MGE XE causes Morrowind to stop responding

[SCGR777]

At one point I had Morrowind with MGE XE installed and fully functioning, then I uninstalled Morrowind from Steam. Reinstalled, suddenly game crashes every time it starts. I tried disabling all mods and whatever and eventually found that it would launch if I disabled MGE XE. Tried uninstalling and manually deleting the folder and reinstalling/downloading everything for a clean install, still no luck. Every time I get the "morrowind has stopped responding message" before it can even get to the intro. I've tried installing Morrowind in C:\Games instead of program files, still no luck. Tried installing the beta update for MGE XE, no luck. Running everything as administrator, still no dice. Disabled Steam Overlay, still crashes. Even dug up my old install discs and did a vanilla installation, still the same issue. Got no clue where to go from here, what's weird is that it WAS working at one point and now it just won't. I just really want the distant land, don't really care about the other stuff. The vanilla draw distance is like, unbearably short and I'm too spoiled to go back to it unless I have no other choice.

 

Help?

[Dragon32]

Not really an MGE (XE) expert but:

 

Have you all the prerequisites for MGE XE installed?

 

This is for MGE but I believe is still relevant for MGE XE:

Q: I have the Steam version of Morrowind, how do I get MGE to work with it?

 

A: Disable Steam community in-game: go to your Steam settings window and choose the "In-game" tab, then uncheck the "Steam Community In-Game" box. You should also redate morrowind.bsa, tribunal.bsa, and bloodmoon.bsa to year 2002. In the location where you installed Steam, look for "...Steam\SteamApps\common\morrowind" folder - Morrowind's bsa's will be located under the "Data Files" folder. You'll need a 3rd party utility to redate the files (Attribute Changer v6.20 works well for this).

 

Explanation for redating: The stock meshes and textures are contained in the bsa archives, and they inherit the datestamp from the bsas which the Steam version sets to the date and time you downloaded and installed. That results in those assets overriding any other 3rd-party versions unless the bsas are redated to year 2002. Individual versions of meshes and textures with a more recent datestamp placed in the "...\Data Files\Meshes" and "...\Data Files\Textures" folders (respectively) will get priority over the stock archive versions (due to the default setting for "TryArchiveFirst=0" in Morrowind.ini; 0 tells the game engine to use newer assets based on datestamp), but for whatever reason the distantland files do not follow that rule unless the archives have been redated to an earlier date.

You can also use tescmd to change the BSAs time stamps.

 

This is probably the best place to get help: Shelter from Magnus' Blaze 17 (MGE XE), on Bethsoft.

Edited April 1, 2015 by Dragon32

[ZZZ02]

Although this is specifically for MGSO users you may want to take a look at this post from their FAQ I have been seeing this a lot quote:

 

Morrowind stops working when I launch it, when I start a new game or when I load a savegame

This crash happens only when using MGE XE and only with some configurations. The only thing you can do to fix this is to disable the internal MWSE. To do that follow these steps:

Run MGEXEgui.exe (you can find it in your MW folder).
Navigate to the In-game tab.
Check " disable internal MWSE" and close the program.

Edited April 2, 2015 by ZZZ02

[SCGR777]

Although this is specifically for MGSO users you may want to take a look at this post from their FAQ I have been seeing this a lot quote:

 

Morrowind stops working when I launch it, when I start a new game or when I load a savegame

 

This crash happens only when using MGE XE and only with some configurations. The only thing you can do to fix this is to disable the internal MWSE. To do that follow these steps:

 

Run MGEXEgui.exe (you can find it in your MW folder).

Navigate to the In-game tab.

Check " disable internal MWSE" and close the program.

yeah, I tried this too. I also did YET ANOTHER clean install and tried installing MGSO to see if maybe that would help but no, still the same issue. Like, I have no clue what is causing this it is so weird, at one point it ran no problem and now it's just impossible to get it to work. I dunno if anyone else maybe has any other suggestions but I think I might be out of options at this point. Thanks for the suggestion though, appreciate it!