to one core helped through the patch process. This stopped the "sse.exe stopped working" errors.

It worked just fine with my steam version.

Oh ok. Just wondering since the exe files are always a delicate thing on steam games.

EDIT: Crap, I tried it and got this message:
http://i863.photobucket.com/albums/ab197/nack210/safasf.jpg?t=1286837027
What can I do?

EDIT 2: Nevermind, I tried unchecking the benchmarking option and it worked. Not sure if it'll be as useful, but eh.