...if, so.. timeslip.chorrol.com/ seems dead.... is there an alternative link?

A short while ago in another topic, I discussed this very subject.
I was going to post a link for it, only to find that all links were down!

I have a copy myself already, and was going to share the original DL link,
only to discover that it has completely disappeared from the internet!
(and that's not just hyperbole, it no longer exists on the net, anywhere.)

I could probably re-up this, if you or anyone else is interested.
I can post this to PES.

So... what do you think?

http://timeslip.users.sourceforge.net

Speaking of which, I should look at updating that now that I have sse4 to play with too.

http://web.archive.org/web/20080604090638/timeslip.chorrol.com/exeopt.html

GAH! Ninja'd by the man in question.

Thanks Timeslip! You saved me some trouble. (and about two days of PES validation!)

Edit: Thanks anyway, Trunksbomb! I hadn't thought to check there.

At the source forge page I tried to download all three versions supposedly available and got a page full of nonsensical code each time.

So I don't think those links are working.

Also then - so does this alter the exe like code patch does? If so then what order to apply exe patches?

meh, no mime type for .7z files. Something else I need to fix. The links are working fine, but you'll have to right click them and pick whatever your browsers equivalent of 'save link as' is for the moment, because there's nothing to tell your browser that it's a download and not some sort of weird text file.

Edit: Should be fixed now.

It disassembles exe's, searches for fpu code, and replaces it wherever possible with sse code, which is something rather different to what the code patch does. They should both work together; at a guess I'd say that you'd need to install the code patch first since it's expecting to see a specific version of the exe, whereas exeopt will work on anything.

Is the Exe Optimizer safe to use in a game with MCP? I'm quite nervous about installing it, but I could use the FPS boost

I'm not sure. I ran the EXE optimzer first, and the MCP seems to not hate me.
I hope.

Erm... have a look at Timeslip's post just above yours:


That's the "official" statement from Exe Optimizer's author. My own experience confirms it: if you apply it after the Code Patch (MCP), Exe Optimizer will produce a working Morrowind.exe. And since DavidB1111 got it working the other way round, I'd say that its safe to use either way.

I did also say it was a guess though.

I've no first hand experience myself, but it's nice to hear that it works.

Has someone been able to preserve MGE 3.0.3 from Timeslips former homepage?

What in SSE4 would be relevant to morrowind?

Cool. Thanks for the update (and the technical wizardry!)

OK so issue when trying to install.

I got an error the first attempt that said it could not find something fpu (sorry I did not write it down) ... something about a directory. I got the impression that it did not create the patch.

I guess it did though as I then tried to I run it it asks:
\Morrowind.exe.fpu2ssebak exists. Restore this backup? Yes No Cancel

I have morrowind in non default location for Vista 64 OS ... It did not seem to have stated that it succeeded in patching exe so not sure if it is asking if I want to restore a made back up.

Was this requiring a default location for the exe?

just want to make sure nothing got seriously wierded out.

I'll be curious how much this helps out people who get it to run properly, and where the improvement is seen.

http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=batch_download&batch_id=RmNBc2ZBaFJWRDlFQlE9PQ
I have some old MGE version up to v1.8c from september 2005.

From what I remember, some people were experiencing less crash with exeopt but not an increase in FPS, but don't quote me on this as I could be completely wrong.
Edit: For what it's worth, I tried to use exeopt a few months ago and I got about ten or twelve error messages during patching but exeopt went on working after clicking on (IIRC) cancel each time. In the end I got a working morrowind.exe with about 60 or 70 patches applied. I don't know if it has really changed something in my game however.

Sounds like it is worthwhile. I am getting some mystery crashes that it might help with. I was concerned if it was compatible with the code patch and it sounds like it is. Going to give it a shot (backing up my current .exe first!)

My experience has been that EXE Optimiser and MCP work fine together. But I need to use MCP first otherwise the MCP patch will fail.

I used EXE Optimiser before MCP came on the scene and it definitely reduced the number of crashes I had. Past 2 CPUs have been Intel though so I can't say what the effect would be on an AMD chip.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streaming_SIMD_Extensions = Streaming SIMD Extensions
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIMD = Single instruction, multiple data, so do that same thing on multiple data. So, supposedly speed stuff up.

Now, I'm no expert but if there are floating point calculations in Morrowind.exe that can be converted to SSE4 then we could see FPS improvements. Although I never saw any originally but I'd take fewer crashes Apparently SSE 4 "is another major enhancement, adding a dot product instruction, additional integer instructions, a popcnt instruction, and more." Whatever any of that stuff is :wacko:

Bugger, my CPU's a generation too old for such new fangled stuff.

Encountered an issiue, hot error message "access to the path 'fpu.exe' is denied".

Contents of log.txt:

have used it on a couple of amd cpu?s and it does seem to increase stability, reduce crashes. single core,dual core and quad.

Thank you very much, bjam!

Exe Optimiser didn't really boost the fps for me, but it SURE DID reduce tha amount of ctds drastically.
Also, I tried applying Exe Opt before the MCP and vice versa - it worked out fine both ways.

I remember this mod it worked great; but will the fps optimizer recognized the EXE too?

Yes, if you use the EXE optimizer, FPS optimizer will still work.