Known Quirk, Bad Install or Bad Modder?

[CoyoteAnnabis]

For a while now I've been experiencing a few weird issues with the CS. I haven't been able to find any info on them, namely because I simply don't know of any way to describe them in concise, searchable terms. All I want to know is, do I have a bad install (unikely, as I've reinstalled a couple of times), a known issue or is it just something I'm doing wrong.

 

1st Issue.
I can't modify Ebonheart. At all. Or rather, nothing I do in Ebonheart ever saves. I'll load my esm's, save under a new name, do what I mean to do and save again (often multiple times), close the CS, add the plugin to my mod list and... nothing. Nothing has changed. When I load up the CS and the plugin, nothing I did was saved. Any other cell, modifications save just fine.

2nd Issue.

Random duplications/moves after CTD. Sometimes while working with the CS I'll get sudden CTD's (pretty normal I suppose) but when that happens, stuff will be duplicated and moved slightly. Not just one or two references either, but everything in a particular cell. Normally it only happens in cells that was working in at the time, adjacent cells, or ones that I had worked on earlier, but sometimes it even happens in cells that I didn't touch at all. For example, most recently I was doing something around Gnisis. Didn't do anything outside that area, but when I reloaded after the crash, Vos had been duplicated. Everything in Vos had been doubled and moved slightly to the left.

3rd issue.
Books/scrolls not displaying everything in-game. I'm not the most tech savvy (obviously) but know just enough html to format a book/scroll in the CS. No matter what I do though, in-game I only get the first paragraph or sentence of whatever I typed out. To test it, I made a new book, and copy/pasted the contents of a stock book, which I know works properly, into the window. Same issue, it only displays the first few lines of text.

Anybody have any ideas, or at least a set of terms I can use to search for answers? I'm about to just give up entirely. For reference, I'm using a GOG install, and I've re-downloaded and reinstalled a couple of times now.

Bit of a tangent, but I have a really weird relationship with technology in general. I end up getting weird issues/errors with just about everything digital, assuming it doesn't just completely die prematurely. Everything is fine when somebody else uses the item in question, but it goes haywire as soon as I touch it.

[abot]

You probably need at least some computer knowledge about files, folders, user access privileges for this.
Morrowind is an old game made when any executable program was expecting to have full access rights to their files and folders, this may have problem with how modern Windows versions try to protect files and folders.
try re-installing the game following suggestions about installation paths if not already doing that. If you are using steam, move the steam folder accordingly and disable steam overlay when using Morrowind related things.

Also when installing the game and standard expansions be sure to follow the release order: First Morrowind, then Tribunal, then Bloodmoon.
If that is not enough run the game and tools with administrator privileges (you can right click any executable to set that, to tell executables from the rest be sure to enable display of file extensions).
Personally I don't suggest to use MO2 as mod manager as it needs any tool to be run from MO2 too to work, and users usually forget/don't understand it often causing troubles, use/learn Mash Polemos' version instead, it is needed anyway to properly maintain a modded Morrowind

Edited November 15, 2020 by abot

[leonardo2]

I think you need to scrap everything and start fresh like this.

 

1. Re-install Morrowind then launch it and exit

2. Here is a quick guide for MGE-XE

3. Another guide may help too