Morrowind Code Patch

This is a project to fix bugs in Morrowind that just aren't possible to do with scripting alone. It comes in the form of a patch to the Morrowind program.

The primary fix included is a large change to the savegame code to reduce the majority of crashes, corruption, and missing objects. It also makes the game properly respond to changes in your load list, making inserting and removing mods from your savegames a lot safer. There are many more smaller fixes that cover all areas of the game.

All fixes and gameplay changes included are optional, you can independently select which ones you want to use in the installer.

Compatible with English, West European, Polish, Russian and Steam editions. Compatible with MGE, MGEXE, MWSE, MWE, and FPS Opt 1.96.
Not compatible with the Impulse/Gamestop download version, nor FPS Opt 2.0.


Version 2.1 is out now.
Download: http://morrowind.nexusmods.com/mods/19510 http://download.fliggerty.com/download-58-139


Notable features in 2.1:

- Hang on loading fix. Fixes errors in Morrowind's script parser that caused occasional hanging (or more rarely errors) during the "Initializing Data" phase, when loading savegames. It should also speed up this phase of loading.

- Better ingredient and item selector. A much improved menu for selecting components. Affects selecting ingredients, enchanting items and the quick item menu.

- Spell select by name. Allows selecting spells by pressing the first letter of the spell, while in the inventory menu. Repeat presses will cycle through all spells starting with that letter. You can reverse cycle by holding down the Ctrl key. It will only select spells, not powers or magic items. The spell selection only operates after the inventory is open. Any menu which takes key input will turn off the feature until the inventory is next opened.

- Book and scroll scaling fix. Makes books, scrolls and the journal scale to fit wider screens by examining the screen height instead of the width. Fixes issues with multi-monitor setups, where the book would be larger than the screen, with all buttons off-screen.

- Better typography. Improves the layout of books, scrolls and the journal. Pages have more words per line, and lines per page. The quest and topic list is wider, and wraps less. Scrolls have their text area increased to fill the available space as much as possible. Realigned for default book texture. Journal bookmark menu has a new layout. Texture replacers need to be adjusted to fit.

- Around 100 other patches.



2.2 is in beta testing - http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1543348-repairing-the-cogs-of-morrowind-34-mcp/?p=24459302



See the previous threads to see how this came about:
Repairing those Cogs http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1538330-repairing-the-cogs-of-morrowind-33-mcp/ http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1513140-repairing-the-cogs-of-morrowind-32-mcp/ http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1501085-repairing-the-cogs-of-morrowind-31-mcp/ http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1482710-repairing-the-cogs-of-morrowind-30-mcp/ http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1463837-repairing-the-cogs-of-morrowind-29-mcp/ http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1461096-repairing-the-cogs-of-morrowind-28-mcp/ http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1244500-repairing-the-cogs-of-morrowind-27-morrowind-code-patch/ http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1183502-repairing-the-cogs-of-morrowind-26/ http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1178011-repairing-the-cogs-of-morrowind-25/ http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1163185-repairing-the-cogs-of-morrowind-24/ http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1156182-repairing-the-cogs-of-morrowind-23/ http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1147393-repairing-the-cogs-of-morrowind-22/ http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1114812-repairing-the-cogs-of-morrowind-21/ http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1098021-repairing-the-cogs-of-morrowind-no-20/ http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1095128-repairing-the-cogs-of-morrowind-no-19/ http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1090176-repairing-the-cogs-of-morrowind-no-18/ http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1084044-repairing-the-cogs-of-morrowind-no-17/ http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1041353-repairing-the-cogs-of-morrowind-%2316/ http://www.gamesas.com/bgsforums/index.php?showtopic=1032219 http://www.gamesas.com/bgsforums/index.php?showtopic=1026266 http://www.gamesas.com/bgsforums/index.php?showtopic=1013291 http://www.gamesas.com/?showtopic=1009430 http://www.gamesas.com/bgsforums/index.php?showtopic=978076 http://www.gamesas.com/bgsforums/index.php?showtopic=942375 http://www.gamesas.com/bgsforums/index.php?showtopic=925813 http://www.yacoby.net/es/forum/12/9111491226747880.html http://www.yacoby.net/es/forum/12/8942761225301640.html http://www.yacoby.net/es/forum/12/8891531224348540.html http://www.yacoby.net/es/forum/12/8852991223287560.html http://www.yacoby.net/es/forum/12/8837531222826580.html http://www.yacoby.net/es/forum/12/8812671222030860.html http://www.yacoby.net/es/forum/12/8792971221418740.html http://www.yacoby.net/es/forum/12/8744651220076840.html

Now that MCP improves aspects of the graphics and animation handling, you can discuss how to make mods with these new features http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1097585-new-graphical-modding-wth-mcp/.

I found the problem I posted about http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1538330-repairing-the-cogs-of-morrowind-33-mcp/page-8#entry24457030. It was one change in a little mod I put small tweaks in. Changing the GMST fBaseRunMultiplier from 1.75 to 2 makes the bug happen. I disabled all mods and made a new test .esp with only this GMST change, and I can't reproduce the bug without this test mod enabled.

Edit: just tried again. 10 times with the GMST, got the message 8/10 times. 10 times without, 0/10 times.

Thanks to the mod that fixed that title slip-up.

My condolences...
Good thing there was an integrated one (and that it's acceptable for MW, too).


Couldn't confirm this, across two MCP versions (the second one is the latest beta, the first one... not entirely sure what it was ). FWIW I tested using the same scenario (spell and NPC) as you described. I've also played with this feature previously and didn't notice any problem like this (although there was a different problem allowing to activate/converse with NPCs in combat in some older versions).
If this happens to you without mods loaded, post your version of the game and MCP, should help.
Maybe you're just trying to open the inventory before the NPC is actually KOed (1-second-duration spells aren't instant, and from what Hrnchamd has said, don't apply instantly, either), or something?

(Hrnchamd, could future MCP betas say their real version on the pause display, or something? There have been many, now. And ideally the patcher program, too.)

EDIT: Mercilessly ninja'd while testing. Happens.

Oooo, was it "Repairing the Clogs of Morrowind"?

Hahahaha!
...Sorry for the spam post.

Edit: Figured it out. It depends on the AI state, looting is only allowed if there is knockout and the AI is moving to attack. If your sneak or chameleon is high enough, the AI cannot see you and bypasses the knockdown test. There is also a similar problem if the AI can't find a path to you, it will be in a flee state which also bypasses the knockdown test.

OK, just tried with a clean install of Morrowind GOTY Edition with only MCP beta 26 and only default options except Exhaust NPCs and Allow Stealing, and the test mod with only the fBaseRunMultiplier GMST change, and can still reproduce it. Clagius Clanler only has an Extravagant Pants, Shirt and Shoes in his inventory. I found also it only happens with the 500pt Damage Fatigue spell, not a 100pt spell cast twice that I tried before enabling without the Spellmaking Max. Magnitude Increase patch. When trying against the first bandit in Addamasartus cave, it does not happen.

Here's the http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=00870508704744307436 I used to test, if that helps with reproducing. I just cast the selected spell named "e" at him from right there, wait until he starts to drop down from exhaustion, and press space to try to access his inventory, and most of the time I get the message instead of his inventory.

Edit: changed "beta 15" to "beta 26", I misread the last beta release post.

Thanks for taking the time to make that test. Even with that save file and a fBaseRunMultiplier mod, I can't reproduce the problem. I really suspect it's a modified model blocking line of sight enough for the AI to get confused. I have a prospective fix in development.

http://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/26348/ is available.

All the beta 15 features,

plus more recently...

• Summoned creature crash fix. Updated to correct a problem with the fix which crashed when a summon killed its own summoner with a spell.
• Knocked out NPCs. Updated so it only affects stealing, and no longer allows dialogue or other interaction with NPCs. Now applies to all AI states.
• Water environment sound fix. Works when moving from underwater to cells with no water, instead of leaving the underwater sound playing.
• Mercantile fix. Repairs on minorly damaged items that appear to cost 1 gold, now correctly deduct that 1 gold.
• Enchanted item rebalance. Updated. The enchanted item cooldown is 3 seconds, down from 4 seconds. Enchant skill 100 allows 1.66x casts from a full charge, up from 1.33x. The fading recharge icon has a clearer division between charging and ready.
• Improved animation support. The player can now display idle animations through the use of playgroup/loopgroup scripting.
• Loud interface / armor sounds fix. Fixes many more occurances of maximum volume sounds.
• Position/PositionCell fix. Fixes an issue with PositionCell that prevented NPC scripting from running correctly, and properly activates actor collision when an actor is moved to the current cell.
• Better spell merchants. A merchant's list of spells for sale now includes the spell magicka cost. The list of available spells will no longer include the powers, abilities, diseases or curses that the merchant may also have.
• Travel cost fix. Fixes incorrect counting of passengers (player + companions) with all travel services, which were intended to charge per passenger.
• Trainer price/stat fix. Trainers now only choose which skills to train using their base skill points, allowing mercantile improving effects to be used without making mercantile an offered skill.
• Telekinesis fix. Fixes telekinesis to allow long distance interaction with lights, ammunition, books, and activators.
• Map-texture conflict fix. Allows "_land_default.dds" to be replace with a texture of a different size, without breaking the world map.
• NPC behaviour fixes. Minor improvements to fleeing AI, how followers handle knockdown, and NPC light equipping.
• Followers that are knocked down will no longer be forced to follow you in a glitchy knockdown state. They will stay down until their fatigue becomes positive.
• NPCs fleeing from combat use the correct flee distance, instead of fleeing a very short distance and stopping all actions. Only relevant with modded AI settings.
• Ammo damage tooltip. Item tooltips will now show the damage range on ammunition.
• Incorrect inventory sounds fix. Also allows use of GetSoundPlaying with the skillraise sound. Includes training.
• Alchemy naming/stacking fix. All potions created will now be stacked properly in the inventory, instead of adding a new icon for every new potion.
• StreamMusic / master volume fix. Fixes the registry data type of the "3D Sound Quality" setting.
• Larger service/chargen menus. Now increases the size of merchants' spells service and repair service menus.
• Resolution options fix. Allows the setting of all available resolutions in the options menu, instead of only resolutions with 4:3 aspect ratio. Corrects some UI layout bugs caused by switching resolution in-game. Should fix menu glitching on fullscreen alt-tab while in menu mode.
• Level-up skills tooltip. In the player level tooltip, the number of skill level-ups linked to each of your attributes are added. This reduces the confusion of remembering which skills to raise for your next level.
• NPC AI casts zero cost powers. Moved to "Mod related features" section, now recommended for use with a mod.
• Inventory bugs fix. Corrects the encumbrance bar in the companion share window overlapping the text to its right. Corrects the display of item stacks of size 10000 or more in containers.
• Convenient defaults. On loading a game, sets the player movement to running instead of walking, and sets the map to display the world map instead of the local map.

This may be the last version before release. Maybe.

This may sound odd, but are those values stored in single bytes? For my current character, I've done a LOT of training at first level. Oddly enough, despite having trained alchemy and enchant very high and moderate values for security and conjuration, my intelligence skills are showing at 3. I'm not entirely certain what the initial values are, so I haven't calculated an exact value, but I'm guessing that it's likely supposed to be 259, but it rolled over once.

Not that it's likely to affect too many people, but if it doesn't cause incompatibility problems, could those values be converted to words instead of bytes? I don't think people will go over 256 very often, although it's possible depending on one's play style. Increasing those variables to 2 bytes would eliminate the issue entirely.

Latest update fixed the bug, thanks Hrnchamd!

You're correct about the bytes! It's not possible to modify data types at all, as that changes the size of structures and the offsets of all data located after those values. That means checking every possible memory access to the containing structure, which is impractical. The only practical solution is to clamp the value at 255.

That's great, thanks for the fast feedback.

My only real concern is preventing the number from rolling over, and the actual value (once it goes beyond 10 or so) really isn't an issue... so clamping the value sounds like a good and simple solution.

I wonder if the bold marked text could cause http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1511208-rel-uviriths-legacy-33/page-6#entry24445254 issue I got with Sara, a companion in UL 3.x. Why I ask is simple, her replenish magicka script worked without a single issue in UL 2.0, but in UL 3.x she is just standing still and nothing happens.

Sara's animation is frozen, but her dialogue seems to work and she follow my movement when changing position if I stand next to her.

Thanks for the update!

This is easy to test, just see what happens running the mod from a Morrowind.exe with that MCP option disabled. If this solves the problem, then there may be some incompatibility between mod and the MCP option, else problem is not in the MCP option
[EDIT]quoting
[EDIT2]wait. or are you saying you got the problem before applying this last MCP option? then what happens applying the patch option? even in this case, this should also answer to your question